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!

This isnt why the environment is fucked. It's due to massive corporations not being responsible... Something like 71% of pollution comes from business.

@AngryMarshmallows Wed 21-Nov-18 09:41:30
Absolute madness the amount that don't get food waste bins!
There's nothing you can do if your council don't offer them, no wonder our environments fucked.

We don't even have recycling bins. Half the area does, the rest doesn't. I had to buy my own and we have to take it to the dump ourselves. The dump doesn't take plastic either but I've recently found out there is a recycling station at Sainsbury's that does take plastic so we'll have to go there from now on or do two trips when we have mixed stuff as Sainsbury's is only basic plastic, glass, cans and paper.

Sorry but I wouldn't use one even if we had them!!

@WinterSpiceOnIce Why? That's a bit of a childish attitude isn't it? It's only food. You can get degradable bags to go in them I think.

Sockwomble if you PM your area/borough and it's the same as mine I would be more than happy to do so. I am happy to send emails etc even when an issue does not directly affect me but I can see the impact on others. If it's not my area/LEA I'm not sure how much help I can be, though.

I hope that you do manage to get the support your DC needs. However, again, it's not just about you and your individual situation. For every person who has bigger things to worry about I would be there are 100 or more who don't, who could easily drop their council a line about this, maybe even attend a council meeting etc.

We never waste food

I've thrown out one punnet of strawberries in the last 10 years

But no, our council doesn't do them either

Garden waste, recycling, and landfill. Rules require food waste to go to the landfill.

Only other option is home composting and I’ll be honest and say that I am just not going to take that on.

We have a green bin for food and garden waste. All food has to go in there apart from liquid. our LA fines people if they put food in general waste.

We don’t have food waste, glass or any kind of plastic recycling. Our council are useless.

We composted for a while but our neighbours got infested with rats and asked us to stop (think their house is v old crumbling so lots of access points while most others are new builds) which was fair enough. Did think about a wormery which would be enclosed but they are so expensive and I’m not sure how much waste they would take anyway.

I would feel better about my food waste bin if Hermes did not use it for parcel "deliveries".

We don’t have a food waste bin either, most waste here goes to an incinerator which generates electricity.

Councils manage waste in very different ways according to local geography! Rural areas with gardens can have composting, meat waste, garden waste, recycling etc. Urban apartments have other constraints.

No food waste bins here either. We compost only garden stuff as living rurally it can attract (even more) rats and mice. Lucky you if your council takes food waste!

Also for those of us that have small kitchens, having another separate bin is actually quite a pain. My box for recycling sits on top of the fridge. I have a freestanding bin that food packaging goes into. My cupboards are full and I barely have any worktop space as it is. Where exactly is the food caddy meant to go?

No food waste bin here. I live in a flat with no garden, so nowhere for compost.

I am fortunate enough to have a dog who is my food waste bin though. 😆

We didn't have a food waste bin before we moved, but now we do and it's a revelation!

We don't have a 'brown' bin though (for garden waste, etc.) whereas our old house did have one of those.

No food waste bins where we are. Not eating animals or dairy helps massively with reducing methane emissions.

We used to have combined garden waste and food collections. Then the Council changed it to green waste in the green bin and gave us a nasty little food waste bin which needed cleaning out every week and filled up with maggots in summer. They also failed to give me a replacement for the indoor caddy in spite of several requests because the one they had issued had a hole in the centre where the plastic hadn't fused together and it leaked, so I had to use an alternative.

In the end I gave up with it and put veg trimmings etc. in the garden waste instead. I incorporate anything useable into cooking rather than bin it so not a lot of food waste, but what there is will go into the general waste.

Council have now stopped the food waste bins, some people say it is temporary, not sure.

I have a compost bin but failed with it and had a bin full of white flies...

We have 1 bin and recycling bags.

BTW the case against cows is not black and white. In fact in Highland Scotland they are kept mainly as part of land management. Cows can produce high quality food from grazing land much more efficiently than us wringing the goodness out of arable land. They then put the goodness back with all the free fertiliser.

Otoh the UK beef and dairy industry are massively inefficient because consumers won't use the whole animal or eat dairy calves.

Not all councils provide a food waste bin. Ours doesn't.

I had to stop composting because it attracted rats.
I would love to know how to avoid that.

1" steel mesh under the compost bin solved that for us. The compost still benefits from the bacteria in the soil beneath, but the rats can't get in. Our compost bin is much appreciated by slowworms, they sleep on top of the compost and look all surprised when you open the lid.

I gave up on using the food recycling bin because it's almost impossible to open the lid (arthritic hands). It's no big deal, because between the dog and the compost heap (and a DP who regards a "use by" date as a challenge), we don't throw much food away. I even empty tea leaves out of the tea bags, so they can be composted.

We have to pay to have garden waste taken away, so stuff that is too big to compost gets taken to the tip.

Ive never even heard of anyone having a food waste bin. The way that councils are being cut to the bone I can’t see them introducing more waste pick ups either.

Our food bin gets collected every week same time as either the general waste bin or recycling bin (these are collected every two weeks alternately, so you can put your food bin out every week).

Ours is just a little green caddy thing that sits outside our back door and there's an inside caddy we have too. They give us fresh bags for it every so often (or you can pick them up in various places).