Council to reduce recycling collections to every three weeks

People are wasting too much food!

Hear of people who roast a chicken - carve off the meat for a roast dinner then BIN the rest! Pick at the chicken til you hit bone and save that for pasta, sandwiches, salads etc

Also heard of people making a spaghetti bolognaise. Serve half of it then BIN the rest! Stretch the mince with a tin of pulses or baked beans and makes a great jacket potato filling.

I only throw out food if it’s the inedible bits (bones, gristle, peel) and a few manky veg.

I'm happy I live in a block of flats.

Everything goes in a black bag and into the large refuse bin for all the residents.

I don't recycle unless I have a big pizza box or something.

I put a black bag out almost daily.

Our council started that last year for garden bins. You need to have the permit on the lid or it won’t be collected.
blue/red/green(general waste) is every 4 weeks. So red bin will go out then 2wks later blue bin and green one goes out same week as blue. Food bins weekly and black box/nappy,hygiene bags fortnightly

We still get rubbish and recycling weekly, with no limit on the amount of either since no wheelie bins. I think we’re getting food bins too soon but we have an insinkerator that does 99% of stuff so I don’t think we’ll use it much. Mega skip days are every few weeks too where the council puts a huge skip round the corner and you can chuck whatever in it. Isn’t it likely to lead to more fly tipping if they won’t pick stuff up regularly? And how on earth do you cope if you have a baby in nappies, or cat litter? Food isn’t the only thing that smells!

Daily collection here; an old boy with a wheelbarrow comes around, collects everything and takes it to the district compactor and then it is taken away from there by a truck.
cardboard and paper are collected on demand and they give you money.

I already put all my compostable food waste in the garden bin.

We don't waste meat ( thanks doggo). The very small amount of other stuff is not sitting around in my kitchen.

Simple.

We've had four weekly collections for years, no rats yet

I find the reluctance to get on board with this astounding.

Yes I understand they will re introduce it. If it goes as well as last time the caddies will all be in the plastic recycling...

I understand people being like WTF about it, because I was skeptical when they brought it in near us, however it works really well.

And it will be forced upon you whether you like it or not.

Yep, as I said earlier, I already put peelings and odd bits of veg and salad in the garden bin. That's as far as I'm going.

I also take soft plastics to Tesco to recycle

Forgot to mention this - yes I take a bag a week to our local Coop to recycle too. It really does cut down on what goes in our bin.

I won't be storing what little food waste we have.. our council tried this and abandoned it as the uptake was minimal

Me neither.

Uncooked vegetable waste is already added to the allotment compost. I am not having cooked waste hanging around and - more to the point - I already have to have 3 indoor waste bins and 4 full size wheely ones outside. I have no more room for any more.

If they want to keep adding more and more recyling options, they need to address housebuilding so that there is easy access and space for 4+ wheely bins because apparently they cannot be stored in front of my house (covenant) and I can only just about manage the constant juggling of four of them behind the house and down the passageway each week.

The food caddy has a 7 litre capacity.

You would be very surprised how much food waste you actually have tbh, unless you live on microwave meals or are a single person.

We are a family of 4 and throw "virtually no food" away e.g. there is literally never any leftovers thrown away in this house and we eat everything we buy before it goes off. However, I easily fill my food waste caddy once (if not twice) a week, just with peelings and ends of onions, courgettes, carrots, chicken carcass/bones etc.

The council here have forced everyone to use the food waste caddy by reducing the size of our general waste bins. I couldn't believe how much food waste was generated just by peelings and odds and ends.

Edited to add: I store my caddy on the kitchen worktop and line it with compostable bags (which I pay for from aldi) Then I tie the bags and transfer to the larger food and garden waste wheelie bin when the caddy is full. And then I wash the caddy. No smells, no problems.

We have recycling and waste collected every 2 weeks on an alternating cycle (so one week recycling and the next week waste).

Food waste collected every week through which is good. And garden waste (which we have to pay for) is every 2 weeks during the summer months.

We're every four weeks as well (Scotland), garden/food waste is fortnight though - you have to pay for garden waste. We have four wheely bins, two for recycling and a glass box.

To be honest it's generally okay for us - 2 adults and a toddler - but is sometimes borderline. Closest tip (30 min away) has to be pre booked and is only open 5-7pm through the week and 10-1 on Saturday (closed Sunday) so not very handy either!

Ours has changed in the last few months.

general waste
Paper/cardboard recycling only
plastics and most other recycling

One each week so 3 weeks per bin.

Food waste caddy every week.

The main problem is the paper/cardboard bin is so much lighter now that they frequently blow over in our awful weather. Most folk have bin straps now but if they don't, stuff goes everywhere.

We only have a waste bin. We have to take all our recycling to the recycling centre ourselves. Once every three weeks would be bliss.

Gosh that is ... rubbish (sorry) service.

Where are you - UK?

There's no way I'm keeping unwrapped food in a bucket outside . It will be well wrapped and in my wheelie bin.

Mine lives outside the backdoor. You'll regret keeping food waste in the general bin for 3 weeks.

@Caroparo52 I would use one if we had one.. I buy loose fruit and veg where I can, but the rest is still so much.

@Greyat they gave us a little bucket to collect it in; no way is that staying in my kitchen for a week.

Any unused fruit/veg/salad goes in our garden waste bin (which I'll soon be paying for), the birds get anything suitable and what's left is wrapped and in with the general rubbish.

We have a Fill Your Own shop. You bring own containers so no plastic or packaging waste