New food bins

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Will you be using the new food caddies & bins? Sick to death of my kitchen & garden resembling the local recycling centre. I do recycle most stuff & have regular trips to the tip; but even then one local authority varies from the next one in their recycling policies, so it all seems a bit.futile

It's the sheer convenience indoors tbh. My kitchen is quite large (big big extension) so it is easy to have a little countertop bin that I can move to wherever I am doing something.

You're right that it does seem nonsensical now you say it like that and perhaps I will end up using them differently in the future. For now at least, it is this wat

Like I said I’m looking forward to it making bio gas/compost etc. As I already use a bowl lined with a compostable bag for all our food waste and peeling/tea bags etc. Last thing at night I bag and put in wheelie bin outside.
The uproar on our council page was ridiculous. Only thing I don’t like is the glass in the recycling bin. So I save until bin is about a third then start putting a bit of my glass.

Where are these backward places that have only just had food bins introduced? We have had food recycling since 2010.

Nottinghamshire

Lancashire
apparently we had them about 10 years ago but it got scrapped

Some areas of East Anglia - apparently some had them trialled years ago and stopped but now obviously because of the new recycling policy everywhere has to have it. I don't mind at all as I say, I'm all for something good actually being done with it instead of it just being burned for energy, as some councils currently do.

Others areas are not rolling it out until 2027, even, some have existing waste contracts or other limitations which are stopping them from introducing food recycling this year.

Did you know, that in Australia they use dollars, and in Argentina the peso, and they're different from other currencies so no-one in the UK knows how to use money any more?

It's the same with time, too.

And don't even get me going on brands of laxatives.

I'm glad you're going to try it

We have had it for probably at least 10 years in our part of Northants but I was surprised to learn that some parts of the county were not getting them until later in the year

North tyneside

OP wrote this - Will you be using the new food caddies & bins? Sick to death of my kitchen & garden resembling the local recycling centre. I do recycle most stuff & have regular trips to the tip; but even then one local authority varies from the next one in their recycling policies, so it all seems a bit.futile

I am pointing out that it doesn’t matter what other council areas do with their recycling. Your recycling only gets collected by one council so why does it matter what another council does? Mine gets collected (well not at the moment obviously) by Birmingham council. It doesn’t matter to me what Leicester or Glasgow or Worcester do with their recycling because they don’t collect anything from me, and I’m not eligible to take my stuff to tips run by them.

Sorry but I’m not following what your point is with pesos.

Blimey so many places with rubbish recycling policies. We hoik stuff in to our food caddy without second thought here.

It is as second nature as not putting sanitary waste or make up pads down the toilet.

I was agreeing with you!

Just ignore my whackadoodle humour - I'm on medication ...
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And East Sussex