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[wellinghall]

[Poll #1100183]

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[asklepia.livejournal.com]

In defence of my "No" - I live in a flat and have no pets. Do councils in the UK really collect food?

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I live in an apartment and so I have two choices -- in the bin or down the garburator. I have my doubts about the wisdom of putting a lot of organic waste into the ocean although the currents here are strong. I actually have very little food waste, now that I think of it. It takes a long time to fill up the bin.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

But I would if:

1. our garden wasn't tiny, occupied by a cat run, a patio, a deck and gravel to keep the weeds down

2. our local authority collected food waste (to be fair to them, they collect plastic, green waste, cardboard, paper - including newspapers and shredded paper - cans and batteries.)

I certainly will when we finally move out of the London area...

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

Cambridge Council does. We have a green bin into which we can put cardboard, shredded paper, fruit and veg peelings, left over food (cooked and uncooked) and any organic kitchen waste. We also have a kitchen caddy for foodstuffs, with brown paper liners as they ask for food waste to be wrapped.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have 2 composters and a wormery. Appropriate spare foodstuffs go into the dogs, and different appropriate foodstuffs such as apple peelings go into the rabbits.

That isn't to say that we never throw away food though. Some foods can't be easily home composted or fed to animals - for example, fats in anything other than small quantities, most cooked bones, and bread. (You can compost bread, but if you compost a whole loaf at once you need a) a ratproof composter and b) a very large composter. Sticking entire loaves in a wormery is not good for the worms...)

[bunn.livejournal.com]

... oh, I forgot to say that large bones go onto the rose beds once the dogs are done with them. Bones are good for roses.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I would if I could, but I can't (I did when I lived in Cambridge). I don't even recycle glass, which infuriates me, because there is no collection, I have no car or bike, and there are no bottle banks within walking distance when you're carrying heavy glass. I do try to avoid creating excess food waste by not buying stuff I won't use.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Well it's better not to create the waste in the first place than to recycle it later on. So good for you.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

No on account of not having a collection for it (the council do most other stuff except card and plastics but we have a local bank for the former). Although we do have a compost thing it's full of old crap and needs restarting from scratch.

Bearing in mind what muuranker said we really only produce veg/fruit peelings, the occasional slice or two of mouldy bread (or a bagel), and now and then a furry yoghurt as "food waste". I think the council here also have said they DON'T want food/kitchen scraps in the garden waste bin.

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Not everywhere outside London collects 'green' waste.

We did recycle food in composters (nb not all food waste can go in composters), until we got rid of the garden.

We are about to move into a house and a maisonette, both without gardens (concrete, gravel, etc. is not garden).

On the other hand, we seem to produce remarkably little food waste. I remember being horrified when I heard the average percentage of food which goes as waste. There are some peelings/outer leaves, some burned-on-the-bottom-of-the-pan things, about an 1/8th of every loaf, on average, discarded through mould. Some bones (after boiled up for soup/stock). The very occasional 'expired' dairy product (if even the cats refuse it).

This virtue is achieved through using frozen foods. And buying less dairy products than I actually would like to eat (although more than I should eat). If I froze half-loaves of bread, I could improve (I freeze whole loaves). And there's a learning point for me!

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

I REALLY wish I could recycle food waste, but our garden is almost non-existant and mostly paved, and with 4 of us (and a couple of forgetful people who forget what they have in the fridge until it's too late...), if we composted all the food waste we made we'd be swimming in compost! Tower Hamlets hasn't started doing food waste yet. Though they do Tetra-Paks, which is impressive IMHO.