Food Waste Caddy and Bin - OK? or Not?

kevykat

Lol class

tvbox

Sometimes one truck can have two compartments- one for rubbish and the other for recycling, for example.

Berties

weird.

glass
paper/card
Household waste

Now

All recyclable
Housework waste.

Liquid101

The one I saw only had one, and everything was crushed up together. One of my neighbours challenged them about it, and they said they pull out the recycled bags later on, which are apparently stronger and survive the crushing.

Yeah..... Right

SBT

Had similar with my old binmen.If the recycle truck didn't turn up they used to bung everything into the regular truck.

But put one item in the wrong bin and they moan like mad

AdrianMills

If recycling is done properly then I'm all for it. The extra hassle, "work" and cost to the householder is negligible compared to the benefits to the environment and society. And hopefully, in a generation or two, the incredibly indifferent, generally selfish and wasteful mindset of most people will shift too.

Scandinavia has been at it for longer and people here think rubbish sorting and recycling are just everyday, normal occurrences. One of the reasons it tends to be cleaner here is that people, in general, have a higher sense of social responsibility.

Let's face it, most of humanity is generally self destructive, selfish, thoughtless, lazy, wasteful and dirty. Enforcing some semblance of ownership and responsibility on people's waste is a step towards changing people's attitudes. A small step, yes, but still you have to start somewhere, and you may resent it, but your kids and theirs will not think twice about the extra "work" and will perhaps think it's a good thing not to pollute and waste excessively.

Begonia

Nothing one could describe like that around here. Our environment can get to look very, very messy, particularly on the verges and in the bushes at the sides of the roads!

Every so often, every 100 yds or so at the side of the main roads from the M1 into town and around the town's ring road, we will see one, or maybe two full black bin bags tied up and ready for collection. There will be a couple of miles of them too. These are full of litter, that one or two, or maybe even a team of council employees have collected and bagged up with litter ready for collection by a truck.

Now if council workers can do this work, it can't be demeaning to do it for offenders to be made to do it either. I don't see any reason why this job can't be dished out as a task by our local magistrates courts. Do you?

Offenders would need training to do it (ie, "Watch out for the traffic or you might get hit by a truck!") and high visibility work wear for road safety protection, as well as some Long Handled Litter Pickers (£7-£12 ea).

They could also be assessed for the thoroughness of the job they do and get 'time off' for good work.

(And maybe some additional training on say, 'How to eat 30 hard boiled eggs at a sitting'  - as per Paul Newman in the film 'Cool Hand Luke')

Begonia

One wonders why churches aren't teaching this stuff as a sub-heading of their morality teaching?

Q. Just who is teaching anyone this kind of stuff?
A. Nobody!

AdrianMills

The problem is that these issues are so abstract to people that they can ignore it - out of sight, out of mind. It's another great trick that humanity has up its collective sleeve.

tvbox

Oh, and a while ago we were tidying the fridge, and I put a fresh bag in the caddy, and poured some let's just say slightly blue yoghurt into the bag. I am then told by the other half that it is a liquid (despite the yoghurt itself being quite solid) and so I had to do something with this bag. I didn't want to chuck it, so I dumped it in the corner of the garden under a tree to see what would happen.

A short while later, it's not there anymore.