"John Rumm" wrote in message
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Dave Liquorice wrote:

What contaminated food packaging? Tins rinse easy, as do bottles and
jars, frozen food packs/bags are pretty clean but again rinse if
required.

At what cost (monetary or environmental) in water, heating, and detergent
though?

IMHO wheelie bins actually slow the collection of rubbish down. How long
does it take to wheel a bin to the back of the truck, hoist it up, shake,
lower, wheel back, 60 seconds or more? If you blink you miss our rubbish
collection, truck stops, man leaps out, picks up bag, lobs it into the
back and hops back in, 15 seconds maximum.

In our district ... an ambulatory man goes from house to house and collects
a black (council supplied: thirteen per quarter] plastic bag from the bins.
these he heaps on the side of the pavemnet - a few minutes later the wagon
pulls up to each pile of bags, out pops the driver and hurls all the bags
into the back of the wagon ... and off to the next heap. Blink and you'll
miss it.
But .... following a public 'consulatation' ; all that's changing: we're
going to have two wheely bins, fortnightly collections and the list of stuff
we can't recycle has lengthened.

Progress ... you couldn't make it up!

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Brian



A wheelie bin probably holds more than 4 bags worth of rubbish though.

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Cheers,

John.

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