To not see the need for food waste bins?

I have four kids, two cats and two dogs. We have two large black bins (collected once every 4 weeks). Non recyclable rubbish (I recycle everything I can but there's always stuff), cat litter which fills up at least half a bin, dog poo,, tbe occasionally bit of garden waste (I don't create enough to warrant paying another £60 a year for a brown bin that I might need collecting twice a year)

Vegetarian household here and there is rarely food waste.

We also have six dogs that I will add any vegetables that aren't enough to make anything with or need to be eaten that day and we won't be using them.

and bread
i throw out bread,
no room in my freezer, considering it is full of chicken and left overs

so freeze the chicken before it goes out of date surely?

lettuce, i agree

Our food waste seems to be permanently full, however it is almost never leftovers etc.

We have two young kids who adore fruit, we get through a mountain of banana/orange peels. Onion goes into most things we cook so there is onion skin along with the inside of peppers. My wife is a tea fiend (think 10 cups a day) so there is a mountain of tea bags.

Our garden is dog / child focused so we have a few pots round the edge but otherwise it is patio / astro turf so there is no space for a composter.

Just to unpick this a little: Peoples' plans change day to day. Sometimes food goes out of date (thinking chicken etc) due to changed plans. Has to be chucked. You can't compost meat.
I'm a keen gardener and we had a composter but then we got rats. No more composter. Green waste goes in the green waste bin.

Sometimes people can't buy things in small enough quantities. Lettuce for one? Can't use the left overs fast enough?

we should be able to unwrap food at the checkout, if they insist on providing plastic, tesco have a plastic recycling point which is very handy.

We should stop creating so much plastic, wrapping things in plastic and throwing away plastic before we get uptight about a few egg shells.

It's all a bit arse about face isn't it.

but why are you annoyed that people waste their own food?

Our garden is very small so we don’t have a compost bin. There is hardly any food waste in this house - aside from veg peelings, egg shells etc., the only other thing that goes in our food waste bin is the occasional slice of mouldy bread. Any scraps of meat or fish, chicken bones after boiling up for stock, go in a bag in the freezer until the night before the bin men come. So we never have a problem with flies or maggots.

Personally I’m very glad of our weekly food waste collection. AFAIK it all goes to make biofuel.
Having said that, though, the wanton waste of perfectly good food does make me mad!

I never throw away leftovers or bin food (I freeze, I plan). But I don't compost so I need a food waste bin for banana peels, egg shells, chicken bones, used tea leaves etc.

The council outsource the contract to a company who clearly don't care and just want to make the most money possible.

I buy compostable bags from Home Bargains, they cost £1.50 and last around a month.

That's ridiculous. What's the point? We have a separate smaller lorry that just collects food waste.

My food bin is a godsend. Bones, uneaten cat food, scraps, the list is endless. Why do you think there's no point just because you don't use one?

You can't put everything in compost.

@StMarie4me my point was that it’s not food that could have been eaten type waste

That's all food waste. It doesn't mean edible food that you've wasted. It means the waste part of food.

I’d probably fill my bin about once a month if it wasn’t for cat litter.

i use a bread loaf bag, imagine the bag you buy a large loaf of whole meal bread in from supermarket, as my "bin bag". That's where all my rubbish goes. I don't know why people need huge black bins: It takes me about 6 weeks to fill my bread loaf size "bin bag". The compostable stuff (mostly tea bags) goes on a small pile in garden.

I Suspect I'm unusual. My waste generation wasn't like this when I had 2 little kids still in nappies in the household...

I think this is possibly the most ridiculous humblebrag post I have seen on Mumsnet.

I don’t even have a good waste bin. I probably wouldn’t use it anyway tbh

Plus, what do you think people will do with food waste if the bins go? Become paragons of virtue like you? Or just dump it in their ordinary bin?

Sorry op but i refuse to believe that you have absolutely no non-compostable food waste. Or that nobody ever ever leaves a morsel of cooked food in their plate.

we are absolutely fanatical about food waste in this house (well a flat actually so no composter) we probably throw a couple of spring onions and an inch of cucumber away on an average week. And we have non compostable food waste.

i do agree with you that the amount of waste an average household throws away every year is shocking. Apparently 25% of it is leftovers. I personally think leftovers are the best thing ever. I spent 10 minutes at the office yesterday discussing the merits of her leftover lasagne lunch and leftovers in general.

My council provides compost bins as well as food caddies. I have 2 compost bins, but I still use the food caddy. As usual, ignorant people overlook the difficulties many disabled people face. Not everyone is able to just pop down the garden to tend to a compost pile.