Kitchen caddy ...convince family ?

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Mankysteve wrote: »

Why? They seem like a great idea.

Because I have no idea why the mayor would be keen for people to keep mouldering rubbish in their kitchen.

Mankysteve

You already keep moulding rubbish in your kitchin bin it's no different. If realy bother you that much keep it outside your back-door. I realy see no rational reason for your statement

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Mankysteve wrote: »

You already keep moulding rubbish in your kitchin bin it's no different. If realy bother you that much keep it outside your back-door. I realy see no rational reason for your statement

You wouldn't if you think I have a kitchen bin,. I've never owned a kitchen bin in decades of having a kitchen. I've been recycling newspapers, paper and card board for years, any tins, jars and bottles are washed and used again or put in the council recycling bin, appropriate food waste has always gone in the dog or on the compost heart, Which only leaves bones and fish skin and they go in the household waste bin. Happy now ?

tanith

We've had a kitchen caddy for about 2yrs now and I am amazed how quickly it fills up... I empty it every night and as others have said it gets wrapped in the free papers that I get and put outside in the bigger food waste bin.. our council (Ealing) have had such a success with the recycling this last year that this week they managed to REFUND every single Council Tax paying household £50 back , I don't think thats happened before... I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to recycle food unless they are composting themselves...

Mankysteve

Just because you don't need the bin does that mean the council shouldn't do something for the other who do?

KxMx

I had a kitchen caddy but switched to a jacobs plastic cracker tub with lid.
If you weren't vigilant enough (especially in the summer) the decomposing fruit/veg juices would leak out of the bag and onto the surface. Also fruit flies can easily get in, as well as the cost of the bags.
We don't have any of those problems now, we just carry to compost, empty and wash it up.

morg_monster

we're moving into our first house in a couple of weeks and the council does this, i'm quite sadly excited about it! We will have a compost bin too but no dog to eat up our leftovers!!
At the moment we're in a flat and the current council recycle quite a lot but the food waste going in the bin does annoy me, if it wasn't for that we'd have hardly any rubbish bags going out.

foxgloves

We don't have council food waste collections. We already compost absolutely everything compostible, but a year or so ago, the council had a promotion where householders could get a Green Cone for £10 (they cost around £70 at the time). You bury the bottom part (large plastic basket) in the garden and narrow green cone with a tight fitting lid fits on top. It takes all food waste which gets collected in a lidded container with charcoal filter which came with the cone. You sprinkle on some enzyme powder (only if cold weather) which also came free with the cone and then put all non-compostible food waste into the cone where natural enzymes break it down into liquid residue which seeps out & feeds the shrubs around the cone. (Our sage has never done better, so it must provide some sort of nutrients). So, yes, we have to collect food waste in the kitchen and we don't always remember to empty it every day so a smell starting up will quickly remind us, but the advantage is that when everyone is moaning that fortnightly waste collections is causing their wheelie bins to stink & even get maggot-infested in summer, we don't have a smelly bin at all because absolutely no foodwaste whatsoever goes into it. Have to say that as keen cooks & users of leftovers, we don't have much food waste, but the cone takes things like boiled carcasses/bones from stockpot & the sort of stuff we couldn't otherwise use. Don't know how many other councils provide these at subsidised cost, but we think ours has been worth getting.

gocat

Would it be ok to use Ocado carrier bags for putting the waste food in as they claim to be biodegradable?

laurel7172

Do you have to buy bags at all? Does the council insist on it?

I have a caddy for those days I can't be bothered to make the trek to the compost heap. I don't buy liners, I don't buy charcoal smell absorbers. I keep it outside the back door and give it a rinse under the outside tap when it gets slimy.

(And wheelie bin liners? I didn't know they existed.)