New food bins

We might be also getting battery collection, so I won’t need to carry my used batteries around in the boot of my car for about a month at a time ( my memory is shocking).
Do wish they would take soft plastic as well!

We are getting them this summer, but the council are only providing one roll of liners.
We now put glass in our recycling bin rather than a box( council took the box away) you could have kept the box.
I will use the outside bin but the food caddy for the kitchen counter is going in the shed. DH is going to use it for nails/screws/wall plugs etc.
I’m worried about how long the bin will survive being thrown on the path and god knows where it will end put when it’s windy and empty! Especially in the winter when it’s dark, as it was often hunt the green box. Sometimes we didn’t find it until the weekend! As have been told they will only replace once! I’m not paying for a broken bin that a council employee has broken!

Nah live in a flat for 10+ years,
never received a food waste caddy and one isn’t due it says in these times either due to large number of flat owners and I’ve lived in a flat a over a decade with out a food caddy never being given.

Serco collect the rubbish in 4 large commercial bins (if they don’t can we stop paying the big service leaseholds charges) ?! ah thought not!

We havent got one.

But I compost everything compostable in my home compost anyway (which we use on our garden) so I will continue to do that, as I have done for the past 2 decades.

If / when i get a food waste bin from the council (no plans for several years where i live) im unlikley to use it, because i barely have any other food waste.

My household produces less than 1 black bin bag of non-recyclable rubbish every couple of weeks, so it's not like I have loads of waste

They do check here - refused to take a bag once, put a warning sticker on it telling us off.

We get maggots sometimes - we have a cat, so uneaten cat food goes in food recycling. The flies will lay eggs on the outside and the maggots are tiny initially and can squeeze in. We live with it, it's not that different really as before food recycling was a thing the wheelie bin would get maggots in and a wheelie bin is a lot harder to clean thoroughly than the food waste bin.

We have a lot of bags and bins for recycling - glass bin, food bin & caddy, paper bag, card bag, plastic & tin bag, battery bag, soft plastic bag, garden waste bag.

Who is 'they'. I've not used my caddy for nearly 2 years. I simply just don't put it out with my other bins. My bins are collected every week, never had any queries. bin men don't go looking though your black bins.

Can’t you buy your own storage boxes for that?

Genius idea!

We don't have them in our county. All food waste now goes in with garden waste. Wish we did cos they make great dog food storage.

Doesn't stink

I've started doing what some chefs do to prevent food smells, vermin and flies. I put food waste in the food bin liner and put a clip on it and store in the freezer. This way it does stink. And does nice in the food waste bin outside. No more bloody fruit flies.

Exactly, bones, peelings, banana skin, orange peel, egg shells

We all have those, unless as you say it’s microwave meals 🤮

It’s only just started in our area. I keep the caddy in a kitchen cupboard, it doesn’t take up much room and is emptied into the outside bin before it gets chance to smell. It’s great that it’s collected weekly, much better than it sitting in the household bin for two weeks.

Walking around our estate on bin day last week though there were very few food waste bins out for collection.

I didn’t think that we created much food waste but the outside bin is full every week. It’s mainly fruit and veg peelings, chicken bones, a bit of stale bread and coffee grounds so it’s not as if we’re buying food and not eating it.

The comments saying that we shouldn't be wasting food anyway seem a bit disingenous. Every time I make a roast I fill the little caddy, but it's all peelings etc. I think the only way you could have no food waste to put in the bin is to eat entirely processed food.

We had ours delivered the last week of March this year. The day they delivered was very very windy and most ended up in the middle of the roads!

They aren’t mandatory to use here and we have chosen not to as we have an allotment with a resident compost heap we add to.

Both bins/caddy’s are made use of for other purposes. Quite a few neighbours/ locals are also doing this, especially where there’s only 2 people in the household.

One free starter roll of liners with the smaller bin and then you’re on your own and buy the bags yourself.

i honestly don’t mind doing my bit, but promoting the benefits of it (per Borough council where we are) seriously does not reflect the ‘energy’ we supposedly get back due to it. Yes, every little helps, but……..

Where have people been putting their food waste, surely a small food bin is no different to food waste in a big bin with other waste

What is the problem?Our food waste goes in a caddy bag into the compost bin which has a lid under the sink and is emptied pretty much daily. Soooo much better than it languishing at the bottom of a bigger black bin for longer.

We’ve had them here for years too. The only time I had issues with maggots was when there was meat in it and I forgot to put it out before we went away and came back to them. We’ve never forgotten to put it out again though.

I have a Joseph Joseph Totem bin so it has a little food caddy section inside it so I don’t need the council one inside the house and it doesn’t take up any extra space then.

I’m in one of the councils where we won’t get them until at least September

What are you doing? Had them for years and never, ever had flies.

I have this one with a compostable bag in. Empty it every day or so out into the lockable council
one.
https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/farmarkvast-bin-with-lid-for-organic-waste-grey-green-90567003/

It’s such a clean good system for all waste. They’ve just trialled all plastics. Hope that is next. There was next to nothing in our black bin when we did that.

I bloody love it - as someone else said, our main kitchen bin barely needs emptying and no longer ends up stinking from the food in it.

Lots of whinging around us though - people will complain about anything!

Nor here luckily, we don't have them and no indication yet of when they'll be issued.

But didnt you out it in bin bags? We dot have this system so thats what we do..strong black bags in the general waste bin.

The thought of collecting food waste in a cupboard 🤢