Real Story - Fiona Bruce - Rubbish!!

cazrobinson

About nappies making the bins stink, I'm not surprised! Human waste isn't supposed to be part of household rubbish. It needs to go into the sewage system to be treated. You are supposed to tip the poo from nappies into the toilet. I believe it even tells you to do that on the packet? That would cut down on the wiff a bit.[/QUOTE]

I think it's actually law that human excrement must be disposed of by flushing down the loo or incinerated (think hospital waste).

This is never completely explained on disposibles packets, whose whole idea is that you can wrap and dispose all in one go. The government just hasn't stood up to the dispo manufacturers on this issue yet!!

ScoobieGirl

Aside from nappies I don't understand why people are complaining about the whiff & flies around the bins

Surely these are both a result of food waste which is still collected in the smaller bins weekly, so the same as before.

We've only just changed. The first couple of times the bin was really full. But after a few weeks you really focus on how much waste you make. And that can only be a good thing.

Slartibardfast_2

ScoobieGirl wrote:

Surely these are both a result of food waste which is still collected in the smaller bins weekly, so the same as before.

It seems that you have a more sensible scheme in your area than most councils provide. A weekly collection of a small bin for food waste would be the icing on the cake here in Tamworth.

Here we have one black bin, one green bin and two blue boxes for recycling. (and yes, I know that is far better than many councils provide, I used to live in Birmingham where wheelie bins are yet to make an appearance so the streets are strewn with black bin bags on collection days!)

The black bin and green bin are collected on alternate weeks (the green bin for 8 months of the year), so during the summer the black bin will smell after about a week and spends a further week festering in the hot sun.

This summer I'm building a bin store out of old pallet wood (to provide much needed shade for the black bin) and installing a wormery (again DIY as I don't want to shell out £50 for plastic tubs with mesh at the bottom) for cooked food scraps, and some paper/card waste, which should help somewhat.

My main concern is for the folk who are unable to take any action themselves for whatever reason (transport, mobility, lack of local facilities or funds).

We WILL end up paying more for our waste to be collected in the next few years.

In Germany many local authorities have been weighing rubbish for years and recycling has also been taxable depending on the volume and type of material recycled.

That said, German retailers are forced to accept drinks containers {and some other forms of packaging} that they have sold even if there is no deposit, and practically all beer and juice bottles comply with a deposit system at the supermarket/getrankemarkt.

Maybe it is time for retailers in the UK to stomach the same responsibility as thier Teutonic counterparts?

lil_me

Durham council collect glass, paper and cans fortnightly, composting bins also emptied fortnightly in summer but less in winter. Downside to these composting bins as you can't line them they end up stinking and can't use chemicals in them. I wish they collected more. I also am dissappointed as just in the 8 houses closest to me there is only 2 more use these!

My sister lives under another LA and I wish we had the same collections. They collect cardboard, plastic, cans, glass and paper one week and the other household the next. This would be much better for me now as I am making the effort to recycle much more but have to travel 8 miles to nearest collection point for cardboard and haven't found a plastics one yet.

clairefun

We don't get any bins, and whatever bin bags we put out have to fill the pavement, as our front door opens onto the street. We *were* given a blue box for fortnightly paper and tins, but someone nicked it. Says it all really! We now get blue bags and usually have about 3 on our 'patio' - which you can fit about 5 bin bags on in total, if you stack them up a bit - and you've then got no hope of getting to the garden, where there isn't space for a compost bin either. I don't own a car, have a 2 year old, and am agoraphobic, so if our black bag rubbish goes fortnightly too I'm going to have real trouble just finding somewhere for the bin bags to go. We stack up a bag of bottles in the kitchen for hubby to take to bottle bank and that's worrying enough with a toddler in the house - so I really don't want bin bags in the house too.