Cut down on food waste: How to maximise use of your brown bin 

Keep finding your food bin rejected on bin-lift day? It’s time to make friends with the foodie bin

Your waste collection provider is obliged to give you a brown bin for food and other organic waste.

This has been the law in Ireland since 2016 for towns of over 500 souls, and was supposed to be mandatory nationally since 2020, with varying degrees of compliance. Having asked my new supplier for a bin (I live in a hoary hedgerow, halfway up a mountain) I had no trouble getting one added for free to my monthly order.