The KonMarie method

Floss

Wort we have 3 - blue lid = glass, metal & plastics, green lid = green & food, black lid = everything else, plus a brown bag for paper & card.

GQ we're under a fires ban on all the town sites. It also covers wood burners which most of us have (mine holds up my shed!) so is a bit of a nuisance. We can have fires the weekend before & after Bonfire Night only

E.T.A. alternate weekly collections, black one week, recyclables the next.

VJsmum

Hello from the train back from dropping off DD into her uni halls room. In the end she took three mahooosive suitcases - in addition to the stuff she left there over the summer.

Oh my dears the stuff that is in that room.......:eek:

DVDs books, computer games, x box plus games, posters, cuddly toys..... I can't even describe just how busy that room is,....

We have five wheelie bins :eek:

Green for garden x2
Blue for recycling x2
Black for general rubbish - including food. The food used to go in with the garden waste but recently we have been told to put it in our general rubbish - I guess cos it's too expensive to process. Tho they tell us that there is no landfill, it all gets burnt for energy.

The black bin (pre kondo) was only half full on its fortnightly emptying. It is a bit more atm

I am hoping to get home in time to do my Min's game

We are planning a tip run tomorrow. :T

A question..
OH has got a couple of suitcases down from the loft. They a a very good brand but the type where the wheels are on the edge rather than across the bottom. That means they are really unstable to pull and we do not and will not use them. I am not sure whether to skip them or put them in the charity pile or take them to the little shop at the tip.... I am just not sure people want that type any more

Floss

VJ'smum we use that sort for storage in the attic - out of season clothes, spare quilt & pillows etc.

GreyQueen

Floss wrote: »

Wort we have 3 - blue lid = glass, metal & plastics, green lid = green & food, black lid = everything else, plus a brown bag for paper & card.

GQ we're under a fires ban on all the town sites. It also covers wood burners which most of us have (mine holds up my shed!) so is a bit of a nuisance. We can have fires the weekend before & after Bonfire Night only

That's a bit of a bummer. We're a city and the allotment sites are all on the edges of suburbia, with quite a bit of open ground beyond them. You can burn between 1st Oct and 31st March, provided you're burning only non-toxic materials produced on the allotment. Not allowed to bring things onto the sites to burn, or to burn painted or treated wood, plastics etc.

I love my autumn bonfire as a way of getting rid of some stuff that has rotted out during the course of the year, like row marker sticks, and damaged bamboo poles etc. If I find bits of rotted wood, I dry them out and burn them, too. I have a small and badly broken basket of untreated willow which will be burning, too.

When the fire is out, I rake the ashes flat and, after a day or two, I will turn them underground. It's particularly beneficial for the next year's spud crop, I have found, they love it.

It's very satisfying because it really tidies the place up a lot.

3forholidays

wort wrote: »

Can I just ask how many wheelie bins everyone has? We have 4.
Blue for paper and card
Brown for plastic and glass
Green for garden and food in compostable bags (which council ptovide)
Black is for everything else.:T

Weekly
Small grey food caddy: for food waste (bagged in a plastic bag, compostable liner or newspaper)

Fortnightly
Blue bin: for recyclables such as paper, card, cardboard, metal, plastics, tetrapak, & aerosols
Brown bin: Garden waste (March to November only)
Black box: Glass (bottles & jars), household batteries plus small electricals (kettles, toasters, electric toothbrushes etc)
Textile bag: Clothing, other textiles & shoes

Every 3 weeks
Green bin: Non-recyclable items

june89

VJsmum I had a broken suitcase that I took down to the tip and asked. They took it for scrap metal from the frame. Could be an option? I replaced it with a spinner suitcase (the ones with 4 wheels) that is most joyful to steer through the airport.

Becky_2

Evening all

Today is the first time in 2 weeks time that I am doing something as part of the KM method. I have also caught up on this thread (15 pages). I have filed away some paperwork and shredded the rest. I also hoovered and dusted the whole bungalow. After joining this thread I have started to dust and hoover at the same time, this helps me to keep on top of the dusting.

OH has not worked for a couple of weeks now and our garage looks so much better, he has sorted through all of our plastic containers and been to the tip several times.It feels great that he has caught the bug as well.

mavvymoo

mavvy, some bin lorries are 'split body' which means they can do two different kinds of pick-ups at the same time (and disgorge the contents separately). Some of ours are of that type (some aren't) and we regularly have residents ring up in a snit because they think their recycling has gone into the refuse stream when it hasn't.

This lorry wasnt split It just got chucked on mixed together. I used to stand there and shake my head and make tutting noises This was going back a while ago before all the new rules on councils having to recycle a certain percentage of waste.

They have upped the game now and do come on different days for the Black bags and the Clear bags as my Dad still lives in that area :DWhich is good to know.


Mav x

Forgot to add I did a litter pick today just down the road where I live as I was fed up looking at the litter.I walked about half a mile in total up and down the road and got 3 full bin bags of rubbish. Including 7 empty wine bottles !
Then when I finished I was talking to a lady down the road she said she always litter picked outside her house and a few weeks ago she found an Icel*nd bag with a (no longer) frozen Chicken in it ! We were laughing and coming up with stories as to how it got there. But why would it have been there it is beyond belief really isnt it !

PollyWollyDoodle

Two bins here - green one, collected weekly, takes food waste and garden waste.
Black one, fortnightly, takes non-recyclable waste. Mine is rarely more than 1/4 full.
On the week that the black bin isn't collected, we put out clear sacks for all recyclables- card, paper, plastic all together. Glass also goes out this week.

I think it's a brilliant system but I wonder what other people do with their recycling mid-collection? My kitchen bin has two compartments but the recycling one fills up really quickly. I put the clear bag in the garage but not all my neighbours have a garage.

Siebrie

We have a black wheelie bin for green waste,mthat we paid 40 euros for, and an annual fee of 30 euros. It is emptied fortnightly, even fridays.

Blue transparent bin bags we pay 13 cents each for, for plastics, tins, and tetra. Collected fortnightly, odd fridays.

Paper and cardboard, and glass (which has to be in a sturdy box - no cardboard box), collected once a month.

Other waste, collected every week, in white binbags that cost 2 euros each. We are a family of 4, and usually manage to put this bag out every other week.