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Fortnightly Waste collection in Newtownabbey
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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!
Totally agree - 4 adults here, one disabled and producing "poopy nappies" yet we would never fill our bin in two weeks. Our recycling bin is always full on collection day and the stuff the council (Ballymoney) wont collect such as bottles, batteries tetra packs we keep in a box in the garage, when its full and one of us is having to go to town we go via the recycling depot and drop it off - no problems
We do have a composter (not from the council) and are looking at being issued brown bins for garden waste this year. However with the size of my lawns Id have it filled with once cut
No we are not saints or saddoes with no lives. Shop locally so very little packaging and refuse bags as much as we can. Even if I'm getting veg in tescos I dont see the need to bag every thing, a couple of parsnips and a broccoli head aren't going to be damaged for being put in a trolley without a plastic bag0 -
marksimpson wrote: »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?
Mark, how do you keep your waste so low? Maybe a few pointers would be helpful?How does a brown cow give white milk, when it only eats green grass?0 -
his answer is we create less of it!! very helpful
must be lots of shining examples of good citizens in our area as lots are in the same position as me!!! several on here too by the looks of it.
RUBBISH IS RUBBISH
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In tha last year the amount of food I've thrown out amounts to one kiwi fruit, one banana and a few slices of bread. I don't buy food I am not going to use.
Other than that I can't give you any tips because I don't understand where all the waste people talk about on here comes from. Cardboard, paper, tins, most plastic can go in the blue bin. Glass goes to the bottle bank. What does that leave to go in the black one? Not a lot. What are you putting in it? I genuinely don't understand what you can fill it with in a week.
A large black bin is 240 litres. That's room for 34 litres of rubbish a day.
As I've said before I can understand that babies create nappies and there's not a lot else you can do with them. Even I think I would be using disposables rather than terry ones if I was in that situation.
Britbat - you seem to have forgotten that councils have INCREASED the number of collections, not reduced them. They're now just divided up into different collections. Again, if you're happy to pay extra for a weekly black bin collection then you go right ahead, but don't expect me to pay the same for my waste collection as you.
In the Republic, some councils charge a small amount per year for waste collection as a standing charge (€50) and then you pay per bin load of rubbish - €8 for a black bin but €2 per blue bin emptied. Any objections here to that?0 -
why didnt u feed the bread to the birds!!!marksimpson wrote: »In tha last year the amount of food I've thrown out amounts to one kiwi fruit, one banana and a few slices of bread. I don't buy food I am not going to use.
Other than that I can't give you any tips because I don't understand where all the waste people talk about on here comes from. Cardboard, paper, tins, most plastic can go in the blue bin. Glass goes to the bottle bank. What does that leave to go in the black one? Not a lot. What are you putting in it? I genuinely don't understand what you can fill it with in a week.
A large black bin is 240 litres. That's room for 34 litres of rubbish a day.
As I've said before I can understand that babies create nappies and there's not a lot else you can do with them. Even I think I would be using disposables rather than terry ones if I was in that situation.
Britbat - you seem to have forgotten that councils have INCREASED the number of collections, not reduced them. They're now just divided up into different collections. Again, if you're happy to pay extra for a weekly black bin collection then you go right ahead, but don't expect me to pay the same for my waste collection as you.
In the Republic, some councils charge a small amount per year for waste collection as a standing charge (€50) and then you pay per bin load of rubbish - €8 for a black bin but €2 per blue bin emptied. Any objections here to that?0 -
Why didn't you answer the points I put to you?0
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A family of 4 here and we have had fortnightly collections for about 2 years. We have 2 blue (re-cycle) wheelie bins and 1 for other. We have an option for compost but we don't have one as we compost everything!
We fill the 2 blue bins a fortnight but the other bin (landfill I guess) is only about a 1/4 full each fortnight.
We have really tried to cut back with packaging from shops if we can.
We compost everything thanks to a adding a bran mixture that actually means even fish bones and cooked food can be composted - so NO food waste at all.
The wheelie bin system has been brilliant - no cats/foxes/wildlife ripping open black bags and our streets are virtually rubbish free these days.
It helps if you wash out yoghurt pots etc.. in the summer to stop any bins getting smelly.0 -
On reflection a lot of space is taken up in my bin with the plastic trays meat from supermarkets come in. Been looking on a few websites and there doesn't seem to be anywhere to recycle these in Newtownabbey. Perhaps someone can prove me wrong ?
I will try to buy more from my local butcher instead. Its just so much more convenient getting everything from Asda.
We have cut down drastically on how much food stuff we have to throw out. This has been a positive by-product of doing the Monthly Grocery challenges on MSE in a bid to save money.How does a brown cow give white milk, when it only eats green grass?0 -
marksimpson wrote: »Why didn't you answer the points I put to you?
what points??0 -
Totally agree - 4 adults here, one disabled and producing "poopy nappies" yet we would never fill our bin in two weeks. Our recycling bin is always full on collection day and the stuff the council (Ballymoney) wont collect such as bottles, batteries tetra packs we keep in a box in the garage, when its full and one of us is having to go to town we go via the recycling depot and drop it off - no problems
We do have a composter (not from the council) and are looking at being issued brown bins for garden waste this year. However with the size of my lawns Id have it filled with once cut
No we are not saints or saddoes with no lives. Shop locally so very little packaging and refuse bags as much as we can. Even if I'm getting veg in tescos I dont see the need to bag every thing, a couple of parsnips and a broccoli head aren't going to be damaged for being put in a trolley without a plastic bag
Do they recycle tetra pack in Ballymena? Anyone know of any possibilities in or around Belfast??0
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