To not see the need for food waste bins?

I wasn’t saying that because I don’t use a food waste bin nobody should! Just explaining why I don’t. Chicken bones go down the insinkerator (although my dogs do eat raw chicken wings every morning for nice clean teeth)

My block has a giant food bin that gets emptied every week, & all the flats have caddies.

I’m veggie & mainly cook from scratch so it’s peel, onion skin, apple cores & coffee grounds in mine mostly.

I’m glad a balcony composter works for the OP’s friend’s flowers, but my balcony is my cat’s outdoor playground so it wouldn’t work for us - and given how little food waste I generate, it would probably take forever to have enough compost to be any use.

I love mine.

I have a decent garden but putting food scraps in the composter just has the deer at it.

Our bins are only collected three weekly but the food waste goes every week. It's fine because the main bin doesn't really smell.

We don't waste food but have a lot of peelings.

We have them here and I always fill mine. I have land and a compost heap but I won’t put scraps on it as we would get vermin. We have chickens but you really
shouldnt give them scraps. So veg and fruit peelings and cores etc. There are five of us so we get through a lot.

Ive seen them little green food bins my god they make me sick more so when the truck comes to empty them i have to look away.😷

Don't throw away broccoli stalks! They have the more nutrients than the florets. Blitz them up into soup.

I have 2 food waste bins - one for coffee grounds, egg shells, banana peel and anything non-cooked vege waste for compost in garden.
And the council collection food waste bin - for things I don't want to go into the compost.

Our council makes bio-fuel with the compost they collect.

Even the bones of a well used Mumsnet chicken end up in the food waste eventually.

I have seen customers who said that we should not be selling something that is 2 hours out of date. Most fresh products have a time on them. That's the time it was made/packaged in the factory, not the best before time!

The council I lived under in 2009 brought out food waste caddies. Two years later, they were stopped as only about 17% residents put them out. My parents only put in the non edible things of food - peelings etc and teabags. Perhaps the odd manky satsuma.

People are throwing away perfectly edible food. I heard of people make a spag bol, serve two thirds of it, then bin the rest. Put it in the fridge and stretch it out with a tin of pulses or chopped tomatoes for another meal or keep it as it is for a filling for two people's jacket spuds.

Most households fill up their food bins? We do, it's always full of potato and veg peelings, broccoli stalks etc, egg shells, chicken carcasses, apple cores etc.

The food waste compost site is reasonably big in our area and is full. It's quite an expense for the council to get rid of/compost all the food waste.

Our council won't collect them mixed. Tins and glass in one, plastic in the other or they tag it and won't collect them.

We don’t have a good bin so I just chuck in tge normal bin but I don’t have much.

The council have to do this due to new legislation coming in. It is mandatory for businesses employing over a certain number of people from April this year.
Food waste doesn't decompose in landfill as there's no air flow, so it just sits there. I have a garden but don't compost so am looking forward to this. Surely the only people who won't benefit will be those who never cook

We used to compost, but then got rats in the garden, coinciding with the age my DC were crawling...it just didn't feel like worth the risk and I didn't have the time then to research how to prevent rats being attracted to compost...so we stopped composting and haven't restarted.

And that’s fine. But many of us don’t need compost, don’t know what an insinkerator might be and don’t have a dog or chickens. I thought dogs shouldn’t be given chicken bones though?

My council adopted food waste bins a while ago. My boyfriend lives in a block of flats, and no one there was issued with one. Which strikes me as odd as they also don't have gardens to make use of compost in. So he gives his waste to me to put in my bin/garden.

@Notinmylifethyme so you are suggesting people in flats rot tens of kg of veg on their balconies every year? What happens when they get too heavy or the flies and maggots start moving indoors?
As far as your own habits go, you are just dressing up “can’t be arsed to have a separate food bin” as some sort of superior way of living. You are being gross throwing your food waste in a bin designed to collect non perishables. Stop being so lazy.

I don’t use a food waste bin. I compost, and use an insinkerator, and have 2 dogs and some chickens, and there is no food waste that we produce which can’t be disposed of in one of these ways.

Our council was one of the pioneers of food waste caddies. We use ours all the time. Tea bags, egg shells, apple cores, banana skins, vegetable peelings, random bits of cat foot the cats haven't eaten, gristly bits off meat, blue furry clementines (lets face it, those buggers turn without warning), you name it, we put it in there.

We don't bin excess cooked food or leftovers, we eat them.

If we had a compost bin in the garden then we'd use it, but since we don't, we use the food waste bin.

I've never even heard of one!

I batch cook, use leftovers, don't waste food, use the freezer, all the things you do and don't why you are 'quite shocked'

The food waste bins are not only for 'excess cooked food' - for those of us who don't have a garden to use compost what are we supposed to do with onion skins, avocado stones, egg shells, fish bones, chicken bones, etc?

I agree OP. Your local council should scrap the bin idea and use the money to buy you a massive biscuit.

Don't waste any of it mind! Or they'll burn you as a hypocrite in the waste incinerator!

I compost stuff like veg peel etc.
But left over food, old bread, left over dog food, bones etc still goes into my council provided bin.

I wonder why you didn't put a poll up, you'd have got at least 3% YANBU

People don't have gardens so can't compost
People don't want to do compost, but Looe the idea of their food waste getting composted rather than going to landfill
Grape stalks
Bacon rind
Wow have you ever thought about people living different lives to you

What do you do with the dried out orange peel after?