"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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"Mr Pounder" wrote:

I used to know a bloke who lives in the south.
He once told me that they have to wrap the food waste up in newspaper and
then put it in the bin. To me this seems to be begging for flies, maggots
and horrible smells.

How can flies get in if the bin is locked? We have a small grey bin for
this purpose and it's collected once a week. As the food waste *is*
wrapped up in paper that makes it harder for flies anyway, even if the lid
were open (which it's not).

We put the food waste in sealed plastic bags and then in the bin.

Ours is in paper so it can be composted. Which it all is and then sold. In
fact the council gives us an even smaller grey bin for indoor collection
of food waste, but we don't see the point of that - just take it straight
out to the proper bin after wrapping it in paper.

And we only put meat/fish/catfood waste in that anyway. All vegetable
scraps we compost ourselves.

Food wrapped in newspaper rotting and stinking for two weeks. I think not.