Anyone using their little brown food bin? Post Reply

[PreventBankScam]

Hello All
A niche question I know, but is anyone using their little brown food recycle bin?

I see them on the streets being blown around but I never see neighbours using them.

Would love to know if anyone is actually using them properly.



 

[chorister]

We live just off Clapham Common West Side and use it completely routinely. Only once was it not collected. We logged the missed collection on the Council website and it was sorted by the evening.

[Goldhawk]

Tried but gave up as the foxes kept opening it

[PreventBankScam]

Goldhawk - thanks for the reply.

That is one of the reasons I'm not using it. We have our bins kept secure with what feels like military grade security and those bins seem very easy in comparison.

Chorister, no fox issues for you?

[chorister]

No issues at all to be honest. It’s all worked as advertised!

[NVMum3]

We use ours regularly. No issue with foxes. The brown bins have a handle which, when pulled down in front, 'locks' it.

[Joz]

I think the council should have asked residents if they would use before investing in them.
We have a waste disposal so don’t tend to have extra food waste and don’t have room under the sink for the bin.
Also foxes would def destroy it if we did put outside - we have to put out rubbish at last minute.

[dhcwong]

We use the brown bin successfully- put a brick on top of the bin and the foxes can’t open it!

[Busymumof3]

We gave up - the bags always leaked in the brown bin, presumably as they composted (we didn’t overfill them and they didn’t obviously split) and we often ended up with flies and rancid liquid in the bin. Worst was when we came back from some time away and the council hadn’t collected and the bin was full of maggots. We stopped after that. I don’t know if anyone else had that problem? The bags were tied, and the bin was inside a fox-proof bin store… We didn’t seem to have much food waste in any case so I don’t feel too bad about stopping using the bin.

[ronangel]

When the guy collecting them about 3 weeks ago I pointed out to him that I was doing an experiment in my front garden to see how long the grass would grow around it if I did not move since it was left there.
He removed the bags from inside it and took away! So that was the end of my experiment.
In answer to the quetion NO waste oftime and money.

[Starr]

We use ours all the time and has made the rubbish collection so much better with being able to take out black bin rubbish later. You save miney on black bags and the decompostable caddy liners are cheap to buy. No issue with foxes as the design prevents them from opening it. Have not seen issues with foxes on our street from brown bibs and everyone here uses them. What causes that is people putting rubbish out on the street on the night before rubbish day.

[SWtastic]

We were sceptical but are totally sold on them (we also have an insinkerator, which is now redundant).  As long as you double bag the waste, there's no problem with leakage.  Lidl do the best replacement bags.  I believe we are saving money by not using the water we were using to grind the waste in the insinkerator.

Foxes aren't an issue either, the handle locks the outdoor box - and before we used them the foxes would regularly tear open our black bags. 

We sit the little box on our bench next to the sink.  If it doesn't match your decor, there are alternatives available on Amazon.

[Carol2R]

Most people on our street seem to be using them and teething problems in the collection process seem to be mostly worked out.

To keep the foxes out, make sure the handle is in the locked position -- down in front.  

[muddyboots]

Use them and zero issues.

I find it hard to understand how some have the opposite experience.
The outside bin closes fine, I’ve seen foxes in our road but none have gone for the food bin .

We fill ours every week. Love not having food in the main bin which you open more often and would smell otherwise.

As for waste disposal into the sink, is that not adding lots a rubbish into the waste water ?
Better to know food waste can be recycled for composted or alternative fuel.

[Goldhawk]

I think the fox abilities vary by location - ours can open the fully locked food bin
They will also work as a team to remove lids from black bins - we now have bins with handles that clip them tightly shut