Tiggy Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 OH & I are the only ones at home most of the time, his 2 teenagers come & go but between chickens, cats, composting, kerb side recycling & open fire we manage to keep our rubbish down to less than 1` bag a week & the occassional trip to the tip to get rid of cardboard. My non pet loving neighbour puts out 10-15 a week!!! other neighbours with cats & dogs do about 2-3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 10-15 . That's disgusting . How on earth do they create that much rubbish? Presumably they don't recycle anything at all - bottles, plastic, cardboard, paper? We used to have 2 bags a week even with council recycling but now I've got it down to one with my compost and bokashi bins and taking stuff in to the school art dept. . There are 4 of us inc. 2 teenagers. Our council collects cardboard, paper, bottles & cans and garden waste and I take plastic to recycling centres. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little chickadee Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 We have 1 bag every 1 1/2 weeks I think. We use a Bokashi Composter for all our food waste which isn' raw veg. Raw veg peelings (the chooks wont eat them) go into the compost bin. Hemcore goes on the Raspberry bed, as does Chicken Poo. Luckily our council collects paper/ compostable waste and recyclable plastic. I think some people still throw out Glass (We've only just persuaded our inlaws to stop!!! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 We probably throw out about 3 bags worth with 5 in our family. We had reduced it but since getting 2 new cats last July who prefer to use a litter tray rather than the garden it has gone up again We recycle cardboard, plastic bottles (all other plastic has to go in the bin because we don't have recycling facilities for it) tins,glass,tetra-packs,paper which is either burnt in our woodburner or recycled, newspaper which is used to start the fire or to line the eglu poo tray then composted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 plastic recycling is a problem in our area so is just about the only thing I put into the bin, my neighbour is lovely but is house obcessed, has to have the perfect house & garden, luckily the council provide green wheelie bins to collect garden waste otherwise all that would go to the tip as well. OH suspects that her hubby is putting some of his building waste into black bags (self employed plasterer) because he would be charged if he went to the tip. We have even seen them putting bags outside other peoples houses in the dark. One week the bin men took the 15 bags & left my 1, I was so cross. we prob wont do anything unless the council begin charging & we end up paying for her waste, I have tried talking to her but she says recycling encourages pests!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 We have a big black wheelie bin and a green bin for grass etc. Our council is piloting a brown bin for glass, plastic & tins which should start in the next month. I hope we are in the pilot as the little shed where we keep the chicken stuff is where we keep all the recycling until we can take it to the supermarket where the containers are. We are currently creating loads of rubbish with the building work that is going on. We have got a permit from the council by applying online so that A can take some of the rubble to the tip in his van for us, and the old bathroom suite ( vans are banned, as well as trailers unless you have a permit) We are slowly getting rid of the bathroom wall tiles by putting a few in the black bin each week They were too awful to freecycle. We will have to pay the council £10 to take away the old washing machine & two bed matresses as both boys are getting new beds. The council will take 7 items for you of houshold furnishings (stuff you would take with you if you moved house) for £10. They used to do it free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 We are quite lucky - our council gives us a black bin for non-recyclable waste (which we about half fill each week) and a green one for newspaper, magazines, cans, aluminium foil and plastics (but only types 1,2, and 4 ). Unfortunately they only collect this monthly and mine is always overflowing by collection day, although everything in it is crushed and packed well down. I am setting up a bigger hot compost system since our bin filled up in a matter of weeks over the autumn (the ash tree in the garden having shed an awful lot of leaves), so I hope that will reduce our food waste even more. We recycle glass and I save drink cartons to take to the recycling bank at the supermarket - there are only 6 of these around the city as a pilot so I'm using it to encourage the council to expand the scheme! Also we re-use all the non-recylable containers wherever possible. In my house I am the Recycling Lady, but it pays off - the kids sort their rubbish without thinking about it. Many neighbours seem to fill the black bin and put out several bin bags each week - I cannot imagine how they manage it, most of them only have 2 adults in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 We have fortnightly collections. Main bin one week, recyclables the next. We are lucky that the council take paper, cans, cardboard and plastics (numbers 1,2 and 3 - strange that you have 1,2 and 4)? We normally put out 1-2 bags every couple of weeks, but the recycle bin is always full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Can someone explain what plastic types 1-4 are . I hope I've not been putting the wrong type in the recycling . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 We are on about 3 bags again since dd started getting permanent nappy rash and I had to resort back to moltex. Hopefully it will go down again soon if ds2 shows any sign of potty training. How do they get 10-15 bags? Theres 5 of us and half of its nappies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted January 31, 2008 Author Share Posted January 31, 2008 10-15 bags is rediculous but they have been doing it for months, as I say we think its plaster bags from his work but even so they should try to dispose of them in a better way. I have suggested that she let me have her kitchen waste to dispose of but she thinks that idea is disgusting - strange lady, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 There are three of us (2 adults and a teenager) and we have a black and a green wheelie-bin, plus a separate green box - weekly collections alternate between green and black. Garden trimmings and cardboard go in the green bin, along with some kitchen waste (the "easy/safe to compost at home" stuff goes into the compost bin on our allotment); paper, glass and tins go in the green box, and we take our plastic bottles to the nearest recycling point. Loo-roll tubes are saved to make "root-trainer" pots for peas and beans. Unwanted but OK items go into charity collections bags or onto the campus for-sale list or freecycle, as appropriate. And of course the girls are a great way to recycle leftovers! Even with two indoor cats and their litter, plus a junk-food-munching teenager, we seldom fill our black bin in a fortnight, unless we're having a big clearout that produces a lot of non-recyclables. 