The Food Recycle Box

[Prudie]

Only 2 weeks into the new recycling collections and the food one is making me totally heave. I use the liners but even so the squidgy bag that I know holds tea-bags, leftover meat and fish, bread, cold veg and remnants of cat food all mixed up together is revolting. I can hardly bear to touch it. Are you all coping like good environmental warriors?

[DaisyNonna]

Not allowed to put shredded paper into recycling. Why?

[vodkancoke]

Yep been coping fine in west of Scotland for over a year where we put it in the small caddy in the kitchen,and the bags go into a bigger caddy for collection and in Edinburgh we put it in the small caddy in the kitchen and we have a communal food bin where there is absolutely no smell. it doesn't bother me in the slightest.

[Prudie]

I agree mazie, the multi green one is absolutely fab, it's all good except the food one plus the normal rubbish only going out fortnightly.

[Barmaid]

It is supposed to go to an anerobic digestion plant. Ours doesnt because they forgot to build the bloody plant. Some of it still goes to landfill which drives me mad that I bother recycling.

[DaisyNonna]

Recycling only collected fortnightly. Have at least 3 times more recycling than refuse. Sometimes have to wait another fortnight to recycle.

[grasscarp]

Poor you Daisy. We are weekly. But plastics alternate with garden rubbish.

[DaisyNonna]

Garden rubbish weekly but you have to buy bags, only 60p but a bother to go and collect. Could hire another bin but expensive if you only have a small garden and takes up yet more room.

[Prudie]

Our garden rubbish is fortnightly but only if you opt in - by paying the council £40 a year, bin provided.

[ummmm]

I don't use it. There is no way in the world that I'm going to add to food waste for 7 days...no no no...I would puke.

[grasscarp]

Garden is a good one as it is free and by getting hold of a couple of extra bags put out anything from 0-3. All councils are different. One of my daughters gets free food liners from the council.

[carolegif]

They don't collect garden rubbish at all here! Hate the food caddy in the kitchen, but now we have emptied he compost bin, I can put all peelings in there.
Used to put eggshells in the compost, but they didn't rot down.

[DaisyNonna]

Prudie, that's about half of what we pay!

[DaisyNonna]

Tiny garden, mostly shingle. No compost .

[naomi24]

We don't have those - and if we did I wouldn't use it. I know people who have them and I agree with you, Prudie. Horrible.

[woofgang]

We have to pay extra to get garden rubbish collected. I used to compost but had to stop because of rats. I never put protein or cooked food in the bins...then had to stop stuff like eggshells and potato peelings then had to stop putting any veg waste in there, then the rats started eating the bins and nesting in them.

DaisyNonna, the reason that shredded paper isn't recyclable is because the paper might have metal or plastic in it, some shredding will have staples in, some people shred things like padded bags with plastic linings, also things like computer discs and credit cards so the paper mills won't take it

[Ouzel]

The waste from the kitchen caddy (in liners) goes into the garden waste bin and is collected every fortnight. No problems with smells etc.

[DaisyNonna]

Shredded paper is what it says!
Not referring to anything else. People could still put stapled paper into recycling. Since when have discs and credit cards been able to pretend to be paper? The important word is paper, not shredded. Are the British public that stupid or devious?

[woofgang]

DN, its not being stupid or devious, its what people shred.

[DaisyNonna]

Paper! The instructions say No Shredded PAPER.