To hate this on my worktop

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We have recently been given these by the council. I appreciate that in theory it’s a great idea but hate the look of them. Anyone use anything alternative? Have no where else in my kitchen for it to go.

I don't use them

There hasn't been any food waste in this house in the last 20 years

We're chubby and we have a dog

I don't put anything outside until collection day. They collect weekly and have never had smells, rats, flies or sludge. Mine lives on the kitchen floor (the handle locks and the dog can't open it)

We don’t have a waste food collection but then I don’t have any waste food.
Green matter goes in the garden compost bin. I save any paper bags and put the waste into the bag and then into an old lidded bucket outside the back door. Once a week I take it down to the compost bin at the bottom of the garden.
Meat scraps go out each evening for the local fox population. Stale bread,rolls, cake, used cooking fats go on the bird table.

We jsut put our food waste straight in the bin outside, is that an option?

@nwatty Some people keep their bins further away from the house. I also couldnt be arsed running outside in the pissing down rain to chuck it in the big bin.

Ooh no, I couldn't have that anywhere visible. I don't have anything at all on the worktops apart from an aesthetically pleasing pewter bowl of limes and lemons. We were given one by the council at one point, it was never used.

When cooking, we just collect compostable stuff in a bowl and it goes straight out to the brown bin or compost.

None of the supposedly more aesthetically pleasing bins people have posted look any better that op’s one . They’re all little plastic buckets.

You can buy loads of different ones. I used to have a cream painted tin one which looked nice, but rusted. So I'll stick to the ugly plastic one now.

I have smaller version of MaggieFS's caddy.

It's described as one-handed use, but in reality it's half-handed use – can flip it up with a little finger.

Great when you approach it with hands full of scooped up peelings or fingers too dirty to touch things.

The ones you buy are generally smaller though, our council caddy was quite big, very similar to OPs in fact. DM used hers to store her bin bags in

Ours just goes on the floor in the corner next to the kitchen bin. Lid's always open so it looks a bit untidy i suppose.

I don’t use the food bin. No one on our estate does due to the amount of rats they attract.

I live in a village surround by fields. We've had compost bins for years with No rat problem. They can't be properly sealed

This is the one I referred to upthread but it's not available any more. It is ceramic, but you could repurpose another similar container (like a biscuit crock) if you wanted something less obviously compost-y!

www.lakeland.co.uk/20428/Ceramic-Crock-Food-Compost-Bin---White-28L

Honestly, the fuss!

Many compost bins go well with other kitchen containers.
You take the lid off before you pick up the peelings or whatever.
They don't smell
Once full, you know the bag and take it out to the council food bin (which in ky case is kept handily out of sight by the door)
Is environmentally great and stops your main kitchen bin smelling

Oh, that one is nice, Chic. It’s the only one that looks like it belongs on a worktop, tbh.

*knot

The ceramic one is narrow though - we can throw a chicken carcass in the plastic council caddy (same as the OP's just a different colour) no problem. I have thought about digging it out again but it may be impracticable. We had it before food collection was a thing and used to throw the contents on the compost heap!

@LEELULUMPKIN Thanks for posting the picture of your beautiful food compost solution.

We have a morphy richards kitchen bin that has a food waste compartment in it. I think it's this one

Morphy Richards Kitchen Bin, Pro Rectangular Sensor Bin with Infrared Technology, Stainless Steel, Titanium, 60 Litre https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076ZR2BVQ/ref=cmswwrcpptai_gX9tEb18B7NGD

I hate these, I find they get really smelly and attract flies. I use obeo compost able food boxes (from Amazon). I just keep it on the windowsill.

Yes @Nanny0gg I’ve explained that.

Wow, we must be really scummy because I put ours straight on the counter beside the sink (where it makes sense to be, it's also above the dishwasher) and never gave its aesthetics a second thought.

To be fair, my kitchen is pretty bloody horrible. I'm not sure it's particularly sustainable to buy another plastic container for food waste because you don't like the look of the one that's already been distributed to you, though.

@LaurieFairyCake you made me chuckle! ("I don't use them.There hasn't been any food waste in this house in the last 20 years")

I am curious now....do you eat the egg shells, the tea leaves, the orange peels...? What do you do with them? Dog?

Never had flies or rats with ours, we empty it every day or two, and give a washout before adding the new bag. Mostly filled with peelings for us.
We also rearranged the cupboards and it has a bottom shelf in the odd sized cupboard next to the dishwasher, on the top shelf is the dishwaser tabs and tins of cat food.

Ours is on the windowsill. We use it tons for tea bags, peelings, chicken carcasses, mushed-up food that baby has chucked across the room.