For some time we had a bin lined with a bag in the garage large enough for two weeks of our waste. Within the house were small bins, about the size of a shoebox stood on its end, with no bags. When they fill, we tipped it into the garage bin. Two bags a month is pretty good in my mind.
Smell, vermin, rotting exposed food waste were all solved by the garage bin having a lid.
In Western Australia we’ve been rolling out FOGO bins (Food and Garden organics waste), last summer i didn’t tie off one of the bags properly and there were maggots everywhere, spilling out of the bin.
I guess this could happen with general waste bins as well, so i suppose i’ve changed my attitude on the wrapping up waste to go in your bin idea. The only way i see around it is more home composting.
Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can’t we just transfer it in reusable bins?
Or paper trash bags.
I already do this and it works fine - as long as you take the critical step of not putting food waste in the bin.
I don’t think you sufficiently respect the mess, the smell, the vermin, from a week of rotting exposed food waste. Not to mention the dog waste
For some time we had a bin lined with a bag in the garage large enough for two weeks of our waste. Within the house were small bins, about the size of a shoebox stood on its end, with no bags. When they fill, we tipped it into the garage bin. Two bags a month is pretty good in my mind.
Smell, vermin, rotting exposed food waste were all solved by the garage bin having a lid.
That did not work for me
Although i thought it was sufficient growing up, despite a larger family and more food waste
At my house, the squirrels have gnawed holes in the garage bin’s lid. It’s good that it has the lid, but it can’t completely stop the alley critters.
I respect the hell out of it!
In Western Australia we’ve been rolling out FOGO bins (Food and Garden organics waste), last summer i didn’t tie off one of the bags properly and there were maggots everywhere, spilling out of the bin.
I guess this could happen with general waste bins as well, so i suppose i’ve changed my attitude on the wrapping up waste to go in your bin idea. The only way i see around it is more home composting.