A Trial period for the last year has been held incorporating 17 councils from Kingston to Hackney to promote the usefull waste of unwanted food disposal,it will mean that all households will be given a small size miniature waste bin which would be used in Your Kitchen to seperate food products from your other disposable items, how many recycling bins do you have at the moment?
You will have your waste monitored and will be given written warnings(not a fine) to avdise you on being enviromenatlly sound if you don't comply.
can you imagine the smell if you live in a tower block?
Only eat Fish.
Time to buy a dog.
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That said, I'm all for recycling if it's done properly - other countries seem to be able to do it fine.
Badger, you should get yourself a composter and save the worry. It'll be good for the garden.
i'm also storing up all the plastic bags and paper bags along with boxes that i can, just in case?
i now do my shopping via internet without the bags.
We will now have to have three bins sitting outside my flat where it already looks untidy with two.
Takes a bit of getting used to !
My son is currently living in a flat in Bow and all they do is leave the rubbish downstairs or outside their door - compared to that, I prefer the recycling.
What is so wrong with reduce, reuse and recycle as a philosophy?
Reduce the amount of the Earth's resources that we use.
Reuse don't just bin it, could someone else make use of it?
Recycle Can the materials be made into something new?
There are approximately 6.7bn people on this planet and we are going to run out of rresources sooner or later. The experts say that the next wars will be fought, not for territory but for access to resources, the current Iraq war is largely about controling middle-eastern oil resources, In Palestine, the Palestinian people in the West Bank are being evicted from areas that are close to water sources and there is only so much raw material that can be extracted from this planet. With 6.7bn people on this rock describing recycling as a "con" is nothing more than greed dressed up as rhetoric.
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Three...out here in Germany all waste must be disposed of into one of three bins - paper/packaging/board etc, glass, and "wet" waste - ie normal household refuse.
If you buy beer from a shop the bottles cost a deposit (pfand) of 7 cents, while PET plastic bottles cost 25 cent deposit, which you can reclaim at the point of purchase.
Over the last decade or so there has been a big campaign against the overuse of packaging, the Green party advocated that shoppers leave excess packaging in the shops post purchase and this is now law. When I first saw someone buying a ready-to-cook pizza and leaving the carton in the shop I thought it pretty strange, but it encourages the retailers to use less packaging and as Germany has mandated zero new landfill sites that is a wise move.
We put a lot of waste into the compost, but not cooked food so being able to put that in with garden waste is good.
There's so little food in my flat that I barely ever waste any. Between me and my flatmate last week the only consumables in the place were half a tub of margarine, 1 packet of sliced gouda, half a packet of pasta, 2 cans of Coke Zero, 7 cans of lager, two bottles of red and a bottle of champagne.
And my girlfriend who claims to be all 'environmentally friendly' complains that there's no food when she comes round, I mean, I'm just trying to do my bit.....
Sounds very much like my environmentally friendly house!!
I moved from Greenwich borough to Bexley just over two years ago, and I can remember someone from the Council doing a doorstep consultation before I moved. Part of Greenwich (up by Kidbrooke Park school) have been recycling green waste for years as I used to pass the bins enroute to The Valley.
Fortnightly collection but the bins are collected on alternate weeks, ie blue bin one week, green bin the next. Hasnt caused us any problems. If anything, it's been an eye opener as to how much recyclable stuff we were throwing away.
And as we are of better stock and can be trusted not to put fireworks in the brown wheelie bins in Chatham we have our brown bins for nowt. Unlike the Swale great unwashed
We don't get it for nowt - we pay council tax!
However we don't pay yet more to get it on top of that.
The problem is that i end up filling it half up every week with crap like menu's, free newspapers, junk mail stuff that i wouldnt have myself!
Very, very, very good point. The amount of junk mail and free papers etc I get littering my doormat everyday is responsible for most of the contents of the blue box.
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