Food waste caddy - ugh!

What sort of things do you put in it?

No personal experience of these caddies, but we don’t really have much food waste. Peelings go in the outside compost bin, anything like fish skin goes in the black bin, we eat all bread crusts etc, and honestly don’t leave any food. If I cook too much, it’s eaten next day or frozen, then used later.

I don't have a food waste bin, as they cost extra each year here, and I was not prepared to pay for one. I assume this is what you mean by a caddy.

I simply put any food waste, that cannot be composted, straight into the bags provided by our bin-men and take it out to the wheelie bins - one compartment of them is for food waste. That way, the kitchen bin doesn't get smelly so quickly.

I might add that here we don't pay for the bags used for food waste, or clothes. Anything else just goes into the relevant compartment of our three wheelie bins that each have two compartments.

I wash empty jars, tins and food cartons before throwing them out to prevent the wheelie bins getting diry or smelly, as they are well-nigh impossible to wash, due to their construction.

www.argos.co.uk/product/9401040?clickSR=slp:term:kitchen%20caddy:1:3369:1

Bought this for my mother - to us, the best of a bad bunch! Tucked away in a cupboard, fortunately.
Soggy tea bags appeared to be the worst culprits ('standing liquids'?). There is no smell, except for onion prep - I can vouch for this.
7"" tall so not overbearing.
Does your council permit newspaper in composting? You can line these small caddies with newspaper to keep the costs down.

Lakeland sell a nice little metal compost bin. It has a filter in the lid which helps to reduce smells, a tight fitting lid and a handle. Quite pricey at £19.99 but others are a similar price.

Once again, we do not have much food waste. Vegtable matter goes into a compost bin and on the worktop beside the sink I have a small soup tureen shaped pottery container into which I put all non-compostable food waste.

Last week it contained 2 lamb chop bones, 2 fish skins and 2 bacon rinds. So far this week it has half a bacon rind but might collect another 2 this evening. It stays by the sink all week ubtil emptied. I have no problem with smells from it and at the end of the week when I empty it, it goes in the dishwasher.

I refuse to comply, gave mine to my daughter and now use a waste disposal system and I’m very careful having very little waste. Can’t abide them or the littering of the streets with them here.

Our council provides the bin and bags. The bin fits under the sink.
We don’t have food waste. On the rare occasions that we do our semi resident fox deals with it.
Tea leaves go onto the garden. Hydrangeas love them.

We get the compostable food bags free from the council. I don’t use a caddy it would attract fruit flies.

Any waste, egg shells, peel etc goes in a bag then into the big green bin outside. I know there are different arrangements in different areas.

I think we get clapped in irons and thrown in an underground dungeon here if we so much as put a grape pip in the normal rubbish.

I don't buy newspapers and we don't get the free ones any more.

We have a bin for rubbish that can't be recycled, a bin for recycling (glass and plastic that can be recycled) a box for paper, a bin for garden waste (extra charge of just over £100 a year) and a smaller bin for food waste. And the food caddy for indoors.

I've recently moved and this property only had one of the required bins so the Council charged me a little short of £200 for new bins on top of the charge for garden waste collections. They don't supply bags of any sort and all the bins are just, well bins! Not compartmentalised.

I don't have a compost bin so all food waste goes in the caddy - veg peelings, bones - be they meat, poultry, fish, tea bags fruit stones etc. etc.

Thanks for the link ixion!

I flatly refuse to use one.
My flat is always awash with insects in the summer.

I'm not adding to the problem

I do buy compostable liners for the ugly brown caddy the council give us. It lives on a corner of my draining board, but can’t say it smells. Anything that would smell, like fish heads and guts (we catch our own) goes in a liner and in the outside, lockable good waste bin. Once a week or so I empty it and chuck it in the dishwasher.

We have this one www.josephjoseph.com/products/compo-food-waste-caddy-stone

I use a Co-op green bag in it and it is stored in the fridge until full then the whole bag is taken out and put in the chest freezer.

On bin day the frozen bags are taken out and put in the council food waste bag.

We also have a large compost heap for vegetable peelings etc.

I’ve got one like ixion showed. We have to send food waste to recycling in Wales, and the council provided small kitchen bin is ugly. However, the council also provide the compostable bags, and a larger food waste bin to put the bags in for weekly collection. I empty my kitchen bin 2-3 times a week even if it’s nowhere near full. We don’t drink tea, I’ve never noticed liquid in the bottom of the bin, and it doesn’t smell. I keep the big food waste bin in the garage, and it seals, so that doesn’t smell either. I like having food waste separated. My big black non recyclables bin is spotless because no food ever goes in it.

The worst thing here is uneaten cat food. My two 19 year-old cats are increasingly picky and leave food which yesterday was wolfed down; I wrap it in paper but it still smells in the caddy, under the sink, to be put out separately for waste collection once a week. They have all sorts of varieties, but the food that is wasted is awful, and smelly.

I too have the one ixion has shown. I fill it really quickly and then just empty it out on the compost heap. At this time of the year it does attract small flies but they seem to stay inside the box.
It’s a mystery to me how they get in there. I open it, they fly out then I close it and they soon return to their safe haven. I don’t use bags. Just wash the inner container when I empty it.

eazybee - can you put the uneaten cat food outside for birds, hedgehogs or foxes? Hopefully not other unwanted visitors! We do that and robins seem to love it, also magpies and crows. I agree that cat food can smell pretty bad.

eazybee

The worst thing here is uneaten cat food. My two 19 year-old cats are increasingly picky and leave food which yesterday was wolfed down; I wrap it in paper but it still smells in the caddy, under the sink, to be put out separately for waste collection once a week. They have all sorts of varieties, but the food that is wasted is awful, and smelly.

I have this problem too, so I put it into the biodegradable poo bags that I use for cat litter scoopings. They can be knotted tightly and put in the wheely bin for landfill. Probably naughty but not that different from poo, which does need to go in landfill! I have in the past flushed the cat food waste down the loo, but unsure whether that is sensible.

Best way to deal with cat food waste is to put it in its own plastic container in the freezer and simply wrap it and put it out on the day the bins are emptied. However cat food waste is currently a bit of an unknown concept in this household, rather like the idea of leftover wine.
Litter tray solids (ie poo )get flushed down the lavatory and the wood based litter goes in my hotbins which are currently at around 60C

I have an outside tub with a lid and all uncooked food plus peelings etc go in there
The rest I eat I don’t cook anything I don’t eat or put in the freezer

I should have said I don’t eat meat or fish so no bones or skin or anything

Disgusting, attracting flies, ok if you have a compost bin, otherwise needs to be collected daily, and that's never going to happen.

I refuse to use them too. Food waste, never much of it, goes into under-sink pedal bin usually emptied daily. Firmly tied bin liners go into general rubbish. I don't know the ultimate destination of food waste put out in caddies.

They are pretty grim objects, aren't they?
I have had maggots in mine - yuck.

Our caddy bags are free, I always fold a couple of sheets of kitchen roll in the bottom of mine to soak up any liquid. Our caddy locks shut so doesn’t smell or attract flies.