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| Thread ID: 142899 | 2016-10-04 23:19:00 | I Can't Understand Where They Get All That Rubbish From | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1426921 | 2016-10-07 00:18:00 | actually , then the shop wants to charge you for a plastic bag....to help save the planet by reducing plastic rubbish :) Perhaps The Warehouse should look at the packing of the stuff they sell , rather than the plastic bags at the checkout. :mad: X 2 When we had that archaic thing called a fireplace, we could burn our newspapers and cardboard. Now they go out in the recycling bin each fortnight. Along with the empty bottles, mostly wine, occasionally beer. Glass jars and similar. Other non-recyclable rubbish is in a bin which is collected every four weeks. Occasionally we put out a rubbish sack, that usually only happens when we have had extra visitors. Anything that can be is composted. Incidentally, one rubbish collection day I followed a woman down the road, she had a fairly large bag and as she passed each rubbish bin she added something from the bag that she was carrying. :rolleyes: |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1426922 | 2016-10-07 04:42:00 | We put one 40 litre bag per month (which contains a similar amount of garbage as four supermarket bags). We also put out bottles, cans and papers etc in the new 240 litre jumbo size bins (emptied fortnightly) and that goes out once a month too. Some two-person homes in our street put out two 65 litre bags every fortnight, which is a gob-smacking amount of rubbish for two people, and have an overflowing recycle bin every two weeks as well. Predictably, many people also ignore the instructions not to over-fill their bin (or to stack cardboard cartons beside it) so they just get left at the side of the road where the next passing mindless idiot can empty their bin across the footpath and spread the cartons far and wide. I must be getting old! I'm not usually given to ranting about Council stupidity, but I've had an example for myself! Our street is a cul de sac and about 150 metres long It had only one street-light located at the dead end. I finally persuaded the Council to put in another light, and they did, but placed it about 30 metres from the existing lamp! We were no better off, so I took photos up and down the street after dark and finally they came and added another lamp further up the street (outside our neighbours) so after about 35 years we can now see our own driveway! Don't get me started on WaterCare either, that's another festering sore! Cheers Billy 8-{) :annoyed: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1426923 | 2016-10-07 10:09:00 | But if councils are profiteering from our recycling, then they should allow extra packaging to be stacked alongside their bins . it's a easy and perhaps more profitable win to them . If we have fast foods at home, I sometimes return the packaging back in their fast food's bins, e . g . for McDonald's, which can fill up about three supermarket bags . Or sometimes our local supermarket bins, where I bought packaged products from . or petrol station bins . Stopped using our recycle bin sometimes- would fill too soon . Or might open products, and discard packaging direct from their store in their bins, notably the Warehouse, Super Cheap Auto, etc . |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1426924 | 2016-10-07 18:34:00 | Don't get me started on WaterCare either, that's another festering sore! Why? We have the safest water in the country . Good on them, boo to Hawkes Bay water people in their council . |
pctek (84) | ||
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