Rubbish bin liners - if not plastic, then what?

Co-op still has the smaller bags and their's are biodegradable, so I buy those when I am buying stuff at Co-op, or I take some Waitrose fruit & veg bags to carry my purchases home in, they are free, and also biodegradable when I'm shopping in Waitrose.

My Mum used to put food waste down the toilet, and that's what I do with the small amount we have.

Food waste, not good waste! I don't think any waste is good.

How lucky some of you are. We don't have a good waste scheme here. We only have a general waste bin, recycling bin and garden waste bin. The latter we pay £40 per year to have emptied. We have to have a black bin liner in the kitchen bin, as the council won't take loose rubbish.
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It's strange, though, Gma29, that our Council is giving us polythene bags for food waste now whereas they used to give us ones made of potato starch.

callistenon I had a mailing recently and the wrapper looks plastic, but is made from potato starch, and biodegradable. It all helps.

I’ve not read all (just some) of the replies. It’s really opened my eyes though as we’ve been staying for a week by Clapham Common. Here ordinary houses are selling for £2+million but they all have the dreaded coloured bins stuck outside their front doors. It looks terrible and would never have been the case in years gone by.

Well I have bought some of the biodegradable caddy liners in Tesco, so thank you to whoever it was who suggested those (sorry, I can't remember who that was)

DH has just received something from the OU wrapped in what looks like plastic but can apparently be put on the compost heap and degrades.

DH tears his hair out with annoyance when a container, like a quiche box, has recyclable and non recyclable parts which have to be ripped apart before binning.

Yes egg shells, tea bags, peelings etc. All go onto the compost heap and later the garden. The cat disposes of any meat, fish or cheese remains and if you lived nearby would be happy to recycle yours!

Oh and bytheway I throw dried teabags on soil as its good so Im told for the plants.

My council supplys small food waste bin.I never buy single use bags now why would you?any small bits of food waste goes to birds in park an excuse to go for a walk.no smelly main bin. But the poor consumers are inundated with plastic and cardboard waste from shops. The manufacturers needs to do more in my opinion.

Gina, my daughter in Aus. keeps her fish waste in the freezer until it’s bin day.

Recycling was a subject on the JV show yesterday presented by Vanessa Feltz.
One young person accused those who do recycle as sad people with too much time on their hands!

That’s us summed up then!☹️

A timely question, as I was also pondering an alternative to plastic bin liners. I hadn’t realised larger biodegradable bags were available. I have bought the food caddy ones in the past, until our council stopped the food collection bin service - and left us with 2 bins to dispose of! I don’t have anywhere to compost food waste, so it has to go in the bin.

I don’t fancy putting ‘loose’ rubbish in the wheelie bin, it would certainly smell in the summer months. I do try not to waste food, and buy small quantities where possible, but I do throw away oddments several times a week.

I have two caddies provided from the council for non-garden compostable waste and garden compost waste. I use the metres of packing paper that comes with anything bought from Amazon to line them. Whenever we receive another load of this paper, I sit and fold it up into sections that I can then just tear off to line a caddy! It seems to be working well enough.

how about a paper carrier bag behind a cupboard door?

The council here provide bags that eventually disintegrate for food waste which goes into a separate small bin . Everything else is recycled , but this isn’t helping you , I used to hang bag on my back door handle . The only answer to plastic is ban it . Or could you fit a small bucket under your sink or a small bowl anD use that instead of a bag

I have a very small container that sits on the worktop and I put an empty ground coffee bag in it or line it with a plastic bag that has had, say, bananas in it. When it's full I put it in the wheelie bin and put another bag in it (usually daily). Fruit and veg peelings go in the compost bin outside which is tipped on to the compost heap when it's full.

Thank you all - some very interesting solutions and ideas here. With one very noteable exception, sigh.

I think I'm going to get some biodegradable bags and use the solution of hanging them on the hooks.

We don't have newspapers - not even the free ones anymore - otherwise I'd definitely be trying the newspaper boxes idea.

It is not the plastic which is bad for the environment, it is humans who do not dispose of it all correctly that's the problem. Everything should be made of recyclable material by now. Packaging companies have had enough warning and should be fined heavily for excess and incorrect usage, and the council should take it all away and sort accordingly for recycling.

I compost all my left over vegetable matter so I don't have to buy ready made compost very often. If everyone reverts to using paper again, that will be more trees cut down. I bought some paper straws and they were useless and went soggy before I'd even finished the drink. I used to rewash my plastic straws and they lasted almost forever!

I have a food caddy in the kitchen, I can used bio-degradable bags (purchased from Supermarket/Home Bargains), bread bags or plastic bags. This gets taken out to the larger Food Bin outside, usually only egg shells & chicken bones in it bread goes on my neighbour's bird table, brown seeded or rye not white: salmon skins go into the cat .

Green box for glass, brown/coloured paper, brown envelopes & cardboard, batteries in a clear plastic bag.

Black box for plastic, metal, cans & foil trays/scrunched up foil.

Black wheelie bin for all non-recyclable rubbish. I usually have 1 bag per week, bin bags purchased from Supermarket as I don't get plastic bags, I use hessian shopping bags.

Green wheelie bin for garden waste & all veg/fruit peelings etc. Cost £30 per year, £35 if not receiving Housing Benefit

Blue plastic??? bags for paper/magazines/envelopes/catalogues etc. These are emptied & returned each week.

Wheelie bins are collected alternate weeks, everything else is weekly.

I have a small plastic basket in the kitchen for my re-cycling which I take out when full.

My grandfather in the1950s and 60s used to wrap any food waste in newspaper (not compostible). You can buy biodegradable liners as others have said. With limited space it is quite difficult.

I’m trying to cut down on use of all plastic but it’s challenging. The only thing we can do is to use less by not buying stuff wrapped and double wrapped in plastics.

I’m finally going to make the effort and do much more shopping at my local market.

As T*** says, “every little helps”.

I collected numerous batteries over months in a plastic bag and put them on top of my recycling bin on collection day as instructed by the council only to watch the bin man pick them up and throw them in my bin which was then emptied into the lorry. Don’t know why I bother sometimes.

I should of reported it but it’s gets tiring being the guardian of other people who just don’t give a rats arse ?

Postmenopausal : there is no need for your final comment - you obviously chose your name well. We are not all as bright and up to date as you unfortunately.