Why is it better to save kitchen waste in container while indoors (with lid by the way)? See detail.
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June 20th, 2019
Edited to add:The person who was saving kitchen waste in container was asked “Why do you bother doing that?” I just heard “2 reasons: ....” What is the reason, or are the reasons?
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Compost. The lid is to keep animals and bugs out and trap odors in.
I’m thinking either composting or saving animal fat in a container before throwing it out, or sometimes it’s used for cooking other things, but then it wouldn’t be called waste.
I have a friend who has two pigs as pets on her large property. She, and I, and several other friends save all of our edible food leftovers, mostly cutoffs from prepping veggies, like peelings, and the green tops, and rinds from melons, in sealed ziplock bags, in the freezer.
About once a month, our friend comes around and picks up the bags for her pig’s meals.
She also feeds her pigs commercial pig feed, but the rest of this is supplemental.
@JLeslie “I’m thinking either composting or saving animal fat in a container before throwing it out.” But What is the purpose of saving it in a container, instead of putting it in the garbage bag directly is the question the person was asked, and she answered “2 reasons,...”
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@flo, have you ever dumped hot, liquid fat into a garbage bag, or directly into a trash can? It will melt a trash bag or plastic trash can. It will coat the inside of a metal trash can and make it disgusting, and it will draw flies.
People save fat in cans with a lid, so they can either use the fat for cooking, or so that it can be disposed of in a more sanitary fashion, that is less smelly, and not messy.
When you put it in a can, and let it cool, the fat becomes a solid. It’s easier to deal with. You keep a lid on it, so it won’t smell up your house, or draw insects.
@Kardamom 1)That’s reason one, (odour and bugs) which is in the first answer.
2)Do you mean there is nothing between:hot liquid fat directly into plastic a garbage bag or can (which is something below age 10? might do) and
save it in a container?
3)What could be the other reason or reasons for saving it in a container?
How else would you save it? If you’re asking the reason for saving it the answer is compost. If you’re asking the reason for saving it in a container, I am once again justified in worrying about you.
@flo, you seem to hear odd snippets of things. I don’t know where you hear these things, or why you only hear parts of these things, and not whole conversations, or whole articles, or why you don’t seem to know what’s going on when things are explained.
Are we missing something?
…What are the other reasons period, (i.e the emphasis is not on the container but on the save it)
So forget about the container. Are you asking us to guess the 2 answers you overheard ?
Mom used to save meat trimmings (suet) and then put them out in one of her bird feeders. Certain types of birds would eat it.
Some people collect vegetable peelings, etc., in the freezer to use to make vegetable stock.
@Flo, they are saving multiple amounts of these things, whether it be vegetable peelings, or cooking fat in lidded containers, to either use, or dispose of at a later time. If people used a separate lidded container (to keep out the bugs, and the smell to a minimum) every single time they prepped a meal, that would be a ridiculous amount of extra lidded containers.
It’s easier, and more environmentally sound, to use just ONE lidded container for days, weeks, or months (depending on what is put in them) until it is full. Then you start filling another one. This is the real answer.
If you are looking for a “secret” answer, then I must be missing the entire point.
What do you really want to know?
…I don’t know the 1st link in my last post.
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