Hedon, like other places in East Yorkshire, now has weekly food waste collections.
Debbie Agius uses her kitchen food caddy every day and puts her wheelie bin out every week to be emptied.
She said her bin was usually at least half-full, and added: “I think, especially with the hot weather that we’re getting, if you’re leaving it in the bin for two weeks it gets smelly and can go off, so I do think that weekly waste is good.”
Lee Egerton has also welcomed the weekly collections over the summer because he used to find maggots in his bin.
But he said: “I question whether they need to be emptied every week in the winter months because the food doesn’t degrade so much.”
Liz Harrison said she sometimes put food into her general waste bin.
“It depends on time and [if I’m] just not thinking,” she said.
“If you go around the close… on a Thursday morning, when they come, there are hardly any brown bins out at all.
“There are loads of blue [bins], so we do recycle, and there’s quite a few green [bins], but there are hardly any brown bins.
“I’d sooner have the blue bin [emptied] weekly rather than the brown bin.”
Charles Quinn, cabinet member for environment at Hull City Council, said: “The launch of Simpler Recycling… has been a positive step forward for Hull. Since introducing weekly food and garden waste collections, we have seen a 16% increase in tonnage compared with the same period last year.
“The scheme is also delivering wider community benefits, with 31.25 tonnes of compost donated to allotments and local community groups since June this year alone.”
He added: “While this is encouraging, there is still an opportunity for residents to recycle more food waste and ensure the right items are going into the right bins.
“Recycling food waste costs less than half as much as disposal in [general waste bins], saving money that can be invested in other council services.”
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