New food bins

And East Sussex

I was agreeing with you!

Just ignore my whackadoodle humour - I'm on medication ...
Peace & Recycling ✌

Blimey so many places with rubbish recycling policies. We hoik stuff in to our food caddy without second thought here.

It is as second nature as not putting sanitary waste or make up pads down the toilet.

OP wrote this - Will you be using the new food caddies & bins? Sick to death of my kitchen & garden resembling the local recycling centre. I do recycle most stuff & have regular trips to the tip; but even then one local authority varies from the next one in their recycling policies, so it all seems a bit.futile

I am pointing out that it doesn’t matter what other council areas do with their recycling. Your recycling only gets collected by one council so why does it matter what another council does? Mine gets collected (well not at the moment obviously) by Birmingham council. It doesn’t matter to me what Leicester or Glasgow or Worcester do with their recycling because they don’t collect anything from me, and I’m not eligible to take my stuff to tips run by them.

Sorry but I’m not following what your point is with pesos.

North tyneside

We have had it for probably at least 10 years in our part of Northants but I was surprised to learn that some parts of the county were not getting them until later in the year

I'm glad you're going to try it

Did you know, that in Australia they use dollars, and in Argentina the peso, and they're different from other currencies so no-one in the UK knows how to use money any more?

It's the same with time, too.

And don't even get me going on brands of laxatives.

Some areas of East Anglia - apparently some had them trialled years ago and stopped but now obviously because of the new recycling policy everywhere has to have it. I don't mind at all as I say, I'm all for something good actually being done with it instead of it just being burned for energy, as some councils currently do.

Others areas are not rolling it out until 2027, even, some have existing waste contracts or other limitations which are stopping them from introducing food recycling this year.

Lancashire
apparently we had them about 10 years ago but it got scrapped

Nottinghamshire

Where are these backward places that have only just had food bins introduced? We have had food recycling since 2010.

Like I said I’m looking forward to it making bio gas/compost etc. As I already use a bowl lined with a compostable bag for all our food waste and peeling/tea bags etc. Last thing at night I bag and put in wheelie bin outside.
The uproar on our council page was ridiculous. Only thing I don’t like is the glass in the recycling bin. So I save until bin is about a third then start putting a bit of my glass.

It's the sheer convenience indoors tbh. My kitchen is quite large (big big extension) so it is easy to have a little countertop bin that I can move to wherever I am doing something.

You're right that it does seem nonsensical now you say it like that and perhaps I will end up using them differently in the future. For now at least, it is this wat

I'm glad it's not just me who's confused by this posters use of the larger food bins - as you say, if you are actually going to use it, why do that and then put it in the general waste instead of putting it in the big food waste bin and actually allowing that food waste to be used for generating electricity from biogas and being turned into fertiliser for farm lands instead of farmers having to rely on chemicals to grow your food?i

This might just be the oddest post on here. You're collecting your food waste separately in a caddy in the kitchen so you're doing the difficult part. But then you're falling at the final hurdle when all you have to do is pop the food waste in the bin for collection!

Use some other container for your dog waste bags and use the food waste bin as intended!

I’ve had one for years too, but most weeks it has nothing in it because most of my food waste is fruit and vegetable peelings and that goes into my compost.

Like you say, it depends on how the rest of the collections are organised. We have general waste collection one week, recycling the next (all recycling in one enormous wheelie bin). Food waste is collected at the same time as each of these, every week - it’s all emptied into a separate bin on the truck. So no extra trucks or collection sessions. It’s all very efficient. The food waste is broken down into biogas for electricity, and agricultural fertiliser. It isn’t generating methane in landfill. Our council say it saves money overall doing this.

I love mine. Have always hated throwing out peelings etc after years of having guinea pigs and none now. You’re buying too much food if the amount of waste generated is too much to deal with.

Which will be hardly anything according to your first post.

And that will cost, for the caddies, the weekly collection and the trucks (or at least would do in my area). Every area is different.

If collections are enhanced with respect to recycling, it makes sense to enhance them in the way that maximises benefit for recycling. That might be something like separating out materials that are disposed of in large quantities better prior to collection, or the specification of new catagories that occur in large enough volume.

Spending a large amount of money to stop a small amount of waste going to landfill isn't good economics. Spending a large amount of money to stop a large amount of waste going to landfill is better.

Locally we have changed to a new system of food caddies, separate bags for metal & plastic, cardboard & paper, and non-recyclable waste. It's a small readjustment to make, but the outrage has been off the scale, and I wonder how on earth people will cope with an actual crisis.

Whats the issue? Had them for years here. Better than piling more rubbish into landfill. If I had a bigger garden I would probably have my own compost going on, but this is a good alternative. Council collect regularly.

I don't see your point? Any non compostible food waste will still go in rather than to landfill. Good 👍

If you have very little food waste it will make hardly any difference to you.

Because they are for food waste only.

Quite! General waste is where you should put all offensive waste: nappies, dog poo bags, cat litter, plasters, used sanitary towels and tampons etc....

I really don't see what the problem is.