General Chat

When our council starting charging for garden bins you were still able to use it for the kiitchen waste. Friends of ours had neighbours that just tipped the waste in so in the summer it was really stinky and crawling with bugs and flies. Horrible.

Too much dust Vera? :-0 Was it the 'wrong sort' of dust? LOL

I just chuck food waste and tea bags in the garden waste bin, it's not a problem here. We used to put food scraps in our own compost bin (not tea bags!) but things have been a bit awry this year. All the stuff in the garden waste bin is composted anyway isn't it?
Perhaps some binmen have sensitive little noses?
Ours costs 40 quid a year so I want my monies worth.

Too much dust Vera ? :-0 :-S

Glass is so heavy to transport if you have no access to a car.
I know Winchester used to have that restriction too.
Our glass goes in our recycling wheelie bin with cans, tins, plastic bottles and tinfoil.
Card and paper are collected in a separate box.

I don't understand how food collection can be deemed to be economic in one area, but not another.
We have a compost bin in the garden for eg. outer tough leaves of cabbage, but we have very little food waste, as we prepare what we know we will eat.
I tend to scrub veg. with a special scourer rather than peel or scrape them, so day by day there is very little to put in the food bin or to compost.

Rant away. It is frustrating to be told that you've got to do something and you've got to pay. However, you're lucky your councils all collect food waste. Ours doesn't nor are we allowed to put veg peelings in with garden waste. Our council also won't collect glass from the house. We have to take it to a bottle bank which is fine if you have one nearby or have transport to get to one but what are you supposed to do if you can't easily access a bottle bank?

We have queried the food waste thing with the company the council contract out to and were told it was not economical to collect it.

This is the council whose dustmen (sorry Refuse Collectors!) left a note for us and our next door neighbours complaining that there was too much dust in our dustbins!

Our Council supply the bags for our caddy, but you can use newspaper instead.

We have always had to put our food waste into a caddy with compostible bags and the council have supplied them and show no sign of stopping.

My son has to put his food waste into a caddy and is supposed to buy his own bags, but he uses old newspapers instead (which are compostible) and so far the council hasn't complained. We always give him a couple of rolls of bags when we visit!

Perhaps you could try the same, ZZzzz, if you have old newspapers.

Do you have to use bags?

We've had a food bin for years, but I rarely use it.

When I do have something to put in there, eg. bones, I just wrap them in newspaper or other biodegradable bag, such as the paper bags which medications come in from the chemist.

We now have to put all our food waste into a caddy lined with a compostable bag, the first few have been provided by them the local council, after that we have to buy the bl..dy bags. I see know improvement the local area, in fact it is worse because they don't pick up street litter nor cut the grass on verges, as a result more rats.
Thanks for letting me rant.