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.

I never throw away leftovers or bin food (I freeze, I plan). But I don't compost so I need a food waste bin for banana peels, egg shells, chicken bones, used tea leaves etc.

Our garden is very small so we don’t have a compost bin. There is hardly any food waste in this house - aside from veg peelings, egg shells etc., the only other thing that goes in our food waste bin is the occasional slice of mouldy bread. Any scraps of meat or fish, chicken bones after boiling up for stock, go in a bag in the freezer until the night before the bin men come. So we never have a problem with flies or maggots.

Personally I’m very glad of our weekly food waste collection. AFAIK it all goes to make biofuel.
Having said that, though, the wanton waste of perfectly good food does make me mad!

but why are you annoyed that people waste their own food?

We should stop creating so much plastic, wrapping things in plastic and throwing away plastic before we get uptight about a few egg shells.

It's all a bit arse about face isn't it.

we should be able to unwrap food at the checkout, if they insist on providing plastic, tesco have a plastic recycling point which is very handy.

Just to unpick this a little: Peoples' plans change day to day. Sometimes food goes out of date (thinking chicken etc) due to changed plans. Has to be chucked. You can't compost meat.
I'm a keen gardener and we had a composter but then we got rats. No more composter. Green waste goes in the green waste bin.

Sometimes people can't buy things in small enough quantities. Lettuce for one? Can't use the left overs fast enough?

Our food waste seems to be permanently full, however it is almost never leftovers etc.

We have two young kids who adore fruit, we get through a mountain of banana/orange peels. Onion goes into most things we cook so there is onion skin along with the inside of peppers. My wife is a tea fiend (think 10 cups a day) so there is a mountain of tea bags.

Our garden is dog / child focused so we have a few pots round the edge but otherwise it is patio / astro turf so there is no space for a composter.

so freeze the chicken before it goes out of date surely?

lettuce, i agree

and bread
i throw out bread,
no room in my freezer, considering it is full of chicken and left overs

Vegetarian household here and there is rarely food waste.

We also have six dogs that I will add any vegetables that aren't enough to make anything with or need to be eaten that day and we won't be using them.

I have four kids, two cats and two dogs. We have two large black bins (collected once every 4 weeks). Non recyclable rubbish (I recycle everything I can but there's always stuff), cat litter which fills up at least half a bin, dog poo,, tbe occasionally bit of garden waste (I don't create enough to warrant paying another £60 a year for a brown bin that I might need collecting twice a year)