A 'slop bucket' in every kitchen

[TheDullWitch]

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?

And my mum used to keep freezer bags too. Sometimes I do when I remember

I think my parents were true products of the war - everything was saved and reused.

I'm really into make do & mend, recycle, reuse and the other r which I can't remember!

I'm all for it as well. Why don't they hit the first blow at the top and target manufacturers to make everything in degradable products. We don't need plastic crap inside more plastic crap entering our houses everytime we go shopping. We don't need pears all seperate in their own plastic pots or a cucumber wrapped in shrinkwrap and it's not just food either, thats what gets my goat. Yes we can recycle plastic bottles but what about the plastic punnet they sell strawberries in or why can't they use cardboard ones?

JoolsToo > Gvt has just announced they re going to make direct mail something you sign up for, so you won't get unwanted leaflets etc unless you ask for it. SOme of those loan /stairlift/crap catalogue firms are going to be pissed off.

i hear you, expat. i love all this. get sainsbury's, asda, tesco et all to stop over-packaging everything first.

Our council have been doing the food recycling for well over a year - like TortoiseSHELL we have a lockable bin outside. At the end of every cooking or eating session DH scrapes the waste into it and it gets collected weekly.

It can get a bit stinky, but only when you open the lid. It has reduced our waste no end, it's brilliant.

We've had this in place for a while now. We used to have a little kitchen caddy but it used to get horribly stinky if you didn't empty it every day (unsurprisingly) and it needed washing out all the time which was a pain. We now save our cardboard boxes (cereal packets, cat food boxes etc) and put all our compostable waste in their - everything basically including meat, fish, bones etc. Then the whole lot can just be lobbed in the green bin every day because the cardboard is compostable too. We also have chickens which eat some of our food waste like bread, rice etc and we get free eggs in return!

I really feel for people in flats or in small gardens because it must be really difficult to recycle. I kind of see it as my responsibility to do as much as I can as I have the luxury of the space to do it.

As a country we really have to recycle more, we're running out of landfill sites and if we don't want incinerators we just don't have a choice.

@ the gov doing something useful

Reduce noodle!

I have been shamed into recycling TBH. With the 5 of us, plus 1 cat, 2 rats and 4 fish our rubbish could be of nightmare proportions. I feel guilty now if there are more than 2 smallish bin bags outside on a Monday.

I think Furball that you are rught - there is far too much unnecessary packaging in all sorts of places. I think that retailers and manufacturers should start having to deal with this too. It would have to be more than a tax though as a tax would just be passed onto consumers - perhaps a law that states all packaging must not be excessive and of a recyclable nature.

well you may all be for it but there are cows (and sheep, less of a poo problem) in the field right next to my house. I'd be bombarded with blue bottles

i htink they shodu l maek all shcools paper free zones too, well certianly regarding missive home to parents

missives that you never get?

Dull witch - that will take some amusement out of our life - always enjoy it when DH (under 40) gets the SAGA mag!

god no

"Innovations"
love that

"We now save our cardboard boxes (cereal packets, cat food boxes etc) and put all our compostable waste in their - "

I like it, Daisy. We make little newspaper parcels but your way sounds easier.

I think that as people are forced to recycle more they will get increasingly fed up with excess packaging - judging by the huge piles of refuse outside many houses it doesn't worry them at all atm. Then pressure will be put on the supermarkets and thus the manufacturers to cut back. Atm it's really a minority of the population making a fuss.

bleedin' 'ell

Dogsby & Jools - the problem with that I think is that the admin for making sure half school get email version and half get paper version becuase do not have access to PC is too much for many schools to deal with

I know who'll be bleaching the bleeding slop caddy (better word than bucket) in my house.

I DO THINK TEY WILL NEE DTO RETHINK NEW HOME DEISGN THOUGH
WE HAVE A SIDE PASSAGE WHERE WE STORE ALL OURS BUT IN SOME HOUSES IT MUST BE AN ISHOOO

caddy?
it aint golf dully

well it's the wrong way round

pressure should be on the packagers, not the unwrappers!

Dull Witch - with Eco Bleach - obviously

re emaisl at shcool
^clever6 ones will make pcs available to parents a t weekends etc thus crossing tow bridges at once