Fortnightly Waste collection in Newtownabbey

marksimpson

novelli wrote: »

what points??

OK, just one.

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

typhoon

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

did you not get your voucher for the nappy bin in your bounty pack, free from Argos? I got it just cos it was free, didnt really intend to use it but it is actually very handy, no smells at all (believe me if there was even a whiff it would be out of my house in a flash), and it's also good for the environment so even tho I am using disposables I am still doing my bit

novelli

marksimpson wrote: »

OK, just one.

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

i think its fair to say that most of us produce more rubbish than u do.

But no i wouldnt pay more. i am already paying more for a lesser service, and still have to make trips to the tip and burn rubbish.
when i was paying less council tax, more of my rubbish was collected??

miserly_mum

novelli wrote: »

i think its fair to say that most of us produce more rubbish than u do.

But no i wouldnt pay more. i am already paying more for a lesser service, and still have to make trips to the tip and burn rubbish.
when i was paying less council tax, more of my rubbish was collected??

Novelli I don't like it anymore than you do believe me ,but fortnightly collections are here to stay. So we might aswell bite the bullet and get on with it.

I found the whole process of recycling a pain in the poopdeck but after a while it just becomes a habit.

Order extra Kirby boxes or even do what I did and buy another bin (£30 with a free blue bin) to take the excess. They won't empty both each week but again you'd save time,effort and fuel going to the tip every week.

marksimpson

novelli wrote: »

i think its fair to say that most of us produce more rubbish than u do.

But no i wouldnt pay more. i am already paying more for a lesser service, and still have to make trips to the tip and burn rubbish.
when i was paying less council tax, more of my rubbish was collected??

Is it or is it not right that you pay for what you use? Why should I pay the same as you for waste disposal if I dispose of 10% of the waste you do?

Are you also suggesting that we pay the same for electricity no matter what the usage?

On what basis have you decided it a lesser service? Even when they move to a fortnightly collection they are making more collections in total than when there was one bin collected weekly. I get garden and compostable waste collected every two weeks (in the past I'd have had to take this to the dump myself). Dry recyclables collected every two weeks (that they didn't collect before at all) and general waste collected every two weeks.

What are you filling your black bin with anyway? I simply don't understand.

You can produce as much rubbish as you like as far as I'm concerned - but you'll be paying for it.

wanna-be-mortgage-free_2

Thought I would join in :-)

We are a family of four and currently only put our black bin out every two weeks anyway as we have so little rubbish. We could probably put it out every month to be honest. At the moment we could do with the brown bin being put out every other day with the amount of hedges, bushes and grass we are cutting :rotfl:

We manage to do this by buying food that doesn't come with copious amounts of packaging such as convenience foods. We also use the Kerbie box and welcome the new weekly collections.

butterflymum

All I would like to add is that I wish a lot more effort was put into forcing manufacturers, especially of childrens toys and electrical goods, to stop using masses of excess packaging on same.

ooo000ooo

typhoon wrote: »

did you not get your voucher for the nappy bin in your bounty pack, free from Argos? I got it just cos it was free, didnt really intend to use it but it is actually very handy, no smells at all (believe me if there was even a whiff it would be out of my house in a flash), and it's also good for the environment so even tho I am using disposables I am still doing my bit

Missed that one although we have one of those ones that you put the nappies in then twist and seal and empty every so often, not very green as i presume it seals the, not very green, disposable in another layer of plastic

Jaime-V

butterflymum wrote: »

All I would like to add is that I wish a lot more effort was put into forcing manufacturers, especially of childrens toys and electrical goods, to stop using masses of excess packaging on same.

Totally agree!!! Some electrical items we have bought lately have been packaged far too much.

As for food we do try and buy locally in the fruit shop and butchers and take our own bags rather than buying meat etc in supermarkets. Nicer in the butchers anyhow! Most butchers will do meat parcels which save a few £ on buying individually.

miserly_mum

ooo000ooo wrote: »

Missed that one although we have one of those ones that you put the nappies in then twist and seal and empty every so often, not very green as i presume it seals the, not very green, disposable in another layer of plastic

Its far from being enviromentally friendly, but its definately more user friendly if it seals in the smell.