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!

We don’t have a food waste bin. We have a compost heap, but food scraps attract rats so we had to stop putting food scraps on it.
I keep seeing post facebooks posts saying about keeping the pumpkins out for the squirrels etc. Which we would do. But then the rats come.
Any advice on how to feed squirrels and birds, without the rats coming. They are as big as a small cat and as much as I wish them no harm and am not afraid, they are not the kind of garden wildlife we want. They are completely unafraid if our cat and terrier 😕

We have a food waste bin. However, sometimes out bin men don’t Collect it, so you can have rotting food waste by your gate for a couple of weeks.

our council does food waste bins... but not for our flats.

No food waste bin here either.

Question- is the food waste bin just for peelings and raw veg scraps or is it for leftovers too?

Ours is for cooked food leftovers too so if there's food left on a plate after dinner then it goes in the indoor food caddy

Can also put in bones, egg shells, tea bags, etc

Ours is for basically anything food-related. All leftovers go in it as well as peelings, teabags, etc.

From our council website:

The collection is for all food waste, both cooked and uncooked:
• Beans
• Bread, cakes and pastries
• Coffee grounds
• Dairy products such as cheese
• Eggs and egg shells
• Fruit and vegetables
• Meat and fish (including bones)
• Pasta
• Pet food
• Rice
• Tea bags

We don’t have bins full stop

Our council is still bags only. So black bags for waste and white/green bags for recycling...

So no food waste and no bin at all

We don’t have a food waste bin either in London

We don’t have (and can’t get) a food waste bin

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Is it the green cone people are referring to for composting meat and cooked foods? I had one in one house and it seemed to work well, but wasn’t big enough for normal compostables which went in usual compost bin.

We don’t have a food bin. We don’t even have proper recycling here yet. The van can’t fit down the back lane

Also I’m getting tired of trying to remember the things I can and can’t do and should and shouldn’t do, what I can and can’t use that people have asked of me on here and on the dreaded Facebook that I’ve just thought fuck it, I’m just getting on with life.
I’d love to help bit it’s all just too bloody much now.

We had a food waste bin, someone stole it the first week we put it out, I ordered a new one from the council and it never arrived.

We have a food waste bin where I live - I think it's a great idea. (In my family we also put all vegetable peelings in the compost bin in the garden, which helps a lot with keeping the volume of "general" food waste down.)

However I'm well aware that not all regions have a food waste bin. I was staying with a relative recently who doesn't have one, and I really noticed how smelly the kitchen bin got, as she'd thrown away some salad on the first day (I guess she doesn't have a compost bin either) and it's a big bin which takes several days to fill up. Another relative, an elderly person who lived alone and could take two weeks to fill up a bin, used to bag up any food scraps and put them in a litter bin when they went out, to avoid that smell. I'm not sure what I'd do, but I'm very glad I don't have that problem.

I haven’t read the full thread but in our county (& many others) the general waste bin does not go to landfill, it goes to an incinerator to make electricity. Therefore no danger of methane emissions from food waste. Landfill tax is massive, most councils are trying to avoid it.

No food waste bin here. DH zests my leftovers from dinner usually but tea bags, banana skins and egg shells he will not eat!

Our local council only does them for houses. We live in a flat so don't get one. I do have pet rats though who eat alot of left overs though.

We don't have food waste bins here either, in fact, does anyone except the OP?

But we don't have landfill either so all non recyclable waste is incinerated in a waste to energy plant, so our small amount of non recyclable waste is something I refuse to feel guilty about, especially considering how little we buy and use given some of the threads on here about cleaning, washing etc. It sounds like some people reducing their usage by 10% would have more of an environmental benefit than me cutting it out entirely.

I had a food waste bin, about a 5th of the size of a normal bin.. it blew away (I presume) and no doubt my council will charge for a replacement so I've never bothered replacing it.

We dont have a food waste bin but all our black bin non-recylable rubbish, including food waste, is incinerated to creat energy. I was against it at first but it is very environmentally friendly - toxins are filtered out and aren't released into the air - and so much better than land fill. The incinerator itself is covered in plants and actually looks quite attractive. You can book a tour to visit it to see how it all works.

Huge parts of the city centre are being dug up to lay pipelines from it for the system which will heat numerous buildings with hot water powered by the incinerator. I think it's great. Far better than burying thousands of black bin bags every week full of stuff that will never break down.

That said we recycle as much as possible and avoid buying stuff in plastic packaging. Our green bin is always more full than our black bin.

I agree with pp on incinerators as the way forward and also reducing consumption and related waste in the first place.

A lot of recycling schemes seem to be far more about being seen to do something and actively inflicting inconvenience to salve guilty consciences surrounding wastefulness.

I am surprised so many councils don't provide food waste bins. Here in Gloucestershire we have SEVEN different bins :
Green caddy for ALL food waste collected once a week.
Big green wheelie bin for garden waste
Bag for rigid plastic
Plastic crate for bottles and tins
Plastic crate for newspapers/magazines
Plastic crate for cardboard/packaging
Wheelie bin for anything else
All this other rubbish is collected once a fortnight.

Sorting the rubbish is a full time job here.

Food waste bin here but it moved to fortnightly collections so most of our neighbours stopped putting theirs out.

I'd say half the houses in my immediate area don't even put out basic recycling (paper, cans, bottles) so I doubt the more icky task of food recycling might be a step too far!

No food waste bins here either