Cans of expired food - how to dispose of them?

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Seems that I had about 30 cans of expired canned food at the back of one of my cupboards, mainly soup. They're a few years out of date so there's no chance that I'll eat them. What's the best way to dispose of the contents?

I have a septic tank so perhaps chuck them in there, or might that cause some issues for the bacteria that live in the tank and digest the waste matter?

Any other ideas please?

Thanks

I've tried & utterly failed to give away 'expired' food (canned or packaged) on Facebook before. Nobody would take it. Charity I'm part of insisted on throwing out packaged sweets and even water bottles that were past BBF date. Amuses me that MNers are so different.

Fat isn't what actually causes fat bergs. Textiles are, baby wipes esp.

Fat absolutely causes fatbergs - a sewer with restrictions caused by fats oils and grease will ‘catch’ wipes etc, and equally fat will catch on wipes etc and everything binds together. Having seen sewers with huge deposits of fats, oil and grease from domestic and commercial settings it really is a thing, though wipes and other inappropriately disposed items are worse I grant you. Only flush the 3 p’s and don’t dispose of food down the sink, please!

On the original topic, it does baffle me re. sticking rigidly to best before dates though, always check, most of the stuff will taste fine and is safe to eat well beyond the best before!

@babblingbumblingbandofbaboons
3rd p....puke?
So many options 🍕🍍🥒🍺🍾

@Helpwhatwouldyoudonext 😂very true, I should have specified. Pee, poo and (toilet) paper.

I had to clear mine out due to dietary changes, the ones I couldn't use were a mix of old and not so old. I put them all on Freecycle and said they were out of date or close to it, they went quickly.

puke is basically undigested food, OP has soup which is nearly = digested food. Which canned soups are high fat content? I might buy one...

it's textiles that clog up the sewer pump machines. These machines cost like £90k each and have to be cleared by hand <boak> The machines can handle leaves, twigs, food bits, organic waste, bits of tarmac, metals... but not textiles.

Nobody and I mean nobody on my local free cycle/Facebook etc. would offer or take anything past date. Eg, on the OLIO app, the only active person (6 miles away) gets things from Tesco. She advertises the items at say, 5pm. If items has same day = BBF ... she bins the item if no one collects by 8pm. Absolutely would never allow you to pick it up the next morning & acts like you were insane to suggest that. I half wondered if TESCO imposed this rule as condition of them being willing to donate, because the Olio person is very emphatic about deadlines to collect.