Food Waste Bucket for Recycling!

With the recent acknowledgment that methane (a greenhouse gas) is produced by rotting food in landfill sites, some local authorities (city councils) are collecting raw food waste to be used as fuel. Considering how much food is wasted in Britain, this is a good move, but it does create problems in the kitchen.

We have been given a food waste basket and bags made of degradable corn starch for collecting our garbage:

Food waste basket; Cox apple and onion for scale!

Classy, eh?

But it does have to be disposed of very regularly or it leads to fruit flies...