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London will begin a Green Bin program the week of January 15, 2024.
A Green Bin is like a blue (recycling) bin, but for food waste such as fruit and vegetable skins, meat and chicken, spoiled leftovers, and other inedible food waste like bones. The Green Bin would be collected from your home at the curbside much like your Blue Box is.
(The green bins were delivered in my area (Hyde Park) this week.)
It's a good program tbh, helps keep food waster in a seperate container in the house so the trash does not smell as bad.
Instead you'll have a stinky sticky bin with week-long rotting veggies liquefying in the bottom.
A green bin program is not the solution. People need to compost at home.
Nah we have had this in BC for more than 15 years. you have a small under the sink bin, and bring it to your outside bin regularly. Except ours in the lowermainland are huge bins on wheels so you also dump grass, tree cuttings, etc in them also.
We have these where I live (UK). We generally have a small kitchen bin, with a degradable liner, that you use to put your scraps in. You then transfer this to the outdoor organic bin.
Honestly it's way better than having it in your main trash. In the summer you can expect to see flies leaving eggs around the edge of the outdoor bin as they can obviously smell the contents. If you do leave the lid slightly open then yes you'll get maggots.
When I was younger, everything went in one bin. Collected weekly. Then we got the recycle bin which changed for bi weekly collections for both bins. When I moved we now have a recycle bag, a paper and glass box and the food bin. We obviously also have a regular bin. The recycle stuff is taken weekly. The normal bin is taken once every three weeks. At the time I was like there's no way we can last three weeks, however if you recycle properly then it's easily manageable. It's so much better to send less stuff to landfill.
The organic waste that is collected is sent to be used for more than just compost. You can obviously have a composter at home too though.
You can buy either large compostable bags to line the entire bin or use small ones you tie shut and than toss those into the bin.
Also I see they mentioned Bones, that's something your backyard composter won't get hot enough to deal with.
They do not have that already?