On 04/06/2014 21:04, Adam Funk wrote:
On 2014-06-04, Clive George wrote:

On 04/06/2014 18:01, Bob Minchin wrote:

So presumably you buy bin liners and put those into landfill?

We don't need bin liners. All the waste away from the kitchen is dry or
sufficiently non-icky to not be a problem. The compost bin/bucket gets
nearly all the icky stuff. A bit goes in the main kitchen bin, which
gets tipped into the wheelie bin and doesn't seem to get icky at all.

I don't know how you manage that. When we first got a reasonably
well-sealed pedal bin some years ago, I thought it could be used
baglessly, but it turned out to be a smelly mess after a while. We
have used bags since then. (And yes, I put food waste as such in the
worm bin, but icky packaging still has to go in the (bag-lined)
kitchen bin.)

I don't know how people don't manage it :-)

Maybe we don't have that much icky packaging on our food? Obviously dry
food packaging such as one gets pasta in isn't an issue. Cheese and meat
have some, with meat potentially being the worst, but IME there's really
not that much ick there and one can nest packaging (eg put something
manky inside a cereal bag). Tins and bottles get washed out and go in
the recycling.

It's a fairly big bin, and we don't lean on stuff to make it go in -
easier to tip it into the wheelie bin if you don't.

Maybe not having it sealed actually helps? We don't keep a lid on it.