Food waste - kitchen solutions as no room for composter.

always29

Not quite moneysaving, more recycling but the collective MSE brain is well knowledgeable! Our local council no longer do a food waste collection service and I'm conscious that a lot of our "brown" bin waste is actually food as we recycle about 75% of our waste as it is. By food waste I mean like peelings, skins, fish bones, plate scrapings etc. We have a really small concrete town centre garden/yard so don't generate enough green waste to make a massive compost bin work so does anyone know what I could get that would deal with veg and non-veg food waste?

PixieDust

could you look into setting up a wormery

Owain_Moneysaver

If you don't mind flushing it down the drain, a waste disposer.

Ben84

Flushing it down the sink may, or may not, be better than going in the bin. Some areas turn sewage in to biogas, many just spend lots of energy and water cleaning it up. So, depending on what happens to your sewage, the waste disposal might be good.

However, there are also small compost bins designed for just food, like the greencone, which take up little space and can break down large amounts of old food. We got one really cheaply from an offer with the local council. Anyway, it pretty much makes the food waste vanish, as mostly the water runs away in to the soil and the food breaks down in to largely CO2, so over time a lot of waste can go in without running out of space.

Cabbagewhite

Have you looked at bokashi bins? We got ours from here http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/composting/bokashi.html but they seem to crop up every so often on our local freecycle/freegle groups. There are various other sellers and you tube videos about it, just google 'bokashi'. We really like it especially as you can put bones in too. We stopped using them because we moved and had a bigger garden with compost bins, we also had chickens and rabbits, so very little food waste. Now we no longer have the chickens and rabbits, we will be going back to using the bins.