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

@thinktoomuchtoooften how would you cope if you lived on the top floor of a block of flats, would you walk down every time you had a piece of rubbish?

Do you have a bathroom bin?

Do you separate out your recycling?

@bunnyvsmonkey you can wash the bin

I love them, mainly bin doesn't smell, very easy to manage and we cook a lot so there are always loads of veg peel etc. Used to have them in London in a very fox busy area and they never got into ours. The service should be starting here this month, I'm pleased.

we've had them for years, it's pretty bogging inside but I don't make a habit of sniffing it very often and the caddy in the kitchen gets washed out every time it's emptied.

We have a combo bin in our kitchen, top part is the biggest and we use that for general waste, bottom half is divided into two, one side is a food waste caddy and one side is for recycling. We line the food waste side with the biodegradable liners and take it out to the main food waste bin every couple of days. It doesn't smell at all. We end up with loads in it as have small children who are unpredictable eaters plus both of us wfh most of the week, so lots of cooking scraps, coffee grounds etc.

Funnily enough, the main problem we have is with recycling now. Our council split us into paper/card and mixed recycling (including loads of plastic packaging which was not previously recyclable) a few months ago, and we now fill the recycling caddy super quickly and end up with recycling piling up by the back door, and sometimes overflowing in both bins before collection. It's dramatically cut how much goes in the general waste bin though, we were worried about only getting that collected every 3 weeks, well it's not even full when they do come for it.

We’ve had them for years, I find the caddy in the kitchen doesn’t smell unless open and we just empty when it’s full ( roughly twice a week) or it’s bin day. Outside one is also fine once I worked out how to stop the foxes getting into it.

It could, and I appreciate your suggestion to help, but a) I can't get a fag paper in my freezer half the time; and b)that just adds to my mental load, as I then have an extra job to do in putting the waste food in the freezer, plus another extra job in remembering to get it out again to put it out in time for collection.

It's not making my life any easier, it's adding yet more jobs and transferring work from the council to me. The problem with that is that I'm already overloaded and usually don't stop from when I get up in the morning at 6.30pm until at least 10 o'clock at night. So I'm really not up for anyone adding anything extra onto my plate.

Spreading what?

It’s a bin with a lid not a box.

Food bin or waste bin, why would one attract vermin and the other one. Why would vermin suddenly appear if you get a food waste bin?

We've had this for years here. I like it.

Kitchen food waste is in a small brown caddy and is collected weekly so it doesn't go too manky. The waste is also in biodegradable bags.

As for your colleagues' comments about bin lorries smelling - all bin lorries smell in my experience. It's so normal that nobody really bats an eyelid at it.

Do your colleagues chase bin lorries to smell them? They sound weird! 🤣

We first had one in Switzerland. When we moved to Belgium, we had a giant one.
If you visited the dump, free compost was available.

We are week one and I wasn’t sure but have got into the habit pretty quickly.

Today is our collection day and only about 1/3 of houses have the food waste bin out so it will be interesting to see what happens locally in the next few months if more start doing it.

I don’t waste actual food and cut up almost everything for my own compost bin, make soup with oddments, or give my few leftovers to the dogs. Avocado pits are about the only thing I don’t compost. If I’ve made bone broth I’d put the cooked bones in the food waste.

Currently the green wheelie bin is for all food waste, including meat, fish, bones and dairy, plus garden waste, but we will have to separate all food into its own bin from May. Windfall fruit counts as garden waste, apparently. All those biodigester plants need food waste for fuel.

And while householders have to make more time and effort to satisfy the green agenda, the council tax still goes up and up.

I really don’t understand people’s issues. We had to introduce at work and my response was what’s the difference between putting food waste in this bin or that bin. They will both create the same smell 🤷‍♀️ I obviously had zero response when it was put like that. Where do people think their food waste is going now?

@autumn1610 that’s what don’t understand. It’s not like they are giving you rubbish, they are just asking you to put yours in a different bin. What’s all the disgust about. You are the ones creating the rubbish

We've had a little food bin for about ten years, but it's so small, I stopped using it almost straight away.

It doesn't bother me. It has one of those green biodegradable liners and never stays in the house more than two days. Really not a problem.

Fine with a food bin here. We’ve used them for yonks, little one in the house with biodegradable liners, which gets taken out to the bigger one outside. We have a (very) small terrance house but he lives just fine next to the main bin, which houses bin + recycling compartments, then a paper & card recycling bin at the bottom of a tall cupboard.

Our food waste goes in with the garden waste. I wonder why some councils keep it apart?

I live in a housing association flat and we have no facilities for food recycling so I’ll be interested to see what our council do to facilitate this. We have a rubbish shute for general waste and large bins outside the building for paper, glass and tins recycling at the moment. So any food waste at the moment goes in the general bin.

Loath it because the caddy is a pain in the arse and doesn't fit in the hidden bin. It's another nuisance item in the kitchen.

Seems like I'm not the only one who hates. There was very little take up on using it since it started in our area. A handful of people are using it...

Shan't be using a food waste bin. Disgusting thought. In with the other landfill stuff.

i have mine on my kitchen counter
i have only just bought a large kitchen bin so that is getting more redundant, particularly now they have started to recycle tetra paks
but if you dont want it on the counter, perhaps put it next to your usual bin in the kitchen?

Why does the food waste change qualities when it’s with other stuff?

And usually in the house for longer.