Recycling?

[poodicat]

Anyone been recycling food waste by their council,just received a card saying that our council will be providing a kitchen caddy and special bags to store your food waste,i recycle paper,garden waste,and we are now going to a bin for cans and plastics,but never heard of them collecting food waste..

[boxtops]

Yes, my sister's council has been doing this for a while.

[philkool]

they didnt empty mine for 2 weeks so i dont bother anymore just put it all in black bags

[poodicat]

Hi boxtops,it doesnt smell does it?

[boxtops]

We have a general waste collection once a week anyway and I tend to bag up the food waste from my kitchen bin twice in that time, and put it in my outside bin. It does whiff a bit, yet, particularly in this weather - but our biggest problem is that the seagulls attack binbags round here. If you have a bin then it should be fine, but I hope they give you some sort of binliner for it, or you will have to keep washing the bin! We compost all greenstuff and veg waste anywhere, so in my house you are only talking meat waste etc, off-cuts etc.

[ummmm]

I'm sick of recycling.....

Where are we suppose to store all this stuff from week to the next? My utility room looks like the local tip with all the crap in it.....

[poodicat]

We only get a fortnightly uplift,they are supposed to be giving us special bags to go along with the kitchen caddy

[ummmm]

We get weekly binbags but fornightly recycling....alternate weekly. Once a month for glass.....

That's bad bad bad....who wants to see how many bottles of wine they have gone through in a month..?

[johnk]

If you leave food waste out in a bag it will be ripped apart and spread all over the place, wheelie dins were a great invention

[McMouse]

Is your wheelie dim noisy jhnk?

[marie26]

We have food recycling here. We have a small kitchen caddy, and starch bags to collect the food in, these bags are then put into another slightly larger caddy that is animal proof (so far anyway), and is collected on Monday morning. Any food waste can be put in; the kitchen caddy has a lid so there is no smell. I line mine with a starch bag and then I can transfer it easily to the other bin. The system works well for us. The caddies were supplied by the council. The starch bags will compost.

[annie0000]

We have it as well, I don't bother with a caddy in the kitchen, I just keep the caddy outside and put all the waste in it - it takes food, raw and cooked and other stuff like bones and used kitchen roll. They use it for compost. What puzzles me though, is now that all the organic matter is removed from your general waste, and we already recycle some plastics, our cans, glass, paper and cardboard, how is the stuff that is left in the general waste (mainly cellophane and non collected plastics) ever going to rot down in the ladfill - surely the whole point is that the organic waste in the landfill will over time creat soil - are we now just building plastic mountains?

[chazza]

I live in Northern Ireland and we've had this for over a year now. We just tie the bags and put them in the garden waste bin for collection. They don't smell so long as you empty them into the garden waste bin as often as you would usually empty your bin

[poodicat]

Hi chazza havent see you for a while,where about in northern ireland are you?

[chazza]

Just outside Belfast,where are you?

[Dodger666]

Takes me back to the days when we had pig bins. The main difference in those days was they were emptied daily. Where does recycled food go these days?

In the good old days, the "dustman" used to come into your yard, collect the household waste bin, take it to the dustcart then return it to your yard with the lid back on. These days if your wheelie bin isn't exactly where it should be outside your property, or the lid is slightly open it gets left unemptied. Even when it is emptied it's never returned to your property, usually dumped on the pavement wherever the truck happened to be. It won't be long before we have to empty them ourselves, to save the council money of course.