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

you don't have any fruit or veg peelings, apple cores, banana skins, etc?? I wouldn't say I waste much food at all my I can fill a food "waste" bag or two a week easily. We had a cauliflower last night and the leaves alone off that have half filled a bag.

I find it’s not a problem.

Our garden waste bins were taken away about 10 years ago and replaced with food waste bins. Hardly anyone uses them. The small kitchen ones a good size to use as a sick bowl ime.

I'd rather have my garden bin back.

If I didn’t have a compost bin I’d chuck peelings in the garden waste bin that I pay extra to have.

Im just really disheartened by it all tbh. All this effort we go to to recycle things we shouldn’t be using in the first place. All the plastic we buy these fruit and veg in, all the wasted food. It’s madness. The cost of recycling all this stuff we shouldn’t be using in the first place. It’s all so upside down.

Surely it's all composted together with garden waste so only those that don't have a brown bin need a caddy?

i don't have a garden so no compost bin and hence don't have a garden waste bin (which are for garden waste only, hence the food waste buckets. Plastic is irrelevant in the argument in hand......

It doesn’t go into landfill though. Ours goes in an anaerobic digester and then gets used to make biogas.

It is converted into biogas. Food waste has non-compostable stuff in (cooked food, non-veg stuff) so isn’t suitable for composting. You can still do your composting though - we do both.

You can put all cooked left overs in plus compostable coffee capsules and teabags, stuff you can’t compost. You’d be surprised how much. We don’t use the one they gave us for indoors - we have an Addis small caddy and then empty into the lockable one that’s outside.

We've had one for years and find it odd when I go somewhere that doesn't have one

We have a wall mounted caddy in the kitchen for veg peelings etc. we put the bread crusts at the bottom as that helps with any juices

I also keep a tupperware box in the freezer for stuff like bones, chicken skin scrapings off plates. Anything that would rot/ smell quickly

We used to use compostable bags but our centre now has a plastic recovery facility so we can you any plastic bags

My roadside food waste bin has blown away as we are at the top of a hill so I wont be using it. They really aren't robust enough for being in exposed countryside! I compost what I can anyway but bones and fish remains will just have to go in the black bin just as they always have done.

Never considered it a problem. We’ve had food waste bins for a long time though. Our kitchen bin has separate compartments and we just empty the food waste bit into the one outside that gets emptied by the bin men.
Cant say I’ve spent a lot of time standing by either the bin or the lorries to get wound up about the smell either.

Ours is collected every week.

If making e.g. cauliflower cheese, I use the leaves - as long as they’re reasonably fresh.

I live in London and we must have smarter foxes than yours as they can definitely get into a locked bin, I think they somehow push the handle until it unlocks. I now put mine on top of the other bins with the handle straight up which seems to stop them.

OMG yes, it’s grim!

Our council introduced these last week.I contacted them and asked if it was compulsory and was told no , so I don’t use mine .
We live in a Victorian terrace with no direct access to the rear which means that all of our bins (4 in total already ) have to sit in front of the house . We do not have room on our kitchen counter to put a “food scraps “bin so this would mean carrying food waste through the house to deposit in the 5th bin at the front -we have very little food waste, compost what we can and recycle religiously but enough is enough .

We got ours last week. I don’t want yet another bin in the kitchen. We have very little food waste. They were all blowing all over the streets in our road last week in the storm, we live semi rurally. Cars running over them and everything. This scheme was introduced originally years ago in our area and then scrapped.
Wont be using. It’s gone in the garage for storage.

@sittingonabeach because it’s outside and I don’t have to think about it. It’s in a big wheelie bin that the rats can’t get to instead of a small food waste bin that vermin can empty all over the street. Like I said, we’ve had them going on 20 years here and I’d say the majority of people have stopped using them. We have a LOT of other recycling to sort and it just one thing too many.

Food waste bins would be great if it wasn’t for the foxes and badgers here, who’ve worked out how to get into them, (I’ve watched them do it), and the bins themselves being hurled around so carelessly by the binmen that they frequently end up in a useless twisted heap at the kerbside.

We’ve had it for years. I genuinely don’t see why people get their knickers in a twist about it.

Our council used to allow raw vegetable peelings etc into our green bins. Then they stopped that when we had to pay for garden waste collection, maybe 7-10 years ago. It seemed like a backwards step.

This summer we're getting the food recycling system. But what I'm most excited about is that they will finally be collecting glass bottles and thin plastic bags from food. At the moment we have to take them to the tip.

My parents have had this for years, they keep a small plastic pot on the counter for food waste and empty it as soon as it's full into a caddy they keep just inside by the back door (foxes too).

The gov white paper says that councils must collect garden waste separately. Does anyone know if this means it will become standard, along with the others, and so we will no longer have to pay for it as an extra?

That would be logical but our council started charging for the green bin, which took garden and food waste so now lots of people don’t use the green bin any more and food waste all goes in the non- recyclable stuff.

Our council charges if you want garden waste collected alongside food waste. If there's just food waste in the bin its free but if you want garden waste collected you need to pay for an annual permit that you attach to the bin