Brown Bin very very smelly - Advice appreciated!

My main solution to this is that it's the other half's job to put the food in the bin :eek: But all this washing powder stuff etc sounds like it's defeating the whole purpose of being ecological. Nothing better than maggots unfortunately. We have two bins for food waste and every so often put one of them down the back of the garden fully open after being emptied and let nature take it's course.
 
Bronte, I had the minging & skin-crawling sight of fly maggots en masse in my brown bin last yr. Never again. If the meat waste is small,(ie mince) I'll wash it down the sink. Small pieces of meat, bread etc are given to the birds; starlings, gulls & magpies dispatch it pronto, but any leftovers are taken in to avoid rats or mice. All other waste goes to the compost bin.
 
Coz I happened to be in Supervalu yesterday, I picked up 10 (13 L) bags made in IRL by GreenSax. Got to the register and it was a whopping 3.29 or thereabouts. Mad price. So much for my attempts to buy Irish. Off to ALdi in the future.

PS: Just shot an email off to greensax.com complaining about the price difference and telling them the Adli price. Probably won't make a difference but at least they'll know the score. Price differential is approx 2.5 per bag, that's huge.
 
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The Aldi compostable bags are very small, only suitable for a kitchen caddy and they were in store as part of a weekly special.
 
RonanC said:
The Aldi compostable bags are very small, only suitable for a kitchen caddy and they were in store as part of a weekly special.
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Thanks Ronan. I went looking for em and they were sold out. I got a decent and informative reply from Greensax yesterday. Here's part of it:

I agree that the cost difference is very very significant and it is perfectly understandable for you to purchase from Aldi instead.

By the way, the 13L GreenSax are a little cheaper at €2.78 in Dunnes & Tesco, but it still does not bridge the gap enough for you.

Unfortunately, we have no other way to get our products to the market other than through the large multiples and thus our products are subject to the exorbitant margins that they impose on them. The Aldi products are at a much lower cost due to the lower margins they impose combined with the massive buying power that they have which drives down cost...

I appreciate your sentiments about buying Irish but not at any cost.

I replied asking them to consider direct online selling. It's informative that the retailer margins imposed seem to be the problem. if the margins imposed are such that they price Irish producers out of the market, that cannot be good news for Irish business and jobs.
 
Home composter at the bottom of the garden should do the trick
 
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