Life without a bin?

Prudent

catowen wrote:

I didnt think cooked food could be put in the compost bins? I know i had a fridge magnet with mine, and it def says no cooked food on it, but i always feel bad putting the scraps in the normal bin!!!!

I have a brown bin too and I thought I couldn't put cooked food scraps in it. I am terrified of chickens, so they definately are not an option :rolleyes:

squeaky

super41 wrote:

I've recently switched my son to washable nappies and we've noticed the impact on our bin! Hardly anything in it and much fresher as well because disposable nappies in bags get really whiffy after a few days in the bin. Why not give reusable nappies a go?! They're much easier to use than I thought and I feel the long term benefits for DS and the environemnt and my pocket!) will be worth it.

a lady from the Real Nappy Network told me the other day just how many disposable nappies hit landfill...


8,000,000

A day!



Nobody knows how long they'll take to decompose, but estimates START at 200 years!

comping_cat

Our council give bags not wheelie bins (no black bags, we have to buy those ourselves) and they are a pain in the ****!!!!! But, i want to throw out as little as poss so always use them (clear for plastics, blue for paper and red for clothes) Ive also got the composter for all the peelings, grass, egg shells etc but like i said before, its the cooked stuff (and all those plastic yogurt pots and food containers that the council wont take) that i have to throw away. Im def going to look into a green cone or wormary tho, they sound perfect!!!!!

LJM

i always thought you could put your ash in the compost bin,my grandparents always did

tanith

We are very lucky here in Ealing it seems after reading this thread , we have a green bin for tins, paper, glass,foil,batteries , waste oil . All food waste cooked or uncooked goes in a lockable green bin, they have just started collecting our cardboard as long as it is flattened so the only thing that goes in the normal waste is plastic of any sort and they have said that they will start collecting that next year... we can go to the library and get free bio-degradable pink bags for all garden waste... all but the garden waste bags are collected weekly and garden waste fortnightly...

I probably put out about a quarter filled black sack for the normal rubbish collection now which is far better than 2 or 3 bags per week...:T

johnjp

catowen wrote:

I find i stick a lot of supermarket packaging in the bin, also left over food (normally the children not clearing their plates!!!) we havnt got chickens, and i would love to know how i could reuse that rather than putting it into the bin!!!!

I now have hens, so they usually get the food scraps, but until now I put the scraps down the toilet! I figured it was the best solution to prevent a stink and maggots/flies in the summer. After all that`s where alot of digested food goes!

Dustykitten

I have been recycling everything possible for years but am starting to get disheartened with it all. I read in the Telegraph earlier this month that all our plastic gets shipped to Asia to be sorted by hand and then recycled. We have green glass mountains as we don't bottle anything in green glass in this country either. The answer has got to be to reduce rather than recycle but that is a much tougher thing to do.

mrs_baggins

It makes me so angry to see what various councils are doing compared to mine! I am lucky in that we have a green wheelie bin for garden waste and a trial of a green box for paper - but not cardboard not even the very thin kind!! And this makes up a biggish portion of my waste. I put some of it in the compost bin along with food scraps. My hubbys a bit of a drinker and i have been collecting and crushing those and have a bin bag full so far!

I am presuming that some people green bins must be different to ours? In ours you can ONLY put in garden waste (not soil or large branches) and windfall fruit. ANY kind of kitchen waste is not allowed. I queried this as whats the diff between apple cores and peel from fruit that I have bought and windfall apples? Apparently its all down to the new animal by products regs which state that kitchen and garden waste cant be mixed. If it turns out upon checking the load that kitchen waste has been put in then the whole lot will have to go to landfill instead of being composted!

OddjobKIA

Ash can be used for paths in your garden. You can also use it in a mortar mix with a little cement and sand for garden walls.

We recycle all our Cardboard, paper, glass, plastic, foil, tins etc.

The kitchen food waste that you can't don't want to recycle will go to landfill but as this then composts there and creates heat as it does so it will speed up the decomposing of other items that are there.

oh just a quick note

If every country signed up to the Koyota Agreement and it was enfoced to 100% of what they agreed it would constitute 5% of what is needed doing.
That is not to say we shouldn't do our bit.

sallywl

squeaky wrote:

a lady from the Real Nappy Network told me the other day just how many disposable nappies hit landfill...


8,000,000

A day!



Nobody knows how long they'll take to decompose, but estimates START at 200 years!

Already decided if/when i have kids id use washable ones, nappies are soooo expensive, and so wasteful