General Chat

It looks lovely and clean - but I can still smell that disinfectant, so it's going to get the steam-mop treatment this morning - and then more pine-o-clean! The laundry is the same - but I think I will need help to move the washing machine and the dryer to get to the floor underneath them! The floor waste which had effluent spurting up from it, is half-covered by the machine, and I know the plumbers didn't move that. Oh well, back to the scented candles. I must see if I can buy a supply of them when I next go shopping!

It is bin day here tomorrow Allan, OH has just put our black wheelie bin out. That gets collected once a fortnight, it has the household waste in it. tomorrow we also put out the recycling boxes which only get collected every two weeks. In those we put glass, tins, plastic bottles and newspapers. Next week, we put out the green wheelie bin which is for garden waste only. Stupidly you are not allowed to out anything which has been in the kitchen in it,even vegetable peelings. We collect all our veg waste in a bucket and take that down to the compost heaps on the allotment. It is surprising just how much we take down there.

Linda,
Where I live it's black bin bags outside the front door and weekly collection.
I think it's because although I've got a back door and not a back entrance.
Pat x

Linda. I was reading about England's fortnightly household waste collection service.

Some Councils in West Oz tried that and there was an uproar: our climate especially in summer is not conducive to leaving waste for that long. Also there is only one Council that has a seperate collection for 'compostables' which includes greenwaste and food scraps.

Like you we have a couple of compost bins but we don't put any meat scraps in them

Allan

Oh I say, Allan appears to be chatting up Susan with numnbers on another thread, i wonder if Mrs Allan would approve

Everyone has wheelie bins here Pat,regardless of if they have anywhere to keep them. In some of the terraced streets, the yare just in the tiny front gardens because they have no where else to put them.

The green bin is only for garden waste, at one time you could put cardboard in it, the unprinted sort like packing cases. They had to stop allowing that though because people were putting printed cardboard in and contaminating the loads. The green waste is composted and bagged and sold as potting compost for plants, that is why they couldn't have any printing ink in it.

I noticed the other night that you said that you had a wormery, I thought that you could put meat waste in that

Linda, d*mn

I just posted on there that I was waiting for either Sue or Berona to pop on there and have a go at me........and you beat them to it!! :0))

Allan

Our waste wheelie bin is cleared weekly, and our reycle bin is cleared fortnightly. Different councils have different rules. My daughter is only ten minutes away, but within the boundaries of a different council and she has a waste bin cleared weekly and two other bins cleared on alternate fortnights - one for recycle and one for garden waste.

p.s. must go and have a look at what Allan's been up to!

Sorry to spoil your fun Allan, but just in case they don't see it, i have copied and pasted it here,so they can tell you off as well

I quote
"Hello Susan with numbers"

"Moon of my heart that knowest no wane"

I am sure that Sue ans Berona will not feel that is a suitable way for an old (ish) married man to be behaving

Hi Merry Men & Merry ladies,

I have also just taken my bin out for collection in the morning, and our recycle box is also collected - I know this topic of conversation will be of particular interest to Allan, who obviously has a "thing" about the life of wheelie bins. My green bin is emptied once a fortnight, and contains general household refuse. My brown bin is emptied fortnightly alternating with the green bin. The brown bin is for garden refuse, but we are allowed to put kitchen waste in as well, ie peelings, rotten fruit and veg, anything compostable including paper that you might wrap things in.
My recycle box is collected weekly, and is for plastic containers, tins, jars, paper, cardboard, batteries.
I wear my old clothes, so they are never recycled.

Tec

Linda, I don't think that was me as we don't have a wormery. I was actually discussing the subject with OH a few days ago but we decided to keep dong what we are doing.

We might get some chooks in the future. We have had some in the past and they consumed nearly all our scraps and we got the eggs


Allan

Sue has a wormery
Tec

Leave Allan alone - bullies
Tec

Good evening Tec,

Allan keeping chickens has become extremely fashionable here. I am not allowed any livestock on my land at all, it is a stipulation in the house deeds. It also says that I am not allowed to disturb the incumbent while he is conducting a service.

That is because we live next door to the vicarage and the land this house is on used to be part of an orchard. attached to the vicarage It is about a hundred yards in a straight line to the church (built 1480), so I don't think I really could disturb a service. Of course when they do bell ringing practice, It can be deafening, but that is a different matter.

Allan - my Dad had half a dozen chooks and they consumed all the kitchen waste and gave us all the eggs we needed and more. However, my young brother became attached to them and gave them all names - so they lived to a ripe old age, well past the egg-laying stage, but still kept the weeds down in their area and helped dispose of the kitchen waste.

So if you do decide to get them - be warned - don't name them!

Bullies? In the absence of Sue and Berona, I am merely pointing out the error of his ways to Allan

Hello Tec,

Yes I do have an interest in waste management and I have "Bin" involved with the development of waste management in the SW of WA since the early1990's.

I've also had a small part in National waste management issues as a local government rep on the National Packaging Covenant a few years before I finished work

Allan

Night everyone,
Bedtime for me!
Pat x

Hi Barbra how are you?

Allan

Good night Pat

Allan