Maggots lay waste to my garden as green bin scheme backfires

I’m all in favour of segregating waste. Recycling, composting, avoiding use of tinfoil, changing to a low-flow shower head, adjusting the thermostat, buying my own coffee cup, paying bills on line, even hugging trees if needs be — I see being green as a good thing.

But the latest addition to our growing family of bins — which now stands at seven — has made me question if introducing a new caddy for food waste is as sound an idea as environmentalists think it is.

Up to recently, I had three 240 litre bins: blue for paper, red for glass, grey for household waste. The latter also took the grass cuttings.