FOOD waste recycling bins will be issued to every home in the city by March 2017 at a cost of millions of pounds.

Legislation insists local councils across Scotland provide a food waste service and two years ago the city council set up a trial scheme across 43,000 properties..

New figures show that in the following year 2145 tonnes of food was collected and diverted from landfill boosting the city's recycling rate by almost 1%.

Kerbside properties recycled more food than the average quoted by Zero Waste Scotland while residents of flats and multi-storeys recycled less than other local authorities.

During the pilot, surveys were carried out with 79% of people saying they were using the food waste service.

On Thursday, city councillors will be asked to agree the scheme is rolled out to all 300,000 homes in the city.

From January, all kerbside properties which get a weekly collection will be able to start recycling food using their existing brown bins.

All flats and multi-storeys will have the service introduced on a phased bases from April next year to be fully rolled out by March 2017.

Owners and tenants of the 151,000 flats in Glasgow will dump food waste in a communal bin sited in the back court while the 26,000 high rise home will deposit waste food in special communal bins next to the refuse area. Every home will be provided with a kitchen caddy to store waste and with liners.

A total of 100 permanent new jobs will be created as a result of the extra work involved in collecting the food waste.

The cost of operating the service between January 2016 and the end of March 2018 will be almost £10million with a further £800,000 needed to pay for the new recycling bins and kitchen caddies.

Councillor Alistair Watson, the city council's sustainability and transport spokesman, said the new scheme would deliver a range of benefits to the city.

As well as the new jobs, there will be an additional recycling service to all residents, an increase in the amount of waste recycled and compliance with the Waste Scotland regulations.

His report says: "The introduction of this service will provide employment opportunities in the city as the material collected will be processed locally creating and supporting economic development in the processing industry."