To not see the need for food waste bins?

[Notinmylifethyme]

I mean the plastic bins councils supply where excess cooked food is dumped.

I live on a budget. I cook. Veg scraps go in a composter (I have a garden so obviously referring to my situation). I sometimes batch cook. I rework leftovers. I use my freezer. Basically, it doesn't really matter how much I cook, we only put on our plates what we are going to eat.

Am I so unusual? My council are about to spend a couple of million on food waste bins. I'm quite shocked by it.

What about those who can't or don't want to compost?
What goes in my food bin: banana peels, egg shells, tea bags, peelings off squash etc, avocado skins, ends of veg... it's not food I'd be eating, it's waste. I don't have outdoor space nor the desire for a compost bin. Many people don't.

My leftover cat food also goes in mine. He’s terrible with waste. I don’t even know if it should but assume so!

Get a waste disposal in your sink?

Because it turns into some nasty sludge liquid that then gets into the water supply

Someone superior to us all! Just because you do it doesn’t mean everyone does. I think the food waste has been great for us. I don’t realise how much food I was throwing away until I sort out the fridge on a Sunday night ready for pick up on Monday.

now I food shop much more thoughtfully and plan what I will use all the celery for rather than one meal and throwing the rest. Our landfill bin is only collected once every three weeks now so that forced people to use food waste. It’s taken away and made into bio fuel and the council gets more than it costs them to run the food waste collection too.

I have a garden but no compost bin. Quite frankly I just don't have the time or energy to add that to my ever increasing list of things to do. Maybe when I'm not juggling small children, working full time, and all the million and one other things I have to remember I will enjoy cooking up scraps, making stock and composting. In the meantime I'd love a food waste caddy so it doesn't have to go in my waste bin.

You do you.

I work , have a ND teenager and like many other quite frankly have no time or interest in a compost bin. I will happily pop it in a bin for the council to deal with .

Well bully for you

My council boasts that everyone in the borough has food waste bins.
My apartment block can't be provided with them because it's an apartment block; given that it's an inner London borough...😲

but aside from OP's "aren't I wonderful" post, of course lots of people do have food waste, don't have compost bins.

I'm just going to cut to the chase:

OP you are amazing. You're a paragon of virtue, and we should all hang our heads in shame and work harder to be like you.

My council provides compost bins as well as food caddies. I have 2 compost bins, but I still use the food caddy. As usual, ignorant people overlook the difficulties many disabled people face. Not everyone is able to just pop down the garden to tend to a compost pile.

Sorry op but i refuse to believe that you have absolutely no non-compostable food waste. Or that nobody ever ever leaves a morsel of cooked food in their plate.

we are absolutely fanatical about food waste in this house (well a flat actually so no composter) we probably throw a couple of spring onions and an inch of cucumber away on an average week. And we have non compostable food waste.

i do agree with you that the amount of waste an average household throws away every year is shocking. Apparently 25% of it is leftovers. I personally think leftovers are the best thing ever. I spent 10 minutes at the office yesterday discussing the merits of her leftover lasagne lunch and leftovers in general.

Plus, what do you think people will do with food waste if the bins go? Become paragons of virtue like you? Or just dump it in their ordinary bin?

I don’t even have a good waste bin. I probably wouldn’t use it anyway tbh

I think this is possibly the most ridiculous humblebrag post I have seen on Mumsnet.

i use a bread loaf bag, imagine the bag you buy a large loaf of whole meal bread in from supermarket, as my "bin bag". That's where all my rubbish goes. I don't know why people need huge black bins: It takes me about 6 weeks to fill my bread loaf size "bin bag". The compostable stuff (mostly tea bags) goes on a small pile in garden.

I Suspect I'm unusual. My waste generation wasn't like this when I had 2 little kids still in nappies in the household...

I’d probably fill my bin about once a month if it wasn’t for cat litter.

That's all food waste. It doesn't mean edible food that you've wasted. It means the waste part of food.

@StMarie4me my point was that it’s not food that could have been eaten type waste

You can't put everything in compost.

My food bin is a godsend. Bones, uneaten cat food, scraps, the list is endless. Why do you think there's no point just because you don't use one?

That's ridiculous. What's the point? We have a separate smaller lorry that just collects food waste.

I buy compostable bags from Home Bargains, they cost £1.50 and last around a month.

The council outsource the contract to a company who clearly don't care and just want to make the most money possible.