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Yes, the great thing about using newspaper rather than not (as many originally didn't when the boxes were introduced) is that the food waste slides out leaving just a wet box -  but sometimes (as happened to me this week) a sheet of newspaper got left behind. Then the box just needs swishing out.  The same obviously works when using a compostable bag.It depends on what food waste you make and where you keep the bin on how smelly it gets. Can you move it somewhere cooler? It's going to be worse with wheelie bins because smell permeates plastic and hangs around - especially noticeable with bad smells.Bad potatoes and bad cauliflower are very smelly but buying less and looking after it better/better food management has saved me from a lot of that. (No more rushing in with plastic bags of vegetables and putting the down and forgetting them! That was the worst scenario.) I now know what we're going to eat if there is nothing fresh in the fridge!  I buy less bread as it was something that was always going mouldy on me before it was eaten.  I now tend to split a loaf so that there is always some for toast in the freezer. I now freeze any leftover cooked rice and pasta as that was something that used to get forgotten in the back of the fridge.  Its easy to de-frost and can always just be added to soup if its not enough for another meal.  I've stopped trying to run a restaurant at home!Some Councils actually suggest that you use kitchen roll in your food waste bin.  Not Ealing.Some AD plants aren't as bothered as others about the compostable bags but we depend on what we are told by the Council.  It would be difficult for them if they changed contracts and had to change the info that they gave us...

Philippa Bond ● 3638d