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composing kitchen waste
On 16 Dec 2018 16:44, Roger Tonkin wrote:
In article , says... On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:15:44 +0000, Broadback wrote: Whet is the best way of doing this, so as no to attract vermin? As it seems the powers that be are going to bring in bins for kitchen waste I wouldlike to avoid them. Before I moved house, when I had space for a couple of cold heaps, all vegetable waste went onto the current compost heap. Sometimes holes would appear in them where I presume rats from the neighbouring farmyard had burrowed in, but they presented no particular problem and were always in the area from said farmyard. But there's more to kitchen waste than compostable vegetable matter, such as 'dirty' plastic that wasn't the right type to be accepted for recycling but IMO would qualify as 'kitchen waste' (the inner sealed covers of yogurt pots, or polythene bags that had contained yucky stuff, or bloody meat trays, for example). ATM I don't have room for a compost heap, or even a Dalek, so all the vegetable waste and the dirty un-recyclable plastic goes into the pedal bin and then out with the non-recyclable rubbish. Different local councils have different recycling schemes, so I think we'll all have to wait to see what precisely our own local councils define as 'kitchen waste'. Our council provides "Food waste" bins, which it collects weekly. All our cooked waste (not that there is much) goes in them and we are allowed "small" bones - with typically no formal definition. Uncooked food waste peelings etc go in the dalek - the exception being potato pelings, which go in the food waste. This goes back many years to my parents who insisted that potato peelings would potentially grow if put on the compost - and this has just stuck with me without a fully logical reason Our Council collect kitchen waste (in our case cooked food) weekly, we compost everything else, orange skins, veg prep waste, including potato peelings (no they do not grow) etc. -- Regards Bob Hobden |
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composing kitchen waste
On 16/12/2018 16:44, Roger Tonkin wrote:
In article , says... On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 12:15:44 +0000, Broadback wrote: Whet is the best way of doing this, so as no to attract vermin? As it seems the powers that be are going to bring in bins for kitchen waste I wouldlike to avoid them. Before I moved house, when I had space for a couple of cold heaps, all vegetable waste went onto the current compost heap. Sometimes holes would appear in them where I presume rats from the neighbouring farmyard had burrowed in, but they presented no particular problem and were always in the area from said farmyard. But there's more to kitchen waste than compostable vegetable matter, such as 'dirty' plastic that wasn't the right type to be accepted for recycling but IMO would qualify as 'kitchen waste' (the inner sealed covers of yogurt pots, or polythene bags that had contained yucky stuff, or bloody meat trays, for example). ATM I don't have room for a compost heap, or even a Dalek, so all the vegetable waste and the dirty un-recyclable plastic goes into the pedal bin and then out with the non-recyclable rubbish. Different local councils have different recycling schemes, so I think we'll all have to wait to see what precisely our own local councils define as 'kitchen waste'. Our council provides "Food waste" bins, which it collects weekly. All our cooked waste (not that there is much) goes in them and we are allowed "small" bones - with typically no formal definition. Uncooked food waste peelings etc go in the dalek - the exception being potato pelings, which go in the food waste. This goes back many years to my parents who insisted that potato peelings would potentially grow if put on the compost - and this has just stuck with me without a fully logical reason As an aside to Roger's post. My grandparents, who like most working class people in those days, were very poor, saved potato peelings and planted them to raise potatoes. It worked but the crop was meagre. |
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Our council provides "Food waste" bins, which it collects weekly. All our cooked waste (not that there is much) goes in them and we are allowed "small" bones - with typically no formal definition. Uncooked food waste peelings etc go in the dalek - the exception being potato pelings, which go in the food waste. This goes back many years to my parents who insisted that potato peelings would potentially grow if put on the compost - and this has just stuck with me without a fully logical reason As an aside to Roger's post. My grandparents, who like most working class people in those days, were very poor, saved potato peelings and planted them to raise potatoes. It worked but the crop was meagre. Now they deep fry them and sell them as a starter in Italian (and other) restaurants. That's what they call progress. -- Jim S |
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