Do people dislike having a food waste bin collected separately

[WillowTit]

do you dislike your food waste bin?
my colleagues dont like it
all sorts of complaints

the bin lorry will smell is one example

We are getting this service in the autumn.

The council are supplying a caddy for the kitchen and one for roadside collections.

We are also finally getting wheelie bins - no more black sacks being ripped open by the local wildlife.

Well...you don't have to "just accept" anything, as per PP.
I use only my general waste bin most of the time.

You need the compostable bags so everything is always inside a bag same as the black bins, i agree just loose in the caddy is gross

I put my food bin in the bin as we didn't use it. Food waste just goes in the regular bin.

I put scraps of cheese, meat etc in the freezer to make stock or sauces at a later date. It's no different to that.

@sharkstale we have a small utility room, so put recycling in there, so that probably helps. Small food caddy in there. Then a pile of plastic, cardboard etc which we then put in the outside bins on a regular basis.

DM lives in a flat with a very small kitchen. Food caddy in the under sink cupboard together with general waste bin. Bag in the hall cupboard for plastics, cardboard etc. There is a communal bin store where I take her rubbish probably twice a week. Even with the beginnings of dementia she is a demon recycler!

You mean you put it in the kitchen bin and it stays there for a few days?

I much prefer it going out of the house each day, now I can’t go back to that version.

Plus agree small compostable bags are a must.

Our kitchen caddy goes on the side, right next to the sink. When I go to friends houses I see theirs in the same spot and it doesn't seem to be an issue for anyone. I assume everyone is using compostable bags too? The caddy itself stays pretty clean although I give it a wipe around each time I take a bag of food to the outside caddy.

@stopringingme we only have black bags for general waste, no wheelie bins. So for us a food caddy is a much better way to stop vermin etc attacking bags to get to food waste.

Previous kitchen:

Freestanding bin for landfill waste
Bin drawer repurposed - had the food waste caddy sitting on top of another caddy for easy access
Two little bags next to the sink, one for paper and card, one for plastic and metal.
Everything put outside into various boxes and bins periodically - the bag of paper and card has to be separated outside.

Current kitchen:

Bigger bin drawer with three containers - the smallest is food waste, medium is landfill, biggest is recycling.
All the recycling now gets separated outside.

Before this house we had a much smaller kitchen and the recycling went into stacked boxes in the porch. I think we had the food waste caddy sitting on the side.

We’ve had similar in NI for maybe 15 years. It’s fine. Our council supplies biodegradable bags which we tie up and throw into the big brown garden bin. I just clean the caddy with antibacterial spray every time it’s emptied. Nae bother.

In our old area we weren't allowed to use compostable bags for food waste because they used a very high heat process and the supposedly compostable bags messed it up. The council supplied really strong brown paper liners instead which worked really well (unless your teenagers threw overripe tomatoes into it, whereupon they disintegrated as you pulled the liner out of the caddy....)

Our council has missed the boat with these, as they do with everything else, so we don't have them yet. Lots of people moaning in advance though still.

Mine is under the sink.

@AnnaQuayRules the compostable bags can disintegrate quite quickly. We have had times when pulled out the bag from small caddy to put in roadside one and the bottom gives way!

As a vegan I don't need a food waste bin because I'm not throwing out meat or fish. Compost takes any veggie trimmings and next to no food is ever thrown out into the bin, well not enough to keep a single rodent fed for a day over two weeks.

We've had food bins for years, I can hardly remember not having it. It's no big deal, you just empty it often into the larger bin outside.

That can happen! But I take the small caddy outside and tip the whole bag in, so it doesn't get a chance to do that now.

I prefer the food bins because it stops the general waste bin from getting gross. Every now and then I put the small caddy in the dishwasher, so no issue with it being on the worktop for us.

@herbalteabag don’t mention the dishwasher, certain posters will be fainting with the horror of that 😂

We don't have one, summer 2027 is the soonest we'll be getting one.

The council can't do it because of contracts apparently, they can however cut our bin collections down to once every three weeks before then though, so the bins are going to stink and there'll be even more fly tipping.

Council tax still going up 5% though, shitty council.

We have had food waste (brown wheelie bin) for years, it gets collected every 2nd week and you can get wheelie bin disinfected once a month by bin company (for a price).

Don't even think about it every household does it (Ireland). We have a bin cupboard in our kitchen design with 3 bin compartments in it - recycle, normal waste, food waste. Food waste one has a compostable bag and I can carry the bin out to my brown wheelie bin when I need to and I wash out the bin before putting new bag in. No idea why people find it is gross. As I have been doing it for so long I find food waste mixed in with normal bin waste more gross tbh.

I don’t have a kitchen bin.. they are disgusting. I put rubbish straight outside in the wheelie bin.
I am not planning to do otherwise with food waste.

Ours is usually carrot peel and cauliflower leaves in a compostable bag. It goes outside daily. It’s fine, better than in kitchen bin.

I hate the food waste bin. The main bin has a bin bag. The only bag you can use in the food waste one are the ones that disintegrate.

We don't use it. But we have no food waste most weeks anyway. A few carrot peelings which I can live with going into the main bin.