What happens to green waste?

[Alison]

HAven't had a milkie since I was a tot - apparently there is one locally, every second day, but at 10 or 11 in the morning. Too late for us cos we work and are gone by 7.30am. My grandparent's still have theirs at that hour though, daily. But the glass bottles are a thing of the past (luckily we can recycle the tetrapaks).

The thought that it'd be like that put me off for ages but ours comes about 5ish (not quite sure as have only heard him once!) and delivers 6 out of 7 days (even last Bank Holiday!). Luckily the front of our house gets the sun in the evening so even in summer the milk is nice and cold when we get it in at about 7ish. There's two that deliver to our area, one from a national dairy and the local one that we have. Think he's about 2p a pint more but it's nice to deal with a real person and I like to support small business where I can. I was recommended him by a friend but you can visit a web site called http://www.findmeamilkman.net/default.aspx and put your post code in also.

[jacob marley]

In Birmingham the council runs a big green recycleing site by the old fort dunlop site and if you go along there during working hours you can have as much compost as you want FREEhow about that jacob

[Hazel at the Hill]

In Birmingham the council runs a big green recycleing site by the old fort dunlop site and if you go along there during working hours you can have as much compost as you want FREEhow about that jacob

...and they sell the bags of compost at an independent garden centre in Erdington, round the corner.

[Sue]

Alison
Tried that website and it just came up with Dairy Crest, tetrapacks only for organic milk and these can't be recycled locally. I fell out with them anyway as they wouldn't come and collect money, I had to leave it on the doorstep and of course it got nicked...
Apparently in Kent we have no major dairy facilities and outlying small dairies won't deliver to TWells. If you want organic milk you either have to collect it from farms (I don't have a car) or the major supply of organic milk and cream is lorried up from Devon and available from my veg box delivery.
Yoanbob, I know what you mean about milk and I compromise by only ever using organic which is the same problem but health and quality of life, better hopefully for the cows.
Same thing with chickens, even withmy own ones I have to ask what happened to their brothers....and no honey either
I did try being Vegan for a long while, it was a very healthy diet but so difficult to mesh in with everyone else, always having to do the Spanish inquisition in restaurants, not being able to eat out almost anywhere - or on a very limited diet. Had to get shoes handmade from non-leather - very expensive and so on. I did switch to drinking coffee black and could just about tolerate soya milk on my morning porridge.
Sue

[Snadger]

Close to the entrance to our allotment plots there's a council waste bin. On my previous plot where I had clubroot, when I dug one of my brassicas I would bag the root and drop it in the bin on the way home. I often wondered if my actions could possibly spread the clubroot to another unsuspecting sole if the 'emptyings' were used to make compost?