Rubbish - again!

[Madhatter]

So you don't really know then. The only waste is dissposable products, nappies wipes etc And plastic packaging if you don't get the chance to recycle that. All food waste, cardboard, paper, cans, bottles, jars, books, clothing, shoes, cane be recycled.
That leaves plastics mainly doesn't it, and dissposables such as nappies.

[grannyclaret]

you dont have to have kids ,for loads of rubbish... if youve no rubbish then you dont eat..you dont drink(the 6pintmilk bottles take up loads of room on their own ....you dont do much at all ....i am with you tinks.. i just dont understand where it all comes from

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

So you don't really know then.

Bloomin eck hatter! I've never really took alot of notice but I know I'm always cleaning up after my lot and were does the rubbish go .... well yes the bin! I do recycle, always have but sometimes I have more rubbish than fits in my wheelie bin, not every fortnight though. It was my little ones birthday yesterday so that obviously generated a lot of non recycle rubbish ... like what .... without going for a rummage through the bin I don't know but it did!

[Madhatter]

Mainly plastic. most people can squash a milk bottle GC. perhaps you should think about what goes into your bins a bit more then, before you do get tags on your bins. You fill it up but can't say what with. I bet its stuff that you could have recycled but didn't.

It was my little ones birthday yesterday so that obviously generated a lot of non recycle rubbish ... like what .... without going for a rummage through the bin I don't know but it did!

If you recycled, you'd know what you threw in the bin.

I challenge you all to list things that you can't recycle. obviously plastic, milk bottles, wrappings,etc but what else.

[Busman747]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

I've had a great idea, the best since i invented the unbirthday for the 364 days that it isn't your birthday.
It will revolutionise the way we throw our rubbish away.
All the wheelie bins, green bins and red boxes get a computer chip attached to them. the dustbin wagon and recycling lorry have scales attached to weigh each bin or box as its emptied. each chip is assigned to your address, and all the data gets sent to a central computer so that the council knows how much rubbish, how much green waste how many cans bottles etc you've recycled.

each area of the town gets split up into different teams. each quarter the team with the best recycling percentage is given a prize.

The chips cost about a quid each and the weighing machines about 1800 quid.
Now is that a mad idea or what

Great idea Madhatter, - but did you know that the recycle containers are already bar-coded and fed into a computer as they are emptied? - and if the council take you up on your idea, it will occur to them that they will be able to charge each household extra according to the amount of waste that they throw away. Blair and Brown will LOVE that!!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

So you don't really know then. The only waste is dissposable products, nappies wipes etc And plastic packaging if you don't get the chance to recycle that. All food waste, cardboard, paper, cans, bottles, jars, books, clothing, shoes, cane be recycled.
That leaves plastics mainly doesn't it, and dissposables such as nappies.

How is food waste recyclable? Once food has been cooked it cannot be composted. We don't have any nappies.

We recycle all the things that the council will take as recyclable i.e. plastic bottles, glass, cans, paper. Clothes have always gone to charity shops and will continue to do so. Anything which someone else may possibly want ends up at the charity shops. Cardboard has always been put seperately even before the council recycled it. If there was anything recyclable which they wouldn't take we found our own way of recycling it. (and still do)

Our bins are normally emptied once a fortnight but my point with this one off three weeker is that it is likely to have a knock-on effect as any of the 50% extra rubbish which won't fit in will have to wait until the next collection, which will make that one more than a bin full and so some will have to wait until the following fortnight, etc., etc.

Another grumble of mine and a possible explanantion of why we have more rubbish than you is that every time the bins are emptied they manage to drop at least one bagful as the truck rounds the top of Ormerod Street, the majority of which ends up in our garden and the council then class it as our waste and refuse to move it so all that ends up in our wheelie bin too.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Busman747

did you know that the recycle containers are already bar-coded and fed into a computer as they are emptied?

That's something to do with getting schoolchildren to sign people up as committed recyclers and earning points for the school from the council.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by Busman747

Great idea Madhatter, - but did you know that the recycle containers are already bar-coded and fed into a computer as they are emptied?

That's why I said I was saying nothing. They also have an incentive scheme which the schools use.

[Madhatter]

so you fill an entire wheelie bin full of cooked food waste in a fortnight?.
You recycle everything, even plastic, you don't have nappies yet you still fill a wheelie bin in a fortnight!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

Mainly plastic. most people can squash a milk bottle GC. perhaps you should think about what goes into your bins a bit more then, before you do get tags on your bins. You fill it up but can't say what with. I bet its stuff that you could have recycled but didn't. If you recycled, you'd know what you threw in the bin.

I challenge you all to list things that you can't recycle. obviously plastic, milk bottles, wrappings,etc but what else.

As a matter of fact we do recycle plastic bottles. We have a blue bag for them.

I also forgot to mention that all uncooked vegetable waste and plant waste we compost!

[WillowTheWhisp]

Well we don't recycle cat litter and pussy pooh!

[Madhatter]

Originally Posted by Busman747

Great idea Madhatter, - but did you know that the recycle containers are already bar-coded and fed into a computer as they are emptied? - and if the council take you up on your idea, it will occur to them that they will be able to charge each household extra according to the amount of waste that they throw away. Blair and Brown will LOVE that!!

Well done busman, it's not actually my idea and is already very much reality in several areas of britain. And yes they have every intention of charging you for the amount of rubbish you throw away. They're going to have to, they're running out of placesto put it. One answer is to build incinerators around the country, but they're not very efficient not very nice, they stink, and they push out pollutants
They don't have enough places to deal with all the recycling that they want us to produce either. It's all very well recycling, but if it then ends up in an incinerator, whats the point

[g jones]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

I've had a great idea, the best since i invented the unbirthday for the 364 days that it isn't your birthday.
It will revolutionise the way we throw our rubbish away.
All the wheelie bins, green bins and red boxes get a computer chip attached to them. the dustbin wagon and recycling lorry have scales attached to weigh each bin or box as its emptied. each chip is assigned to your address, and all the data gets sent to a central computer so that the council knows how much rubbish, how much green waste how many cans bottles etc you've recycled.

each area of the town gets split up into different teams. each quarter the team with the best recycling percentage is given a prize.

The chips cost about a quid each and the weighing machines about 1800 quid.
Now is that a mad idea or what

When the scheme was set up they (LAB) opted for chipped bins and boxes. The difficulty is weighing them, though this idea was a future consideration when purchasing the chipped ones.

[Madhatter]

AH now that I accept, cats if you use litter do create a lot of heavy waste.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Well we don't recycle cat litter and pussy pooh!

I have two Guinea Pigs that need cleaning out regularly, I don't think their mess can be recycled and it amounts to half a bin bag bag ech time.