Fortnightly Waste collection in Newtownabbey

marksimpson

I live on my own, but I wouldn't manage to fill a black bin in 6 weeks never mind 2.

Quite what you're filling bins with so quickly I have no idea (nappies excepted), I'm fully in favour of councils charging based on the amount you throw out.

miserly_mum

marksimpson wrote: »

I live on my own, but I wouldn't manage to fill a black bin in 6 weeks never mind 2.

Quite what you're filling bins with so quickly I have no idea (nappies excepted), I'm fully in favour of councils charging based on the amount you throw out.

I don't think you can seriously compare waste from a single person with that of a family 5 (mine) or more.

This time last year there were 8 of us living here including two babies. How could we be expected to produce the same amount of waste as say ....a retired couple???

olly300

Sorry my point was that was I was interested in what you said but the way you wrote it made it hard to read.

I've lived in different sized households and still cannot understand why councils think it's ok to do all sorts of tricks not to empty residents bins when most of the non-recyclable rubbish people get comes from supermarkets.

novelli

i posted on this very subject last year and got shot down in flames, being told i obviously produce too much rubbish!!
rubbish is rubbish!!!!!

we are expected to slop our food waste into the brown bin, with no bags or liners. We had awful maggot problems and the bins were always full.
I now refuse to slop the waste into the bin, i just disguise it and it goes into the black bags in the normal household refuse bin. I am not prepared to have maggots crawling up the walls of the house.
due to the two weekly collection i have to have regular fires and some trips to the tip, this does the environment no good either!!

miserly_mum

novelli wrote: »

i posted on this very subject last year and got shot down in flames, being told i obviously produce too much rubbish!!
rubbish is rubbish!!!!!

we are expected to slop our food waste into the brown bin, with no bags or liners. We had awful maggot problems and the bins were always full.
I now refuse to slop the waste into the bin, i just disguise it and it goes into the black bags in the normal household refuse bin. I am not prepared to have maggots crawling up the walls of the house.
due to the two weekly collection i have to have regular fires and some trips to the tip, this does the environment no good either!!

I agree 100%........rubbish is still ending up in the landfill. The only difference is people will be taking it there themselves instead of the bin men.

ooo000ooo

miserly_mum wrote: »

Oh thats the fun part. :rolleyes:

If its a nice solid one its straight down the loo.

If it a squishy one you need to scrape as much off as possible before soaking them. I kept an old knife solely for the purpose.

Sorry, you're just not selling it to me, as much fun as the scraping sounds

marksimpson

novelli wrote: »

we are expected to slop our food waste into the brown bin, with no bags or liners.

No you aren't.

The brown bin is for compostable waste only. Not general food waste. General food waste would result in maggots. Compostable waste will not.

Miserly_mum... I'm not suggesting that a family won't produce more rubbish, of course it will, but I still think that if you're producing enough rubbish to fill a large black bin in two weeks you're producing too much rubbish!

And yes, before anyone says it, I agree that a big part of the problem is the packaging that comes with supermarket goods.

On the other hand, is it fair that I pay the same amount in my rates for bin collection as a family of 6 when I produce much less waste?

novelli

sorry but u are wrong!! in our area we are told to slop food waste in the brown bin, with no packaging or wrapping.
might not apply to your area but it does here.

im fed up of hearing the reply you are producing too much rubbish!!!! as ive said before rubbish is rubbish!!!!

marksimpson wrote: »

No you aren't.

The brown bin is for compostable waste only. Not general food waste. General food waste would result in maggots. Compostable waste will not.

Miserly_mum... I'm not suggesting that a family won't produce more rubbish, of course it will, but I still think that if you're producing enough rubbish to fill a large black bin in two weeks you're producing too much rubbish!

And yes, before anyone says it, I agree that a big part of the problem is the packaging that comes with supermarket goods.

On the other hand, is it fair that I pay the same amount in my rates for bin collection as a family of 6 when I produce much less waste?

marksimpson

novelli wrote: »

im fed up of hearing the reply you are producing too much rubbish!!!! as ive said before rubbish is rubbish!!!!

So what's your solution then? Are you happy to keep on producing as much rubbish as you like, which I then have to pay to have disposed of?

Are you happy that it sits in landfill for centuries before degrading?

Everything you throw out has to go somewhere. I'm guessing you'd be the first to complain if a landfill was opened behind your house though...

miserly_mum

marksimpson wrote: »

So what's your solution then? Are you happy to keep on producing as much rubbish as you like, which I then have to pay to have disposed of?

Are you happy that it sits in landfill for centuries before degrading?

Everything you throw out has to go somewhere. I'm guessing you'd be the first to complain if a landfill was opened behind your house though...

If you read what I posted you'd see that is far from what i'm saying.

I'm quite aware of the problem of landfill sites. You will also see that I do recycle. I reuse where I can and i'm an avid freecycler as i would rather give something away than dump it. I have also tried to avoid buying unnecessary "stuff" aswell.

My personal problem is that despite being really vigilant with my recycling I still can't get it down any lower that 3/4 of a bin per week. Which in theory will leave me with an extra half a bins worth of rubbish each fortnight.