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!

I do however always recycle my garden waste.

Our council (southwark) doesn't collect food waste separately but the general waste is burned for energy. Our building does have a communal compost bin that I haven't used since being attacked by flies but you can't put everything and anything in there.

Yes our food waste bin takes all food leftovers whether cooked or uncooked

We didn't used to have a food waste bin or even a garden, so no compost either. Now we have moved and our new council not only provide a food waste bin, but they collect it every week (general waste only once a fortnight) so I think that encourages people to use it. We also have a compost bin.

But I have lived in six different London boroughs in the past 10 years and only two have had food waste bins.

I don't have a food waste bin and my council doesn't collect it separately.

I wouldnt want a compost bin in my garden, although the rats would be very pleased if i did I'm sure.

we dont have a weekly chicken carcass, dont eat potatoes every day, main culprits could be the egg shells and teabags.
plus our council does not collect food waste.

Snuggy we get the sticker of shame here too if we boob like that

We have excellent refuse collection where I live. Food waste bin which is emptied weekly. A general waste wheely bin emptied fortnightly, a wheely bin for paper, some plastics, glass and tins which is also emptied fortnighly.

Our food/ garden waste is collected every 2 weeks with the rest only being collected every 3 weeks. We get biodegradable food bags to put the waste in

No food waste bin here either.

I am in Ireland and as far as I know the whole country has to have a compost bin as standard. I pay 25euro a month for all three bins - General waste, recycling and composting. I have no idea why it is not rolled out in all countries to be honest especially ones that already do the other two bins. We do not as yet have glass bins as standard per property, we bring glass to the bottle bank.

Howabout egg shells certainly are compostable. I have been successfully composting them for more than 11 years now. Tea bags can be tricky as some contain plastics. We do have a food bin but as I compost fruit and veg peelings and egg shells (and we don't eat meat so no bones) there's usually not much in it other than tea bags and leftovers.

I am really surprised so many places doesn't have food waste bin.
My council has it.
I remember I had them as a child 30+ years ago in my native country. What is going on?

We don't even have a recycling bin never mind a food waste bin.

I don't use our food waste bin after seeing the bin men tipping the contents of the food waste bins into normal waste bins before collecting them!

I also don't really understand the point of separating food waste - where does it go? Doesn't it release methane as it rots whether its in landfill or being composted?

I have a food waste bin, but see no point in using it after watching the bin workers empty them into the regular ones before they get picked up by the truck. I am glad your council does it properly but that is not the case around here.

We don't have a good waste bin, or anywhere to dump it if we had

I AM the food waste bin

We have a food bin which is emptied weekly. I don't waste food at all but it's full of coffee grounds, tea leaves and loads of veg peelings as well as egg shells and occasionally meat bones.

It's collected separately and is reprocessed to produce agricultural fertilizer and energy, apparently.

Our council supplies little food waste caddies to keep in the kitchen and a big one for outside. We don't waste much at all but probably fill 2 little bags a week with tea bags, veg peelings, bones, banana skins and apple cores. My kids could live on bananas if I let them. Our council collect recycling once a week and general and garden waste fortnightly.

I think the majority of my waste could be onion peelings

V good recycling where I am:

bin for paper, cardboard, cans etc collected fortnightly
box for glass collected monthly
bin for garden waste and food waste collected fortnightly (council supply a counter top caddy with biodegradable bags)
bin for non-recyclables collected fortnightly

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.

and therein lies the problem. People don't want to pay for something that is really an essential, given the fucked-up state of our planet - don't even want to pay less than 50p a week for this.

Is it the fault of councils, or the fault of people who want something for nothing? And yes, a few people can't afford this - but most people can and should pay for it.

I went back to drinking proper leaf tea last year - got rid of the teabag issue and much much nicer.