To be honest, l was half expecting that to happen. The goalposts keep changing with what can and can't be recycled and l think if l tried that here ( ripping it up into smaller pieces), they'd assume it was contaminated and just leave it. If we have windy day here on recycling day it's a safe bet that bits and pieces will end up flying down the road. I once found half a pair of metal framed spectacles, an empty lipstick and half a bottle of nail varnish. I think the nail varnish thinking was "Glass bottle" therefore recyclable.......
We have the same problem with stuff flying around. They chuck the bin lids wherever, and if the wind catches them they can fly hundreds of yards (and crack ). You must have a different food recycling system to us though - there's no way a magazine cover would be visible within my food waste unless I wanted it to be. We have comparable liners for the caddy, then we tie a knot in the top and it goes in the outdoor caddy for collection. Loose stuff in that caddy would be visible, but nothing that's in with the food .
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
When we first had caddys, the council would not accept any plastic liners such as pedal bin liners, old carrier bags etc. People (including me) didn't want to pay a small fortune for acceptable liners, as all the local supermarkets stocked the council approved ones at a premium price. We tried lining with newspaper as that was acceptable, needless to say the whole thing just turned into a soggy, smelly mess. Now the liners are (comparatively) cheaper, it's much easier. We don't have that much food waste as there's only the 2 of us, in fact it mostly consists of teabags so it doesn't go out every week. Shame we can't make use of cut up compost sacks to line it !
I don’t ever have food waste, but I’ve seen those bags for sale, aren’t they quite expensive, maybe he thought he was doing you a favour leaving it for you to use again.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We buy them from the library. We can also use the equivalent ones from the supermarket, but they cost more. Like you, we don't get through many - there are four of us, but anything that can go in our own compost heap does, and we don't throw much food away: the occasional chicken carcass after stock making, fish bones etc. Using plastic bags would mean they'd have to separate the plastic from the food waste - ew!
The biggest thing I learned from that evening was the enormous difference between putting food waste in with general waste or in food recycling - I had no idea and have become quite evangelical
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
My local tip has a bin you can put them in, not sure how many bags of compost we buy in a year, a lot! Big garden (yeah, I know not by most folk on here!) and about a hundred pots.We use them for taking rubble soil old turf to the tip as well, save buying rubble sacks and more plastic bags. Anni D, you are right about only having so many baskets to line, but a lot of mine are very open metal, and big they need a sturdy liner. One is black plastic I bought a couple of years ago at a Wyevale late seaon sale already planted with annuals. I aslo dont have food waste, I try to cook the right amount, then Hubby comes in from work, says "I dont want much", its frozen, or eaten the following day.
I’ve not seen bin for them at our recycling centre. I use at least 60 large bags of compost a year. One a fortnight has rubbish to go, some are laying round with dying down daffs, they seem to all get used for something.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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Shame we can't make use of cut up compost sacks to line it !
The biggest thing I learned from that evening was the enormous difference between putting food waste in with general waste or in food recycling - I had no idea and have become quite evangelical