The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

I got banned from recycling in the first half of 2007. They introduced household recycling about six months later.

 

[Mo1959]

We have just been geen a 4th one which is small and just for 'food waste'........food waste? What is this thing?

Don’t know. I never waste food. I think technically you are supposed to put things like tea bags,potato peelings, etc in them.

 

[Baldy]

Blue bin = plastic and tins.
Grey bin = paper and cardboard
Brown bin = garden waste (extra charge for this)
Green bin = anything non-compostable.
Light grey bucket = food waste.
We did also have a blue box for glass but they no longer collect this. There's a skip either end of the village now. Everything is collected in turn on a Wednesday except the green bin which is on a random Monday. Wonder why I gets confused.

 

[Oldhippy]

Bright morning was nice to see today. Sll calm on the river, the usual duck gang mooching around snd the Cormorant fishing for eels.

 

[BoldonLad]

You're right. We have thousands of photos which rarely get seen. I'm not sure what to make of it. In the loft we have photo albums packed with pictures of the kids, holidays, family events etc. Just last week I was searching through them for a particular photo I remembered from 40+ years ago. Real treasures. The stuff on our phones? I'm not sure about these. Do they have the same value? Probably not.

On the other hand we see snaps of family life we would otherwise miss or perhaps not even hear of. A quick WhatsApp message with two or three images says a lot.

I feel there's a lot of positives to the way we use a camera today but having an actual photo? Hard to beat that and I think we've lost something with that.

IMHO it is an example of how technology has completely changed behaviour. In the old days, when photographs had to be developed, and printed, and, it was relatively expensive, a few photographs were taken, and, often carried around (typically in the woman's handbag) and were shown to people. Now, photographs are 'free", hundreds of photographs are taken, but, hardly ever looked at.

 

[Binky]

Regards recycling, it seems every council/area has different colour codes for different items. What aren't these standardised nationwide?
Make a lot more sense to help recycling whenever tourists come to UK and for those who holiday different areas anyway here.

 

[BoldonLad]

Please explain bin colours.
Here we have

Red - general rubbish
Yellow - recyclables
Green FOGO food and organic waste

Bin colours in UK are not "standardised", we have:

Black - General rubbish (ie not recyclable)
Blue - Recycling (ie plastic, paper, tins etc)
Green - Garden Waste (ie grass cuttings, leaves etc)

 

[Paulus]

Don’t know. I never waste food. I think technically you are supposed to put things like tea bags,potato peelings, etc in them.

I've got a compost heap at the bottom of the garden so all the feelings, tea bags ect. go on there.
Chicken carcasses and the like go over onto the railway embankment for the foxes so we have very little to go in the waste bin.

 

[Binky]

I've got a compost heap at the bottom of the garden so all the feelings, tea bags ect. go on there.
Chicken carcasses and the like go over onto the railway embankment for the foxes so we have very little to go in the waste bin.

I commend your recycling but doesn't throwing chicken etc away encourage rats and vermin?
Regards food waste, I'm very anti throwing food away unless necessary but banana skins, coffee grounds, peelings, we do put out. We do also have a large compost bin so as much as possible goes in there but some has to go for collection.

Overall the situation is so much better than years ago when literally everything went into a black bags and that went to landfill.

 

[welsh dragon]

Well we had a downpour, now its brightened up . Strange weather

 

[classic33]

I've got a compost heap at the bottom of the garden so all the feelings, tea bags ect. go on there.
Chicken carcasses and the like go over onto the railway embankment for the foxes so we have very little to go in the waste bin.

Teabags, or coffeebags for that matter, don't belong on the compost heap.

 

[Dave7]

Back from Aldi. A successful shop as i got everything on my list.
Tomatoes.
For some reason the only ones of a size that I like were only sold in a large pack**. I will share them with the family.
**the others were either very small or too big.
Honey.
I went to the farm shop and bought a decent size jar for £5.50 which is not too bad......that's for my daughter.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Grey bags - general non recycling stuff
Red reuseable Bag - tins and plastic
Blue reuseable Bag - cardboard
Green box - glass
Small green box with lid - food waste
Blue box with lid - paper

All the above boxes/bags are able to be replaced by council except now grey bags as they no longer supply them. We have to buy our own.
We can put out garden waste but given size of our garden we generate so much I have to take to tip.

My wife in particular is an avid recycler so woe betide anyone who puts wrong thing in wrong box in this house!

Mrs Tkk runs all the glass jars and foil containers through the dishwasher before they go in the recycling. 🤔

 

[Tenkaykev]

A glorious sunny morning saw me heading out for a run / walk. Tree down on the trailway, it was navigable with a bit of ducking. Our delivery of kitchen / Loo rolls arrived this morning, it comes from a smallish local company called " Naked Paper ". It's manufactured using recycled paper and is unbleached, the printing on the bos says " It's Brown because it's Greener "
Plumber coming to fix the shower this afternoon, it's been dripping and my attempts to remove and descale the thermostatic cartridge were unsuccessful.

 

[Binky]

Mrs Tkk runs all the glass jars and foil containers through the dishwasher before they go in the recycling. 🤔

Same here. Glass jars, plastic containers, foil etc.