[West Ender]

There's very little ever left, in our house, but what bit there is is scraped off the plate into the waste bin and I still feel guilty, doing it. In my head I can hear a voice saying, "Don't throw that away. I'll take it off your hands if it's going spare", which is what Jet, or old dog, would have said, accompanied by an accusing look, if she'd been able to talk.

I have very little "sloppy" waste, what constitutes that? I use olive oil for frying but in such small quantities it's absorbed by the food and I haven't had a chip pan or deep-fat fryer for many years. If the pan is left with a residue I rinse it under hot water and I put Domestos down the sink regularly. I can't think of anything else that's sloppy apart from the milk that's sometimes left at the bottom of a cereal bowl.

The more solid waste, what bit there is of it, goes in the bin and gets transferred to the wheelie bin in a tied plastic bin-liner. Uncooked vegetable waste goes in the compost bin.