My ex was a hoarder or something like that, with literal boxes of walnuts and rice in containers, so many cans of soups and beans, all out of date. When i say many – i mean it. I need advice, how can i get rid of it? im planning to use a waste collection company (will be happy to hear suggestions). how should i tackle it? how do i throw away the box of rice? how to throw away so many cans filled with spoiled food? its not an option for me to drain them all cause theres so many and i fear it will clog my sink. i put so many of them in bin bags and im hoping they (the waste collection company) can deal with it. The company is licensed.
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Over here, (U.S.) you can order a dump truck to drop of a big ass metal crate and you fill it up and they take that shit away never to be seen again. If you’ve got this service I’d go that route. Don’t fall into the traps trying to keep “sentimental” shit, keep what you NEED and chuck the rest.
Hire a skip if you can, chuck everything in it, get it collected hey presto. Not aware if skip companies have anything you can’t put in skips but I’ve seen them take pretty much everything.
You live in an apartment… My mother in law hoarded out of date food like this, and last year we convinced her to get rid of all of it (well it was actually a colony of rats that convinced her) but we just filled up all the communal bins… 20 of them. I guess the other residents had no space for their rubbish that week but the bin men took everything away.
Dry rice and canned goods are very likely to be absolutely fine to eat, is the good news. Canned food may be past its best before date, meaning it can’t be sold in shops, but unless the cans are dented or otherwise open most of the food inside will probably be fine for years, depending on what’s in there. I’d suggest offering it to friends/family/anyone you know who’s struggling, with the disclaimer that it’s past it’s BBE date, before chucking it.
Skip hire, tell the company what you’re getting rid of. There’s various laws and codes for different waste (what I do for a living), but the company will do that for you. But as you’re a residential customer is much easier.
Of course you don’t put it down the sink, wtf… you order a skip. You sling it all in. Job done.
Give the food to a food bank, plenty of prople need a hand, don’t waste it
The walnuts may have gone a bit rancid over a couple years, but the rice, beans and cans should be fine for up to a decade. That’s what Best Before dates are for.
List them as a bundle (or several bundles) on Olio or Freegle and let anyone take them away.
If they’re actually full of weevils or whatever then book a bulky waste collection from the council.
Hoarder. You mean Prepper doan’cha?