About to change from weekly to fortnightly collections-any pointers?

Savvy_Sue

I keep one bin upstairs into which all recycling from upstairs gets put - empty shampoo bottles, loo roll innards etc.

The kitchen's a mess because we have small bins for food scraps and another for compostable stuff on the floor by the main bin, plus a slimline bin for cardboard. We have a Tesco laundry bin in the dining room for squashed plastic bottles, need to empty that every two weeks.

I use very few carrier bags because I always have a couple of thin cotton bags in my handbag, and thicker bags in the boot of the car.

Smiley_Mum

Savvy_Sue wrote:

I keep one bin upstairs into which all recycling from upstairs gets put - empty shampoo bottles, loo roll innards etc.

The kitchen's a mess because we have small bins for food scraps and another for compostable stuff on the floor by the main bin, plus a slimline bin for cardboard. We have a Tesco laundry bin in the dining room for squashed plastic bottles, need to empty that every two weeks.

I use very few carrier bags because I always have a couple of thin cotton bags in my handbag, and thicker bags in the boot of the car.[/quote]

Have you seen the new Anya Hindmarch £5 designer bag. Says, "I'm not a plastic bag". It's now out of stock and new stocks will be instore from March. Apparently Sainsburys are going to be stocking it too. A real genuine designer bag for a fiver, bargain. If, that is, you can get hold of one. All the celebs are after one too, see Grazia magazine for more info.

http://www.anyahindmarch.com/division/environmental_bags.aspx

Talking of celebs, I wonder if MSG is on the waiting list for one, maybe she's already got one. :-) Maybe Martin might oblige and get one for her. ;-)

Savvy_Sue

Smiley_Mum wrote:

Have you seen the new Anya Hindmarch £5 designer bag. Says, "I'm not a plastic bag". It's now out of stock and new stocks will be instore from March. Apparently Sainsburys are going to be stocking it too. A real genuine designer bag for a fiver, bargain. If, that is, you can get hold of one. All the celebs are after one too, see Grazia magazine for more info.

http://www.anyahindmarch.com/division/environmental_bags.aspx

Talking of celebs, I wonder if MSG is on the waiting list for one, maybe she's already got one. :-) Maybe Martin might oblige and get one for her. ;-)

Well, I've looked, but I can't say I'm excited ... what's so special about a Designer Bag?

[Excuse me while I go off on a quick rant - what is it with 'Designer' this, that and the other, EVERYTHING has a designer, just some are designed by someone more people have heard of. And, quite frankly, the ones where the designer gets no credit are often a darn sight more practical than the Designer ones!]

Anyway, it's too big and bulky to fold up into a pocket or a handbag, and the straps are all wrong (I like a shoulder strap), and the colour's impractical.

So I'll stick with my selection from Pigsback, the Link Centre for Deafened People, some electricity supplier, the Millenium Dome - recycled from old tyres, IIRC - (remember the dome? and the bag's still going strong!), a natty pink one which folds down into a tiny pouch, and a couple of others of no known provenance. (I'm really sad to have lost the one from Vasles, Sheep Capital of Europe, especially as it had a couple of pizzas in it when I left it on the bus! :rotfl:)

Smiley_Mum

Savvy_Sue wrote:

Well, I've looked, but I can't say I'm excited ... what's so special about a Designer Bag?

[Excuse me while I go off on a quick rant - what is it with 'Designer' this, that and the other, EVERYTHING has a designer, just some are designed by someone more people have heard of. And, quite frankly, the ones where the designer gets no credit are often a darn sight more practical than the Designer ones!]

Anyway, it's too big and bulky to fold up into a pocket or a handbag, and the straps are all wrong (I like a shoulder strap), and the colour's impractical.

So I'll stick with my selection from Pigsback, the Link Centre for Deafened People, some electricity supplier, the Millenium Dome - recycled from old tyres, IIRC - (remember the dome? and the bag's still going strong!), a natty pink one which folds down into a tiny pouch, and a couple of others of no known provenance. (I'm really sad to have lost the one from Vasles, Sheep Capital of Europe, especially as it had a couple of pizzas in it when I left it on the bus! :rotfl:)

I just have the Tesco blue fllowery ones, two big and one small, for the princely sum of 40p each. I see they have ones with ladybirds on too now.

Savvy_Sue

Smiley_Mum wrote:

I just have the Tesco blue fllowery ones, two big and one small, for the princely sum of 40p each. I see they have ones with ladybirds on too now.

That sounds more like my kind of bag ... not been in Tesco for a long while, might look next time I'm forced to go, but I am quite fussy about my bags ... :rotfl:

SusanCarter

Spendless wrote:

Tetrapaks and cardboard with a waxy coating (still not 100% sure I know what this is ) can't go in, nor can cardboard that has come in contact with food (eg takeaway pizza boxes) but other cardboard can like cereal packets and the wrappers round yoghurts, so I think we'd also be ok with the cardboard boxes that medicines come packaged in too.

I think the cardboard packaging on frozen foods has a waxy coating. (When I was at school, we once had to save it for stencilling in Art.)

cazrobinson

bocashi (sp?) try wigglywigglers.co.uk

can get rid of cooked waste, meat etc very quickly