Food waste caddy - ugh!

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’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.

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 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.

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

I'm not adding to the problem

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.