Why don't we dispose of food scraps in a seperate bin as we do with recyclables?

Australia has the best disposable system. Every home has two huge bins, one for all those food scraps which is colored in green and other bin is colored in yellow is for throwing in recyclable stuff like bottles, plastics and cardboard papers. The council will come round to collect the thrash every Tuesday and the recyclables twice a month. It keeps the environment clean with those unused stuff disposed off while those recyclables are recycled for other purposes.

In Nova Scotia we seperate our garbage into four catergories. Two for recycables (one for paper and the other for plastics), third for compost (mainly food scraps) and fourth for other. The compost during a spring weekend, we can get it back and put it on our gardens. To read more goto http://www.rrfb.com

I agree completely... i work in a food factory and all our scraps go to a dog food company which is recycling and better than just throwing away.. but i wish their was more i could do for world hunger

I have just seen your post while looking for others about compost. You are right: we must separate our waste. It is incredible the amount of food scraps that can go to a compost bin and not only save on trash bill (we don´t have that item in our country) but serve as plant food after it´s made into compost. A trash can with holes is all it´s needed to make a nice compost bin and the end product will help grow beautiful tomatoes in your garden even in containers. If we all did it, it would mean a lot for the planet. Have a nice day!

When I first started in the catering industry 40 years ago we always had 'pig swill' bins that all the food scraps went in and it was bought by pig farmers. But after foot and mouth disease came in Britain in 2010 and it was believed to have started because of feeding swill to pigs this practise was stopped.

In the UK food and food scraps can be recycled. But you can do some basic things at home. Take eggshells, don'e throw the out ground it up and put it in your garden. Start a community compost and a garden. I feed my dogs and cats my food bits like rice and peas and meat...no bones with their cat and dog food. I can't say much for raw meats bits. but our food waste should be treated responsibly and we should try to use as much of it as we can

I know if I did not live in an apartment I would have a compost pile. I would also have some sort of garden though too! I think it is good to recycle virtually every thing we can to keep it from being dumped in the heaps of trash!

We actually have something like that here. It's a great idea, I don't use it though. My husband thinks it's not practical.

Hiya saqi, Love that avatar such a vibrant colour really nice. I too wish we had that system here to recycle Food as well. Sometimes you can cook too much without realizing it. After all you can´t take into account that your Family at least two members will not feel like eating very much that Day or they have already been snacking in the Bars or elsewhere. End result is that you have to throw away the Food because you cannot freeze it either. Would you freeze Chips that are already fried? Of course not so there are foods for example lettuce that the outside leaves are not suitable at all for eating. In England the waste food used to go into the Garden in a compost heap at the back and it was used to grow Tomatoes and other things later on. Here there are so many Flats this is impossible to do. They should bring out some kind of service I think after all no one wants to be without a Garden but sometimes they have no choice. In the Centre of the City they have a waste pipeline under the ground that collects loads of different wastage but they forget that not everyone can go up to the Centre of the City. It´s really a great idea but what about all the People in the Villages they cannot keep going up to the City itself to dispose of rubbish. Never mind someone will come up with a great idea and I hope it´s sooner than later.

I always assume it something along the lines of the food going bad. I am not to sure.