to think kitchen bins are revolting

[moogstera1]

Horrible things. never seen one yet that doesn't have something dribbling down the inside of it.
Kids just chuck stuff in with gay abandon and they get revoltingly full as no one wants to be the one to empty it so you end up playing an unwilling game of binaroo.
So now just have 2 carrier bags on cupboard doors. One with general waste, one for food scraps and they get chucked at least twice a day into wheelie bin/ chicken run.
Anyone else abandoned bins?

I have always hated bins. I have a waste paper small thing in a cupboard which I line with a carrier bag and empty once or twice a day.

I really dislike the idea of rubbish sitting in the kitchen for days on end.

I don't do the food caddy thing, washing it out made me feel ill, so just bag food remnants and put it in the wheelie bin.

Don't have a problem. Have a food bin, a waste bin and a recycling bin. They get emptied as needed and cleaned once a week. No dribbles or anything and certainly never allowed to be over full or stinky.

I have a magic drawer which breeds carrier bags. It is never empty. Fuck knows where the things actually come from.

GetOrf i have a magic drawer too!

Where the hell do ye get all the carrier bags they cost 22c each over here, I'm not spending 22c a day because I'm too precious to empty a kitchen bin!

That said, we live in the country so food waste goes in the compost or out the back for the animals (plenty of wildlife roaming through as the end of our garden is a hedgerow)

Bin is fine. Plastic bags sound revolting (don't they leak, and smell as they have no lid?)

Carrier bags are free over here in a lot of shops.

It doesn't matter - I could never pick up a carrier bag from a shop again in my life and still will have enough to last me until 2045.

Plastic bags don't smell as they get binned too frequently

I got rid of our brabantia as i was sick of dh never emptying it, i couldn't do it because of my back problems.

Now i just have a bag on cupboard handle. don't need to worry about stuff dribbling as we have a food caddy from the council.

Both are emptied almost every day

I have a large swing bin in the kitchen. It wears a black bin bag and doesn't have dribbles down it. It gets emptied every morning after i have done the cat tray and emptied the other household bins into it and a fresh bag and the lid wiped.

A bag hanging on a door handle is just minging.

In Wales carrier bags are 5p each, no way do I buy a bag unless Its vital lol

I would judge a bag on door. I really would!

We have a kitchen bin and if its looking a bit grubby I clean it with hot water and bleach, and stand outside to dry if its a nice day. Why not just clean them more often? I couldn't be doing with carrier bags hanging everywhere. (Also were in Wales so carrier bags are 5p now)

I have a tiny bin inside the cupboard under the sink, and a large recycling container also under kitchen sink. Tiny bin emptied twice a day by DS, recycling done once a week by DP. Cupboard under sink cleaner by me a couple of times a week.

I hate huge kitchen bins.

i hate kitchen bins, if i'm cooking just make a pile/wrap up everything unrecycleable and stick in the wheelie bin, everything else in the recycling.

Keep your bins clean, empty them regularly, have a nice bin to begin with. Far nicer than nasty grubby carrier bags hung on door handles dripping and smelling the place up.

I have this bin. It's dreamy.

www.made.com/accessories/bins/sense-touch-free-bin-50l-yellow

I got rid of our bin when I put my back out trying to remove the bin bag that was wedged too bloody tight. Which was down to other people being too sodding lazy to empty it when it was full, and just pushing the rubbish down.

I was also sick to death of seeing the Leaning Tower of Rubbish balanced on the lid when they could wedge no more.

Now we use carrier bags. We have a food caddy and recycle plastic and cans so it's not messy

Yep- bins are crazy. I just leave old food and packets and stuff in piles next to the window for local squirrels to take away when they're hungry/building a nest.

Yes, they are vile but DH mainly empties ours so I just ignore it! I clean the lid when it starts to get on my nerves, DH washes it out fully once in a blue moon!

I hate carrier bags on doors more, my parents have this system and it always seems more effort/mankier to me. It's harder to scrape food off plates into a bag, imho, so more likely to spill onto the floor.

We have a bin.

DH empties it almost daily.

I clean/bleach the lid weekly and clean/bleach the bin once a month.

But I agree with the bin juice and the stink cloud. That's why DH does it!

Carrier bags on doors are yuk! How can that possibly be nicer then good regularly emptied bin? We always use extra strength refuse sack in ours which stop any bin juice escape. I am currently considering swapping to a smaller bin and putting it in a cupboard but this is just to save floor space as our kitchen is tiny.

Carrier bags (for the most part) have holes in them. I empty my bin every other day. It doesn't smell

YANBU - I feel the same towards them too. Never use them at home in the UK

However, I'm currently in a 6th floor apartment with no lift, and it's too cold to go out, so have decided to use a lil mop bucket type thing with a bin liner, for the time being. :)