Into which recycling bin should I put a dead rat?

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Surely it should be the FOOD recycling bin, because ultimately it will rot down?

But it looks WRONG sitting there wrapped up in the food bin

Please advise

barf

Uuurrgghh!!

Double wrap in bin bags and into the normal bin I think.

No bones permitted in our food recycling, not sure if that applies to all councils.

it put it in the dustbin too

put it in the compost. dead cats are said to be good for roses, i'm sure that dead rats must be good for something

Drop it on the council's doorstep.

chuck it over your fence!

ditto twoluvly kids

Classic!

Sorry not much help MP

I like the title though

Can you dig a deep hole and bury it?

Ring council tomorrow otherwise. They will have a policy...

Chuck it into next doors garden.

Bury it if you can be bothered.

food recycling - presuming that is compost??, as long as you haven't cooked it (cooked food attracts rats you know...)

When I had one in London council made a special journey to collect it because of the health risk.

So you probably shouldn't compost or recycle it.

We think you should bury it.
Give it some sort of send off.

No meat bones fat or dairy in compost - urggh - no rats - they may be diesesed etc and would attract vermin. Double wrap and in the dustbin!

well, unless you are vegetarian, you should make rataouille in order to reduce wastefullness...

There are children starving in Afric, you know.

Not in the compost bin. In with the rubbish. There can be viruses in a rat, and if the composting isn't don't well enough to general suficient heat, they might survive (the viruses not the rat who is, after all, already dead!)

Our brown bin for garden waste takes wrapped food waste including bones - it is hot composted apparently so should be OK. If it was me, I'd put it either in that or in the general waste according to which was being collected first as they alternate each week.

Rats can carry nasty viruses - this is the point at which I would put self-sufficiency ethics to one side and ring the Council for advice.