Rat town...

[sandyRoe]

The local council have decided that food scraps should be added to the 'green waste bin'. They say it will all be composted. Wouldn't a giant mound of rotten food scraps attract rats in their hundreds?

[bednobs]

it dosen't in ours. The council gave us a kitchen caddy with small biodegradeable green bags to put the scraps in that then go in the green bin

[rockyracoon]

Ours is the same as Bednobs, no rats round the green wheelie bin, where they take the rubbish may very well encourage rats but I think they make the compost now by heating it a few hundred degrees so I doubt the rats will hang around.

[askyourgran]

Sounds dodgy sandyRoe, we have black bins for food waste and green bins for paper plastics and tins. Bottles should be taken to the bottle bank, and garden refuse, (no soil, and twigs no more 3cm long) in Brown bins, that collection is now suspended until March 2012. As you say any food not disposed of properly is a magnet for vermin.

[RATTER15]

>>Wouldn't a giant mound of rotten food scraps attract rats in their hundreds?<<

Yes but somehow Im tempted to think they have already thought of that, it wouldn't take much to build a rat free compound to deal with it or else just process it immediately.

I dont see a problem if it is handled correctly.

[erin-x]

We have one bin for landfill, one for paper, one for plastics and tin and one for garden/food waste. We have the kitchen caddy and biodegradable bags the same as Bednobs and they are fine. We have always recycled paper, glass and plastic but we have seen our landfill rubbish reduce drastically since we have the caddy as well.