How many CCrs do/dont use the new food waste bins.

[Windle]

We've just got ours, collections start in June. They'll get used...... but not for food waste, we have chickens .

 

[Sharky]

Goes in the garden waste bin collected once a week.

Dartford doesn't allow food waste in the garden bin.

 

[SteveH80]

We've received the bins but weekly collections don't start till June. Till then what can goes I the compost heap.

 

[fossyant]

Our council have been doing it for years, but.

Big green bin for food and garden waste. We have a small bin in the kitchen where food waste goes (council supply bio-degradable bags). These bags go in the green bin.

The but, the council now charge for the garden waste. So food waste gous in massive bin, and is collected. If you don't have the license sticker on the bin, you can't put garden waste in.

We do also compost, but not the food waste.

 

[YMFB]

No food waste collection here in Wiltshire, when we receive the bins and the service starts we will definitely use it.

 

[presta]

We've had food bins for ~10-20 years, everybody seems to use them, but we've got two new bins we start using in June, which makes a total of five.
This is the new regime, the red & blue ones are the new ones which replace plastic sacks:

I think food recycling is revolting looking at the state of the small bins in some friends homes.

Wrap it in paper before you put it in the bin: no maggots, no mould, no smell. There's nowt but condensation in my bin by the end of the week. I wash the indoor food bin weekly, and give it a spray with disinfectant, the outdoor food bin: not at all. The outdoor bin's empty for 6.5 days out of 7, because I don't empty the indoor bin into it until the night before collection.

What’s ‘food waste’?

Peelings, bones, eggshells, scrapings from used pans.

Could it be people are buying too much food and throwing away that which spoils?

71% of all food waste is by consumers who buy more than they can eat, and 2% from the supermarkets who people blame for it all.

we have just had a reminder from the council to wash all our recycling related waste before disposal, that means we will use water which is metered so will cost us

Use your washing up water before you tip it down the sink. Costs nothing.

 

[TrishE]

Our council didn't deliver any food waste bins to where I live so the only people who have them are those of us that contacted the council and asked for them. Three bins on our street at least the council didn't lose money from households who wouldn't use them as it's easy enough to contact them.

 

[spen666]

Food waste here near Carlisle to be collected starting about 2035...

Your refuse collectors work late into the night🤡

 

[richardfm]

New?

We have been using them at the previous place since early 2000's (Merthyr Borough Council), and at the current place (Vale of Glamorgan) since we moved here, in June 2020.

And most people in the street use them.

Same here in Cardiff, it seems the English are a bit late to the recycling party.

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

Do the other houses in OP's Close have compost bins in their gardens? they don't take much space.

I don't know is my Council does food waste collection as I've been composting myself for years. No issues with vermin and no special measures to clear them.

 

[Alex321]

We've had food bins for ~10-20 years, everybody seems to use them, but we've got two new bins we start using in June, which makes a total of five.
This is the new regime, the red & blue ones are the new ones which replace plastic sacks:

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We've had the food bins for ages too. We have a couple more receptacles than you, but most of them aren't bins.

We have caddies for food waste - a small one for indoors, and a larger one to put out for collection.
A grey caddy for glass, slightly larger than the large food one.
Four plastic canvas bags - a large white one for paper, and orange one for cardboard (and brown paper goes here rather than the white one), a blue one for metal and hard plastic, and a small white one for battereies.
And now (since start of April this year) we also have a single use blue bag for soft plastics (which they want us to tie closed and place on top of the other stuff in the main blue bag).
All the above are collected weekly.

General waste goes in black plastic bags (no bins!), and is collected every three weeks, with up to three bags per household allowed.

If we pay £45 per year for garden waste collection, then there are also green canvas bags for that, up to 8 bags, collected every two weeks from March to November, and on demand December - February.

 

[Dave7]

Do the other houses in OP's Close have compost bins in their gardens? they don't take much space.

I don't know is my Council does food waste collection as I've been composting myself for years. No issues with vermin and no special measures to clear them.

I know of 1 person with a compost bin, maybe 2 but tmk that's it

 

[nogoodnamesleft]

Do the other houses in OP's Close have compost bins in their gardens? they don't take much space.

I don't know is my Council does food waste collection as I've been composting myself for years. No issues with vermin and no special measures to clear them.

I know of 1 person with a compost bin, maybe 2 but tmk that's it

Some people are needlessly bad at recycling and it makes me want to scream. eg we have two bins, a black one for landfill and a green one for all recyclables (unsorted, just everything recyclable in the green bin). Neighbour alcoholic and 1+ glass bottles every day (they don't really eat much food). They gather bottles in a "bag for life" (separate from the general waste) to carry them to the bins and throw everything (incl "bag for life" in the landfill bin (incl. recyclable paper, card, plastic pots, etc.)! The two bins sit next to each other but they just all the time throw heavy bulks easily recyclable stuff into landfill (and I have indirectly raised it and they appologised and blamed a visiting son and said to me once they'll start recycling ... and never do).

I find it depressing. When the world faces so many challenges this is one that is so easy to address, actually saves money, does not impact your lifestyle, etc. yet still people just can't be bothered. Human race has no future if this is the nature of so many.

 

[vickster]

I recycle as much as I possibly can including food waste (plus soft plastics to the supermarket, hard plastic, tins, paper, card in their appropriate bin). The foxes don't like mine as it's mostly tea bags and fruit/veg waste (there's barely any left over cat food either as Monty is a greedy bugger and leaves virtually nothing!)

I don't have garden waste bin (now £99 a year here in LB Sutton which has the NextDoor NIMBYs frothing ), it might go in the brown bin after mowing the lawn or to the tip if there's enough after a hack