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Fortnightly Bin Collection

Proddy | 07.08.2007 21:15

the solution

When your bin is half full put a plywood board on top of the rubbish and add house bricks untill the weight compresses the contents.I did it to my bin and it went from nearly full to about 8 inches full.By the time it came to collect it i would estimate it weighed about 120 kilos.I think i could easy make it 200.There is always a dumb solution to the local government Hitlers.

Proddy

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I'm not supporting fortnightly collections

08.08.2007 00:11

but what the fuck sort of consumer crap must you be buying every day that fills a bin in less than 2 weeks? The obvious thing is to choose not to buy stuff that's so over packaged. Even better, email the manufacturers of this crap and tell them why you're refusing to spend your money on such wasteful procucts that they're expecting you to blindly accept.

tread lightly

Is fornightly collection such a big deal?

08.08.2007 08:33

We have fortnightly collection here, and havn't been plagued with infestations of rats and flies as promised so often by the Daily Mail (and Keith 'Wheelie-Bin' Parkins). You're not his sock puppet by any chance are you? - no-one else seems to see fortnightly collection as a problem.

120kg is a massive about of residual waste to generate in only two weeks. Even the largest familes (who get bigger bins) wouldn't get through 120kg of groceries in that time. Are you sure you're not sneaking trade waste into the domestic waste stream.

This wastefulness and the selfishness it represents must be stopped or the country will become one huge landfill site. The only way to make this happen is to peanalise the like of proddy severely. The sooner waste is weighed on the dustcart, using rfid tagged lockable bins if necessary and charged per kilo the better. Then you might sort your recyclables.

Mike

Missing a collection

08.08.2007 09:33

Fortnightly collections aren't a prolem unless you can't put the bin out for collection for whatever reason. You're pretty shagged then.
I don't see the problem with weekly collections.
Alongside recycling boxes obviously.

Andy

Missing a collection

08.08.2007 10:52

I put my residual waste bin out once every four weeks. No rats, no smells, no flies or any of the other things some have claimed will happen. Very little goes into the residual waste bin, as we practice reducing what we bring into the house and most things not reused go to recycling or composting.

Fortnightly residual bin collections were started here earlier this summer. There has been little fuss and it has encouraged some to think more, as a result of which the recycling point is now getting a lot more materials.

The Daily mail is making a lot of fuss over nothing. Not unusual, they want to sell their newspaper by preying on the gullible.

A N Other

agree...

08.08.2007 16:09

with the comments above. our house also finds it impossible to fill a bin even over 4 weeks when we forget to put it out. however, because we're not composting organic waste (should organise it with someone with garden/space, we're in a not very green part of city) our 3 week old waste IS absolutely overrun with millions of the tiny fruit flies at the moment. but they're harmless anyway....

anarchoteapot

composting without a garden

09.08.2007 05:33

Those without a garden can compost most kitchen waste in a wormery. One can sit in a convenient corner inside the flat.

A N Other

re:composting without a garden

09.08.2007 21:22

I suspect it is very easy to say that, but if you have no garden or (like me don't do much gardening apart from cutting the grass occasionally) then what would you do with the compost? At the end of the day it will have to go somewhere. There is no reason why there shouldn't be weekly collections, especially when the council tax continues to increase beyond inflation EVERY YEAR without ANY explanation. Perhaps campaigners should try questioning this issue instead.

Brian B

I hate gardening.....

10.08.2007 06:54

......and scarcely ever even bother cutting the grass, but I still have a compost bin. I think fears of 'compost mountains' are a little misplaced, kitchen waste breaks down into virtually nothing eventually, so it would take years for you to develop enough compost for it to become a problem. If it does, give it to your neighbours or any keen gardener. You could even sell it.

As far as I am aware local authorities are increasingly introducing fortnightly collections as a cost reduction exercise in the face of huge increases in landfill tax that have been introduced in recent years. If you think council tax is unreasonably high now, then god knows what it would be if the landfill charges were passed on directly.

Personally, I do not have a problem with local authorities encouraging more recycling and less use of totally unneccessary packaging. Here we are in the 21st century, and our primary response to 'managing' domestic waste is still to dig a bloody big hole and bury it.

Clive Compost

Incinerate

11.08.2007 11:00

Proddy, they have refuse to empty bins over a certain weight even if they aren't full. Another suggestion is to strip off extra packaging and leave it at source - the place you bought the product.

Local councils in Scotland are promoting incineration as a quick way to meet their waste targets.

"the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency says the next generation of incinerators are so clean that one of them would take more than a century to produce as much of the poisonous chemical dioxin as a single major firework display."

Which takes the fun out of the nightly fireworks displays in Edinburgh.

Danny
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Fortnightly Bin Collection

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I'm not supporting fortnightly collections

Is fornightly collection such a big deal?

Missing a collection

Missing a collection

agree...

composting without a garden

re:composting without a garden

I hate gardening.....

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