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[chickweed]

I currently line my kitchen waste bin with supermarket carrier bags.

Now that we are being encouraged not to use them, does anyone know of an alternative that won't result in my having to wash out the bin every time it is emptied

[Charlottechicken]

Sorry I haven't an answer for you, I use carrier bags too. I have never bought bin liners in my life so will be interested to see what others come up with

 

Must admit I tend to do lots of bits of shopping in markets and independent shops and always seem to manage one free carrier bag per week even though I have reusable bags with me. Sometimes those shop assistants are just too quick

[Olly]

I buy biodegradable bin-liners from Waitrose. Obviously the stuff from the bin goes into the wheelie bin, which is then ... incinerated or dumped, I don't know which. If it's dumped, then hopefully at least in a hundred years' time the bag will have rotted even though the contents haven't. I do keep 'bin' rubbish to a minimum though as we have a fantastic recycling scheme and I compost as much as possible.

[Tina C]

I used to use supermarket bags but stopped some time ago. We only have a small kitchen bin and it gets emptied once a day into the wheelie bin.

 

We rarely have any leftover food but what the chickens don't get can go straight into our green bin.

 

So the bin stays quite clean really - a quick rinse (and a wipe with a bit of tea tree oil if its smelly) does the job - but I don't rinse it every time I empty it.

[Guest]

I use a carrier - the same one all the time. I just empty it and put it back.

 

It neverr needs washing as nothig dirty goes in. Food waste goes to the wormery or the Bokashi or the birds or the girls (not in that order!!) Nothing else is left to go in the bin that is wet or dirty - its just wrappers really - the lighterlife food comes in sachets which are those sort of foily on the inside ones and the cat food comes in those foil pouches. Pretty much everything else gets recycled - except yoghurt pots which I rinse out (one a day for James who WILL NOT eat my homemade yummy yoghurt!).

[Tessa the Duchess]

We have very little waste to go in our bin, most of it is re-cycled and all food waste either goes to the chickens, dog or compost bin. Unfortunately our Council will only take rubbish away if it is in black bags inside the wheelie bin.

Tessa

[Tina C]

That's ridiculous - its not as if the bin men actually have to touch the waste. Well I am assuming they use the things that hoist the wheelie bins up and tip the rubbish in?

[Mrs Frugal]

I use biodegradable bin bags made from cornstarch. They're a bit big for my bin but they won't clog up landfill for donkey's years so I don't mind.

[Lesley]

We use those as well - for anything that can't be composted or eaten by animals/poultry...... but then we have to place those in black poly bags from the council

[chickweed]

Thanks for the tip about biodegradable bags. I didn't realise they were available for kitchen waste bins.

 

I plan to ask our Borough Council if it has considered selling bokashi bins at a knockdown price, as it already does with garden compost bins.

 

Those sold on the internet look a bit pricey.

[The Dogmother]

I use biodegradable bin bags made from cornstarch. They're a bit big for my bin but they won't clog up landfill for donkey's years so I don't mind.

 

Me too. We have a tiny kitchen bin and hardly any rubbish, so only use one bag per week.

[Charlottechicken]

I have just come across an article about bin liners in a book called 'The new green consumer guide' by someone called Julia Hailes, which I find a bit strange as it goes against what most of us appear to believe is best.

 

She suggests that the best bin liner (apart from no bin liner at all) is one recycled from post consumer waste (not the sweepings off the plastic factory floor). The thinking behind this apparently is that landfill sites are restricted as to how much rotting waste they can take as it produces greenhouse gases which cannot be controlled.

 

I think I'll be going down the no bin liner route when my supply runs out. (I never throw bags away so have about a hundred in a box to use up, enough for the next two years )