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I just hold my breath when I open it. It doesn’t smell when closed. Haven’t put much meat in it though, I should imagine that would be the worst this weather.
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I just hold my breath when I open it. It doesn’t smell when closed. Haven’t put much meat in it though, I should imagine that would be the worst this weather.
Very similar to the OP here, except: i) I don't use the food caddies as I find the entire concept too disgusting, and ii) our garden waste is every 3 weeks, which I have to pay an additional 2 x £36 extra surcharge tax for.
Also, our council don't collect glass, so that either goes straight in the general domestic waste (which I'm sure a lot of folk will do) or take it to the bottle bank yourself.
Also, our council don't collect glass, so that either goes straight in the general domestic waste (which I'm sure a lot of folk will do) or take it to the bottle bank yourself.
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We have to pay for our garden waste to be collected. Scandalous. As if the council tax isn’t enough already
Maybe I'm jaded, but I suspect the point is to be seen to be Doing Something About A Problem. It's politics. It doesn't matter whether or not there really is a problem or whether or not what is being done will solve it (if there really is a problem). What matters is to be seen to be doing something about something that might be perceived as a problem.
Maybe, just maybe, some of that food waste is used to generate energy. Allegedly, the point is to use it to generate (mostly) methane gas in a sealed way (as opposed to generating it in a landfill, where it escapes to the atmosphere) and then using that gas to make fuel or electricity. Maybe that happens sometimes. Maybe it's not insanely wasteful to do it.
Same here. Besides, it seems polite to me. It's required where I work, but maybe that's due to scale. They won't collect the recycling if it has food waste on it.
I seem to be lucky in that I still get the level of service that everyone used to expect - my waste is collected weekly. Recycling fortnightly. No space for seperate garden waste (goes in general waste) or food waste. Very old housing. No front yard, no access to rear yards except through the house. I average about a third of a bin weekly for waste. My neighbours usually use some of mine as well as their own. By mutual agreement - there's 3 of them and 1 of me.
Yes we're charged £45 a year for garden waste collection. I think the same about the food waste bins, it's gross. But, if we chuck it in the general waste that's not going to be collected for three weeks...
I can just imagine food waste all over the place on collection days.
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For our food waste we get small grey bins for inside the house which exactly fit food waste bags provided then when full take the entire bag out and put it in your outside food bin. As long as bags are tied and outside bin locked shut they don't really end up disgusting. Our food and recycling is once a week, general waste every two weeks as well as garden waste (which we have to pay £30 odd)
Our is infuriating. Its a 3 weekly cycle, including general waste, however food and garden waste is done weekly, even though its always the least full of the bins.
Week 1: General waste + food/garden waste
Week 2: Cardboard + food/garden waste
Week 3: Bottles/tins + food/garden waste
Until this thread, I didn't realise how unlucky we are to have 3 weekly general waste collections!
Week 1: General waste + food/garden waste
Week 2: Cardboard + food/garden waste
Week 3: Bottles/tins + food/garden waste
Until this thread, I didn't realise how unlucky we are to have 3 weekly general waste collections!
We're allowed plastic bags in the food bin, so it's not too unpleasant. Tend to wash it out every few months, as it still gets a bit manky (we have a separate 12l food bin in the kitchen with tie-top bin bags: they sometimes leak a bit once shoved into the food waste bin outside).
That's awful, even with recycling all that we can, we easily do a full black bin of general waste a week, and we don't even have kids.
Well, our general waste is going to 3 weekly too. We can get away with two weeks easily, but it will certainly be full after three. Our neighbours is overflowing after one week, and they put extra bags out...
My dad has worked as a driver doing these collections since the 1980`s. Trust me the staff hate it as much as us, there are rotted over filled food bags all over the place. It has never been such a vile job and he is extremely happy to be retiring next year.
Yes I'm sure these ideas are dreamed up by people sitting in a nice office at the council, with no thought to the people who actually have to do the job.
We get weekly general waste and fortnightly recycling collections - I wish they would swap them round. Our general waste usually has 1 bag a week (in a bin with space for 3-4), whereas our recycling bin is usually 3/4 full after a week 
What was he expecting in a career as a bin man?
When he started he would have probably been empying one metal bin in the back of a lorry from every house. People throw away too much **** these days.
But does your postman still delivery the post?