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