On 24/08/2013 11:08, Tim Watts wrote:
On Saturday 24 August 2013 10:09 Scott M wrote in uk.d-i-y:

D.M.Chapman wrote:
In article ,
The Other Mike wrote:

The idea of sorting it all out and then having the council ship it off
to a landfill dump in a third world country is also antisocial.

Food waste goes to Maidstone (so 40mins or so away)

Round here they take the food waste away and cook it up to 60C to
sterilise it. A more anti-green green measure I've yet to imagine[1].


[1] Unless, say, someone were to come up with a way of generating
electricity that consumed more energy in building the generator that it
would ever create.


The "cooking" is usually done in a natural composter. Compost can get this
hot in the right conditions - and the compost facilities that accept food
waster have to provide the "right conditions" (and presumably recorded
monitoring) rather than just lob it in a pile and turn it a couple of times
with a bulldozer.

I presume that's what our council use, as 3 months ago they specifically
changed the collections from green bin (garden waste) fortnightly, grey
bin (general waste) weekly to green bin (garden waste and food waste)
weekly, grey bin (general waste) fornightly. We also have black bin
(plastic and glass) and blue bin (paper and card) that have remained at
4 weekly.

SteveW