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Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 10 9:59 am Post subject: One bin of rubbish a year.
https://myzerowaste.com/2010/01/the-greens-on-bbc-breakfast-tv/ Saw these people on our local news this morning, quite an achievement!

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:21 am Post subject:
We reckon to do 4 not-full bin bags a year.

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:27 am Post subject:
hmm, I guess ours averages a bin-bag worth a month, not sure how we'de reduce that - not until the kids stop being given endless easily broken plastic stuff anyway.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:57 am Post subject:
If I only 'put the wheelie bin out' when it was full, [or if it didn;t always sit at the road end anyway], it would only be every 3 months or so.

cinders

Joined: 04 Jun 2007
Posts: 2437
Location: norfolk The daft old bat club

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:59 am Post subject:
If OH didn't eat so many packets of crisp we'd hardly put out any rubbish

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 10 11:28 am Post subject:
I'm probably in the same league as Mochyn. The only rubbish I put out is plastic food wrapping & I do my best to minimise that by reusing bags for freezing food etc. Everything else is either reused or recycled.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Wed Jan 27, 10 7:18 pm Post subject:

Our house rubbish is about 1/3-1/2 a bin bag a week and I really want to get that down. I agree with Ros about the children bit and here in this part of France there is a lot of plastic we can't recycle and there are only so many yoghurt pots and marg containers you can re-use

I might try and do a rubbish audit over the next couple of weeks and see if I can reduce it.

And I say house rubbish because I do not count the rubbish the gite renovation is creating and whilst we are re-using/recycling loads some things have no choice but to go in the bin or to the dump.

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Sun Jan 09, 11 10:04 pm Post subject:
Myzerowaste has made the news in Italy!

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 11:10 am Post subject:
Personally, we are rubbish at rubbish (although better than average, judging by the wheelie bins locally) although mostly one bag a week of endless endless packaging. There is a very good blog by Mrs Almost Average called the rubbish diet which is quite entertaining and was going to be made into a book last I read. She ended up throwing away one sticking plaster on the original 'diet'

Went

Joined: 19 Mar 2006
Posts: 6968

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 11:17 am Post subject:

Recycling facilities here in Spain are widely available - our village has 40 permanent residents swelling to around 80 in holiday times. We have 3 recycling points each taking glass, plastic and paper. Any other recycling can be taken to other facilities about 5km away. We don't have individual rubbish bins but there again there are around 8 large community bins around the village that are emptied every two days.

We produce about the equivalent of 1 carrier bag full of rubbish per week. Trying hard to reduce this but difficult.

paul1963

Joined: 15 Nov 2010
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Location: No longer active on the forum

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 11:45 am Post subject:
Three wheelie bins per year at our house. And that's only because we can;t find anyone round here to take black plastic

Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Mon Jan 10, 11 7:50 pm Post subject:

Gawber wrote:

That sounds interesting. I wonder if our Councils have considered this here. Do you think it encourages recycling and using less packaging as people have to actually handle it more for themselves?

Nicky cigreen

Joined: 25 Jun 2007
Posts: 9891
Location: Devon, uk

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 11 10:46 am Post subject: Re: One bin of rubbish a year.

Penny Outskirts wrote:

https://myzerowaste.com/2010/01/the-greens-on-bbc-breakfast-tv/

Saw these people on our local news this morning, quite an achievement!

i dunno - they recycle loads and loads... which is good in a way - but bad in others.. we dont recycle much, cos we dont buy a lot of things that need recycling.

and we raise our own animals, so have bones etc to dispose of, whereas if you just buy from the butchers.. you can be smug about having little waste, whilst the butcher still has to dispose of the bones etc...

good on them for bringing the idea to a larger audience, but their blog is full of things like...tips on not wasting half a jar of pasta sauce.... obviously the first step is not buying the sauce in the first place... something not covered

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 11 10:51 am Post subject:

A agree CiG - the lady and I had a bit of an argument a while back over corks - she buys screw topped wine bottles that can be recycled as opposed to corked bottles. Corks are farmed sustainably from the Iberian cork forests which support many rare species including the Iberian Lynx. No cork, no need for cork forests. She acknowledged this to me privately but would not put anything on her bog about it. It seems to be that she's going for zero waste even when a little waste is in fact far more sustainable.

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 11 10:53 am Post subject:
I use corks for starting the fire - so they aren't wasted. (Not that I have loads of corks at any one time, you understand .... )

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