Ziggy Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Okie, maybe it's nothing to write home about, but I just took one bag of rubbish from the kitchen bin to the wheelie bin outside... and it's the first bag I've taken out in a whole week... Not too bad, considering there are 6 of us, including a baby, and also a grand total of 9 pets... Far are the days when we put so much rubbish outside each week, we could have had our private landfill... I might be nagging all the time about it all, and DH might be fed up hearing it... but today when I looked into the wheelie bin, I SMILED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Well done. I rarely fill my wheely bin.......there are just three of us at home now on a full time basis. I usually jut put it at the kerbside once a fortnight....just for smell avoidance reasons. I could get away with once a month as a rule. Lovely smug feeling isn't it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Well done! We're now down to about one black bin-bag a week, plus a supermarket carrier bag of cat litter and occasional odds and ends - it's rare that we completely fill the wheelie bin in a fortnight. The green bin on the other hand is often full to the brim, especially this time of year when we do a lot of pruning and general garden maintenance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 We don't have a green bin.....but we can buy green bags from the town hall (which means a carbon footprint making trip into the city centre ) and buy special green bags which can be filled with garden prunings . 50p each, although sometimes they do a BOGOF. You leave them at the kerbside in multiples of three and they collect them within 5 days of you ringing them. In the meantime every passing idiot kicks them around and spreads the contents along the length of the road. I'd rather have a bin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura & CTB Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I rarely fill my wheely bin.......there are just three of us at home now on a full time basis. Ah but Egluntine, you're forgetting all that extra fluff from your Roomba now has to go too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Ah but Egluntine, you're forgetting all that extra fluff from your Roomba now has to go too I think that hoover fluff can go in the compost - am I right? Ziggy, you are right to be smug . When you hear about people chucking out an eglu ( ) it shows there's a long way to go in educating some people. I too feel smug that we have only one bin bag a week (and can't help tutting at people's wheelie bins that are overflowing ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 Ah but Egluntine, you're forgetting all that extra fluff from your Roomba now has to go too I think that hoover fluff can go in the compost - am I right? Ziggy, you are right to be smug . When you hear about people chucking out an eglu ( ) it shows there's a long way to go in educating some people. I too feel smug that we have only one bin bag a week (and can't help tutting at people's wheelie bins that are overflowing ). Yep.....the fluff is on the compost heap....as is any fluff from the filter on the tumble drier, which I try to use as little as poss. You want to see my neighbours wheely bin! Brimming over every week and children both at University. She doesn't "believe" in recycling, because according to her it all gets put on a boat and sent to "poor countries". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 I've got one of those next door to me too Egluntine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyren Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 She doesn't "believe" in recycling, because according to her it all gets put on a boat and sent to "poor countries". So that's what they're doing with my buddleia prunings and mouldy baked beans Ah, you mean landfill? I wonder where the free compost at our local recycling centre comes from, then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted March 5, 2008 Author Share Posted March 5, 2008 To be honest, there are still fortnights, especially when DH is around a lot, when our wheelie bin gets full (not overflowing though), but it's nice to see efforts to recycle/compost/nag everyone pay off... I am starting to think of myself as the rubbish warden in our house... Was even more impressed with myself today when, after feeling smug about the bin, I remembered to take my reusable bag to the shops today, saving on plastic bags... I have a few net bags, and the number of times I have reached the check out at our local store just to think 'doh!!! left it in the car/house again' is unbelievable... I was smiling from ear to ear in every shop I went into today, answering 'no thanks' to all the 'would you like a bag?'... Good green day for me!! Long may it last... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 5, 2008 Share Posted March 5, 2008 When we moved here we had to get a shiny new wheelie bin from the council, because it's a new build, and they asked how big the family was. Because there are 5 of us, they automatically gave us a giant one. It gets put out once a month in the winter, once a fortnight in the summer (it starts to smell in the summer quicker than in the winter), and has yet to ever be full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flo Posted March 12, 2008 Share Posted March 12, 2008 I called my council a few weeks ago and swapped our large wheelie bin for a tiny one. There are only two of us in the house and we hardly generate any rubbish and I got fed up with all the space it took up outside. Now there is a tiny bin that hardly gets used as we recycle everything. I recently got our milk delivered (in glass bottles) and I am really surprised at how many plastic cartons we used to get through. Our plastic recycling has dropped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ziggy Posted March 17, 2008 Author Share Posted March 17, 2008 Oh yes milk plastic bottles do really add up don't they... Juice cartons are also contributing a lot to our rubbish, though our local recycling bank now takes them, which makes a big difference. I used to get our milk delivered in glass bottles... might sound weird, but I just really liked the look and feel of those bottles, there was something homely about them... but our milkman wasn't very useful, he was always downright grumpy and wouldn't pick up my empties when I left them out. I left notes to ask him nicely to take them, and he would only then take one away, leaving the rest. I ended with 28 bottles standing on the doorstep!! With four kids we use a lot of milk, especially as I use a lot of it too, in teas and coffees, cereals and to drink... the bigger plastic bottles seem practical now, and I actually found at the time when I went over to ordering them along with my supermarket shopping, that it was quite a bit cheaper too... We easily go through 6 pints a day though... maybe I should buy a cow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...