How many CCrs do/dont use the new food waste bins.
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Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
The small bins should be lined, with compostable bags.
And I wash ours regularly (though not every week - if it looks clean and doesn't smell after transferring the bag to the larger caddy for collection, then I leave it.
We don't have the food waste bins yet, but 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, Biffa who run the waste disposal for the council made a profit last year in the hundred of millions, if the want to make money out of waste how about washing it themselves rather than topping up their profits out of our pockets.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
ahem... we must virtually fill ours every week,
the two children are remarkably fussy so there's a good deal wasted there, add a lot of fresh peelings etc (i always cook as much fresh stuff as possible so you do generate more than people using ready made or takeaway)
But yes, it does occur to me just how much is 'wasteful' waste.
Electric_Andy
Heavy Metal Fan
- Location
- Plymouth
do you not get rats, or worry about attracting them? Maybe there are enough cats to keep it under control!
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
We are supposed to be getting them by the end of the year
presuming that the new "make up of the counsel" does not change anything
We do have compost bins - and have to pay for them
I am tempted to just chuck it over the fence into the woods
and it is noticeable on "green bin day" that houses on my side of the street (i.e. with a fence onto the woods) have far fewer green bins!!!
What I have noticed is a big reduction in the amount of "general waste " over the last few months since plastic trays and cartons are now allowed in the recycling - the things take up a lot of room overall and a LOT of things have them in the packaging!!
presuming that the new "make up of the counsel" does not change anything
We do have compost bins - and have to pay for them
I am tempted to just chuck it over the fence into the woods
and it is noticeable on "green bin day" that houses on my side of the street (i.e. with a fence onto the woods) have far fewer green bins!!!
What I have noticed is a big reduction in the amount of "general waste " over the last few months since plastic trays and cartons are now allowed in the recycling - the things take up a lot of room overall and a LOT of things have them in the packaging!!
I eat bananas and have to put the skins in the food waste bin.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
for some reason i'm reminded of seeing someone up the streets green bin, lid wide open held there by a stack of takeaway pizza boxes, there must have been ten boxes sat ABOVE the lid line, let alone how many would have been below it
I suspect there's not much fresh food preparation in that house
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
I'm sure many people do.
Most of ours is used tea bags, meat bones, scraps left on plates. Occasionally there is food which has spoiled, but we are usually pretty good at eating what we buy.
Vegetable peelings and the like generally go in our own compost, but we don't put cooked food or meat products in that because it tends to attract rats.
I think most people do. I supect the majority round here have more than we do.
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
No, no rats. They probably stick to the local farms. 🐀🐀🐀
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
Thos go in our own garden compost, along with orange skins, potato peelings, and any other uncooked vegetable waste.
Alex321
Guru
- Location
- South Wales
That was my first thought when I saw they were putting out bones and chicken carcasses.
As I said, I dont have a compost heap so all the things you mentioned have to go in my food waste bin.
