Compostable or just biodegradeable?

good for you though Stera. Our Council has stopped collecting food waste in Rural Areas. If I lived half a mile away in the Village, I would still get it collected, but not here on the road they have to go down to get to the Village! So mine goes in the landfill...but at least it doesn't do any harm there.

our council use starch/cellulose bags for the caddies and in time they will break down fully. so depends on what your bags are made off. I only use them for the cooked /raw bones etc all the vegetable peelings go into the compost bin straight away. After 2 weeks the caddy became a seed storage box as I didn't have the space on the work top for it. It was easier to walk to the compost bin or recycling bin. Now OH walks to the closest bin which is the main household one for everything. grrr

I suppose it depends what "in time" means. Admittedly the ones from nearer the bottom of the bin were more shredded than the more recent ones but as the bin was too full to take any more it had to be sorted. Its a daft design really - you're supposed to be able to shovel stuff out from the hole at the bottom but I can only make a sort of small cave in it. And then I need OH to pound on the top before the newer stuff will settle. If there was room for a two box setup nearer the house that would be great but don't really want one just outside the kitchen door...and in winter especially you wouldn't want to go further than that on lots of days...

ours are down the side of the house so not too bad to get to. I also found they get really compacted and I use a spike to loosen it and push it down. I did have 2 down the garden but they got lost in the ivy and lamium that enjoyed the nutrients :/

I just have a porcelain compost pot on the kitchen windowsill, it's pretty good & takes a couple of weeks worth of our veg & fruit waste. It has a charcoal filter in the lid so doesn't smell or attract flies etc
Cooked food waste & bones go in the rubbish bin.

That sounds very good GF. I haven't seen one of those. Our caddy takes about week's worth but it can get a bit whiffy if left to the end of the week...
Our bones go in the slow cooker for stock - there's a chicken carcase in there at the moment. After that they go in the food waste - very experienced bones by the time we say goodbye to them!
I got one of those gadgets with little wing things at one end that you are supposed to push down into the compost, twist and pull out, when the little wing things are supposed to open out and lift up the compost to turn it, but they didnt...

Stera, I think they are now 'vintage' but it matches my tea-pot & storage jars. This place looks like they have them....
http://www.abraxascookshop.com/kitchen-craft-compost-crock.html

I'm the same as Daylily. I have 2 outside bins. One for landfill and one for garden waste which is also for all cooked foods as well. Since I no longer have a compost pile, all leftover food and tea bags and things goes in there. I do have a small bin next to my kettle for the tea bags as hubby takes being a teetotaler to a whole new level and it has to be emptied every other day. I won't say how much milk we get through but as least plastic is also collected in it's own tub.

Nice to know you are making your own compost. I used to do it but I gave it up when the council started collecting kitchen waste.

Hywel I think you probably have enough to do just now without making and spreading compost!

Jen, Our food waste caddy only gets bones (after making stock) and fish skins etc. We don't waste much - OH will eat most things! We are supposed to keep cooked foods separate from garden compost.

GF I looked the caddies up - very nice indeed but pretty expensive!

Stera, I don't remember what I paid but pretty sure it was a lot less & from Wayfair.

Lol. I don't get much food waste either. What we don't finish laura takes home with her as her other half is a vegetarian :-). Like you it's mainly bones and vegetable peel, oh and the tons of tea bags.

Gf, I just Google Wayfair as I hadn't heard of them. They gave two bins in a half price sale - quite a bargain - but they are too big for where they would go. I do think the idea of a charcoal filter in the lid is brilliant.

Strera, I've had quite a few bargains from Wayfair, they have things from many other retailers. I bought a gorgeous Italian pewter mixer tap for my kitchen when the old one leaked for a 1/4 of the price anywhere else.

Do they have a shop or do you get things on line?

I've only shopped online, Stera.

Ah. thanks.