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?

[rockyracoon]

My OH refuses to use the food waste caddy so he visits the local dump a couple of times a week, I'm grateful as I gag very easily and the thought of all that waste in the summer, bleurgh.

[DaisyNonna]

Thankfully they have not reached us yet. Dread them. My kitchen is minute, no room to store yuck.

[woofgang]

don't have them where i live.

[Barmaid]

We have a caddy for the kitchen units which is lined with a bag and then it gets decanted into the Hungry Harry (yes really) bin outside. It's not too bad at this time of year, but in the summer you have to empty it almost daily to stop flies and maggots.

[knowabit]

We keep the little caddy bin in the under sink cupboard... Doesn't smell at all. You can always wrap waste in newspaper and put straight in the large food bin outside....

[mazie]

I'm an avid recycler, but I don't think I could do the cooked food stuff thing. They do it in Edinburgh and it's gross, especially when they don't collect when they should and it sits on the roadside for ages

[Canary42]

Yes, I'm coping, and have been for years.

[Barmaid]

I actually find it better - with a large kitchen bin the scraps used to go in there - you either had to empty it into the wheelie bin with only half a bag used or wait still it was full in which case it would stink. Now the kitchen bin has no food waste in it at all and the food caddy is so small it doesnt really have time to smell. I DO however put stinky stuff straight into the larger outside food caddy.

[Psybbo]

The robin in the garage has made its nest on top of it so we can't use it.

[Barmaid]

Psybbo for finding BEST EXCUSE EVER for not using it.

[Purple_Popple]

Don't use it anymore, it was a disgusting practice after our refuse collector 'forgot' to empty it after a week of food rotting in it and flies had laid their eggs all over the outside of it, made me heave, I give suitable food waste to birds, wildlife, the cats or compost it.

[Maydup]

We compost all fruit and veg peelings, along with tea bags, egg shells and shredded paper. To be honest there isn't any other food waste for us as we are vegetarians, so no bones or fish waste to worry about; but i wonder if you'd be allowed to add your shredded paper to your food bin as it would soak up the squidge.

[black_cat51]

we have been doing it for years here in the winter we can go 1 week without emptying it, in hte summer we do it more often

[Prudie]

LOL Psybbo, that is a great excuse. It's the thought and feel of what's in the bags that puts me off, after all it's a few enzymes away from a bag of poo.

[grasscarp]

Coping. The special and expensive bags are not very strong so often on lifting out have to shove it into another. Tonight put out neat line of huge White plastics bag, green food bin, blue paper bag, box for cardboard, glass etc and small bag of non recyclable. Resisted food recycling until mid last year but now fully coverted to it all. :0)

[sherrardk]

I have a really, pathetically weak stomach, just the thought of a food recycling bin makes me heave. Gross.

[Barmaid]

Scrivens, food waste is the stuff that you must never ever feed to your chickens ;)

[DaisyNonna]

What happens to the food recycling?

[mazie]

We are so lucky, we have a green wheelie bin... for all recyclable stuff..bottles plastic, paper, Cardboard etc(all in the one bin) and in our County the recycling Stats have increased by 75%