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!

OMG, the last thing we need is yet another bin for something specific. We already have a black bin for general waste, a green bin for re-cyclable stuff and a brown bin for composting stuff and garden waste. Until recently we also had a green box thing for paper and cardboard.

I compost what I can . Cooked food goes into a Bokashi bin.

No food waste bins, but five dogs, a few horses and some pigs sorts most of it. Veg peelings go to the outside animals, depending upon which species can each what.... no brassicas for horses for example. Pigs eat most things.
Meat waste, if there is such a thing, to dogs and yard cats. I make bread crumbs from stale bread, I leave fat trimmings for the birds, we use coffee grinds in the garden. There isn’t that much.

Before we lived here, we had an insinkerator waste disposal- I loved it!!!

Tbh if you're wasting enough food to fill a food waste bin then you need to address issues more domestic than excess methane

I don't waste food but do use my food waste bin. Egg shells, teabags, coffee grounds, fruit and veg peelings, fruit stones, bones that sort of thing all go in there. My food waste bin is collected weekly whereas my general waste is collected fortnightly - I don't know why so many of my neighbours CHOOSE to put their food waste in the bin which is only collected fortnightly.

We don't have food waste bins, and we don't have wheelie bins

Mixed recyling has to be put into a clear bag, and everything else has to go into a black sack
Bags get collected from the front garden or kerb once a week. If it isn't in a bin bag, it doesn't get taken away

We have a food waste bin, and are allowed to put all food in it. The next county over has them too, but won't allow any cooked food or tea bags. Another LA doesn't do them. it's so hit and miss.

We are allowed to put food waste in our garden bin (that we pay a supplement to have) however it's only collected every two weeks and after the maggot incident (shudder) and the blue bottle flies that ensued (yuk yuk yuk) I cant use it for food waste.

I'd love a good waste bin that is fox and vermin proof and collected weekly...

Recycling bin - cardboard and tins only no glass
Garden waste - seems to only allow grass cuttings and leaves
General waste - absolutely everything else. Food/plastic/glass etc

My friend under a different council doesn't even have recycling bins so all cardboard/tins needs to go in general waste. It's ridiculous

Yet another that doesn't have a food waste bin.

But then, surely everything that rots produces methane? Dead wildlife, trees etc.? Decomposing leaves every autumn?

No food waste bin here either.

But we have chickens aka the food waste bin

Glad someone mentioned insinkerator. I used to have one and miss it. Usually not much love for them on MN but as they carry food waste to the sewage treatment works they actually work just like a food bin feeding a biomass generator.

Oh yes collections are every two weeks so the streets are crawling with maggots in summer and garden waste has stopped until end of march.

I'd use a bokashi bin, but they are really expensive.

For the bokashi method I shifted over to using the cheapest bran from my local feedstore and rub in the sourdough discard from my starter. It gets just as hot and I haven't had mould problems and it doesn't smell. I do have a reasonably fast turnover tho' as I cook a lot so I've no idea how my version would work for anyone who takes a while to fill a bin.

To be fair I'm quite satisfied with our food waste collection, we get a weekly one and you can put pretty much anything edible as well as bones, egg shells and teabags. It means during summer you don't have to time your roast dinners to coincide with the fortnightly rubbish collection.

However. that's shocking that so many councils don't offer food waste collection. What are you all doing to lobby your councils to provide this

I thought I would start with a Recycling Bin first and go from there.

But considering my council has just had a lovely dinner at £99 per head including partners at someone's expense, I am guessing recycling is not at the top of their spending list

I don’t live in the UK but also don’t have a good waste collection. Tried composting, attracted flies, there were maggots. And we started to get rodents in the yard when we did not have them at all. Not good. At all. Googled as thought must have been doing something wrong but couldn’t see anything obvious. That was my limit regarding environmental friendliness. When it involves maggots and rodents I’m not playing ball.
We do have a green waste bin but you are not allowed to put food waste in it.

If you are going to get all ranty about it I don’t understand why you don’t target meat eating/animal products. That would make a much greater dent in the methane problem versus domestic food scraps in general waste.

I live in wales and we have a food bin. The waste goes to Shropshire and is used to generate electricity. Don't see why other councils don't do it. Costs ours v little as company who takes the waste makes money from it so very little cost to council.

Maybe lobby your council. Wales has always been ahead in the uk on waster recycling.

The next county over has them too, but won't allow any cooked food or tea bags.

If the tea bag makers would stop using plasticisers in the 'paper' this wouldn't be a problem. Some manufacturers have OK teabags that can be composted:

moralfibres.co.uk/is-there-plastic-in-your-tea/

My black bin (household waste) doesn't get collected if they suspect there's food waste in it

Yet another person whose council gave us food waste bins then meanly took them away.

We have a Hot Compost bin, you can put meat in it, it is great!

And our food bins take everything. Plate scrapings, meat, bones, egg shells etc. Plus collected weekly even at xmas and have lockable bins.

Then plastic, tetra pack, paper, glass, tins, aerosols are all recycled weekly. Brown bin for garden waste every 2 weeks and then general every other week too. Council looking at going every 3 weeks for general waste which is fine by us.

@HoppingPavlova you can get sealed compost bins, with a bottom part (not just open on the ground) which may help your problem.

No food waste bin here either but we're good with leftovers and have a well fed dog. Peelings etc go in garden waste bin

No food waste in this house. DH takes leftovers to work for lunch.

Veggie peelings go in the compost.

I'm gutted that so many places don't have food waste bins. It's not a hassle and it's not a big bin. You have a little caddy that goes in the kitchen and left overs go in there (not much for us admittedly as we have a garden and an allotment and make compost for both) and then a "kerbside caddy" that you empty the indoor one into that goes out on bin day. The waste is then used for compost. The amount of stuff that goes to landfill is horrifying and anything that reduces that is good.