Food waste in wheelie bin

[Mummy2to2]

Just moved to a new area where you can’t throw away your food waste in black bags - you have to put into a green wheelie bin. Council website says to put food directly in wheelie bin however compostable bags can be used to line the wheelie bin if wanted. Does anyone else have the same? Sorry I’m confused as surely the compostable bags will disintegrate with all the wet food waste. There’s no other help on the website and I don’t want to sound thick by asking neighbours.

my question - should I line the wheelie bin with a heavy duty plastic bag then put the compostable bag in?

No! If it’s like my area you can’t put anything non-compostable in the bin at all.
We have a caddy in the kitchen and use the compostable liners in that, then just put them in the wheelie bin.

I just have a food waste caddy lined with compatible liners in the kitchen on the side and chuck the whole lot in the wheelie bin. About once a year normally in the summer I get a wheelie bin cleaning guy to clean out the bin and the rest of the year I avoid looking in it or breathing when I lift the lid to chuck stuff in 🤣

Same as above. Small kitchen caddy which is lined with a compostable bag. All supermarkets sell them, but I don't recommend the Poundland ones as they do disintegrate too quickly. Then when full put the bag into the green wheelie bin. I think you've misunderstood about lining the wheelie bin with a compostable bag, surely you'd never get one big enough?

We can't put anything plastic at all in the brown bin. It's for food waste and garden waste. So tree trimmings and grass cuttings etc.

I just line the caddy in the kitchen as a pp does and then put those in the wheely bin.

Just chuck it in the wheelie bin. If there's a bin liner in there then the bin men won't take it. Ours won't even take it if there's the small compostable bags that look like plastic - paper ones only.

The bin gets grotty, but it's the inside of a bin that lives outside. I do park it well away from the house in summer though ....

Putting plenty of garden waste in along with the food helps enormously with the smell/mess (and in summer, maggots).

Thank you everyone! And thank you for not making me feel silly. I actually got compostable wheelie bin liners from and on just now. They are so expensive - like £20 for just 10 of them! Great thank you, so I’ll just buy a little caddy and get small compostable liners and when bag is full I put in wheelie bin - is this right?

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Could you put a sheet of cardboard in the bottom? That would be compostable and might help manky tea bags to not stick to the base.

Side note 1 : a bin for food waste is such a good idea!
Side note 2 : I always have massive amounts of spare cardboard because I always forget a bag for life when I go to the shops - so I always pinch an empty veg box and put my shopping in that.

We can't put card in ours. That goes in the paper, plastic and glass bin.

Yes - as long as your authority / collection service will take them (some don't allow any small bags at all).

However if they allow you to line them with a big bin liner, they probably do.

I've had no problems with smells, maggots etc! Have had a brown bin (Ireland) for years.

I'm careful not to overload the compostable bags in the kitchen caddy (so no leaks). I also regularly get the bin cleaned & sanitised - the bin collection service offers it, about €10.

Grass in the summer will cause a smell so I time when I put it in the bin to be close to collection time.

It's great, I love having it. Between my brown & green bin, I only have a tiny amount that goes in my black (waste) bin