how do you dispose of semi-fluid food waste?

I was going to add so-called 'disposable' nappies to your list, biglouis.

Years ago we lived on a hillside between 2 roads, one of the neighbours in the road above would put nappies down the toilet. Consequently the drains would block and we would have raw sewage running down the steps to our house.

The worst offenders for blocking the drains are oil, grease and fat followed by wet wipes, cotton buds, and sanitary wear.

I clean out the drains once a month - used to use a commercial cleaner but now use a concoction of baking soda and white vinegar which is much kinder to the drains (google it). Then I run the hot water for a few minutes.

My crazy neighbour has several times accused me of blocking the drains and has sent plumbers around to my house without warning. I dont open the door to her or them because she is batshit.

She belongs to a group who use lots of oil and fat in their cooking and I find it impossible to believe that she is carefully collecting the liquid fat into containers and binning it. I dont even own a chip pan and mostly just use the micro wave.

A few weeks ago 5 men from the utility company arrived. They jetted out her drains and removed 5 bucket loads of gunk. They also did a camera survey of the drain which serves the entire street. I am sure that if they had found a major problem on my property (eg tree roots) they would have contacted me to deal with it.

I strain the liquid down the kitchen sink and put the solids in the food waste bin

Waste disposal unit gets what a) doesn't go to the dogs b) doesn't feed the birds c) doesn't go on the compost heap on the allotment.

I have a strainer in the plughole of the kitchen sink, so I just rinse the container of semi-fluid food waste under the hot tap into the sink, then empty the strainer into the food caddy. No difference really from washing up dirty pans. I wipe frying pans etc with kitchen towel to soak up any oil or fat before washing and put that in the food caddy too.

Strain out any lumpy bits and flush the rest. The ones I hate are things in oil, like olives. I usually stuff a sheet of kitchen roll in the pot to soak up the oil and put it in a food bag and sealed. then in the kitchen bin.

Daftbag1

Down the loo!

That's interesting, my husband has a wormery, but we don't put cooked food waste in there, they have mainly fruit peels, and a bit of vegetable peelings, they particularly like banana skins, my husband says they fill up with their babies, like little nurseries ... the worm 'juice' he drains off for plant food.

I wouldn't dream of putting it down the toilet, I usually have a fair bit of used kitchen roll in my bin so if we ever (and its rare!) have any leftovers like that I just put it in my usual kitchen waste bin that's for stuff that can't be recycled (no pets here ) I have never had a leaky bin bag, even though I buy the cheapest ones I can find! That goes into our black bin, we have a green bin for recycling, glass, paper, card, plastic, metal cans. There is no food waste bin collection where I live. Shame, because as a child I remember the 'pig waste bin' we had to put out, it was like a small milk churn.

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My family say I have the best fed Herring Gulls ever. They have nested on our roof & some of the neighbours for many years now! Anything that is left over from cats food & the small amount of my food leftovers goes out for them! Cleared in seconds, no rats as they will not take on a Gull! Seen one try & die painfully some years ago. Any liquid goes in the landfill bag soaked up by the newspaper taken out of my tortoises enclosure every night, they are mucky but I love them! So nothing to put down the sink or the loo! Guess everyone has their own ways of dealing with mucky leftovers!

Down the loo!

Bokashi Is a brilliant way to use any waste food. It’s basically pickled by using the bokashi bran. There is a tap at the bottom of the bin to drain of liquid which once watered down can be used a plant food. Once the bin is full leave to pickle for two week and then put in your compost bin, the worms love it. Initial outlay can by expensive but it is a win win for any food waste.

We have an excellent food recycling system. Our cats are very fussy so any waste cat food gets put on the bird table, crows, magpies and jackdaws are quick off the mark and the food soon disappears. There is no waste and no nasty smells around. They will also scavenge other waste.

Don’t have food waste bin! What are they? We get provided with General Waste bin……garden rubbish bin….. and recycling bin! What IS a food waste bin?

Well, our sewage company requests us not to put anything into the toilet except what they politely call no. 1 and no. 2 plus toilet paper.

They are not particularly thrilled when we pour soup, milk, etc. down the kitchen sink either.

Any foodstuffs disposed of into the drains do tend to clog the sewage works' filters.

Personally, I compost the very little food wastage we have. I find it perfectly possible either not to cook larger quantities than I know we will eat in one or at the most two meals, or to freeze the surplus portions,

With rising food prices, plus the rising price of whatever source of energy we use for cooking, I think we all have to try very hard not to make more food that we know we can eat.

Usually the dog gets it with his biscuit, otherwise I strain it and put the solids in the bin.

The only thing that should go down the toilet is poo and urine and toilet paper. Fatty stuff should not go down the kitchen sink. The food waste here goes in compostable plastic bags in a grey plastic bin collected with the black bin.

I strain out the liquid, then freeze the remaining waste. Put the frozen block into a liner in the food waste caddy just before the bins are collected.

Cold coffee and grounds I put on the garden - improves the soil. Cooked food leftovers go in biodegradable bags in the small food caddy provided by my Council . When full the bags go into a larger caddy which is collected weekly by the Council.

I live in the country, so put it out for the foxes etc , to be honest it’s usually gone within minutes fought over by magpies crows and foxes, if it’s late at night the badgers might get a look in, but not often.

I strain liquid waste into the sink and put the solid parts in the food waste bin. The toilet is not for food at all - only the 3 p’s - pee, poo, paper.
Anything fatty is bagged up separately.

I have a waste disposal unit in my sink

I strain it off the liquid goes down the sink with very hot water and washing up liquid, the bits left I put in newspaper and in the waste bin.Our Council doesnt allow anything other than grass and garden rubbsh in the green bin.

BoadiceaJones

I mix it with cooked brown rice and give it to the chickens.

If you are in the UK, that is illegal as it goes against the rules of DEFRA. It doesn't matter if you are a "domestic" keeper or a "commercial" keeper. You are not even allowed to give uncooked veg that has been in your kitchen unless you can prove it is an entirely vegan kitchen. Neither should you be giving dried meal worms as they are often from China.
www.gov.uk/government/news/apha-warns-not-to-feed-kitchen-scraps-to-farm-animals-because-of-disease-risk