Punkawallah
Veteran
You don’t -have- to, but -choose- to.
As we don’t -eat- banana skins, they are not ‘food’.
How many CCrs do/dont use the new food waste bins.
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You don’t -have- to, but -choose- to.
As we don’t -eat- banana skins, they are not ‘food’.
PaulSB
Squire
- Location
- Chorley, Lancashire
To date, collections started four weeks ago, we have put out a few chop bones and chicken legs. I have been recycling all compostable** waste, that includes both cooked and uncooked food, in my allotment bins for 40+ years. I'm not about to start giving a valuable resource to my local authority.
**When I say compostable, if it was once organic, within reason, it can be composted.
I usually pop our two or three bones in a neighbour's bin. I haven't inspected the contents of people's bins but out of interest I've picked them up by the handle. The weight of some is quite astonishing, the volume of food waste some households have leaves me gobsmacked. What's even more interesting is the waste is from houses occupied by people 40 years younger than me.
**When I say compostable, if it was once organic, within reason, it can be composted.
I usually pop our two or three bones in a neighbour's bin. I haven't inspected the contents of people's bins but out of interest I've picked them up by the handle. The weight of some is quite astonishing, the volume of food waste some households have leaves me gobsmacked. What's even more interesting is the waste is from houses occupied by people 40 years younger than me.
I dont eat potato or carrot feelings or egg shells but they all have to go in that bin.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Widnes
for some reason i'm reminded of seeing someone up the streets green bin, lid wide open held there by a stack of takeaway pizza boxes, there must have been ten boxes sat ABOVE the lid line, let alone how many would have been below it
I suspect there's not much fresh food preparation in that house
I rented a flat in Bangor for just over a year at one point
As it is a University town a lot of the flats in the block were inhabited by students
Generally when bin day came round my bin would be about 1/4 full as it was just me and I tend to cook from scratch
but when I went out with the last bag from the house and to put the bin out
I would often find my bin crammed full of Pizza boxes
recycling day the other one of the alternating Mondays - and only me and the lady next door put anything out at all!!
The local paper was often full of stuff about young people and students from the University promoting Green stuff and all that
Well - the young people and students in our bloke did naff all recycling as far as I could see!!!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
We use them. Collections are weekly
Same in Lichfield. They used to do food waste collection about 20 years ago but stopped it....
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Hypocrisy exists amongst all demographics - young and old. So I am not surprised at what you say.
Many of the young people in our wider family and friendship group are fully paid-up members of the eco-evangilist set but happily consume the latest Apple products as though there is no tomorrow, wear the latest designer gear, drive quite nice new cars and indulge in faraway holidays and numerous short breaks.
The Oldies are the same. Waxing lyrical about how much plastic they recycle when they drive RR Sports, nip off to Dubai for a girls long weekend, spend huge amounts on 'necessary' holidays and replacing 3 year old kitchens that are 'out of date', and (usually males) spending their hard-earned on extortionate golfing trips.
Can't see it changing any time soon, either.
