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

[Dave7]

Reason for asking is that I live in a Close with maybe 18 houses and we seem to be the only household that puts one out.
They are a bit of a pain but if it really helps the planet then we will do it.
So.........do you use yours ?
NB
I dont have a compost thingy.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Yes we use ours, and most people on the road seem to as well. We have a small one for indoors and a larger one for outside. We tend to fill 1 small one per week, as I always try to use as much food as we buy. So don't always put the large one out for collection every week, sometimes it's once a fortnight. I can imagine some people are too lazy to use them though. I have mentioned this before, but when I lived within Dartmoor National Park region (stricter waste policies than the city), my landlord used the different colour recycling bags to put all rubbish in, and just threw it all in the landfill bin

 

[Sharky]

No, not yet, Dartford don't collect food waste yet.

 

[si_c]

Not yet, we haven't received ours. We've been trying to minimize food waste for years though already and composting as much as we can otherwise. Chances are we won't use it much when we do get it.

 

[Beebo]

We’ve been doing it for well over 10 years.
And virtually everyone on the street does it.

 

[potsy]

Not any more, ours is in with the garden waste which they now charge extra for.
Technically you can still put your food waste in it and they will empty, but when I tried they said the bin was contaminated so refused to empty it.
Mine now goes in the black general waste bin along with my garden waste 🙄

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Our council has been doing it for at least 15 years. All our kitchen waste goes in it.

They also allowed garden waste but about five years ago introduced a permit system for those who wanted rid of the garden waste. We paid it (around £50 a year) until last spring, when they cut the collection frequency by half.

Now I wait until we have a car load and I take it to the recycling centre myself.

 

[numbnuts]

We were given one, but told not to ues it until our wheelie bin area is built.......
we have only been waiting four years, but yesterday we informed a planning application has been applied for.

 

[midlife]

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

 

[Alex321]

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.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Veggie waste - compost. Cheese (rare) goes out for the mice that live in the stone walls. Big bones go out for the foxes. Chicken carcasses are beloved of the Crows and Rooks. Bread we don't eat but if we did it would go out for the small birds. Chocolate waste, seriously!

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

 

[gbb]

Been doing ours religiously for years, the lack of maggots in the black bin is well worth the effort, i dont recall ever seeing any since we started using the food waste bin....during very very hot weather i have been know to refrigerate or freeze double bagged waste until its duw to go out but thats rare tbf.
I notice on social media theres a lot of hollering when new areas get them, a lot of fight back and complaining, but honestly, its never been an issue, in fact it makes life cleaner (no maggots)

 

[Punkawallah]

What’s ‘food waste’? Could it be people are buying too much food and throwing away that which spoils?

But no, the local authority intends to start in Summer, has already handed out bins, but aside from the likes of fat trimmings for the birds we don’t have ‘food waste’ to put out.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Been doing ours religiously for years, the lack of maggots in the black bin is well worth the effort, i dont recall ever seeing any since we started using the food waste bin....during very very hot weather i have been know to refrigerate or freeze double bagged waste until its duw to go out but thats rare tbf.
I notice on social media theres a lot of hollering when new areas get them, a lot of fight back and complaining, but honestly, its never been an issue, in fact it makes life cleaner (no maggots)

Jeyes fuid = no maggots.

 

[Punkawallah]

Jeyes fuid = no maggots.

Careful. You’ll be accused of a hate crime :-)