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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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1426911	2016-10-04 23:19:00	We have a small 10 litre rubbish bag in our kitchen which is emptied each rubbish day. It does not even cover the bottom of the wheelie bin. We rarely fill the bin. Only when we clear out some of the rubbish out of the garden do we fill up the bin. When we put our bin out on the road for collection we see quite a few bins full to overflowing. Some can't shut the lid down. Where do they get all that rubbish from? Granted, there are only two of us, but when our two children were at home it was not much different. We never filled our bin to the top. So how do they manage to fill their bins to overflowing? I just can't understand it.:confused:	Roscoe (6288)
1426912	2016-10-04 23:46:00	It's an aspect of Parkinson's Law..........rubbish will expand to fill the receptacle size. See it here too, and I can't understand how so much rubbish can be put out each week. We don't have a wheelie bin just use the council approved plastic rubbish sac. There used to be curbside re-cycling collection with glass, paper, cans in separate supermarket plastic bags. That was stopped and people supposed to pay a recycle wheelie bin fee. No way, with just 2 of us everything goes into the council plastic bag. So what did these people do before wheelie bins?	Terry Porritt (14)
1426913	2016-10-04 23:59:00	I sometimes miss a week because the bag is nearly empty, but across the road from me is a house with a pile of rubbish bags that have been sitting there for a week. Not sure if they put it out on the wrong day or it got left because they exceeded the 2 bag limit. But everyone is different, when I had a house load of young guys next door they put out 3 plastic recycling bins full of RTD bottles every week - no mystery there. Funnily enough the recycling collection guys often got them out there to help and made them sort stuff better.	dugimodo (138)
1426914	2016-10-05 00:00:00	Since recycling came in most of my rubbish goes into the the recycling bin. My unrecoverable garbage usually fills a supermarket shopping bag so like Roscoe my garbage hardly fills the bottom of a wheelie bin.	Bobh (5192)
1426915	2016-10-05 00:16:00	Access to a compost heap or even what sort of foods are eaten can make a big difference.	the_bogan (9949)
1426916	2016-10-05 00:21:00	Access to a compost heap or even what sort of foods are eaten can make a big difference. This. We are.... 'fixing' our place at the moment, and I managed to totally wreck the compost bin when moving it, and we haven't got another one yet. Can't believe how much more rubbish we have when the compost bin is out of commission. Fast food is another bad one for creating a lot of rubbish.	wratterus (105)
1426917	2016-10-05 19:15:00	So how do they manage to fill their bins to overflowing? Packaging . For instance: PLastic drink bottles . . . Biscuits - in a plastic wrapper and plastic tray . Then the shop people want to put it in another plastic bag . Even my modem, in a box, containing more cardboard bits, and plastic film and plastic bags to hold all the connecters and such, and another plastic bag for the booklet and so on . . . . We compost so don't have garden waste very often . We don't buy milk or soft drinks or beer etc so have very little bottles . Occasional can goes in . Mostly it's packaging and cardboard . . . . . Having bought a dishwasher recently I had a pile of polystyrene to dispose of . . . . man that stuff flies . . . little pieces break off and seem to have anti-gravity . Hideous stuff .	pctek (84)
1426918	2016-10-06 06:37:00	Packaging. For instance: PLastic drink bottles... Biscuits - in a plastic wrapper and plastic tray. Then the shop people want to put it in another plastic bag. Even my modem, in a box, containing more cardboard bits, and plastic film and plastic bags to hold all the connecters and such, and another plastic bag for the booklet and so on.... We compost so don't have garden waste very often. We don't buy milk or soft drinks or beer etc so have very little bottles. Occasional can goes in. Mostly it's packaging and cardboard.....Having bought a dishwasher recently I had a pile of polystyrene to dispose of....man that stuff flies...little pieces break off and seem to have anti-gravity. Hideous stuff. No beer what a sad life!	prefect (6291)
1426919	2016-10-06 17:54:00	No beer what a sad life! No commercial beer. He makes his own	pctek (84)
1426920	2016-10-06 20:30:00	Packaging. For instance: PLastic drink bottles... Biscuits - in a plastic wrapper and plastic tray. Then the shop people want to put it in another plastic bag. 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:	1101 (13337)
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