On 23/08/2013 09:46, Tim Lamb wrote:
In message , stuart noble
writes
On 23/08/2013 08:54, The Medway Handyman wrote:
We have three bins in our kitchen, one for food scraps, one for
recycling (don't have to sort it, everything goes in one bag), and a
third for 'general waste'.

It occurs to me, that we throw out either food waste or recycling stuff.
What would you throw away that doesn't fall into either of those
categories?

I'd like to get rid of the 'general waste' bin.


polystyrene packaging from the big tele?

What do people do with unwanted paint? I have tried taking the lid off
emulsion and find it takes weeks to solidify.

I spent some time a few years back working out how to shift that. The
local skip company would take water based stuff like emulsion, but not
oil based unless dry (or soaked into something).


Over the years, I have accumulated 100l or so of oil based paint. Mainly
job lots at farm sales where the auctioneers have lumped crap with
saleable stuff. Anyone for festering JCB yellow?

There are also some paint recycling schemes that will take left over
tins. They then warehouse and keep them and distribute them to community
projects.


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Cheers,

John.

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