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| September 20, 2011, 4:39pm |
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... I'm just surprised it took them so long. We can now have a caddy to recycle food waste for the kitchen and we can put it in the green or the black bin. Makes sense...... Not! |
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| September 20, 2011, 5:04pm |
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... I'm just surprised it took them so long. We can now have a caddy to recycle food waste for the kitchen and we can put it in the green or the black bin. Makes sense...... Not!
Haven't heard about this so can you post a link? |
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| blackdog |
| September 20, 2011, 5:09pm |
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| richard.garvie |
| September 20, 2011, 5:26pm |
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So are we getting a hefty discount from Veolia? |
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| September 20, 2011, 6:42pm |
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What happens to the composting bag if it is put in the black wheelie bin. If it goes directly to landfill as I guess the contents of the black bin go, what's the green gain. If it goes in the green wheelie bin and that is collected fortnightly,that will surely stink up the neighbourhood.
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| Cognosco |
| September 20, 2011, 6:55pm |
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What happens to the composting bag if it is put in the black wheelie bin. If it goes directly to landfill as I guess the contents of the black bin go, what's the green gain. If it goes in the green wheelie bin and that is collected fortnightly,that will surely stink up the neighbourhood.
What is the more important? Green recycling or Veolia making money?  Unless of course our council tax goes down! Yeh right! |
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| September 20, 2011, 6:56pm |
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What happens to the composting bag if it is put in the black wheelie bin. If it goes directly to landfill as I guess the contents of the black bin go, what's the green gain. If it goes in the green wheelie bin and that is collected fortnightly,that will surely stink up the neighbourhood.
Its not about green ist. It's about cutting services so that the senior execs can keepntheir noses in the trough. |
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| PaulaM |
| September 20, 2011, 9:57pm |
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Sorry am I missing something here - what exactly is going to happen to this food waste ??? |
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| blackdog |
| September 20, 2011, 11:53pm |
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Sorry am I missing something here - what exactly is going to happen to this food waste ???
In order to defuse complaints about fortnightly black bin colllections they are introducing a new scheme that get you to separate out the smelly food waste - which of course will be chucked into the next bin to be emptied. So one week it will go into landfill (as at present), the other week it will go wherever the green waste goes. |
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| jay |
| September 21, 2011, 10:48am |
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I have used this system and on the whole it works. Problems I found - red meat bones have to go in the black bin. This means the remains of your leg of lamb can be sitting festering for a fortnight; the bags disintegrate in contact with even small amounts of liquid (pasta, tea bags etc) and need changing at least once a day.
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| noobree |
| September 21, 2011, 11:28am |
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Why on earth are people throwing away so much food? Very odd. We have the worst obesity rates in the known universe http://goo.gl/VmpZh and we trash huge quantities of food http://goo.gl/IjtQ8. Completely unnecessary. I blame the parents. |
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| September 21, 2011, 11:36am |
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In order to defuse complaints about fortnightly black bin colllections they are introducing a new scheme that get you to separate out the smelly food waste - which of course will be chucked into the next bin to be emptied. So one week it will go into landfill (as at present), the other week it will go wherever the green waste goes.
Food waste isn't the only pungent and potentially unhealthy waste some households have to deal with. Nappies for instance. I would imagine 2 weeks of nappies dunnarf pen and ink. |
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| PaulaM |
| September 21, 2011, 12:31pm |
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In order to defuse complaints about fortnightly black bin colllections they are introducing a new scheme that get you to separate out the smelly food waste - which of course will be chucked into the next bin to be emptied. So one week it will go into landfill (as at present), the other week it will go wherever the green waste goes.
Yes this is what confused me. Surely dairy and meat products etc can't be composted - or we would have been able to put it in our green bins long ago ? |
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| September 21, 2011, 1:41pm |
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Yes this is what confused me. Surely dairy and meat products etc can't be composted - or we would have been able to put it in our green bins long ago ?
If you read the original article, there's a new depot at Padworth to cater for this I believe. |
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| noobree |
| September 30, 2011, 5:13am |
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Relax everyone. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15118516Eric Pickles to the rescue! Pure grandstanding, obviously, but at least when mobs rule the streets following the coalition's decimation of our police forces we'll know we can rely on weekly bin collections! But will he also bail West Berkshire out of its huge overspend? And how could even the most incompetent bean counter get it so wrong? I thought the tories promised us efficient management. Whingewhingewhinge - what do you reckon? |
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