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 only just started in our area. I keep the caddy in a kitchen cupboard, it doesn’t take up much room and is emptied into the outside bin before it gets chance to smell. It’s great that it’s collected weekly, much better than it sitting in the household bin for two weeks.

Walking around our estate on bin day last week though there were very few food waste bins out for collection.

I didn’t think that we created much food waste but the outside bin is full every week. It’s mainly fruit and veg peelings, chicken bones, a bit of stale bread and coffee grounds so it’s not as if we’re buying food and not eating it.

Exactly, bones, peelings, banana skin, orange peel, egg shells

We all have those, unless as you say it’s microwave meals 🤮

I've started doing what some chefs do to prevent food smells, vermin and flies. I put food waste in the food bin liner and put a clip on it and store in the freezer. This way it does stink. And does nice in the food waste bin outside. No more bloody fruit flies.

Doesn't stink

We don't have them in our county. All food waste now goes in with garden waste. Wish we did cos they make great dog food storage.

Genius idea!

Can’t you buy your own storage boxes for that?

Who is 'they'. I've not used my caddy for nearly 2 years. I simply just don't put it out with my other bins. My bins are collected every week, never had any queries. bin men don't go looking though your black bins.

We get maggots sometimes - we have a cat, so uneaten cat food goes in food recycling. The flies will lay eggs on the outside and the maggots are tiny initially and can squeeze in. We live with it, it's not that different really as before food recycling was a thing the wheelie bin would get maggots in and a wheelie bin is a lot harder to clean thoroughly than the food waste bin.

We have a lot of bags and bins for recycling - glass bin, food bin & caddy, paper bag, card bag, plastic & tin bag, battery bag, soft plastic bag, garden waste bag.

They do check here - refused to take a bag once, put a warning sticker on it telling us off.

We havent got one.

But I compost everything compostable in my home compost anyway (which we use on our garden) so I will continue to do that, as I have done for the past 2 decades.

If / when i get a food waste bin from the council (no plans for several years where i live) im unlikley to use it, because i barely have any other food waste.

My household produces less than 1 black bin bag of non-recyclable rubbish every couple of weeks, so it's not like I have loads of waste

Nah live in a flat for 10+ years,
never received a food waste caddy and one isn’t due it says in these times either due to large number of flat owners and I’ve lived in a flat a over a decade with out a food caddy never being given.

Serco collect the rubbish in 4 large commercial bins (if they don’t can we stop paying the big service leaseholds charges) ?! ah thought not!

We are getting them this summer, but the council are only providing one roll of liners.
We now put glass in our recycling bin rather than a box( council took the box away) you could have kept the box.
I will use the outside bin but the food caddy for the kitchen counter is going in the shed. DH is going to use it for nails/screws/wall plugs etc.
I’m worried about how long the bin will survive being thrown on the path and god knows where it will end put when it’s windy and empty! Especially in the winter when it’s dark, as it was often hunt the green box. Sometimes we didn’t find it until the weekend! As have been told they will only replace once! I’m not paying for a broken bin that a council employee has broken!

We might be also getting battery collection, so I won’t need to carry my used batteries around in the boot of my car for about a month at a time ( my memory is shocking).
Do wish they would take soft plastic as well!

Ours has never broken in several years, they’re very robust.

No live in a block of flats. Don’t recycle everything goes in a black bag then out into the main communal bin.

They absolutely do here. They check everything and you get warning notices and fines if the wrong refuse is in the wrong bins. We’re always further along than everybody else and take part in pilot schemes . It will come.

I'm using the larger one to collect up all the use dog poo bags, before transferring them to my main black bin on collection day. (You Dont want loose bags of poo in big bin that get squashed by the larger sacks)

the smaller one I am using indoors countertop with some thin liners I already had for teabags, peelings etc. That does then go in the main bin though. When the little liners run out i may or may not continue. different Liners are just yet another thing to add to my increasing shopping list and I am trying so hard to be frugal.

using as intended would also give me another housework task to do - washing out more bins.

I'm using them in a way that works for me 🤷🏼‍♀️

You’re putting dog poo in black bin bags!

We used to have battery collection in the area we moved from last Autumn. We could put a bag of them on the lid of the household waste bin on collection day.

Yes we have just started. I have a smaller one I bought in my kitchen as the one provided is to big. We can use bags so I do then to the big caddy. Hasn’t been an issue at all as it’s collected weekly

I can't wait for ours. We compost everything we can, so don't have much food waste, but anything that doesn't go in landfill is great.
Like someone up thread we put out a 1/3 to 1/2 full household waste bag (40l bin) every 2 weeks.
I recycle, I take soft plastic to the supermarket, I use boots recycle scheme for plastic that can't go in the recycling. We use our council tip for electrics, bulbs, batteries, wood, plastics, etc

Where should you put them? If the nearest dog poo bin is half a mile away and always full to the brim.
When we had a dog( no poo bins available) we walked her in local woods. We picked up but nobody does now or the local nature reserve or fell.

I was looking forward to getting new food waste collections then found out we live somewhere that's got a pass on introducing them until 2027 - pah!

I take soft plastics to a local Tesco Metro. It might be worth researching whether any supermarkets near you collect them.