On Jun 22, 10:37 am, Tim Streater wrote:
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(Andrew Gabriel) wrote:



In article ,
Tim Streater writes:
In article ,
Bob Eager wrote:

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:27:52 +0100, Tim Streater wrote:

There's 4 of us, for a start. And we are assiduous recyclers.

So are we. You could try squashing the bottles and so on. Don't forget
that the cardboard drinks cartons can't be recycled.

You aound like one of their 'retrainers'...!

Even if we didn't do that, it's still a backward step. Many people won't
squash bottles, and may use more bags. The cost to the council of the
skewed recycling percentage is going to be greater than that of a few
bags.

Well it depends doesn't it. It could be said that shipping all that
empty air around in un-squashed bottles is wasting a lot of society's
resources (not to mention your council tax).

They get compressed in the back of the dustcart, but I squash them
anyway to get more in the wheelie bin. I fill up the recycle bin at
about twice the rate of the ordinary bin, but it takes me weeks to
fill them anyway, hence the thread about the chicken and the maggots
and the stink.

:-)

Well I avoided that thread, can't bear stinks. I take it you spent a
while getting the meat off the bone? SWMBO wanted to ditch a chicken
carcase and I managed to get enough (good) meat off it for another meal.

And you do wrap it up well in noospaper I take it?

Talking of which, the chicken went last Friday. I didn't see them
taking it, but I'm picturing the dustcart going off up the road,
obscured inside a cloud of flies. The bin still stunk. Cleaned it
out with the pressure washer at the weekend, and it looks like you
could eat your dinner of it now, but it still stinks. Must have
seeped into the plastic.

In our old village you could put this sort of waste in the green bin
along with garden clippings.

the bin perhaps leave it out open under a hot sun (if we ever get
any) might evaporate the odours.

and the UV will kill bacteria that may be producing it...

Jim K