Rubbish from luchboxes!!!!

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AIBU to expect the council/school to provide bins for my children to through away their lunch box rubbish???
The council has sent an email to all schools in our area telling the heads that children who have sandwiches for school have to bring all their rubbish home with them in their lunch boxes. This is doing my head in as I have 3 children (youngest is only 4) bringing home disgusting, dirty yoghurt/apple juice spilt lunch boxes!
It's winter now and the luch boxes are yuck by the time the hot weather comes they will be rank by the time they get home!
AIBU to think that a bin isn't a luxury item more of an everyday essential item????

YANBU, my school do this and it drives me bonkers!!!

yanbu. i hate hate hate my son bringing them home with him. its disgusting.

my children have always bought their rubbish home, apart from fruit bits which go into the school's compost bin (eco school)

eldest is now in year 8 and this covers two schools and three children (youngest is too little for lunches)

I don't send yoghurt as it would mean clean uniform every day! they get water to drink not juice. The only rubbish they normally bring back is a wrapper from the penguin type biscuit and occasional not eaten crusts

See the opposite:

AIBU to think that school shouldn't let my chidren throw away their lunch? They always come back with completely empty boxes and I have no idea if they have eaten properly.

My DD's school did this for P1-P3's 5-7/8 year olds so parents knew what they where actually eating.

YABU, schools pay for the amount of bins they need.
Pack stuff up that has less packaging, put drinks in bottles with a 'sports cap', or just empty it out and wash it. Not that big a deal.

Thanks for your quick replies! I'm so glad you've said that INBU as I'm on a mission with the lady in the council about it!

YANBU

Skanky banana skins and dirty spoons mixed with melted cheese and breadcrumbs - what a delight!

Show your dc how to pack up there lunch boxes after they have eaten - I decant yogurt into small pots with lids and that stops 99% of the mess and it is cheaper.

I put a napkin of piece of kitchen paper in the box to wrap apples or orange peels

My DD's school did this, I could see what she hadn't eaten. the little sod found a way round this, she would dump all the waste under the seat in the car. It took me about a fortnight to work out why the car stank.

Ours bring the rubbish home also.

How about you change the contents so that there is nothing left or it is resealable?

My DDs school does this too. I put their sandwiches in a small plastic bag and then they use this for the rubbish. It does keep most of the mess contained as long as they remember to do it. They do do it most days.
They are 5 and 8 by the way.

Why such a fuss about a messy lunchbox? Rubber gloves, empty stuff into bin, wash the rest!

I can see why the schools would send home sandwiches that hadn't been eaten but surely things like half a banana and apple cores etc should go in the bin???

blu -exactly.

Also it's your rubbish so you should deal with it. We are all having to reduce the amt of stuff we sent to landfill so leaving it to the school to deal with is ducking out.

Afaik it is to do with letting parents know what their DC have eaten.

I agree it's bleugh but at least I know what dd1 has eaten, she can be a poor eater at times.

Yet to find a reusable bottle that doesn't leak.

DD does this too, like others have said I think maybe it's so the parents can monitor what the child has eaten.

The mess is hideous though. DD once took one spoonful of yogurt, decided she didn't like it and put the open, almost full pot back in her lunch box to bring home, along with sandwich crusts and orange peel. Lovely!

The skanky yoghurt pots and banana skins could be put in a bag provided by the parents and then put in the lunchbox?

Sigg bottles don't leak - pricey though.

Yes but like I say surely a bin is an essential thing to have and not a luxury item? Also from a recycling point of view, by the time it gets home it's so mangled and yuck that it all gets tipped into the normal bin at home. I don't seperate it into food waste etc as its disgusting. My children scrape their plates after meals at home and I feel they are more than capable to put food waste into the food waste bin in school which is there anyway from the children who have dinners.

That's true. Ask dc to put their rubbish in the sandwich bag and loop the top over (like with pillowcases) and that will cut down on some of the mess.

Give a choice of a bin or an extra classroom assistant what would you choose? Or would you be prepared to pay more in council tax for the bins? The money has to come from somewhere in the schools budget doesn't it?

The problem with the sigg bottles is having to smack them on the side of the mountain you've just climbed. We have a cupboard full (probably 9 or 10) with dents in.