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

[Punkawallah]

I eat bananas and have to put the skins in the food waste bin.

You don’t -have- to, but -choose- to.
As we don’t -eat- banana skins, they are not ‘food’.

 

[PaulSB]

To date, collections started four weeks ago, we have put out a few chop bones and chicken legs. I have been recycling all compostable** waste, that includes both cooked and uncooked food, in my allotment bins for 40+ years. I'm not about to start giving a valuable resource to my local authority.

**When I say compostable, if it was once organic, within reason, it can be composted.

I usually pop our two or three bones in a neighbour's bin. I haven't inspected the contents of people's bins but out of interest I've picked them up by the handle. The weight of some is quite astonishing, the volume of food waste some households have leaves me gobsmacked. What's even more interesting is the waste is from houses occupied by people 40 years younger than me.

 

[Dave7]

You don’t -have- to, but -choose- to.
As we don’t -eat- banana skins, they are not ‘food’.

I dont eat potato or carrot feelings or egg shells but they all have to go in that bin.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

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

I rented a flat in Bangor for just over a year at one point

As it is a University town a lot of the flats in the block were inhabited by students

Generally when bin day came round my bin would be about 1/4 full as it was just me and I tend to cook from scratch

but when I went out with the last bag from the house and to put the bin out

I would often find my bin crammed full of Pizza boxes

recycling day the other one of the alternating Mondays - and only me and the lady next door put anything out at all!!

The local paper was often full of stuff about young people and students from the University promoting Green stuff and all that

Well - the young people and students in our bloke did naff all recycling as far as I could see!!!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

We use them. Collections are weekly

 

[Mike_P]

Not scheduled here for some time. Just looked up what counts and tea bags, egg shells and fruit skins count so I might manage to fill one over a year or so.

 

[alicat]

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

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

Same in Lichfield. They used to do food waste collection about 20 years ago but stopped it....

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Well - the young people and students in our bloke did naff all recycling as far as I could see!!!

Hypocrisy exists amongst all demographics - young and old. So I am not surprised at what you say.

Many of the young people in our wider family and friendship group are fully paid-up members of the eco-evangilist set but happily consume the latest Apple products as though there is no tomorrow, wear the latest designer gear, drive quite nice brand new cars and indulge in faraway holidays and numerous short breaks.

The Oldies are the same. Waxing lyrical about how much plastic they recycle when they drive RR Sports, nip off to Dubai for a girls long weekend, spend huge amounts on 'necessary' holidays and replacing 3 year old kitchens that are 'out of date', and (usually males) spending their hard-earned on extortionate golfing trips to Portugal, etc.

Can't see it changing any time soon, either.

 

[Webbo2]

We haven’t got them yet in North Yorkshire, but I do occasionally empty vegetables that are turning to mush in to the garden waste.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

We are 6 flats in a block, many years ago we had been issued a burgundy food waste bin for the building plus a caddy for each flat.
We soon gave up, the smell was atrocious.
I am pretty sure the idea was to only put raw vegetable waste in the bin, but people were putting all sorts.
More recently, we can buy a garden waste permit for those very same bins.

 

[classic33]

You don’t -have- to, but -choose- to.
As we don’t -eat- banana skins, they are not ‘food’.

That depends on what you class as food.
https://www.eatingwell.com/article/7959894/can-you-eat-banana-peels/

 

[Stevo 666]

We don't use ours as we compost our food waste, but I've kept one in case my OH ever changes her mind.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Mine's still behind my front (and only ) door, where it's been since we were given them in March. Being a pescetarian the only 'meat' waste is fish skin which I put out for stray cats to eat. Any veggie waste goes into the compost barrel in the park up the road from me.

 

[Andy in Germany]

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.

Gosh, new food waste bins? Visiting the UK next week will be even more exciting than I thought.

 

[mistyoptic]

Our bins only arrived recently. Not much for us to put in.

Veggy waste goes in the compost and we don’t tend to have excess food to dispose of. Skin, fat, bones and little else goes in. Occasionally if someone doesn’t eat all their serving but it’s rare.

One small bag per week. Looks lost in the bin