Council Food Recycling Caddies

[barry1010]

My council is starting this very soon and I have no idea how it works.  They will collect weekly.

How big is the bin? Is it lined? What can I put in it and what mustn't go in it?

The only food waste I throw in the bin is chicken bones.

[Cloverjo]

How do they 'recycle' the mouldy, possibly maggoty, food?

[barry1010]

Put it a huge incinerator thingwee that makes biofuel.

Lord knows how much energy that takes

[Buenchico]

Here's the follow-up to the video that I posted above.  This one will, I hope, help to answer Clover's question:

[Cloverjo]

Thanks, Barrie. I do often wonder if it's all just chucked in a massive landfill somewhere. 

[barry1010]

Some councils have huge silo type devices that turn it into compost or fertiliser without using energy 

[barry1010]

Cloverjo, if it went into landfill it would create methane gas and see the strange phenomenon of flames rising from the earth and suffer the dreadful smell.  Could be explosions.

[Cloverjo]

Thanks, Buenchico.

Interesting. I'm glad it does actually get used. I'm still a bit wary of keeping old food in a little container in my kitchen for a week, though. It must stink in the summer. 

[david small]

Garden waste. Twice a monthly. £109 a year.

[Smowball]

Cloverjo - no, you don't keep it in your kitchen bin for a week. You can empty the kitchen one into the outside food caddy as often as you want, or just when it's full. I empty mine every other day at least,

[douglas9401]

Our council have an innovative way with garden and food waste since unveiling their 'new method of composting' so it all goes in together meaning I only have four full-size bins to contend with now.

Saving the planet one new wheeze at a time.

[barry1010]

So many different schemes.

£36 a year for garden waste, fortnightly, all year

[dave50]

We don't have food waste apart from teabags and egg shells, everything we we buy gets eaten. 

[barry1010]

Fruit and veg peelings and cores, bones, fish guts and chicken giblets?

[Old_Geezer]

Are they really ok with tea bags ? A lot of them have plastic in and don't break down in any reasonable time.