10-15 black bags a week is outrageous! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reikiranf Posted February 3, 2008 Share Posted February 3, 2008 We have four in our household (3 adults and a teenager) & Lilliput the cat who's 15 years old. We get our chickens on 28th February & can't wait! Our council make recycling very easy so we usually only put out one bag of rubbish for landfill per week, we have a brown wheelie bin for garden and kitchen waste ( we can put cooked food leftovers in it as well) and we have three other large boxes for glass, paper and cardboard and the last one is for plastics, foil & cans. Lilliput uses a litter tray and we used to use "Worlds best Cat litter" which doesn't go into landfill as you can flush it down the toilet, but it is very expensive sooooo.........oh, I'm not sure I should be saying this, I use chick crumb which does the same job but is much cheaper, I know it's wasting food but at least I'm not putting loads of fullers earth and nappy sacks into landfill like I used to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 We have a weekly black bin collection. ( I rarely fill it....in fact I normally only put it out once a fortnight.) I take cartons, plastic and glass to the recycling place at Waitrose. Big cardboard items can be recycled at B&Q. Bokashi bins and a wormery (Which I don't get on with very well ).....and the hens for veg s"Ooops, word censored!"s, compost bins for garden waste. Blue bins (monthly collection) for papers. I am obsessive about recycling and am always fishing banana skins etc out of the kitchen bin and transferring them to the bokashi bin. The family are about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 I am obsessive about recycling and am always fishing banana skins etc out of the kitchen bin and transferring them to the bokashi bin. I'm the same . Don't know how many times I've fished OH's used teabags out of the "rubbish" caddy & put them in the "compost" caddy. Is there a particular reason to put banana skins in the bokashi rather than compost? (I always compost citrus peelings too - but is it right I'm not supposed to do that either .) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 The bokashi bin is next to the back door. The compost bin is at the top of the garden. I haven't got one of those caddies. Keep forgetting to buy one. Also....I find if stuff is "bokashied" before adding it to the compost heap,it doesn't seem to attract rats in the same way. Just my observation....nothing scientific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Webmuppet Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 We have less than one black sack per week. We try to recycle or compost everythng we can. Theres three of us in the house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted February 5, 2008 Share Posted February 5, 2008 There are 6 of us here, plus 5 cats, 2 rats, 2 chooks and some fish (though the pets don't generate much waste... the bedding and litter all goes on various compost heaps/bins)... We do get a fair amount of pouches (from the cats' wet food)... One of the 6 humans is a nappy-stage baby, and I can see it in the bins quantity on the weeks when, for one reason or other, I use paper rather cloth nappies... We use to throw away a lot, but now with the recycling/composting, we are down to about 2 and a half bags a week (well five a fortnight)... We do get a bit more when we do spring tidying in the house, or works... somehow there always seem to be things that are not worth giving to charity shops and that we can't recycle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susannah Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 Just the 2 of us here but we recycle as much as we can. I found since having a composter the rest of the waste is drier and therefore doesn't attract any vermin. In fact I have forgotton to put out the non recyclables for about a month now and no issues about mice even though we live quite close to fields. I guess in summer it might attract flies a bit. Our council have only just started to collect glass which is great javascript:emoticon(':)') Smilebut really the supermarkets need to do more to make sure the packaging for their products are recyclable. I heard that tetrapaks can't be recycled because the cardboard is coated in plastic and the two components are next to impossible to split up. Does anyone know if this is true?javascript:emoticon(':?') Confused Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 We usually have 2 pedal bin liners of rubbish a week. I am very proud of this as there are 5 of us in the house. You are right about Tetrapaks. It is the lining which causes the trouble. Tetrapak recycle them themselves though, but you have to post them to them: Tetrapak Recycling c/o Perry's Recycling Showground Road Bridgwater Somerset TA6 6AJ Here is a ready-made label: http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/downloads/labels_oct_06.pdf The tetrapaks have to be in a cardboard box with absolutely nothing else in it. Posting tetrapaks made a HUGE difference to my rubbish load. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted February 6, 2008 Share Posted February 6, 2008 That's good to know Ginette. I had no idea you could do that . Saved it to my favourites for future reference! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 We have recycling bins in our Morrisons ans Tesco car parks for drinks cartons now they are usually full but it is still good to have this facility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karen & co. Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 We have a couple of polaces to recycle tetrapak too It's not very well advertised though Karen x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FORENSICA Posted February 7, 2008 Share Posted February 7, 2008 We generate maybe a half of the black bin liner. I recycle everything possible. The other day I was really surprised to find out from a leaflet that they collect Tetrapacs too which is great in our weekly collections. Also, I compost everything (including banana and orange peels- not sure how long these will take to actually decompose ) from veg leftovers. We also forced our cats using the loo and later only garden so we won't need the cat litter (but that was from our laziness more then love of environment ) It is 2 of us at home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daywalker Posted February 13, 2008 Share Posted February 13, 2008 One! And we're a family of four. Watch wha you bu packaging wise and recycle EVERYTHING! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...