dpb

Council has just deposited these grey boxes to everyone, must been this afternoon

I'm not sure what to put in it.

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

a small child ?

use it for spare car parts, storage in your garage ?

Fill it with water then put it out for collection and if they complain say there must be a hole in the lid

dpb

Ok,thanks

tarmac terror

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I think you are meant to s**t in them, food waste you say???

fergal69

In my local paper, the Express & Star Wolverhampton edition, it was reported with a picture of a woman using hers to store clothes pegs in as she said she didn't have any food waste.

Imagine the the local Councillors reaction to reading that thinking why do we provide these things if they aren't going to use them.

There's one thing to not using them, but advertising the fact in the local paper.........

I use mine for food waste like peelings as tried composting it but unsuccessful.

Our cat now uses the redundant compost bin for shelter.

RobsyUK

iTrader: (2)

We have them and also a wheelie bin. They grey one stays in your house for house hold food waste and them the wheelie is for green garden waste. Once the grey one gets dirty and stinks link a dirty minge you end up purring all food waste in the wheelie and leaving it in the garden away from the door.

MK council are amazing with the rubbish though.

Furgal. To make compost you need bugs to help break it down worms etc. you need no citrus or onion and importantly you need for the water to drain away.
My wormery is amazing with it tap etc

dpb

Is it all to help deter the rat invasion?

hodgy0_2

Rubbish

alistair

I've never used ours - complete waste of time IMHO

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

Was woken up only last night by a fox trying to get into one of these, right racket it made.

They're useful for bones and teabags, and the occasional mouldy bread if I don't eat it all in time.

ReallyReallyGoodMeat

What exactly do you mean? You don't see the benefit, or you genuinely have no food rubbish?

Osimabu

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In our area, we had them for a couple of years but eventually the council (Harborough District) decided they were a waste of time (no pun intended) and abandoned the idea. They were great if you enjoyed breeding maggots in the summer, but most people didn't use them.

It's interesting that another council have now decided they're a good idea, but you would have thought that with 'joined up government', there would be a mechanism for sharing the experiences of different regions so that there was some consistency.

dpb

I've no idea what it's about, surely it all goes to same landfill as your usual rubbish ??

dpb

Originally I thought these might be deposit bins for food banks

Ellie*

We have those.
A grey wheelie for household rubbish.
A green wheelie for garden.
A grey box for plastic and tins.
Another grey box for paper.
A brown bin for food waste with a handle that locks the lid down.
A smaller brown bin for food waste that you can have in your kitchen.

someone at the council has OCD I think!

Turbohot

jonc

dpb

Well I'm feeling deprived now, this is one and only bin ever been given.

( we got our own metal bin ).

Next door however just pit it out in black plastic, great fun with seagulls etc around.


I don't think even next doors kitten would fit in this latest offering.

Chip

Or are just plain stupid

Chip

As your title says: "food waste" maybe?

Geezer

We've had these for a few years, they've worked very well and everyone seems to do it.

We have a small grey one for inside and and a larger green one kept outside, holds about 3 or 4 bags full of food. The outside one deosn't seem to smell at all (apart from when you open it, but so did the old fashioned bin), and it's collected once a week. Good idea IMO, they either turn it in to fertiliser or burn it for energy as far as I know.

The one inside can sometimes smell a bit as it's in the utlilty room, but just put in the outside and put a frsh bag in.

Geezer

CrisPDuk

We don't generate food waste as such, what doesn't go into the dog goes on the compost. Same with most of the green waste.

Torquemada

I have one but that randomly turned up one day but there is nowhere for me to empty the waste to (live in flats and they don't have a big food waste bin).

Its a complete waste of taxpayers money for any of us to have them in the first place!

Leslie

I think it is unfair to criticise the council when they are doing their best to help out.

Les

Torquemada

No criticism from me other than it's a waste of money for my particular domicile. If it can be used, then great. If they serve no prupose then it's just a waste of money imho

Leslie

Yes fair enough then!

Les

mgcvk

Landfill tax is an issue for local authorities, but food waste is amongst the most harmful stuff that is sent to landfill. People don't realise the harm caused by food anaerobically rotting underground globally creating huge amounts of carbon dioxide and methane gases. The resulting acidic leachate also needs to be prevented from contaminating the groundwater. Once you remove food waste from your general waste along with recyclables such as glass, cans, plastics, cardboard and paper, you will find there isn't a great deal left in your general waste. Food waste will be composted by the council or burnt for energy. I agree councils don't explain recycling properly and many people aren't clear what goes in which bin.

dpb

Surely that's a western disease, along with the general mania for wrapping everything in plastic which is doing a lot more harm to the world.

CrisPDuk

The whole recycling thing was completely fudged at inception, probably deliberately, by the faceless suits in Whitehall

What should have happened was one properly co-ordinated system rolled out nationwide, with clear instructions issued at the time.
Instead the whole thing got back-heeled onto local councils with absolutely no guidance, and the current massive array of half baked schemes is what we ended up with

I bet every council in the country has at some point organised a taxpayer funded 'fact-finding' jolly or two over to Germany though to see how it should be done, then ignored everything they were shown

mgcvk

Over packaging is definitely a problem but think how many billions of people there are are in the world all creating waste. I've been looking at waste and recycling thinking about career change and I find it interesting. Just using the recycling bins provided by the council my family of four plus cat could easily manage having general waste wheelie bin emptied once a month. Plenty of people down my street have an overflowing general waste bin each week so clearly don't give a crap.