We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.

This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.

📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

Help with son's survey please

12467

Comments

  • Hi My son is doing about ls doing sbout Landfill at school. Could you MSEers answer few questions about rubbish please.
    1. How many adults inyour house?
    2. How many children?
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).

    Many thanks and I apologise if this is in the wrong section.
    1. 2
    2. 2
    3. half a wheelie bin
    4. 1 bag of paper per fortnight
    1/2 box of glass per fortnight
    Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination:beer:

    Oscar Wilde
  • 1. How many adults inyour house? 2
    2. How many children? 0
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman? 0-1
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste). 1 box + glass
    My TV is broken! :cry:
    Edit: refunded £515 for TV 1.5 years out of warranty - thank you Sale of Goods Act! :j
  • benood
    benood Posts: 1,398 Forumite
    2
    3
    4
    1 or 2 boxes every fortnight.
  • Mark7799
    Mark7799 Posts: 4,806 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi My son is doing about ls doing sbout Landfill at school. Could you MSEers answer few questions about rubbish please.
    1. How many adults inyour house?
    2. How many children?
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).

    Many thanks and I apologise if this is in the wrong section.

    1. 4 (the children are 20 & 18 so assume you class them as adults)
    2. see above
    3. Usually 2, sometimes 1
    4. 3 or 4

    As a point, before our council introduced recycling, we usually managed 4 black sacks per week.

    Good luck to your son;)
    Gwlad heb iaith, gwlad heb galon
  • 1. How many adults inyour house?
    2. How many children?
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).

    1. 2 adults
    2. 2 children
    3. 2 bags

    4. 1 box to recycle paper/cans . only recycle box provided by council

    we are very good other half takes ds to recycle centre every 2nd saturday morn,( i work other sat) with cardboard and glass bottles (wine bots:cool: :cool: ) .

    good luckto your son .
    Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, champagne in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming ~ WOO HOO what a ride!

  • 2 adults and a dog in the house
    no kids
    about 1/2 a black sack a week
    one paper bag and one full glass/metal and plastics box a fortnight
    DFW Nerd no 239.....Last Personal Debt paid off Nov 2012!
    Donated 50 pints so far.... gold badge got 17/11/13! Blood Group O+
    mummy to 3 cats, 2 budgies and a cockatiel
  • Frith
    Frith Posts: 8,815 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Name Dropper
    Hi My son is doing about ls doing sbout Landfill at school. Could you MSEers answer few questions about rubbish please.
    1. How many adults inyour house?
    One
    2. How many children?
    Two
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    We have a big wheely bin which is full when it is collected once a fortnight.... two bags per week?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).
    2 boxes, one is plastic and glass, other is paper and material. These are half filled each week.

    Many thanks and I apologise if this is in the wrong section.
    xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • 1. How many adults inyour house? 2
    2. How many children? 1
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman? 1/2
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).1 (1/2 pink bag of paper, 1/2 green bag of tins, plastic bottles)
    Doing voluntary work overseas for as long as it takes .......
    My DD might make the odd post for me
  • Hi My son is doing about ls doing sbout Landfill at school. Could you MSEers answer few questions about rubbish please.
    1. How many adults inyour house?
    2. How many children?
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).

    Many thanks and I apologise if this is in the wrong section.

    1. 2
    2. 1
    3. 1
    4. 0, except for a box of glass, everything else goes to the recycling depot (taken by us manually)
    5* Half bin of garden waste as this covers all our bunnies poop/woodshavings and also any mice/shrews we catch.
    55378008
  • Tulip
    Tulip Posts: 29,324 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    1. How many adults in your house? Just me as I live in a flat :)
    2. How many children? none
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman? I use sacks which smell of lemon or Rose and I usually put out 2 sacks a week
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste). I just put newspapers into the one sack I use and take it down to the landfill bin :)
This discussion has been closed.
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 352K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.5K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 454.2K Spending & Discounts
  • 245K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 600.6K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 177.4K Life & Family
  • 258.8K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.2K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.