First view of city's new slop buckets

This is how the two types of slop bucket being sent to all 98,000 homes in Wolverhampton will look when they are delivered in January and February 2011.

One green 23-litre model with a handle is to leave out for collection and a smaller five-litre grey one is for the kitchen.

Similar schemes elsewhere led to complaints on food smells, especially in hot weather but today council bosses said 81 per cent of a group of 855 polled said they would use them.

Participants were made up of Wolverhampton City Council's citizens panel and people attending events organised by local neighbourhood partnerships.

Consultation only came after the council committed to spending almost £1 million introducing buckets, despite the Government saying they would no longer be imposed across the country.

They will be collected weekly on the same vehicle for black wheeled bins and taken to make fertiliser. Gases produced will be used to make electricity.