Ideas for getting rid of loads of fruit and veg waste?

[Sweetasstevia]

I've just moved and my household makes lots and lots of green compostable food waste each week primarily because the kids are fussy buggers and leave loads on their plates /we make lots of homemade juices and so produce lots of fruit and veg pulp/ skins etc. Our council provide a small caddy but it is rarely big enough to dispose of all of it. I use a small amount for composting our tiny garden but even that is will make more than I need.

I wondered is it worth me advertising it for free to local gardeners / allotment owners? If not can you think of any other uses for it? In my last borough we had big wheelie bins for green garden and food waste combined so it was not an issue.

Try freecycle? I would think you could find someone who'd love it for their garden/allotment

won't the council give you another caddy? ours will. if its cooked won't that attract rats?

I'm assuming you don't have any space at all to compost it yourself?

consider a wormery?

A - put less on their plates [consider a serving dish rather than putting it on their plates, and use the uneaten food for left over meals].
B - yes, compost it or get a wormery, and if you don't need the resulting compost, let someone else have it. Perhaps donate all your spare compost to the kids schools for their school garden.
C - failing that, get in touch with a local allotments and see if anyone wants to collect it each week; I doubt anyone will because it's a bit of a faff.

I think you'll have more luck giving away compost than uncomposted waste. Can you compost everything the council won't take away, and then offer it?

My dad would love a neighbour like you - we have green bags for garden waste and I can see him eyeing up his neighbours grass clippings! Do you have a neighbour who might take it?

However, you need masses of veg waste to get any substantial amount of compost. If you're using compost at all in your garden, are you sure you couldn't use it yourself?

Wow some great ideas here! I'm not adverse to composting it myself I'm just worried about storing it all during the process in our very small garden. Won't it all mount up in a smelly bin quicker than It can be turned into useful compost? Think I'll drop a few flyers around to my neighbours to see if anyone would like a bit extra each week and talk to the council about a second bin.

You'll be surprised how quickly it "shrinks" if you compost it yourself. My bin is regularly "full" but a week later there'll be room for the next lot of grass mowings.

I think there's a good chance you neighbours will think you're very strange

:) :)