Do you use a food caddy to recycle food?

Is recycle the right word?

Unfortunately we don't have this facility in Northumberland, I wish we did. I have the problem of uneaten pet food, and double wrap it in newspaper and bag it for the bin.

We do here. In a food caddy supplied by the local council and collected once a week. I thought this was the case everywhere, but apparently not.
We are allowed to put the food waste in plastic bags now, inside the caddy.

Yes, it’s compulsory in Wales, they check your black bins to make sure you haven’t put food waste in them. It’s collected weekly, and when recycled, our food waste is now transformed into electricity to help power homes and communities. I like the system, it means your black bin is always clean, and it’s very easy to wash out the food recycling bin - the food is put into biodegradable bags in the food bin, so it doesn’t get disgusting either.

In answer to the OP, no I don’t.

We don’t have a food recycling collection where I live, no matter, as we have hardly any waste.

Peelings etc go in the outdoor compost bin. I honestly don’t think we waste any food, if I (very occasionally) cook more than we can eat, it’s put in the fridge and used next day, or frozen.Bread crusts are eaten. Clean plates at meals. Chicken carcasses boiled up,in slow cooker to make stock, the bones are then disposed of, granted.

Veg, fruit, milk, all eaten up. Horrified at DIL chucking half loaves of bread in the bin, why not feed it to the birds? But I keep it zipped.

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We've got a waste disposal (Insinkorator)

We don't have a food waste collection here either which I find annoying and baffling.

W have but we only put uncooked veg and fruit peelings etc in it. It can go a compostable bag and the green bin. we empty it every day and lives in the utility rom.

I didn't realize that not every area used this system these days.
Here in Oxfordshire the waste is recycled into garden compost which is available cheaply at the local tip.

we have a bag inside a bucket in the kitchen which we put in the food waste bin when full. It's collected every week by the council

We don't have this facility in the far north-west we can not even put green vegetable leaves in the garden waste bin.I did use one when I lived in East Yorks.

We have a weekly food waste collection by the council who gave households a small grey bin for outside and a caddy for inside. I use bags which are compostable.

Ours is collected weekly and made into compost. We use a Minky caddy with compostable lining bags as the one supplied by the Council isn't the best looking. Full bags go in a bigger Council supplied bin for collection. The Council doesn't supply the lining bags so some people put the food straight in the bin...yuk!

I have a caddy for vegetable peelings in the kitchen, but any cooked food that is thrown away (very little!) now has to go in with the general waste as our council has stopped collecting it with the green waste from the garden. Most of our garden waste goes into the compost bin along with the veg peelings, banana skins, teabags, shredded paper and vacuum cleaner contents.

winterwhite

Is recycle the right word?

Yes it is!
I understand that locally the contents of our green wheelie bins which include garden waste and food all goes into an anaerobic digester which turns it into biofuel.

I have a food caddy by the sink for recyclable food waste which then goes in the compost bin outside. Anything such as meat goes in the dogs. So we properly recycle, nothing goes to the bin men apart from household rubbish and recyclables such as cardboard and plastic. Everything that can be composted is. We don't have a food waste collection and tbh think it would be pointless for us anyway. As long as they stick to a weekly collection for rubbish and fortnightly for garden waste I'm happy.

If your council doesn't collect food waste you should write to them and say that food waste produces massive amounts of methane and contributes enormously to harmful greenhouse gases. I can't remember the figures but it is quite shocking. It really shouldn't go into landfill and they are a disgrace for not collecting it!

Here in the NE it was piloted some years ago but it didn’t continue. I used to do it religiously and I wish they’d bring it back so I shall write as suggested above.

In the meantime I’ve been trying to compost but the bin is too near the back door and attracts vermin in the winter so that’s had to stop as well. I feel so guilty putting all the waste in the rubbish bin. The only consolation is that it’s not too much as we waste little.

Casdon

Yes, it’s compulsory in Wales, they check your black bins to make sure you haven’t put food waste in them. It’s collected weekly, and when recycled, our food waste is now transformed into electricity to help power homes and communities. I like the system, it means your black bin is always clean, and it’s very easy to wash out the food recycling bin - the food is put into biodegradable bags in the food bin, so it doesn’t get disgusting either.

Same here in South Gloucestershire. I thought everyone's councils did the same.

We have a separate disposable nappy collection in purple bags, too, which is very good for parents, yet my cousin in London whose husband has dementia and is doubly incontinent, puts all his disposables in the main bin.

They used to where i am But stopped it suddenly.I had just been delivered a new one, unused. So now youngest son uses it to put empty drink cans in, & with the handle & lock down lid its easy to cart out to our recycle bin every time it gets full.So i'd not let it go to waste.?

Sparklefizz Better to put them in the black bin than down the toilet. Yes, there was a sewage blockage near my daughter when someone put disposable nappies down the toilet! ?‍♀️

When he was younger we stored Lego bricks in it. (we've had it 10 yrs now.so they do last!) ?

WEEKLY household rubbish collection?whats that?(WHERE is that??)?Every fortnight for us - green bin- (northwest) and same for glass,cans,plastics(all 3 in a blue bin) charcoal bin(looks black) for garden waste once a month- brown bin (cardboard& paper) once a month.But we can have as many brown bins as we need(within reason) Thank goodness or we'd be stuck.

Yes we do. We bought a food waste caddy from IKEA and compost as much as we can. Having said that, in 2024 our council will be bringing in additional bins including food waste - which will mean that everyone will have up to 4 big bins each and collections (apart from food waste) will move to 3 weekly!
Some households will struggle to find somewhere to store them all! ?‍♀️