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Food waste bags available in the Library now

Cllr Govindia reported on Facebook that it had been decided that the Council would carry on supplying the food waste bags for the kitchen caddies. They won't be delivered to the doorstep, but are available in the Library. Only ONE roll at a time allowed so please don't try to take more. Good news, as it was feared that food waste would go down if everyone had to buy new bags.  I think it's a marvellous scheme and am so happy to be able to collect food waste now. Thanks Wandsworth Council!

Victoria Diamond ● 29d6 Comments

I detest waste especially food waste which when you take into account all the costs that also go into producing and distributing food it are massively more than the cost to your pocket.  I still have a wormery ticking over in the garden which I used long before there was a food waste collection. Worms don't like all food, so I never put absolutely everything in anyway eg citrus peel and onion and cooked food.  This also led me to search out what we as a rich nation don't eat /once ate or now discard that other countries do eat as well as trying different recipes for locally grown vegetables that I wasn't used to eating/thought I didn't like in an effort to reduce waste and travel a bit more.So I've made  my own candied peel - once - very nice - but since most citrus fruit peel has been waxed and heavily treated it's probably not something I'd bother with again.  I now eat broccoli and cauliflower and cabbage stalks - just peeling the toughest bits a little.  Those often don't even reach the pan as they are treated as the cook's treat. The grandchildren have been a little curious of the green carrots that taste like broccoli.  It's all the same anyway in a cheese sauce or stir-fry.So much that we ate as children when food came from the garden has already been chopped off before it reaches the shops.  Leeks sre only half or less there and toughest leaves cut finely and washed well disappear into soup.  We eat a lot of those instead of onions in stir-fry.  Banana skins can be eaten but I wiuldn't unless they were organic.  Nigella has a recipe which includes you cooking banana skins - it's on my long to do list as I've yet to try that!

Philippa Bond ● 19d

I think it's a brilliant scheme.  Not just for wasted food (don't have any of that) but tea bags, coffee grounds, eggshells, apple peel and cores, cabbage stalks, that kind of stuff.  Black rubbish bag now very much emptier.

Judy Allen ● 20d

Been in again. They now have the food waste bags.

Adrian Pearce ● 20d

Just been to the library, they don't know anything about this. Say it's just the usual general recycling bags.

Adrian Pearce ● 24d

Thank you Victoria. That's helpful to know

Elizabeth Balsom ● 26d

Hopefully many will actually manage to reduce the amount of food waste that you make when you see how much you are making - and be able to see if you can make any adjustments to waste less - and save more.There has been a lot of research done over the years and the www.lovefoodhatewaste.com is well worth a look as it has lots of helpful information.  Hopefully there will be fewer youngsters going off to uni who can't make mashed potato or measure how much dried spaghetti to cook than there were about 10 years ago!It's staggering the amount of food that we waste here in Britain.  It's reckoned that 60% of the food we buy is wasted at home;  8 meals could be saved each week if we didn't bin good food at home; and millions of tonnes of CO2  could be saved.Making the compostable bags easily available makes it much easier to recycle any food waste AND also reduces the smelly and dripping attraction of the whole of your black sack to vermin.  It's a Win Win!

Philippa Bond ● 28d