If you're able bodied and a car driver, put everything into black bags and take it to the tip where it probably ends up anyway. Maybe those nice folks at WBC will give you a rebate on your council tax.
We were recently issued with the small food waste bins with the biodegradable liners. We're supposed to put the full liners in (I think) the green waste bin and the bin stays in the kitchen. (Well, mine doesn't; it went straight into the general waste bin: I CBA with all this nonsense).
While one issue is whether/ if the dogs/ foxes etc will be able to get into the proposed small bins ANOTHER issue is that you can guarantee the dogs passing-by will pee on the bins. That means washing & drying them before you bring them back inside.
NOT a pleasant job
Snod
5 Precepts of Buddhism seem appropriate. Refrain from taking life. Refrain from taking that which is not given. Refrain from misconduct. Refrain from lying. Refrain from intoxicants which lead to loss of mindfulness
You dont have anything that goes outside coming back in the house Snod - you keep the small food caddy in the house and it only goes outside for a swill and a spray after emptying the contents into the bigger food caddy which is the one that sits in the road once a week - but has a lock down handle.
Carl Beer Chief Executive of Merseyside Waste Disposal Authority said "The contract and developement of this new facility (Wilton)brings more than a £100M worth of savings to the Authority and it,s partner councils (Wirral is one) to divert 92% of its residual waist from landfill". The food waste collection is a side product of a bigger plan to burn what is left in the green bin.The rat,maggot fly problem will be taken care of on paper anyway,to appease the residents of Kirby were the waste will go by rail to Wilton.Always watch the conjurers other hand, check how many councillors past and present are and have been on the board of this LTD Authority.
So will that money go to the £180million Biossence plant at Hooton Park, due to be finished early 2017 after years of hold ups ?
BIffa are investing in a new fleet, with 360 degree camera's for recording 'streetscene' !! Why ?
Not sure how the £!00m saving is arrived at when they update and inform us ;
Biffa added that its current contract with Wirral Council guarantees savings of £2.2 million over the next three years. However, from 2017-18, Wirral is expected to save £11 million over the ten year span of the extended contract, based on a series of stepped savings equivalent to just over £1million annually. The extension includes a break clause in 2023.
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ~Chief Seattle
I think we are mixing Cheshire and Merseyside.The Merseyside and Halton contract is a Billion ££ thirty year contract signed in December 2013, with Suez Environment using Veolia.
I agree and think it a health hazard having a bin with stinking rotten food in the kitchen. Families would struggle if general waste bins were smaller.
Aren't these new bins to conform with EU rules on recycling, and haven't we just told them to get knotted (to be polite) so why new rules? or am I missing something here.
At the moment I have a small bucket with a lid on which I keep by the sink for all my food waste & a large bin with a flip top were all the packaging goes,only reason for that is my dog raids the bin but it all goes in the green bin bagged up.I'd have to keep the big green bin because besides the kitchen waste there's the general waste from having kids so even with the seperate bins I can still manage to have a full bin by bin day grey & green,3 weeks for the green bin would be too long & I'm not going for a smaller one
In my personal case I have for years put most vegetable and fruit food waste in a small worktop bin in the kitchen and every day, sometimes twice a day that goes in the garden compost bins. Meat/ fish waste is minor and goes well wrapped in the green bin. Potentially very smelly waste (fish guts) gets well wrapped and has been known to be recycled through a handy dog poo bin.
I asked the question because I have friends with 3 flats in one building but a shared kitchen. Currently they have 3 green bins but no grey bins (landlord never provided them and the tight sod will not do so). They fully fill the 3 green bins between current collections Snod
5 Precepts of Buddhism seem appropriate. Refrain from taking life. Refrain from taking that which is not given. Refrain from misconduct. Refrain from lying. Refrain from intoxicants which lead to loss of mindfulness
in the 50s we used to have small galvanised bins with a swivelling lid for waste food (not a lot in those days) which were collected weekly by the "Pig Bin Man" I don't know where it went to from there, but I never envied him his job.
The pig bins were taken to the depot in Cleveland Street opposite The Birkenhead Brewery.It was boiled and put in a big silo then transported to the pig farms.Waste paper cardboarand rags and bottles were sorted on a small conveyor fed by a chute next to it.The rags we pinched (taken to bawlies) payed for our gangs comunial camping gear.Most people had coal fires so all you got from the house bins was ashes which went to landfill.We also knew the location the gully suckers dropped their load on the tip, marbless times. late fifties early sixties.
