Food Waste Recycling / other recycling
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Food Waste Recycling / other recycling
Just got this in the post box today
http://www.ukboincteam.info/images/foodwaste1.jpg
http://www.ukboincteam.info/images/foodwaste.jpg
Only done a low quality scan
Anyone else have such a scheme running in their area It looks promising, hopefully people will use it as its easy enough to do. Hopefully the food caddy for in the kitchen will have some kind of charcoal filter or other device to remove any possible smell
http://www.ukboincteam.info/images/foodwaste1.jpg
http://www.ukboincteam.info/images/foodwaste.jpg
Only done a low quality scan
Anyone else have such a scheme running in their area It looks promising, hopefully people will use it as its easy enough to do. Hopefully the food caddy for in the kitchen will have some kind of charcoal filter or other device to remove any possible smell
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I know most places will not take plastics as doorstep collection as it costs more money to collect these than anything else, due to plastic been really light weight.
The other side of Calderdale has a great recyle company that collects more or less everything & anything from householders with the exception of food waste. My side is run by the council approved refuse collectors
The other side of Calderdale has a great recyle company that collects more or less everything & anything from householders with the exception of food waste. My side is run by the council approved refuse collectors
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We don't have wheelie bins as yet, probably will get them at some stage though.
We have a box to put glass in, and a green bag for all the paper, cardboard etc etc, then this Food Waste trial due to start.
I can see our collection for normal waste going to fortnightly if this Food Waste trial is a success, it would stop the council getting any complaints like some of the other parts of the country, no food in the bins then at least the bins can't smell for 2 whole weeks.
We have a box to put glass in, and a green bag for all the paper, cardboard etc etc, then this Food Waste trial due to start.
I can see our collection for normal waste going to fortnightly if this Food Waste trial is a success, it would stop the council getting any complaints like some of the other parts of the country, no food in the bins then at least the bins can't smell for 2 whole weeks.
Ours is very similarUBT - The Prof.... wrote:Over here we have three bins - :shock:
one for garden waste
one for plastic, paper, cardboard, metal (food tins, coke tins, clean tinfoil, etc),
third bin for anything that won't go in the other two. Can be a pain sorting it all, but the system seems to work well enough now everyone is used to it.
1, green waste + cardboard
2, plastic, paper, metal, glass
3, anything that doesn't go in 1 or 2
All 3 are wheelie bins, collected on alternate weeks, bins 1 + 2 one week, bin 3 then next.
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Hi all,
When I lived in Maidstone, Kent (until Feb 2005), there was ZERO re-cycling, except what ever you took yourself to either a supermarket or the dump.
Moved to Cambridgeshire and it's like a revelation:
We have two wheelie bins:
Green for all paper/cardboard, garden waste etc
Black for non-recyclable waste
And then we have a green box for glass, tins, foil and junk mail.
The fortnightly (alternating) collection scheme works well....and besides we compost our vegetable and fruit waste anyways 8)
And our local council was recently shown to have a very high recycling percentage....
regards
Tim
When I lived in Maidstone, Kent (until Feb 2005), there was ZERO re-cycling, except what ever you took yourself to either a supermarket or the dump.
Moved to Cambridgeshire and it's like a revelation:
We have two wheelie bins:
Green for all paper/cardboard, garden waste etc
Black for non-recyclable waste
And then we have a green box for glass, tins, foil and junk mail.
The fortnightly (alternating) collection scheme works well....and besides we compost our vegetable and fruit waste anyways 8)
And our local council was recently shown to have a very high recycling percentage....
regards
Tim
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Got the food waste kit today, no chacoal filters but ffrom looks of it won't be a problem with any kind of smell.
The indoor food caddy is quite small: W-20cm, H-20cm, D-15cm
The outdoor caddy is larger: W-25cm, H-35cm, D-25cm
A long roll of cornstarch bags (smell quite nice) & finally a 7 page booklet on what to do
When bags run out all you need to do is leave a note saying please can I have some more
Outdoor caddy also locks to stop any wildlife trying to get in & to keep any nasty smells inside
Let the trial begin
The indoor food caddy is quite small: W-20cm, H-20cm, D-15cm
The outdoor caddy is larger: W-25cm, H-35cm, D-25cm
A long roll of cornstarch bags (smell quite nice) & finally a 7 page booklet on what to do
When bags run out all you need to do is leave a note saying please can I have some more
Outdoor caddy also locks to stop any wildlife trying to get in & to keep any nasty smells inside
Let the trial begin
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I have the same sort of problem. No matter how much we use the recycle facility, the trash bin is always full so have to make at least one trip to the local tip every two weeks. Try to take as much as possible when I do this so as to make it worth while. Sometimes wonder if I make more pollution doing this than is saved by the recycle system....I have to make a weekly trip to the recycle centre with the plastics.
(In a 'Four Yorkshiremen' stylee)
Right, we've got a black bin for general rubbish, a blue bin for paper and cardboard and a green bin for garden rubbish ('No Food Scraps Allowed') so that means we have a box (provided by ourselves) for the glass, and a blackbag for the crushed beer cans, both of which we have to take up to the local recycle, luckily next to ASDA, so take them up when shopping!
And if you tell the young ones of today..........they won't believe you!! :lol:
Right, we've got a black bin for general rubbish, a blue bin for paper and cardboard and a green bin for garden rubbish ('No Food Scraps Allowed') so that means we have a box (provided by ourselves) for the glass, and a blackbag for the crushed beer cans, both of which we have to take up to the local recycle, luckily next to ASDA, so take them up when shopping!
And if you tell the young ones of today..........they won't believe you!! :lol:
Recycle unused objects rather than dump them
Don't know if this has been mentioned before but have a look at http://www.freecycle.org/ to get rid of stuff cluttering up your shed or cupboards to local people in need.
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You can go direct to the UK site here http://uk.freecycle.org/