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A 'slop bucket' in every kitchen

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TheDullWitch · 24/05/2007 16:33

Government wants us to collect food scraps in special bins and then the swill will be taken away to create fuel.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1813805.ece

Which is all very well and green. But EEEW! Does anyone's council already do this? Is it stinky?

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BibiThree · 24/05/2007 16:38

My friend's council do this - she has a little brown bin for composting waste which gets collected with her recycling once a fortnight - other rubbish collections are on the weeks inbetween. It does STINK after a fortnight!

WelshBoris · 24/05/2007 16:39

I do it already.

No it doesn't stink and it has reduced my black bag usage.

Mine are collected weekly.

hippmummy · 24/05/2007 16:41

We've been doing this for 3 years. It's just normal now!
It's for compost rather than food though.
If you wrap the food waste in newspaper before it goes in the bin it's no problem.

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TheDullWitch · 24/05/2007 16:41

This isn't composting waste - ie vegetable matter - but all food waste, raw and cooked. They give you a little "caddy" you keep in your kitchen and you scrape your plates into it. Then you transfer the contents of the caddy to the outside food waste bin. Maybe wrapping extra smelly things in newspaper because you can't use bin bags.

It sounds minging and a lot of work.

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BibiThree · 24/05/2007 16:42

We had a little bin in our kitchen which we emptied into our compast bin at the bottom of the garden, but the compost bin has gone now so we don't do it. I'd LIKE a composting bin from the council, but collected every week, not fortnight.

I'm 100% for recycling but fortnightly collections would also punish the people who already do recycle everything they can, don't you think?

expatinscotland · 24/05/2007 16:42

Would do it for compost, but we don't have any outdoor space.

The kitchen is already dinky without being forced to collect more waste.

I'm so sick of government policies that assume we all live in nice houses and not pokey flats.

hippmummy · 24/05/2007 16:42

I meant rather than fuel! Don't imagine anyone would want it as food!

casbie · 24/05/2007 16:42

try using bocashi from wigglywigglers.

odour free and deters pests!

Kathyis6incheshigh · 24/05/2007 16:42

I think it's a pity they had to have David Miliband announcing this. It's probably not such a bad idea but it just comes across as jumped-up-career-politician-who-probably-has-other-people-to-cook-for-him-telling-normal-people-how-to-live-their-lives.

JoolsToo · 24/05/2007 16:43

so we're all eventually going to have our own mini-tips in the back garden?

umpteen fecking coloured bins and a slop pot.

and will they reduce your Council Tax? will they feck, you'll pay MORE - mark my words!

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TheDullWitch · 24/05/2007 16:43

I already compost potato peelings, etc.

THis is stinky old fish heads and chop bones and putrid old chips.

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KezzaG · 24/05/2007 16:44

Landfill sites are set to be filled up within 9 years, and fossil fiels wont last forever. If I can somehow help the situation and all involves is me scarping my plate of food into a special bin provided then have no problem doing that at all. Even if it did smell a bit, its seems a small price to pay.

prufrock · 24/05/2007 16:44

I have this already. It really isn't a problem. We have a green bin for all organic waste (including meat/dairy, cardboard, garden waste) and a black bin for non-organic. They get collected on alternate weeks. Smell is normally an issue, though it was when they refused to collect our green bin one week as it was too heavy - it was full of rotting apples after we'd been away for a week in the middle of apple falling off tree time. Unloading that was not pleasant.

expatinscotland · 24/05/2007 16:45

Smells. No room for it. And the building is already mouse-ridden.

How about some governmental policies aimed at helping flat dwellers with no outdoor space recycle better/more?

DumbledoresGirl · 24/05/2007 16:45

I have grown up with this - my mother has always done it (grew up with "pig bins" during the war though so you will have to excuse her!) I have done it in the past but stopped when we moved into a house with no compost heap in the garden. Dh is building a delux compost heap right now, after which, I will start collecting kitchen rubbish again. I have never had a problem with smell. You keep the bin outside!

What I want to know is, if this scheme becomes universal, we won't be penalised for not producing a binful of waste each week will we? I mean, I won't want to give up my waste to the council as I am hoping for several very productive compost heaps with which to feed my large garden!

hippmummy · 24/05/2007 16:45

Honestly - it really isn't much work once you get used to it.
I agree if you live in a flat it is a pain it the a*se because the caddy gets filled really quickly and you have to go and empty it frequently.
But if your bin is in the garden or allyway you just wrap your scraps in newspaper and take it out.
Our black bin refuse is also greatly reduced.

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TheDullWitch · 24/05/2007 16:46

I suppose so. ANd it will actually be used to make energy. So wow and great and all.

But all this extra recycling will just be extra women's work. I can't see many men bothering to do transport food scrapings about and lifting the lid of that bin must be fecking repulsive.

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 24/05/2007 16:47

"they refused to collect our green bin one week as it was too heavy "

Oh FFS Prufrock - that is absolutely pathetic of them! I mean, it's not as if it was heavy because you'd put concrete in it.

Expat has a very good point about small kitchens. A bit of smell isn't too bad in a big house, either, but if you were in a small flat and couldn't open a window near the bin it could stink the entire flat out. Yeuch.

expatinscotland · 24/05/2007 16:48

Kitchen size of a postage stamp.

No garden or outdoor space.

2 floors up.

Bin in a busy road.

Yeah, that's really gonna work!

expatinscotland · 24/05/2007 16:49

Not only would it stink the flat out, Katy,
but the flies and pests would love it.

And there's simply no space for extra bins in here.

I know I'm not the only person on MN with this type of living situation - 70%+ of Edinburgh's entire housing stock is flats, for example.

Podmog · 24/05/2007 16:50

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JodieG1 · 24/05/2007 16:50

I don't want another bin in my kitchen and it would smell I'm sure. Why don't they target big companies and supermarkets to cut down on their packaging and use less energy rather than schemes like this. The reason is that supermarkets are bigger money than the average person. If I was made to do this then I'd expect to pay less council tax but that won't happen, as someone already said we'll pay more. Also with 3 young kids I'm not convinced how hygenic it is either and I don't want my baby to go into the bin full of manky food when he's crawling.

JodieG1 · 24/05/2007 16:51

Oh and I can't be in and out of the house all day with 3 kids either and I can't leave ds1 alone with ds2.

Podmog · 24/05/2007 16:51

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JoolsToo · 24/05/2007 16:52

we've got room I'm just sick of being told what I must do fgs, bog off with your edicts!

tagging bins and fines if a stray can lands in the wrong bin

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