Fortnightly Waste collection in Newtownabbey

marksimpson

miserly_mum wrote: »

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

My reply was in response to what "novelli" said.

miserly_mum

Whoops sorry so you did.

anonymousie

ooo000ooo wrote: »

with a 4 week old child in the house we're not looking forward to a hot summer of smelly nappies festering for 2 weeks outside the house

Yup!! I think washable nappies will start to sound /smell attractive even to die hard disp users afte a fortnight:rotfl:

Why not get hold of some secondhand resuseables , or a nice pack of quality terries and give it a go- you'll be pleasantly surprised and can always sell stuff on again if it doesn't suit!

anonymousie

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.

That is what flusheable liners are for! Even the squishy stuff flushes easily.
You aren't supposed to put human poo in the bin anyway apparently, so even disp users should be flushing *like that'll happen*:rotfl: :mad:

Never used nappisan/soakiing- just chucked all the nappies on to wash at bed time when DD was little and dried them the next- later on when she was big- feel free to call me a mucky moo, they mostly went in with the normal stuff unless really horrid.

After all what to disp users do with clothes that have nappy leaks on them?? then are poopy but even the most fastidous will just sling them in with the ordinary wash (not to mention toddler training "accidents").

It must have been hygienic enough, as DD only got a rash in disps! The only foul bit of the job really was unbagging the nappies from the CM before washing them- she never did get the hang of flushing the liners and fresh poo is tolerable, but that which has festered in anappy sack all day is YUK! (but, again, only what would happen in a disposeable...)

anonymousie

miserly_mum wrote: »

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???

Number of pep producing the rubbish is a problem- if push came to shove the 5 of us could probably come to an arrangement with next door (just 2 of them) to accomodate a black sack in theire bin.

Our real issue (we are in Brum and recycling isn't as good as it could be TBH) is that we fill the recycling boxes weekly and they are collected fortnightly:mad: We did have a box we used for "over flow" tins/milk bottles etc but the dumb idiots on the round recycled it box and all one week:mad: :eek:

looby-loo_2

anonymousie wrote: »

That is what flusheable liners are for! Even the squishy stuff flushes easily.
You aren't supposed to put human poo in the bin anyway apparently, so even disp users should be flushing *like that'll happen*:rotfl: :mad:

Never used nappisan/soakiing- just chucked all the nappies on to wash at bed time when DD was little and dried them the next- later on when she was big- feel free to call me a mucky moo, they mostly went in with the normal stuff unless really horrid.

After all what to disp users do with clothes that have nappy leaks on them?? then are poopy but even the most fastidous will just sling them in with the ordinary wash (not to mention toddler training "accidents").

It must have been hygienic enough, as DD only got a rash in disps! The only foul bit of the job really was unbagging the nappies from the CM before washing them- she never did get the hang of flushing the liners and fresh poo is tolerable, but that which has festered in anappy sack all day is YUK! (but, again, only what would happen in a disposeable...)

My thoughts exactly.

I'm wondering if some councils give out very small bins or are some people on this thread just winding everyone up.

There are five of us and we never fill it more than half in two weeks. I can often fit it all in two Tesco carrier bags tired at the top and I don't particularlly think about it or try extra hard.

It must be a wind up - no one has THAT much rubbish!

novelli

I dont have a solution, its not my job to come up with one!!

a landfill would not be opened behind anyones house!!!!

I pay for the rubbish disposal too you know!!
and as i say rubbish is rubbish!! what do u suggest i do with it??? apart from burning it, so further polluting the air!!

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...

miserly_mum

looby-loo wrote: »

My thoughts exactly.

I'm wondering if some councils give out very small bins or are some people on this thread just winding everyone up.

There are five of us and we never fill it more than half in two weeks. I can often fit it all in two Tesco carrier bags tired at the top and I don't particularlly think about it or try extra hard.

It must be a wind up - no one has THAT much rubbish!

You are obviously a shining example to the rest of us when it comes to waste management and good for you.

Maybe if you gave us some tips (other than the nappy bit, i've got the message on that one) on how to keep our waste so low then there would be no need for threads like this one.

I won't give up my disposables (I'M AN AWFUL PERSON i KNOW) and I don't compost veg peelings etc because I don't have a use for compost. I recycle everything else that is humanly possible and ebay or freecycle the rest.

I'm more aware of the over packaged stuff in Supermarkets now too. But if I leave packaging for them to dispose of, although solving my personal dilemma (of an over full bin) surely it'll still end up in the landfill anyway?

marksimpson

novelli wrote: »

I dont have a solution, its not my job to come up with one!!

a landfill would not be opened behind anyones house!!!!

I pay for the rubbish disposal too you know!!
and as i say rubbish is rubbish!! what do u suggest i do with it??? apart from burning it, so further polluting the air!!

I suggest you create less of it. But I don't think you will. You don't seem to care how much rubbish you create or where it goes, as long as it's taken away from your house at low cost. A shining example of citizenship to all of us.

Where do you think landfills are? They're all going to be near someone's house. I hope it's yours soon.

If you create 6 times more rubbish than I do, are you happy to pay 6 times more for its disposal?

BritBrat

If they do fortnightly here every 2nd week I will be dumping it at the council house doors.

Or a local councilors house.

I bet it would get collected then

But if they reduce my council tax by 50% I will take it to the dump.