Food Waste Caddy and Bin - OK? or Not?

IronGiant

Do you have to use them? I thought they were optional, to keep your caddy cleaner and they just empty it out anyway if you don't use a bag.


That's a nice idea, once our first "six" months ran out that was it, no replacements since.

ldoodle

I'm surprised they haven't made use of soil pipes to dispose of household waste - you could have a macerator of some sort that connects to the soil pipe and dispenses that way.

If it's OK for human excrement to go down, it's certainly OK for chopped up food waste to go down.

IronGiant

That wouldn't go down well here, they turn up at 6:30 am sometimes

mjn

Blue Bin - Paper, glass, plastic, tins
Brown bin - Garden waste, food waste, cardboard, brown paper
Black Bin - Anything not recycable

Simples.

ldoodle

Actually, thinking about it, why is it that only flats, apartments etc get to have a central repository for household waste.

How hard would it be to build one at the end of every street. This is by far the most hygenic solution that would be done, surely?

johntheexpat

You need this, a thumping great urban vacuum cleaner.

Envac


(Bishi would have appreciated it!)

Digital Tench

Got to admire the idiots at some councils who use green and blue recycling bins....no apparent difference in colour under orange sodium lights.

ldoodle

Yes! They have something similar to my parents-in-laws place in Spain. What you see from the road are what look like normal public bins (5 lined up next to each other for each type of waste), but I saw them collecting it once and it's a sunken platform that only the bin men can raise and everything is transferred directly to the bin without user intervention. Clean, hygenic, minimal interms of space.

What it would cost to install would be offset by long term savings on wages.

BT Bob

We (Cardiff) have the food caddies (indoors) and small brown bin (outdoors) to put the bags in. We get the bags free from libraries - just wander in and pick up a roll. Same with the green bags for papers, plastic, tins, bottles. etc - just pick them up at the libraries. Green wheely bins for garden waste & then black bins for everything else.
Green bags & brown bins are collected every week & black & green wheely bond alternate. Works well, I'd say.

We do, of course, now pay for bags in shops! As a consequence the library staff now hand out the food-caddy bags to stop people helping themselves and using them as carrier bags!! You've got to laugh.

KeithO

Welcome to my world.

Here in Germany we have bio (green) bin for food waste, gelb sac (yellow bag) for plastics and stuff (and it must be a specific council-supplied yellow bag, not ones from the supermarket) and the 'grey' bin (which seems to take stuff not fitting into the previous ones. Collections alternate fortnightly.

But then of course there are the paper bins, the glass bins, and the can/tins bin, none of which the council will collect, so we have to take them to the recycling centre.

And I suspect that secretly it all ends up in the same landfill site anyway...