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So if it is limited to garden waste only, no food at all.. Will that be ok?
There's grandkids visiting most w'kends and that did it, I don't fancy them either.
As personally, I hate waste, if I have some leftover cooked meat, bread or a chicken carcass, I leave it out briefly during the morning and the seagulls, crows and magpies make short work of it in jig time. I know this isn't to everyone's liking, but I hate to put this stuff to landfill when it can b disposed of in a more environmentally sustainable way. I don't leave it out unsupervised, so I'm confident it isn't attracting rats or other vermin. As an aside, I know we have foxes (again, living in the park), and I suspect they aren't occasionally picking off the odd rat or two.
Cooked and raw scaps, including meats, can be put in the brown bin, but I have a salutary tale concerning this. Having placed a chicken carcass in the bin during the summer a few yrs back, flies had somehow gotten in and laid eggs on it. As the bins are only collected every two weeks, by the time collection day came around I was faced with the UTTERLY disgusting sight of maggots in the bin. I had to scrub it completely. I swore I would never do this again. Leaving meats out for birds to pick clean, and then putting any remains ( there rarely are any) into a brown paper bag and putting it in the brown bin.It's good that you keep an eye on things, but wouldn't food waste (i.e. brown bin) be brought for composting rather than end up in landfill?
But I have a salutary tale concerning this. Having placed a chicken carcass in the bin during the summer a few yrs back, flies had somehow gotten in and laid eggs on it. As the bins are only collected every two weeks, by the time collection day came around I was faced with the UTTERLY disgusting sight of maggots in the bin. I had to scrub it completely. I swore I would never do this again. Leaving meats out for birds to pick clean, and then putting any remains ( there rarely are any) into a brown paper bag and putting it in the brown bin.
Don't put out any food scraps as they'll attract seagulls/magpies which ruin the estate with their white 'gifts' - on roofs, gutters, windows, cars, driveways .....
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