dont want to use food caddy

chris_m

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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!)

I doubt it too - after all, surely once it's out for collection and the binmen have come to collect it, then it's become their property?

TBagpuss

get a small caddy you can keep inside, and empty it as and when.
You an get compostable bags (made, I think, of corn starch) to line it if you want.

If you have space, and are bothered by the thought of things going off, you could keep a small tub (old ice-cream tub or similar, clearly labelled) in the freezer. Put the food waste in the freezer as you go along and then put it in the food caddy on bin day, or next time you go out.
No smells, and if you don't produce much in the way of food waste it won't take up too much space

Jon_B_2

There is no real reason other than laziness not to recycle food waste.

Our council provide a food bin and a smaller caddy bin. We line our caddy bin with biodegradable liners that we empty every other day. No smells.

Food gets collected weekly, unlike general waste.

What would people prefer - 5 minutes inconvenience or rats/foxes/another roaming the streets with 2 week old rotting food in a general waste bin.

getmore4less

We compost, so a lot of food waste never makes the bin,
t-bags, eggshells, trimmings, uncooked waste... all compost with garden stuff.

The stuff for the food bin(weekly collection) goes in newspaper, container in the kitchen taken out to the bin when needed. That bin gets a jetwash when it gets bad.

Our mixed recycling and general waste alternate weeks we usually do each every 4 weeks.

Davesnave

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Hi,

just put it out empty on a windy day and it will blow away, gone.

How true that is! :rotfl:

Mine went out for the first time in early January and, at around 07.00, while it was still pitch dark here in the back of beyond, it was emptied.

By the time I went out to retrieve it at 07.30, it had blown across the road to be hit by some vehicle travelling at speed.....I didn't count the bits, but there were over 50, spread along roughly 75m of road.

Problem solved.

matchboxfull

Food decomposing in landfill produces harmful methane gas. Separating it out means they can compost it.

AnnieO1234

My council won't allow you to use the corn starch plastic looking liners that you can buy cheaply, instead you can only use the paper ones (despite both being to same EN standards), no newspaper either. The paper ones are around 20p each upwards.

I recycle larger amounts of food with the green waste like veggie trimmings but can't be bothered with the odd egg shell or whatever. The council's caddy was awful and the one I bought I found too heavy in the end.

Xxx

Mojisola

matchboxfull wrote: »

Food decomposing in landfill produces harmful methane gas. Separating it out means they can compost it.

Or send it to an anaerobic digester.

[Deleted User]

Hi,

Davesnave wrote: »

How true that is! :rotfl:

Mine went out for the first time in early January and, at around 07.00, while it was still pitch dark here in the back of beyond, it was emptied.

By the time I went out to retrieve it at 07.30, it had blown across the road to be hit by some vehicle travelling at speed.....I didn't count the bits, but there were over 50, spread along roughly 75m of road.

Problem solved.

haha, :rotfl:, like that, my first laugh of the day and not 6 o'clock yet.

Of course, being a good citizen, you would sweep it all up and recycle it with your plastic waste. :rotfl:

Davesnave

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Hi,



haha, :rotfl:, like that, my first laugh of the day and not 6 o'clock yet.

Of course, being a good citizen, you would sweep it all up and recycle it with your plastic waste. :rotfl:

Err.... no, it went in the bin, because our recyclers would never accept dangerous, sharp bits like that, and besides, each piece wouldn't have a plastics type logo.

But there's a more serious side. I wonder who would be held liable if the vehicle that hit it had gone out of control and someone had been hurt, or even killed.

The council's employees would have been last to touch it, and it may remain their property in a technical sense.

In the end, I expect poor old God would get it in the neck, as usual, as He made the wind.....I mean you couldn't possibly predict that giving 15 properties large, light plastic items to place in an exposed position would cause any kind of issue, could you?

Fortunately, only around 5 of the properties seem to have begun using them. I suspect the others are being otherwise employed to do stuff like storing bird food, or potatoes.

One thing's for sure; out here in the Wild West, no one will enforce anything.....ever.