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Bi-weekly black bin 'pet waste' collection on its way. |
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Sep 23 2011, 03:57 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Sep 22 2011, 09:49 PM) Apparently there is a pressure group to persuade people to go back to using terry nappies. Environment, and all that. Trouble is that the energy and chemicals (especially phosphates) used for washing negate any environmental gains.
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Sep 23 2011, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 22 2011, 08:52 PM) Therefore you would have seen that the issue is with 'effluent' disposal. Currently it is collected weekly. It looks like it will go fortnightly. Exactly, and while I like the bi-weekly collection which saves methane-genic bio-degradables going to landfil, the pooh-problem must be addressed. There's the cat-litter and nappy issue already discussed, and there's the dog pooh problem too: Our dogs pooh in the garden, and we bag it up and put it in the black bin. It has to be picked up because otherwise it would be a health problem, and we don't have bio-degradable pooh-bags so it can't go in the green bin. It can't be flushed down the loo because again the bag isn't biodegradable and it would cause a blockage to the sewage system somewhere, and there isn't a satisfactory way of picking up the pooh in the garden and carrying it through the house to flush down the loo (and in any case flush toilets are not the most environmentally-friendly way of disposing of pooh). Pooh will become insnitary after two weeks in a hot wheelie bin, so it is necessary for WBC to find an answer to this problem.
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Sep 24 2011, 07:08 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 23 2011, 04:25 PM) So do I but I still find the green bag is not big enough what with all the plastic packaging you get from the supermarket. No. Crush cans flat, flatten plastic bottles and put the lid on. Loads of room
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Sep 24 2011, 11:22 AM
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QUOTE (bonnie @ Sep 24 2011, 11:52 AM) Just a thought,wasn't green bin collection stopped during the winter ? During the winter there was a time where many people's bins weren't collected, but it wasn't a seasonal decision, more because of extraordinary weather conditions.
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Sep 24 2011, 11:38 AM
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QUOTE (Andy1 @ Sep 24 2011, 08:08 AM) No. Crush cans flat, flatten plastic bottles and put the lid on. Loads of room Like I said, I crush and flatten everything as much as I can and still there is not enough room in the infernal green plastic sack. Lid?? I do put all plastic and metal for recycling in the bag and fill it twice over in 2 weeks..
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Sep 24 2011, 03:39 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Sep 24 2011, 03:25 PM) Are there no recycling bins at supermarket carparks? What am I paying my bl**dy council tax for? To have it collected, that's what for!
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Sep 24 2011, 04:06 PM
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QUOTE (Nothing Much @ Sep 24 2011, 03:25 PM) Someone mentioned a French system of major bins that all members of the commune used. They do this in Spain too. Perhaps it's worth considering here too.
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Sep 24 2011, 09:03 PM
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QUOTE (JeffG @ Sep 22 2011, 09:49 PM) Apparently there is a pressure group to persuade people to go back to using terry nappies. Environment, and all that. A new factory has open in Birmingham. They collect disposable nappies and turn them into roof tiles.
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Sep 25 2011, 09:13 AM
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QUOTE (Berkshirelad @ Sep 23 2011, 04:57 PM) Trouble is that the energy and chemicals (especially phosphates) used for washing negate any environmental gains. Marketing spin from the makers of disposable nappies.
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Sep 25 2011, 10:34 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 24 2011, 12:38 PM) Like I said, I crush and flatten everything as much as I can and still there is not enough room in the infernal green plastic sack. Lid?? I do put all plastic and metal for recycling in the bag and fill it twice over in 2 weeks.. Sorry, I was saying I don't find it an issue. That was your question
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Sep 25 2011, 03:19 PM
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QUOTE (Andy1 @ Sep 25 2011, 11:34 AM) Sorry, I was saying I don't find it an issue. That was your question Oh I see, sorry. It might have avoided confusion if you had quoted the question you were replying to.
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Sep 26 2011, 10:10 AM
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I have a very small garden and hardly ever put my green bin out least of all in Winter. This means we have to wait a fortnight for our food waste to be collected - smelly, inviting rats and not making good use of my Community Charge which grows annually! And that's apart from having to trundle round the block to put the green bin out anyway. What a U turn for the Council. Unimpressed.
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