General Chat

We compost most of our raw peelings etc, and the odd bit of suitable food goes to the birds, bottom of cereal packets etc. So in our caddy go tea bags, some coffee waste, most eggshells because they don't compost that well, meat bones, fish skins, cooked food waste like tough stalks, fruit stones, meat fat and gristle.

Our local council provides bags for the food waste caddies, these can be collected from libraries, mobile libraries, leisure centres, recycling sites and adult education centres. The council really seem to make a big effort towards recycling, including giving away compost made from the contents of the garden waste bins.

We all so often complain about what is not so good about the services we receive so I thought a little praise would not go amiss.

We don't have food waste collection here, but we're (hopefully) moving soon, all the way to Somerset! I've checked the council website, they collect food waste and indicate that newspaper can be used as a liner for the bin.

Our food bins have always been collected weekly. Except many years ago when we had snow or something and bins missed a week.

You can buy paper liners here full size for a wheelie bin, 50p each. That way it keeps the bin a bit cleaner, but we do hose it out every now and then to give it a good clean, all 4 of them.

Florence in the hebrides

Zzzz we've been using the small caddy for ages, latest council idea is to put food waste in biodegradable bags (which we buy) and put in the brown wheelie bins with garden waste, we have the blue bin for cardboard and paper, the grey bin for general waste, and a green bin for plastics and tins, glass goes to our local recycle centre just down the road from us. I'm retired but feel like I've got a full time job sorting out this lot :-)

We don’t have any sort of food waste collection but until I read your piece, AnninGlos, I wondered whether the food waste collections went for pigswill as they did at the school I attended in the fifties but I expect there will be strict monitoring of food fed to pigs now.

I think since the foot and mouth problem and various pig diseases it has been illegal to feed food scraps to pigs and cattle.