To put food in the general waste bin?

[BenjaminLinus]

Our brown (food) bin was emptied this morning and we've just had squid & fish for lunch. AIBU to put the bits in the general waste bin that gets emptied tomorrow rather than leave it to fester for a fortnight in the brown bin? Don't particularly want a fetid maggoty stinky bin in the sun.

If you did it where I live they would refuse to empty your bin so then you'd still have a stinky bin.

Really? How on earth does that work..you would have nowhere to put the rest of your rubbish, would end up with a bunch of black bags outside and (most likely) an infestation of rats

Food waste is collected fortnightly here and if you put anything food related in the general waste it doesn't get emptied. In that case it is your own responsibility to empty out the contents of your bin and separate them out and put them in the correct bins.

We've had fortnightly collections for years (food and garden waste one week, general waste the next) and I've never had a problem with maggots or rats and haven't heard of anyone else complaining about them either. Recycling is collected every week so there is very little in the general waste anyway.

They don't collect extra bags or anything either.

Solved the issue by dropping it in a public bin. Decided that it wasn't much different from everyone's fish and chips (seaside town).

I pity the poor person who has to empty that rubbish bin

We have 2 bins. Black for house waste, food, general waste and a blue bin for cardboard/plastic/paper. Every other week. One week black and one week blue. Yes it does stink. We have 3 kids under 5 so lots if nappies etc. All bagged up but take up room. There are brown bins for garden waste which are collected weekly but we cant have one. We are on the waiting list. So we have to fit that in the black bin too or take it to the tip, which you hve to pay for. This is in the south east.

They check the top layer before they empty aswell. Anything not allowed and you are stuck with it for another 2 weeks to sort yoyrself

I can't understand why everyone's bins are different. We have 3 - brown for food & garden, blue for recyclables, green for general waste all emptied fortnightly. My brother has 4 where he lives, including multi-coloured lids. The next county across still has plastic boxes for recyclables which makes a massive mess on a windy day.

We have mini plastic dumpy bag type things for plastic bottles (no other kind of plastic ) and tins, cardboard and catalouges/paper.

No food waste. Everything else goes in general waste. It's shocking tbh.

We have separate little bins for food but they easily crack and break so we have resorted to putting food waste in the general 'black' bin household waste. This is collected two weekly and it's fine. However we occasionally get a sticker asking us not to put food waste in household waste. I've made the conscious decision that I'll carry on as don't want food in a silly little broken bin attracting all sorts of vermin

It's different because different councils have different rules and budgets.

My MIL freezes it then puts it in the food bin the day before collection!

By "it" I mean meat and fish that's waste.

If you did it where I live they would refuse to empty your bin so then you'd still have a stinky bin
Can I ask how they would know? Do they stand and go through all your bags?

We don't have a food waste collection service so it all goes in the main waste bin.

I try very consciously not to have too much food waste.

We have a fortnightly service alternating between normal waste and recycling. We also have a garden waste service but I didn't want to pay for it so take mine to the tip.

@cardibach in our area they check through the top bit before emptying the bin. You'd maybe get away with it if you hid stuff down the bottom of the bin but it's not worth the hassle of what would happen if they refused to collect it. I don't fancy carting my rubbish to the tip or rooting through the bins to sort it all out again!

It all goes in the black bin here, no food waste allowed in the brown bin anyway.

It all goes in the black bin here, no food waste allowed in the brown bin anyway.

caffeine I can't imagine my bin men doing that! Taking it to the tip would be impossible though - our tip men will not allow general waste without an inquisition. If you had to take rubbish to the tip you would have to sort it anyway.

We only have one bin and it gets emptied weekly. Everything goes in it. However we do recycle paper, cans, bottles and plastic by taking them to the recycling centre. It's a right pain in the arse.

Our bins are see-through so they can tell exactly what's in it, and then not collect it for spurious reasons. Also, you are allowed 2 per fortnight and no more. We are supposed to have an extra bag for nappies, but they still haven't given us one and my kitchen stinks.

We have small black bins for household waste (if you have a "large household" you can qualify for a larger one), brown bin for garden waste (if applicable) and large red bins for all recycling except glass, which goes in a separate green box for safety reasons.

The black bins get collected weekly and all other bins get collected fortnightly.

Whilst I do recycle as much as possible, if there's packaging that is particularly gross and it's not recycling week, I will occasionally throw it in the regular bin.

It's annoying how different every council is. We get a tiny box to put paper recycling in, it gets full in a few days so we are constantly going to the tip (or just hoarding magazines) In laws have a massive wheelie bin for paper.

Surely there should be some 'gold standard' for recycling and bin collections!

All our food waste goes in the general rubbish. The food caddy issued by the council proved impossible to open with my arthritic hands, and is now in the garage as a storage container for car cleaning stuff.

In fairness, we don't have much food waste as there's very little that the dog won't eat or isn't compostable.

I often have a bag with 'dry' rubbish such as plastic packaging that won't go in the recycling and also drop it in a public bin when Im out walking the dog. And often take extra bin bags to the tip when passing which is way much busier than it was before they gave us the teeny bins that only hold 2 bin bags. I don't understand why when I'm recycling every single thing I can that I have to do this

Our council are congratulating themselves on reducing household waste collected but they don't seem to realise that it's not really reduced that much, people are just making more trips to the tip and using public bins. Or as some scummers do just leave it on the side of the road which the bin men drive past and ignore

If you did it where I live they would refuse to empty your bin so then you'd still have a stinky bin
Can I ask how they would know? Do they stand and go through all your bags?

If it's well hidden you'd probably get away with it. But if you open the bin and it smells of anything it would alert them and they'd search. They also take random bins away and sort through them then return them later in the day.