Its a minefield for sure. Refuse bin bags - a huge deal.
The council here gave out degradeable plastic bags for our food waste. Trouble was, they lasted a few days. I maybe managed to get a bit of veg and fruit cores in before it disintegrated. I simply wasn't throwing away food waste quick enough. So the bags, though a good idea for maybe a big family that could fill them in a couple of days, they were no good for me who would only be throwing food waste every couple of weeks.
Nowdays, i use a 5 gallon plastic bucket with a lid. It came from a bucket of bird feed balls i bought for the birds here, and when empty, decided to keep it in case i could make use of it... and i did The lid came in handy. Man, waste food stinks