dont want to use food caddy

penguingirl

We bought a little pedal bin and use that instead of a caddy- doesn't tend to smell but we probably empty it twice a week and I keep a bit of paper towel under the bag to mop up any leakages (although it's normally ok). We have the opposite problem to you, our council doesn't take food but previous one did, although the caddy was a small 5l one for indoor use and the actual food went into the green bin with garden stuff. Despite not recycling food here we've stuck with having a seperate food bin as it stops the main bin smelling as it is emptied more frequently.

I'm surprised you don't fill it more - we don't waste much food, but ours gets filled with things like teabags, veg peelings, bits from chopped veg e.g. Onion skins, chicken bones

chris_m

Mojisola wrote: »

We find this when we rent self-catering holiday accommodation. I don't think we've ever had two places where the arrangements are exactly the same.

I dare say I'm going to have fun when I head off to my new place next week. Where I am now we just have communal bins, no segregation of waste whatsoever, so I've never had to do this stuff.

Looking on the council's website for the new area is about as clear as mud. Different pages/documents refer to brown bins, black bins, green bins and refuse bins. There is a partial list of where different categories of waste can be disposed of, or taken - but that refers in some places to one bin, in others to another and in yet other places to waste sites or bin in car parks - I guess it was written collaboratively with no cross-checking.

Oh well, another good reason to introduce myself to the neighbours -hoping, of course, that they are doing it correctly too

motherofstudents

Mojisola wrote: »

We find this when we rent self-catering holiday accommodation. I don't think we've ever had two places where the arrangements are exactly the same.

We stayed near Whitby and were told to put everything in the one bin. The owner said they paid extra to have it sorted at the other end.

Our food waste goes in a little plastic bag in the caddy in the kitchen and I tie it up each day and put it in the garden waste bin. It doesn't smell or go mouldy. We recycle as much as possible and the bin for stuff we can't recycle is collected every three weeks but it's not a problem. One of my sons just has black bags and has to take his recycling elsewhere. It does seem to vary tremendously.

booksurr

G_M wrote: »

Yes your bins may be checked if the council suspect you are not recycling as required by law.

normally your posts are accurate and balanced, but this one, :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Deleted User]

Our council gave everyone a food caddy but you weren't allowed to use plastic bags to line it or put the food in plastic bags. It did smell, it did attract flies and maggots.

I don't use it.., the thought of rotting food leaking everywhere, animals going after it etc just makes me feel ill.

I do conscientiously sort everything else. But for me, there are limits. fortunately my food waste is minimal.

Lunchbox

booksurr wrote: »

normally your posts are accurate and balanced, but this one, :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

S.46 Environmental Protection Act 1990.

penguingirl

deannatrois wrote: »

Our council gave everyone a food caddy but you weren't allowed to use plastic bags to line it or put the food in plastic bags. It did smell, it did attract flies and maggots.

You can get special bags, they have a symbol on them indicating that they are biodegradable. Our previous council used to give them to each household, but a pack of 40 could also be bought in poundland. The council also allowed you to use a sheet of newspaper.

G_M

Originally Posted by G_M
Yes your bins may be checked if the council suspect you are not recycling as required by law.

Posted by Booksurr: normally your posts are accurate and balanced, but this one,...

Other than by looking, how will the council know the law is not being complied with? I doubt they need a search warrant (though happy to be corrected on this point!)

Lunchbox wrote: »

S.46 Environmental Protection Act 1990.

(1A)Where—

(a)subsection (1) applies to a waste collection authority, and

(b)a waste reduction scheme under Schedule 2AA to this Act is in operation in the authority's area,

the authority may require the occupier to place the waste for collection in receptacles identified by such means as may be specified.

(6)A person who fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with any requirements imposed under subsection (1), [F2(1A),](3)(c) or (d) or (4) above shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

Torry_Quine

My food caddy sits on the kitchen windowsill and is lined with the bags provided by the council. When full it is emptied into the garden waste bun which is collected every fortnight all year round. It doesn't smell or go mouldy and is mainly veg peelings, eggshells and tea leaves.

fashionvictim

We have had a sticker put on our bin saying no food waste. However I recycle food using the caddy, but generally very few other people in my street do. I don't take this as a personally the council just want more people to recycle food.

I have small indoor caddy , we use the caddy liners and empty to the outside caddy every other day. I don't find it smells in that time. I empty my waste bin less often, so food would smell more in my general bin.

I know some people refuse to buy caddy liners or in certain areas it can goes in a garden waste bin loose or in caddy liner.