What do you put your food waste in? I can't stand the ugly brown 'caddy' from the council.

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At the moment I put it in a takeaway box then every day or two I wrap it in newspaper and put it in the outside food bin but I don't like the fact that you can see what's in the box, and it jumps about in the dishwasher.

I have a lovely Lakeland Peely bin for my compostable scraps and I want something equally inoffensive to look at.

It needs to be air tight to keep the smells in/flies out and not too big (takeaway box is about the right size).

What do you use? Is there such a thing?

I have an ice cream tub but I empty it at least daily into the brown compost bag (which is inside in the winter and outside in the summer).

I don't understand what you mean by food waste as opposed to compost waste?

Any food waste that doesn't go in the compost goes in the bin here.

I put my food waste in the bin and empty it almost daily (I live in a flat) into the big bins downstairs. I do have a recycling 'unit' for glass/papers etc but I have to empty it at my parents house as my council don't do door-to-door recycling collections for flats .

I'm quite happy with the caddy from the council

Wasting, we have brown bins for food waste - stuff like chicken bones and any cooked food which isn't suitable for the normal garden compost bin.

Maybe they haven't been around long enough for someone to have designed a pretty alternative.

Meerkat, the one we have is so ugly, and it's really difficult to clean as there are so many crevicey bits around the lid, which didn't fit well so let smells out. Bleurgh.

I've got a stainless steel peddle bin with 2 compartments. One for non-recyclable and one for food waste. I always scrape or peel onto a sheet of newspaper and just pop it straight in the bin. No smells, but then, we don't have a lot of food waste in this house!

I compost all uncooked food waste - that goes into a metal pot (from TK Maxx) on the kitchen window sill - empty every 2 days

All the unsuitable for composting stuff gets scraped onto a plate and taken out to the council green waste bin once/twice a day depending on how organised I am!! It looks awful on the plate but it isnt there long

I couldnt be bothered with rinsing out the compost bin, the brown caddy and the green bin (which currently stinks) - so I use the brown caddy for bird seed, very handy, thanks council!

Wow, even more bins!
We have a black bin for rubbish, a green bin for garden waste and cardboard and a green box for paper/glass/metal etc.
No food waste taken at all, even peelings can't go in the green bin, it's crazy!

We have blue bags and black bags as well - alternate weeks, green bin every week

They arent going to collect garden waste or glass at all here now which is going to be annoying.................

We have FIVE bins! Food/compost, tin & plastic, paper, glass and non-recyclable. All re-cycling is taken every week and non every other week. Takes ages to put them all out!

we have six. recycling fortnightly, rubbish weekly.
rubbish
tins
glass
paper
plastic bottles
compost - food waste, garden waste & cardboard

actually we don't have any BINS as our council believe they encourage you to throw out more [hum] so we have a blck box for paper, brown bags for compost, black liners for rubbish, a seethrough liner for plastic bottles and tins and glass have to be put out in separate carrier bags (or your own box if you want to).

Where do you keep them all Squirrels? The side of my house may look slightly cluttered, but at least they are all tidy boxed shaped things! Having plastic bags all over the place must be a PITA!

I use the brown council caddy, but I hid it under the sink.

it is.
My utility room had a worksurface running over a double unit sized space under which I have the kitchen bin and the black box, then 4 little hooks above the black bin on which I hang the two carriers for tin/glass.
The plastic bottle bag (bin bag sized) I hang up on a hook on a wall in the utility which is there for the kitchen brush, and the brown compost bag sits on a unit in the utility in the winter and outside in a bin in the summer.
phew!

Lucky you having rubbish collections weekly Squirrels.
We've just acquired our 4th wheely bin (Black - normal waste, Brown - garden waste but no kitchen waste, Blue - paper, Green - tins and plastic bottles, but no other plastic items eg trays or yogurt pots !). Now that they've been "kind enough" to give us our green bin, they've decided that they will empty the green and black bins alternate weeks . My green bin NEVER gets anywhere near full, yet my black bin is full, full, FULL .

If you put your food waste in a traditional garden composter it will get invaded by rats.

Food waste has to be put in a sealed bin to stop rats.

oooh this is the BEST question

I want an alternative too

can't believe no one is selling food compost in nice colours!!! AIBU!?!?!?!??!

they trialled fortnightly rubbish last year (not in our village) and there was an increase in flytipping so they decided not to extend it!
In terms of amount of rubbish (not recycling) I have very little now the nappy days are past. I would be ok in terms of amount of waste, but don't think fortnightly is hygenic.

Believe me, you REALLY wouldn't want to smell our black bin on bin day !!!!! Nappies are all bagged in the nappy bin first before being put into a black bin liner then put into black wheely bin, BUT it still HUMMS

Sorry for TMI

No MP, YANBU, I suspect you have the same bins as me (same council) and would you agree the 'kitchen caddy' is vile? Next door have nailed theirs to a post and use it for collecting the money for the logs they sell

It just doesn't 'fit' with my increasingly Lakelandised kitchen. [snob]

No it is frankly, MINGING

It looks like something you would use to dispose of fecal matter in a hospital environment

It does not go with my kitchen in ANY WAY

Right, I'm going to design something and open a kitchen waste container shop. There's obviously a gap in the market here.

Found this on the Cox and Cox site. It is nice but not my kitchen style which is 1960s-meets-Bratz

Nice cream coloured kitchen compost caddy - it has a removeable bin inside so I guess could take a compostable bag rather neatly.

That would look quite nice beside my peely bin and I guess the inside bit might be dishwasherable?