Poisonous Gas Cloud Over Accy

Busman747 · 01-08-2007, 22:18

There isn't yet.......but if the promised warmer weather arrives, there certainly will be!!

I came home tonight, brought in our wheely bin, cleaned out the cats poo tray, putting the deposits into a little plastic bag and proceeded to drop it in the now empty bin. Nowt wrong with that, it happens twice daily but it struck me that those deposits plus all the other rubbish and food waste will be sitting in my rear yard for a month

Thats because on the next fortnightly collection, I will be travelling up to Scotland with Willow.

It reeked yesterday when I put it out and flies were in abundance, whatever will it be like after being left for a month? I wonder what P.B. does when he goes on holiday, Probably leaves the key to his garden with the rubbish depot manager!

While I am on the subject of wheelie bins, a fortnight back, I had reason to go out the back way on the morning of the collection.........and found that my bin was full to overflowing with additional black bags Likewise, this morning, a load of rags had been thrown in overnight. Now considering the threat of being fined for overfull bins and binning recycling products, what can you suggest I do with this situation? I will be writing to the council but short of standing guard all night with a shotgun...........Hmmmm,

garinda · 01-08-2007, 22:48

There's talk of us having new lockable wheelie bins, if they bring in charges by weight.

MargaretR · 02-08-2007, 00:08

Cat poo can go down the loo - I keep the litter tray in the bathroom and scoop the poo with a poo scooper. The (bagged)litter granules have to go in the bin once a week and contain only wee (what a subject !

)

Busman747 · 02-08-2007, 05:21

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

Cat poo can go down the loo - I keep the litter tray in the bathroom and scoop the poo with a poo scooper. The (bagged)litter granules have to go in the bin once a week and contain only wee (what a subject !

)

We've got a vibrating one poop scooper that is In our house, I am sure that putting the tray in the loo wouldn't work, we have two cats and between them spread the litter all over the floor when they "cover up!" It is bad enough in the kitchen but relitively easy to sweep up with a linlo floor but the thought of it in the carpet upstairs mingling with towels that have fallen off hooks and clothing put on the floor to be washed..... Yes, I know that things should be put away properly but with two teenage girls in the house, they would step over a dead body without noticing it!!

No, cat litter to stay in kitchen!

Its not just cat poo though, what do you do with the chicken bones and other food wastes that don't get eaten??

Ber999T · 02-08-2007, 09:02

Just a suggestion Busman if you get on well with a neighbour can they not put your bin out?

jackyalex · 02-08-2007, 09:49

can you not put your bin in your back yard,we had a neighbour put there binbags into our bin when we put ours out,i had enough of my bin not being emptied due to the lid not being closed that i ended up taking out the bin bags that wernt mine and leaving them by the wheeelie bins,found out who was doing it because of the nappies no one else had a baby,so i put all the binbags into their wheelie bin and their bin wouldnt close but thats not my problem,it stopped as soon as they found that their bin wasnt being emptied

Busman747 · 02-08-2007, 12:38

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Originally Posted by Ber999T

Just a suggestion Busman if you get on well with a neighbour can they not put your bin out?

On one side we have a white couple that we are just about on nodding terms with. In fact, the last time we spoke was last week when he knocked on our door to complain about the noise and activity out front where boys congregate like dogs on heat (Which has nothing to do with Mimzie being 16 and very attractive) On the other side, we have new neighbours. They are Asian and moved in just over a..............month ago. Hmmmm - but of course, we cannot accuse our new neighbours for doing something as underhand as over-filling our bin now can we!!

We could of course leave the gate open, but I will guarantee that when we come back, there will be far more than rubbish missing from the yard, in fact, all there will be is the full wheelie bin as the refuse collectors will (as their name implies) refuse to drag it down two enormous steps and then take it back into the yard, so no jackyalex, leaving it in the yard is not an option. (Neither is putting it out early as that is considered "fly-tipping" by the council)

Eric · 02-08-2007, 14:08

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

Cat poo can go down the loo - I keep the litter tray in the bathroom and scoop the poo with a poo scooper. The (bagged)litter granules have to go in the bin once a week and contain only wee (what a subject !

)

What a subject indeed! But it does have a nice rhyme to it: "poo" "loo" "scoop" .... the only word that jars in this poetic tour de force is "granules."

Eric · 02-08-2007, 14:14

What you seem to have is a distinct shortage of creatures of the night who come along and eat the bulk of your garbage (unfortunately, they do tend to spread around what they don't eat). Raccoons, skunk, and squirrels in large numbers may be the answer. Perhaps a grizzley in your yard: he would take care of the garbage, the neighbours, the lads in heat, the garbage men, etc.

jambutty · 02-08-2007, 14:37

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Originally Posted by [email protected]

Cat poo can go down the loo - I keep the litter tray in the bathroom and scoop the poo with a poo scooper. The (bagged)litter granules have to go in the bin once a week and contain only wee (what a subject !

)

Sea otters off California are catching a virus that inhabits cat poo, although the virus is harmless to cats. People flush the cat litter tray contents down the toilet and that finds its way to the sea and makes the sea otters ill and kills them.

Lilly · 02-08-2007, 14:52

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Originally Posted by Busman747

On one side we have a white couple that we are just about on nodding terms with. In fact, the last time we spoke was last week when he knocked on our door to complain about the noise and activity out front where boys congregate like dogs on heat (Which has nothing to do with Mimzie being 16 and very attractive) On the other side, we have new neighbours. They are Asian and moved in just over a..............month ago. Hmmmm - but of course, we cannot accuse our new neighbours for doing something as underhand as over-filling our bin now can we!!

We could of course leave the gate open, but I will guarantee that when we come back, there will be far more than rubbish missing from the yard, in fact, all there will be is the full wheelie bin as the refuse collectors will (as their name implies) refuse to drag it down two enormous steps and then take it back into the yard, so no jackyalex, leaving it in the yard is not an option. (Neither is putting it out early as that is considered "fly-tipping" by the council)

Is there nobody else who could put your bin out for you? Do you not have any friends or relatives nearby?

My mum came to Ossy from Accy to put our bin out for us when we went away.

Busman747 · 02-08-2007, 14:52

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Originally Posted by jambutty

Sea otters off California are catching a virus that inhabits cat poo, although the virus is harmless to cats. People flush the cat litter tray contents down the toilet and that finds its way to the sea and makes the sea otters ill and kills them.

I hope Margaret @ rothwell reads that Fancy her feeding all those sea otters with her cats poo by flushing it down the loo