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jema
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:19 am Post subject: Just put out the dustbin bag
Just a single one Which is practically a first round here. Maybe the new years resolution of reducing waste is getting somewhere jema

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:23 am Post subject:

That's really impressive for a family of four.

We're mostly half a bag each week; it would be less if we could sort out something to do with the plastic containers, but everything I've tried so far has been just too much trouble; we've already got a corner of the kitchen stuffed with glass and tins, and paper recycling to fall over in the hall.

Also if we sort out a wormery we could do something with the potato peelings and other cooked food, perhaps. And am interested in these green cones that allegedly cope with everything.

Bugs

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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:23 am Post subject:
By the way, shall we make this one a poll?

jema
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Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:28 am Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

By the way, shall we make this one a poll?

Per person or per household?

jema

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 10744

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 8:35 am Post subject:
Per person I think - easy enough to work out for most people? Even little tiny children produce a lot of rubbish so it's reasonable to include all household members...it'll all even out...and it's just a bit of fun

Mrs Fiddlesticks

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 10460

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 9:26 am Post subject:
i was always intrigued by John Seymour's quote that you should use everything and the dustman need never call. I'd like to work towards that if possible.

wellington womble

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

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 05 9:45 pm Post subject:
t'aint never gonna happen here! I can see the future involves going through the bin to find out just what himself is filling it up with. It must be him, it's not me!

Aeolienne

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

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 4:20 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

Also if we sort out a wormery we could do something with the potato peelings and other cooked food, perhaps. And am interested in these green cones that allegedly cope with everything.

These? My local authority is selling them for around �60.

naomij

Joined: 03 Mar 2011
Posts: 379
Location: Kent coast

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 4:27 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

t'aint never gonna happen here! I can see the future involves going through the bin to find out just what himself is filling it up with. It must be him, it's not me!

I thought this before I was single! There is defo less now, but I still fill the bin up with junk from the garage

I just ordered a green bin today, �30 I could ill afford but well worth it to get rid of all the straggly contents of the garden

jamanda
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Location: Devon

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:02 pm Post subject:
Not complaining, just pointing out to avoid confusion, that there are four years between Welly Womble's post on the following one.

naomij

Joined: 03 Mar 2011
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Location: Kent coast

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 7:50 pm Post subject:

Jamanda wrote:

Not complaining, just pointing out to avoid confusion, that there are four years between Welly Womble's post on the following one.

golly!

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
Posts: 8961
Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 8:08 pm Post subject:
shows that the post is still valid The Carpenter has been bin-filling today- junk out of the workshop to make space for things from the Room of Doom.....Front Room here we come

baldybloke

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1388
Location: Wiltshire

Posted: Mon Mar 07, 11 10:17 pm Post subject:

Even with fortnightly collections my wheelie bin has barely enough rubbish in to cover its base. My recycle box I only put out monthly and then its usually less than half full.
My secret is that I try not to buy packaged goods, preferring to buy loose, or on rare occasions in a plastic bag. I also still have my milk delivered in glass bottles by the milkman so don't collect plastic containers.
I must admit to residing on my own but with a little effort and forethought you can cut down on waste considerably.

wellington womble

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

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 10:19 am Post subject:

gz wrote:

shows that the post is still valid

The Carpenter has been bin-filling today- junk out of the workshop to make space for things from the Room of Doom.....Front Room here we come

Nah, now we have a small person who fills the bin with her own weight of stuff daily. Mind you, she will happily empty it for you too, given half a chance!

And I still have two and half rooms of doom.

Midland Spinner

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
Posts: 2931
Location: Under a green roof

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 11 10:22 am Post subject:
I realised this morning that today should have been bin day. I queried OH as to whether the bin had gone out or if it was too late - got the reply "no need to bother - there is only 6" in the bottom of each bin". Not bad for a fortnightly collection for each type.

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