To ask you not to put food waste in your bin?

[AngryMarshmallows]

I see so many people putting food waste into their general waste bin, don't do it!

Your food then goes to landfill, rots and releases damaging methane.

Please, please, use your food waste bin!

There is no food waste collection scheme here, so it has to go in the general waste bin.

We don't have a food waste bin.

We lost our food waste bins when our council took their services 'in house' and now we have fortnightly rubbish collections alternating with recycling collections.

I put my food waste in a bag into the bottom of my freezer until the night before collection.

It's a crying shame, but many people didn't 'get it' and either didn't use it at all or took the mick.

You are very lucky Angry, but it's not the same for everyone unfortunately.

No food waste bin here either.

All you can do is reduce food waste. Throw minimal food in the bin.

My council provides food waste bins. I use mine all the time but my mum gave up with hers because the foxes would continually raid it and spread debris all over the road. Even with the handle lock on they got in to it.

We also don't have food waste bins, and are not supposed to put food waste into the green waste bin.

Otherwise we have a brown bin for all recyclables, and a black general waste bin.

We don't have a food waste bin either. Used to be able to put vegetable waste in the brown bin but once they started charging extra for that we decided not to pay. We have 2 compost bins for the garden and fruit/veg. meat waste goes in with the general waste as always.

No food waste bin here either. We used to have one but then the council did away with them when the local newspaper published photographs of the lorries that collect the 'food waste' queuing for the local landfill site.

People who say they eat all the waste, do you really eat potato peelings. egg shells, bones and tea bags?

We don't have a food waste bin. And our recycling bin was stolen( communal one) and they've not replaced. They said to put in normal bin it's been 8 week.

The council stopped emptying our standard communal recycling bins 18 months ago. They're chased up regularly but seem incapable of following through - they have been 'definitely flagged up' and some sort of manager has supposedly been out. Still full, still untouched.
There are 38 households in my block. We are not the only block in the area with this problem. So I can't actually recycle any rubbish. I don't have a car, the nearest tip is seven miles away.

A lot of councils pay lip service to green issues, but as austerity has destroyed their funding for social care, children's services and other essential services I don't really blame them.

No food waste goes in my bin. I do have some very content and well fed foxes and crows though.

We don’t have a food waste bin but our council doesn’t send anything to landfill

No food waste bins here either - south Norfolk!

We don't have a food waste bin either.

I compost some of it, and give the rest to the urban crows who do a sterling job of clearing up abandoned crappy fast food from the streets every morning before we're even awake.

Mind you, I don't have much waste because I'm a tightarse and as a family we eat very little meat.

I think promoting vegetarian eating (even as a part-time thing) is the way to go.

Also, not all councils use landfill. Some burn it and generate power - 'energy from waste'.

We have a food waste bin that's collected weekly and ours goes to make fuel with. However I'm very aware that the vast majority of LA's don't provide this service and they'd either have to build ,or for it to be financially viable to send it to, an anaerobic digester. I imagine not all councils can afford this.

I buy my veg precleaned and don't peel potatoes. Very little food waste.

Bones and egg shells don't decompose quickly (hence why you can't compost) so are not a major source of gases.

The food waste processing plant was shut down. I don't want vermin in my compost bin.

When you say “food waste” bin, do you mean ALL food waste - cooked food, meat etc as well as compostable stuff? I’ve never had a bun like that anywhere we’ve lived.

Where we live now we pay a private company for a “garden waste” bin but that is strictly no food, so kit even potato peelings, we home compost what we can and the rest (scraps, meat bones etc) has to go in the black waste bin.

There needs to be a joined up countrywide scheme for recycling and rubbish management.

We get the sticker of shame if we accidentally put food waste in the rubbish bin

We have a brown wheelie bin for food waste. If we want to put garden waste in it as well, we have to pay £25 a year to the council.
I compost everything I have space for, but can’t put food waste on the heap as we then get rats. Much to the delight of my cat, who brings them indoors for a party...

Never use my food waste bin, as I barely have any. So into the general waste it goes

DH suggesting we need a composting toilet plus a compost bin hooked up to a tank to supply our central heating - good job we live in a flat in a high density urban area or he might be already in his shed.

Did consider whether it would work in flats on a communal basis, but suspect there may be an explosion risk.