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.

The OP had said her bin would be emptied the next day, so that's what was in my mind when I said it wouldn't be emptied where I live, I was assuming it would be on the top.

Our council would fine you if they smelt it in the wrong bin.
I suppose it's where you live, what their policy is, how much they want your money.
If caught here, it's £50 fine.

I agree that freezing your rubbish is hilarious. Only on mumsnet.

Our food waste is only collected fortnightly and so I also chuck raw meat, cooked fish in the main bin.

2 weeks festering is revolting

We have 4 wheely bins, but you are expected to get it right.

Black for usual waste, stuff not allowed in other bins.
Blue, paper and clean card.
Brown, glass, plastic, tin, aerosols etc.
Green, garden waste and food.

I'm not saying you would get rats/maggots when left for 2 weeks. But if they refused to empty it, then it would be left for 4. Then maybe longer.

We would be pretty fucked if they refused to empty ours as we don't have a car so couldn't just take it to the tip, plus the tips round here don't accept 'general waste'. They actually missed ours one week and because of this we had a bunch of binbags shoved in the shed and had weeks of trying to fit them into the bin to get rid, as our council charge 15 quid per collection and only take 4 items at a time, no matter the size of the item.

2 weeks festering is revolting

It's a bin. It's not meant to be lovely and sweet smelling.

Ours goes in the general waste bin which is collected fortnightly. It's stinks to high heaven so anything which reduces how long food waste sits there is ok imo.

There is apparently evidence that food waste in the landfill bin helps with the decomposition of the rest of the rubbish - shortening the admittedly lengthy time it all takes to break down.

We have weekly food waste collections , we're given plastic bags to put the food in (I always double bag everything) and a plastic box with a lid to put them in.

We have a sack for paper , another sack for cardboard, a brown bin for garden waste , a green box for tins and glass, a plastic bag for plastic stuff and a black bin for everything else.

Food waste in landfill leads to more generation of methane, hence attempts to divert food and other biodegradable waste to composting etc, where it makes a useful product and gas can be captured. The food might have sped up degradation of paper and card in landfill but now most of that is recycled, it's best to get it all out.

Differences across the country are to do with infrastructure - no point collecting say plastic bottles if there's nowhere to recycle them for another two years until a new plant opens, and conversely if it's going to be burnt for energy, then more kinds of plastic can go in. All hideously complex and rapidly changing.

In our area we have green lidded wheelie bins for general waste and blue lidded ones for recycling waste (paper, card, foil and foil trays, rigid plastics and glass). We also have small green bins for food waste - but only for houses with individual gardens. If you live in a flat or a road with communal bin stores they won't give you one e!!

Food bins are emptied weekly and they alternate weekly between general waste and recycling. As they don't provide food waste bins for all properties they can't refuse to empty general waste bins that have food waste in them.

Green bin for food & garden waste
Blue bin for paper & cardboard
Black bin for glass, plastic & foil
Grey bin for anything that can't go in the others

Green bin emptied every week
Grey bin every fortnight
Blue & black every 4 weeks

Earlier in the thread I said only my food waste was collected weekly. I made a mistake. I have six bins.

Box for paper and card
Box for glass
Box for plastic and tins
Those are all collected weekly

Small lidded bin for all food waste - collected weekly

Wheely bin for garden waste - extra cost and collected fortnightly

Wheely bin for anything else - officially collected fortnightly but we generally only put it out for collection monthly because we don't put much in it.

No maggots, no smells, no inconvenience.

I have a hot compost bin that takes any and all food waste
means the bin bin never stinks
and all the nutrient from food goes back into my soil

if you have a garden at all, look into a hot compost bin : only a few weeks from kitchen to mulching