To not see the need for food waste bins?

You seem to be implying that having your own composter is superior to using the council service and I'm not quite sure why?

We tried to add all the food peels egg shells etc to out garden compost pile, but the chickens spread the pile out all over the place so we make sure to keep it contained. They already got all leftovers.
Now the chickens are gone we use the food bin for peelings and the compost pile for garden waste
People in flats have no choice.

Personally, I would put the carcass from a chicken, fatty/gristly bits of meat, fish bones and skin, prawn and snail shells, and DD’s pizza crusts in a cooked food bin.

In more general food waste bins, all fruit and vegetable peelings, eggshells, coffee grounds and teabags.

I quite often fill the big one in the summer and autumn with peelings and veg waste from my allotment as well as banana skins, tea bags etc.
I have 2 compost bins at home and a big one at my allotment but I only use them for garden waste as I have in the past had mice.

I don't have a composter or a.garden. I don't enjoy gardening. I use my food bin daily as we eat a lot of vegetables last week cauliflower cheese did a lot of waste. I am happy the council then uses this rather than it going to waste.

It is important to remember not everyone lives like you so different needs. If you don't need yours don't use it.

yes ok food waste is bad but some people are odd, it is their waste, also children can be fussy and leave food, as can many adults in fact.
i knew someone who roasted a chicken, ate for a family meal - 3 of them - and then threw the rest in the bin!

Our council uses the collected food waste to make compost which they sell back to the residents to make money for waste collection. Seems sensible to me and I'm glad to not have the bother of doing it myself.

We don't have a composter and I have no desire to have a compost bin or similar. Food waste in this house is indeed peelings and scraps, as well as things like tea bags, coffee grounds.

They have a handle that locks them shut.

we used to be able to recycle vegetable peelings with garden waste but they had to stop it due to people putting cooked vegetables in among the waste

the bins provided by the council for food waste are normally quite small arent they?
surely they will attract rats?

My new build block of 30 flats has a big food waste bin & separate bins for cardboard, plastics, paper, tins / aerosols & glass as well as the ordinary waste bins.

I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person who roots through the cardboard bin when I need a box for something, so that works quite well.

The local houses have kerbside textile & electrical recycling which we don’t yet, so it would be helpful to have that at some point.

I can't compost the cooked bones (chicken/fish) without one. The garden composter can only take raw veg peelings and human hair/nails.

DDog does eat a fair few veg ends but not all of them!

As I do, currently I live in an area where there are several blocks of flats close to each other, each "block" of between 6-18 residents has 2 massive blue bins and 2 massive black bins for recycling and general waste.

I think this move to make recycling rules the same throughout England is great in principle, but I can't quite see how this is going to work in such similar apartment/flat situations, where eventually there will need to be 2 different types of recycling bins (to separate cardboard/paper from plastic/metal and glass), plus general waste (all 4 current bins are usually full), plus a bin for compostable food waste - so 4 different kinds of bins (I don't think they could really get rid of any of the black bins). I think it's a brilliant idea if it means less stuff going to landfill, especially for those of us without gardens, but logistically it might be quite difficult to implement in some areas.

We chuck it in the black bin.

My neighbour has been known to put it in with the recycling.🤦🏻‍♀️

I find it really odd that some councils still don't have food waste bins separate from other waste. Our council is very good for recycling, food waste goes to a massive bio digester, (I don't think I would want to live near it though) we can line our caddy's with plastic bags or paper and those are raked out and incinerated, the heat powers the plant.
We don't have a compost bin, well we did but the food scraps attracted vermin and also not being very keen gardeners I had no use for the compost I was making. So I am very happy that there is a food waste collection service and a (extra charge) garden waste collection.
There is talk of moving to monthly black bin collections which for us wouldn't be a problem because it is rarely even half full each fortnight. But I would think that lots of people, eg families with babies, a monthly collection would be grim without a different collection scheme for nappies and plenty of other exceptions.

I agree there's too much food waste but even during the war people were issued with seperate food waste bins. This was a time of rationing when food had to go as far as possible. It was also a time when fast food and "snacks" as such didn't exist. People only generally ate at meal times and nowhere near as much as we do today, with or without the war.

I eat them raw as I chop the broccoli. 😋

Because you personally don't make use of one you can't see the value of it for anybody or the environment?
Seems rather narrow minded. Of course they're useful. Not everyone has a 'composter' and living on a budget doesn't mean you don't throw away scraps or rotten food.

It appears you didn't/don't know that chicken bones (and other meat bones) also count as food waste and, while you can't compost them in your garden, they can go in your council collected food caddy.

Instead, you are sending them needlessly to landfill. Please stop doing that. You can also put eggshells, fruit peel, teabags and coffee grounds into the food caddy too.

Food caddies are not pointless at all. Ours is full every week.

I lovr mine, have it beside me as I prep , eggshells, fruit and veg peel/ ends, tww wee a bags and coffee grouts have a place to go and stop my normal bin getting smelly, food caddy goes a out every week whereas other waste alternates with recycling so hangs about about, Caddy removes all the smelly bits from my kitchen

Or wants a composter.

I also only put raw vegetable and plant matter in the compost, plus a bit of paper/cardboard and wool

Insinkerator - food muncher thingie in the sink.