To think this is a complete waste of my council tax?

[belly36]

Our council has just given out kitchen food caddies to every household. Now bear in mind we already have food recycling boxes which are slightly bigger.

The idea is to collect it all in your small kitchen one and empty it into the larger one for collection.

AIBU or is this a complete waste of money to buy and distribute all these boxes?

i agree with you-waste of time and money.

When they first introduced the different ection bins in my area they did this. The caddies were too big and didn't have proper sealing lids so smelt and collected flies.

They are just idiotic sometimes.

YANBU

Sounds like a waste of money to me - maybe they think people are too lazy to walk to the big bin, and so won't bother and just put food in the general waste bin?

We have four bins: general waste; glass recycling; non-glass recycling; garden waste. It takes me all my time to work out which combination of the four is to be put on on any given Friday! The Council issued us with a colour- and shape-coded timetable that makes my head spin The neighbours just wait to see what bins I put out, then copy me

i think it is great that they are so encouraging of people to recycle - our council here in the well to do south east is totally crap at recycling, honestly it is

To be honest we put food waste in the general waste. I used to be very anal and collect every scrap of food and wrap it and put it in the food bin. I'd keep my bin lovely and clean and I'd just get someone else's back with a rotting melon or vomit (or something unidentifiable smelling like vomit) in. Then I'd end up trawling the streets looking for my own bin.

Why is it a waste? The small bin sits on the work top and the big bin sits outside. They perform different functions.

In these houses (small terraced houses with narrow galley kitchens) there isn't room for them on the kitchen worktop (is quite big, the size of my bathroom bin). You'd need a really big kitchen to be able to keep this thing on your worktop. Most of the houses in this borough are the same type too.

I think its because the recycling bin men complained as they got massive vats of decomposing food, and in this heat too..

with the caddys people put them in little green bags, so this way the men get lots of smelly sealed bags rather than an overflowing bin

but when the bags you get run out..

food waste produces shit loads of methane gas, so anything to make people recyle it more should be a good thing

total waste. Get writing a letter.

We have both and find them really useful. The little ones sits next to the sink and when it's full I empty it out in a biodegradable bag into the big one in the garden. That was what were issued with to start with.

I'm in Bristol and we have little boxes (maybe half the size of a bread bin?) and bigger pedal bin-sized caddies. The little boxes are kept indoors such as under your sink or on the worktop and the big caddies live outside. Seems to make sense to me, although I mostly compost so don't use them much.

Anything councils can do to encourage more food waste recycling (and thus reduce the amount of stuff going to landfill) will likely SAVE the council money, as they have to pay a LOT to send stuff to landfill.

and for a lot of people having the little caddies in the house makes it easier to recycle their food waste and thus people do more of.

Sounds like a good use of council money to me.