Food waste caddy - ugh!

LadyGracie

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.

I do this too. If that gets wet, or even just damp, it goes in the landfill rubbish. I also try to avoid putting into the caddy anything that is very sloppy, or any liquid, I pour off any gravy or similar down the sink. The official council bumff says you can even put milk into the food waste, but if I have any milk that is "off" it goes down the loo. A close-fitting lid to the food waste caddy is essential.

I have to put the smaller food caddy in the cupboard under the sink , otherwise my greedy Labrador will get into it . We don’t have much waste as food peelings and teabags etc go on the compost heap and any food or liquids go down the waste disposal unit .
I empty the caddy about twice a week , unless it smells . And the bags go in the big kerbside caddy .
I don’t have a problem with the kitchen caddy but the larger kerbside one sometimes gets maggots in the summer 🤮.

I persevered for a month or so with my food waste bin. The bags provided broke down so quickly that there was always a revolting liquid at the bottom of the bin in no time. Now, all food waste goes down my insinkerator. I refuse to have a smelly bin in the house.

I am allergic to mould in all its lovely forms, so I don’t use a caddy and hopefully won’t have to.
I agree it’s a good idea though.

Never had food waste. If you mean peelings etc. they get composted or in with garden recycling for the council, wrapped in newspaper.

I have a small plastic container that once held 50 dishwasher tablets and it’s big enough to hold a day’s teabags, egg shells and veg peelings which get emptied each day into the compost.

Bones, trimmed fat etc. go into the waste bag in the fridge and out for collection Monday morning but it’s rarely full.

I don't mind my compost caddy sitting on the draining board. I'm rather proud of it. I am vegetarian so there is only rotting veg waste which gets put on the compost bin.

My neighbours have 4 bins each of different colours. How anyone can produce so much waste!

A local musician wrote a song about 10 years ago based on our Council's guide to recycling. It is still relevant.

youtu.be/a01x9PXN5dI?si=G2i7aMhlU84E6hyg

It's worse now there are the food caddies as well.

My council in Wales has used food caddy bins for years, we have to separate all waste food, if not able to compost it, into small bags then into a big green lockable bin which is collected each week. If more small green bags are needed a trip to the local library or tying an empty bag on the outside bin and the refuge chaps ( they are all men) will leave a new lot. My only complaint is that the latest ones do disintegrate very quickly so I need to double wrap.

Living in a flat, so no compost place. Food waste put into those indoor caddies should only be vegetable matter. Maggots come form any meat or fish remains, including the bones), so those will still need to be wrapped in newspaper and thrown in black bins.
I was surprised that someone on here stated they never had anything to put into a food waste caddy. Wonder what they do with such things like banana skins, apple cores, potato peelingrs eggs shells, tea begs, etc..

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.

Ditto to what someone said about keeping a dedicated container in the freezer, and transferring it only when the bin men are due.

I have only a relatively small, under-fridge freezer, but any scraps of meat or fish go in there, ditto the remains of a chicken carcass after I’ve boiled it up for stock.

I’ve never once had maggots in my outside food waste bin.
Apparently the flies that lay the eggs can smell any dead flesh from a mile away.

I hate them and as we do not have much food waste it all goes down the waste disposal.

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
Would you consider putting this out in the evening for hedgehogs? They are carnivores and extra food now before they hibernate would be a really good thing.

My (raw) food caddy is actually a small pedal bin with a bucket liner. I keep my egg boxes and always put one in the bottom. This soaks up the liquid and goes straight in the compost with the food waste.
I must admit it can still get a bit smelly, but not too bad.

Does anyone know why our council specifically state no veg peelings in the garden waste bins? Seems daft to me, I can put them in my food waste caddy but it makes it heavy my instincts tell me it should go in the garden waste.