More Boxes

[WrexTheDragon]

Currently we have two big wheelie bins, one green for garden waste and one black for household waste. Two black boxes one for newspaper and one for glass jars.

The council have just said we are getting three more!!!!

One is for corrugated cardboard, one for Plastic containers and another one tins and aerosols.

And they are still collecting on a two week cycle.

Lets hope these make good planters as I do not have room for all these containers in the driveway.




Rant over.

[zazen999]

What about people with no driveway - they need a spare room for all those - sheesh!!!!

[NOG]

I have
One wheelie bin that is empty most of the time.
One glass recycling box,
One plastic recycling box
One Tins recycling box
One paper and card box

All that get emptied by the council.

Then there is the wormary for the food scraps, Composting bag for the allotment, green waste for the allotment...

And I am happy with that.

[TEB]

I have erm a black bag chcuked on the drive every Friday, we are supposed to have 2 small recycle boxes but the council are a waste of space and has never delivered them, despite contacting them quite a few times. I went out a bought a wheelie bin because the rubbish gets put out in bags every Thursday night and overnight, the foxes, badgers, crows, stoats and anything that crawls, walks slithers or flies will rip the bags apart

[Alice]

I have 3 wheelies
General household waste
Paper
Garden refuse.
I take everything else - bottles, rags, building debris, cans, plastic bags etc to the recycling centre. It works for me, but I can see how some people would have problems.

[Dynamo]

I have no chew at all with our council for trying to recycle our stuff. In fact I don't think they go far enough because they only let us put waste garden stuff in the green bin and all the food waste has to go in the general waste bin. Personally I don't throw out any food waste now as the fresh stuff goes in the compost and cooked stuffs and meats go in mt bokashi buckets.

If you think you have enough bins already, well I'm afraid you may well be getting yet another one if the governments latest initiative gets going properly. The idea is for food waste to go in yet another seperate container to be taken to a silo where it is left to decompose. The gas that is generated from the waste is then used to drive a generator and that power is then pumped back into the national grid. The waste at the end of it is also used to fertilise farms. There was a piece on Couthryfile about it a few weeks ago.

[NOG]

They are called BioMas Digesters (I think)...It would be more eco friendly..if they gave everyone wormarys.

[Two_Sheds]

I have a black wheelie for general rubbish (we put it out once a month, or maybe once every six weeks)

and a blue wheelie for recyclables ... we only put tins in it, as everything else (pop bottles, paper) seems to get used on the lotty

I resent giving up my garden space for wheelie bins that I hardly use ... I'd rather have communal ones in the street, like you see for blocks of flats. Trouble is that dim & lazy people abuse them, and put the wrong stuff in the bins.

my old council gave everyone compost caddies, which were promptly robbed for using as pet food holders etc, and I have a lovely big square planter that was supposed to be for recycling glass (I bike our glass to the bottle banks)

[WrexTheDragon]

If only they could offer the facility of smaller boxes?

Between the wormary and compost bins, I never fill the green wheely bin more than a 1/6 full. The same volume for the household recycle black wheely bin.

I shread some of my newspapers for the compost, this is the most filled box. Between newspapers and free magazines and junk mail, I can fill this one about half full every four weeks.

[Dynamo]

They are called BioMas Digesters (I think)...It would be more eco friendly..if they gave everyone wormarys.

It probably would, but how many people could be bothered looking after one? Bokashi buckets are another good thing as I mentioned, but the same goes as it did for the wormery. Not everyone has a garden where they could put the compost from the wormery, or even the space to put one. Maybe council run wormeries or bokashi bins could be the way foreward.

To be honest though, I don't see whats wrong with the biomas digesters. It means the waste doesn't go to landfill, no greenhouse gasses are let into the atmosphere, there's a shed load of free energy (enough for 300 homes in the experiment shown on Countryfile), and loads of plant food as a bi product. It looks like a win win win win situation to me.

[NOG]

The only thing I have gainst them is you have to build them then build all the , then hav them running round the area and out to the plant....how much co2 will that create.

[Dynamo]

I see your point, but that goes for whatever cargo is being ferried about. Maybe one day all the bin lorries will run on bio fuel, or maybe even hydrogen which is plucked out of water through the use of solar or wind power or even the bio energy we've been discussing.