Food waste collections for all in Wandsworth Post Reply

[CJInsider]

We have published an article about Food Waste collection on Clapham Junction Insider.
 
You should have received a leaflet distributed by the Council as food waste collection will start in the Clapham Junction area (and borough wide) from Monday 10 June, on the usual collection day. Material to start separating food waste (including indoor caddy and outdoor caddy) will be delivered between 8 April and 7 June. 

For more information, including cost analysis, read our article: https://www.cjag.org/2024/03/26/food-wa ... -junction/

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[CJInsider]

I have updated the article with further information received from the Council on
- trial for block of flats,
- government requirement for March 2026 and
- what happens if some residents don’t want to use the service
>> https://www.cjag.org/2024/03/26/food-wa ... -junction/

[Goldhawk]

The bins are not fox proof unfortunately

[mememe]

Can we not opt out to not have these delivered in the first place. no way am I having 1 in my small kitchen & no desire to recycle my food waste outside bin either. I wont be singlehandedly saving the planet.

[MonkeyTeddy]

I've been a keen recycler for years, but have been told (by several unrelated people) that our normal recycling just ends up in landfill and is not actually recycled. I hope this is not true. And I hope that the new food recycling is usefully dealt with too.

[J_J]

Agreed with @climateaware - baffling how such a simple and effective way to help with climate change and how we're destroying our planet is met with such resistance because it's a very minor inconvenience. Speaks a lot to the wider state of the country with every person out for themselves and nobody else. Very sad.

As has been noted Wandsworth behind a lot of other councils on this. And making out like this is the superfluous whims of a particular political party when councils up and down the country of all persuasions have already introduced this - very transparent I'm afraid.

I am sure plenty of people will be using them and look forward to doing so myself (another tip is to fill freezer bags with scraps of veg when peeling/prepping and make a stock with it when it's full - more flavourful than the shop bought stuff and less packaging)

[MozzaBalls]

I was quite happy about the food waste collection as I come from a European country where this has been happening for years if not decades… until this morning I mentioned it to my friend living in Lambeth. Apparently the foxes have quickly learnt how to unlock the secure bins, according to my friend food waste was food ended up scattered on the street until she and her neighbours stopped using the bins.

Anybody from Lambeth reading this? Do you share the same experience?

Don’t get me wrong, I am convinced about the eco argument, I’m just starting to wonder if money has now been wasted on a tick box exercise instead of something more useful/efficient.

[Carol2R]

Last spring we house sat for two months for friends in Wimbledon where they have food waste collection.  It was easy to do; the bins used by Wimbledon are not overly big; there were no problems at all with foxes or food waste strewn on the street.

[readysteadycook]

Readysteadycook I asked you for evidence for your assertion that the majority of people are against food waste collections, but you haven't provided any at all.

And yes sadly we are ALL gonna have to pay significant amounts of money one way or another to sort out the damage we have done and stop things getting much much worse. We can choose to be proactive about it in a way that builds the economy or we are all starting to pay it any way through our food, insurance bills, etc, and that’s just the start.

There is no credible science in opposition to manmade climate change - 99%+of scientists concur - so you ‘may want do your own research’ into who actually funds all that climate scepticism misinformation that you regard as ‘research’

Most people wouldn’t dream of telling a structural engineer that the steel she’s specified for your house or a bridge under construction is wrong, but when it comes to climate change science everyone suddenly everyone feels they are entitled to their opinion. How disappointing. I bet back in Newton’s day there were folk arguing that an apples used to fall upwards too.

That all sounds very good, but the real truth is we are being had - the majority believe everything that governments and councils tell them (we are now seeing the harmful Covid vaccine effects, it was not even effective - we were told they were great and 100% effective).

Lots of good stuff done by Together that is worth a read, especially the campaigns section. This report especially :-

https://togetherdeclaration.org/report/

The climate will be used when digital currencies are slowly added in:-
https://togetherdeclaration.org/campaig ... sultation/

You may not want to believe these things are possible, but in 2019 if I had written we are about to be forced to stay at home and wear masks, you would have laughed. It’s upto us to challenge these policies, not for us but for the sake of our young children - they are the ones that will have to bear the brunt of the changes.

 

[readysteadycook]

To all you Neanderthals living in Wandsworth.   So you're finally getting food waste bins, which we've had in Lambeth for years.  They're both hygienic and fox-proof, & quite rightly will be mandatory.  If you choose to chuck them away, remember they're not your property - they're the property of Wandsworth, which you'll be asked to replace at your expense.  Honestly, the childish whingeing on this thread is beyond belief.  And to ABC1, whose '... kitchen was designed without a caddy in mind'... Poor you.  You'll just have to have another kitchen designed won't you.  If only you knew just how ludicrous you all sound.  

The council will come and pick unwanted buckets up in June if you contact them :-

https://www.wandsworth.gov.uk/rubbish-a ... -services/

if we all do this, expensive schemes like this will stop.

What do you think the odds are, that Wandsworth Labour will then fine people if they don’t put their slop buckets out each week? 

[Natsh]

That’s a shame because it’s insane how much greenhouse gasses can be prevented by food waste being disposed of considerately.

[ronangel]

Mine was left in the small front garden part of the house with the bins.where it will stay.I wonder how long it will take for plants to grow around it before they take it away?