Today’s hot topic.
Garden bin or food waste bin?

Offcuts into freezer until you have enough to make stock
rest into compost bin

Compost bin.

Council collect ours in compost bin. #fourwheeliebins

Guinea Pigs. They love their veggies.

Food Waste Bim for us, lord knows what they do with it.

our foodcaddy goes in the garden bin anyway …..

Peelings, compost. Waste veg, what’s that?

Ducks.

Ducks love veg peelings & are about a gazillion times more use to them than bread. (Which has zero nutritional value to a duck)

Ideally fed to the village pigs, but that’s not allowed any more. Assuming the council put food waste in an anaerobic digester, or compost it, then put it in food waste. Garden waste I would guess gets dumped.

Peelings in the compost.

We don’t do waste. Our brown bin doesn’t get used once I’ve stopped cutting the hedge for the year.

Black bin. Our council repurposed our garden bins for household recyclables.

Or don’t peel. Depending on the veg and what you’re doing with them.

Spuds and carrots scrubbed, just chopped and in the pan/dish/whatever with skin on. Supposed to be nutritious with skin on too.

It’s mainly banana skins and apple cores.

Anything suitable goes to the rabbits.
Everything else in the food caddy then brown wheelie bin which is for food and garden waste and apparently goes in to a digester thingy.

Uncooked food waste goes in the compost bin.

The one-upmanship is strong in this thread.

😀

Compost bin, the worms just rip through it. 😀

The one-upmanship is strong in this thread.

It’s the same in EVERY thread.

Mine goes into a bio-waste generator that produces gas to run all the heating and hot water for the entire village. Any excess runs a turbine producing electricity to charge the car-club *

Do I win? 😀

* not really. It goes in the compost bin.

zippykona – Member
It’s mainly banana skins and apple cores.

Ah, that fruity veg 😀

Do I win?

Not unless you’re feeding your veg scraps to a herd of rare breed Angora goats whose wool you use to hand knit hipster style wooly hats for snow boarding orphans.

Apple cores get eaten (do you cut the crusts off your sandwiches too?!) Take out the pips if you eat a lot.
Banana peels in the smoothie maker.
Bones, etc for stock.
Does anyone actually still peel veg? Thought that was a Victorian thing.

Does anyone actually still peel veg?

I do.

Damn those snow boarding orphans and their cool hats.

I don’t have any peelings as I buy everything pre-prepared, the extensive packaging of which I then stockpile, then fly-tip in countryside beauty spots, mixed in with Macdonalds bags and asbestos

8)

MacDonalds bags?

You monster!

Hey.. its all my kids will eat

Does anyone actually still peel veg?

Varies – most things like potatoes don’t get peeled but some like butternut squash do need peeling. We grow quite a bit of stuff in the garden and that may or may not need peeling depending on its quality or if pests have been at it.

We don’t eat meat so there’s no waste on that score. We’ve a largish, maybe five litres, food waste bin in the kitchen that takes two to three weeks to fill before we wander down the garden with it and empty it in the compost bin. I can’t say we don’t waste anything but it’s usually something that we rarely use and you can’t buy in small quantities.

Guinea pigs here too. They also mean we don’t have to mow the lawn.

Banana skins in a smoothie?
Sounds weird , it can’t be cut that small. How big are the bits?
In the summer we do put the banana skins on the clematis.

Get a briquette maker. I dry my peelings and then squash, shape and burn them, smells like roast potatoes, lovely. Add cloves and cinnamon for an Xmas treat.

Edit: and you just stay away from my clematis, you beast.

We’ve got guinea pigs too but probably feed them with limited veg as every time I google “can I feed my guinea pigs on {insert veg name here}” I usually get something back that says no or don’t feed them too much of it as it contains something that can upset them. Sounds like they’re more robust than I’m giving them credit for and can probably reduce my veg compost/waste even more.

Shopping at Aldi has reduced my veg waste. Aldi veg doesn’t last as long as the main supermarkets veg so don’t tend to bulk buy veg anymore with the inevitable waste that comes from over buying veg and not using it all. With Aldi we literally buy it and eat it same day because after a few days it’s started to turn.

Ours goes here, apparently:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez3zrpuvXGw[/video]

I would compost at home but as we only have a scrappy little terraced house garden it’s kind of pointless. Nowhere to use it.

But I do try and peel the paper labels off cans/bottles etc and put them in the separate bins. Do I get points for that at least?

Do I get points for that at least?

I think you get some very ,very special points for that. 😉

In the summer we do put the banana skins on the clematis.

Now that’s got to be a euphemism.

deadkenny – Member

zippykona – Member
It’s mainly banana skins and apple cores.

Ah, that fruity veg [/quote]
Bananas aren’t fruit.

Banana skins in a smoothie?
Sounds weird , it can’t be cut that small. How big are the bits?

In a 1kW NutriNinja which will obliterate an avocado stone (very bitter btw!) they can be cut very small! What sounds weird to me is transporting something halfway around the world and then throwing half of it away 🙂

but some like butternut squash do need peeling

if you roast it well you can eat the peel. If I’m making soup (pretty much the only thing I’m likely to do with squash tbh) the peel’s definitely going in!

tbh for me it was laziness really that stopped me peeling stuff, then I found I didn’t mind the slight change in taste (and some stuff like mash I think it actually improves the flavour/texture). Plus the extra nutrients/fibre that’s often in the skins/peel.

Bananas aren’t fruit

Oh yes they are, try googling it……………..