Food Recycle Bin

[Prudie]

We got all our new recycling bins delivered today ready for the start of the multi box recycling. I'm fine with all of it except the 2 food ones. Those of you who have this already, what do you do, do you rinse them out each time you empty then, I feel they're going to get yucky, especially in the summer.

[pixie373]

Watch them emptying the bins thought. The food just goes in with whichever rubbish or recycling they're taking. Makes me wonder if there's any point!

[jamesnan]

We have a special food bin waste collection, that is all that is collected and put into one container lorry .

[ferlew]

We have a cycle of three separate collections.
General waste, no good for anything green bin.
Brown bin, food caddy and garden waste.
Blue bin, paper, card, plastics.
I believe our recycle rate is over 60%

[pixie373]

Ours just goes in together - and in together at the landfill :-\

[grasscarp]

I totally resisted this at first but now totally ok. We have nothing free so have to buy special bags. Put in all food waste. Converted.

[Hopkirk]

Our local council has re-equipped with dual lorries.

Food waste goes in one part and either recyclable or non- recyclable in the other.

Until then we had to have two lorries every week, now it is just one. Food waste goes every week, and the others alternate fortnightly.

It works well.

[ferlew]

We alternate with blue and green.
Brown is monthly in winter, and 2 weekly in summer.

[cupotee2]

Well I'm a meanie and refuse to buy bags to throw my food waste away. They work out about 10 p each.

I don't have much waste so what little I have I wrap in newspaper and pop in into my black bin.

Actually there is another reason I don't use the food bins. Where I live they are shared with 7 other neighbours, and the very first week we had them some 2 years ago now in a hot spell..the first time I went to use it there were maggots in bottom. So never used one since.

[Ratty2E]

Allegedly we will have lorries with a separate part for the food waste and it's being used to make compost by a process that will also create electricity. So in theory it should be a good thing and better than just chucking it into landfill.

[jamesnan]

We also, as well as the food waste collection which is every week, have an alternate collection (black bin) general waste one week, and ( blue bin)
recyling the next. There is a separate collection of garden waste for those people who cannot get to the recycling tips.

[pixie373]

Maybe they'll do that with ours, hopkirk, in time. My neighbour's son works for them and has always insisted it all goes into the same fill- which is why we were watching the lorries. They all get tipped into the same side with the same metal bit.

[Hopkirk]

Food waste that goes to landfill can end up rotting without sufficient oxygen present. As I understand it, this causes methane to be produced which is a greenhouse gas.

We are therefore being more environmentally friendly sending it off to a composting facility.

[boxtops]

we do have separate lorries with different compartments, paper, cans, food waste is a separate truck as is green waste. I pay a couple of quid for a whole roll of recycling bin-sacks. In the kitchen I don't use the caddy, I have a separate pedal bin which is catproof - the sack goes in there then every few days it goes out to the little green lockable bin outside. We only ever have a couple of sacks per week, as any veg waste goes in the compost bin in the garden. The compost bin takes the toilet roll tubes and eggboxes due, they compost down really well. Teabags go in my food waste - I can bear finding half-disintegrated teabags in my compost!

We have got a good system going. We have two separate waste bins in our living room - recycle and not, saves sorting outside - and four in the kitchen now (recycle, not, food and compost).

[boxtops]

Ours is the same as jamesnan. It costs £40 a year round here to join up for the green garden recycling, so we are sharing the cost across 4 households - we can put up to 6 bags of branches, cuttings, etc., out per fortnight. It's good.

[grasscarp]

We can put out garden rubbish free alternate weeks with plastics