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  • YoungBlueEyes
    YoungBlueEyes Posts: 4,895 Forumite
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    I said I’d put it in a public bin, cos I wouldn’t want it leaking or stinking my bin out for 2 weeks. 

    I didn’t realise that was actually illegal though, who knew?! 
    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
  • Pollycat
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    I said I’d put it in a public bin, cos I wouldn’t want it leaking or stinking my bin out for 2 weeks. 

    I didn’t realise that was actually illegal though, who knew?! 
    I didn't know either until I read something recently about someone being fined.
    Just thought it was worth mentioning.
  • Slinky
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    edited 26 July 2022 at 5:21PM
    If we have anything too far gone but a long way from bin day, we freeze it and rescue it from the freezer on bin day. This is particularly useful with things like fish skin and bones.

    The cat keeps bringing us dead rodents. We do wrap these in kitchen towel and slip them into the bins in the public park as they are emptied daily, and it's not fair to our normal binmen to have to empty a couple of weeks worth of rotting corpses when she's had a good session.

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  • YoungBlueEyes
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    Ooh the freezing thing is a good idea :)
    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
  • PipneyJane
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    @Slinky - I hadn’t thought to freeze the cream. Good idea!

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  • Slinky
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    edited 27 July 2022 at 9:27PM
    Ooh the freezing thing is a good idea :)

    OK, confession time here, we have a fridge freezer in our garage that beer and bargains go in. When we first moved into the house we had rats in the garden. Before we started dropping dead rodents (now just mice) in the public bins, we caught a few rats, and they were put in a rat coffin (lidded yogurt pot) and frozen to go out with the black bin.......... They were kept well away from any food,
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  • Katiehound
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    no room in my freezer for anything other than food! rats in the freezer- ugh! It's an integrated fridge/ freezer so not a lot of room anyway.
     I remember a friend finding a dead squirrel- not a mark on it- so it went into the freezer until they could get it to the taxidermist. It then went into school where it was much admired, drawn etc.
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  • MouldyOldDough
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    Food recycing bin - and suggest that the recycling team wear breathing gear ?

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