Bin Night

And they still won't supply a fluoro bin for radioactive waste

hey dudes you know if you go on holiday to turkey or sometimes greece they have those little bins next to the toilet because you're not supposed to flush bogroll? imagine adding that challenge to your bin night routine!

don't respond here, this is intended as an opening post for a new thread on the new subforum

I can't wait for the sub forum and have an important csb.

When I worked in Greece we used to call them the poo bin, but then one of guests at the hotel I worked at pooed in the bin. I fondly recall typing up the adapted welcome speech to include the advice 'do not poo in the bin'.

No, I'm Broadland as well. Just lucky I guess... :)

We have a green bin for general waste and a grey for recycling

It still messes with my head

+1

We have a brown one for green garden waste as well...

Here in Germany we have a Hausmeister in charge of the bins, some days I go outside and see bins of some colour on the street and wonder if I should still do the rounds round our apartment.

do you live in leipzig or have i got confused?

i lived there in 2006, but the sad thing is that i do not recall anything about the bins whatsoever

trennen
restmull

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When doing our millyan paaahnd kitchen we put in 4 bins:
Compost for food waste which we compost ourselves for the garden
Landfill - which is only collected every other week here
Plastic and metal - they are collected together
Cardboard and glass - these are separated prior to collection which is easy as the glass sinks to the bottom

Tomorrow is recycling collection so just about to separate out the cardboard and glass into their receptacles and to put the plastic and metal into their bin.

The German segregatedbinpulloutcupboarddrawer and doing most of the sorting before bin day makes tonight’s task pretty simple.

@rhb

Staff are on furlough

When doing our millyan paaahnd kitchen we put in 4 bins:
Compost for food waste which we compost ourselves for the garden
Landfill - which is only collected every other week here

Plastic and metal - they are collected together
Cardboard and glass - these are separated prior to collection which is easy as the glass sinks to the bottom

Tomorrow is recycling collection so just about to separate out the cardboard and glass into their receptacles and to put the plastic and metal into their bin.

The German segregatedbinpulloutcupboarddrawer and doing most of the sorting before bin day makes tonight’s task pretty simple.

Woolwich has changed.
I used to go to Eglinton school.

Yes, Leipzig! I'll take a pic of my neighbour's garden tomorrow which is very bin-centred and should make you relive the repressed memories of Leipzig's exciting Müllentsorgung.

In other waste-related news, we need to figure out how to get Berechtigungskarten für Leipziger Wertstoffhöfe because all of the styrofoam our appliances were shipped is not going to fit in the available grey bins.

I have a brown bin. Garden cuttings and stuff.
I have a green bin. Recyclable stuff, all just lumped together.
I have a black bin. All the really bad things.
Am I a bad person. Unquestionably.

Just put out the cans and glass, I'm gonna have to start crushing stuff to last until next pick up.

The German segregatedbinpulloutcupboarddrawer

I am very excited to get one of those as soon as our €2k kitchen (embarrassing, I know) is finished. Ikea should be around tomorrow to deliver the carcass, I've held out on ordering a door for the sink cupboard as I might divide it into drawers to fit a HÅLLBAR
Abfalltrennungslösung.

Fun fact: In Germany Ikea bins come with little stickers so you can colour code them to match the bins outside.

It’s such a great time saver and not having to separate things after a week of being jumbled together is so much less unpleasant.

We eat a predominantly plant based diet so compost the vast majority of food waste. But our dogs will scavenge composted carcasses from the large compost boxes so these get sent off in the food waste caddy.

One time a local farmer dropped off a couple of tons of manure and our dogs dug out a couple of stillborn lamb carcasses which had been rotting for 12 months.

which animal had shat them out?

He had just thrown the still horns on the manure pile.

That anecdote has ruined my still horn.

is that considered good practice? this anecdote is SO NOT bin night

bin night, which holds significant status in my culture, is more about cleanliness, family, fun, and colours

Its my bin night tonight. Sunday is the best night for bin night because that Sunday night feeling is like no other, and works well with the need to put the bins out.

The end of one week is the dawn of another, and so we cleanse ourselves of last week's refuse, ready to start afresh. Kinda beautiful when you think about it.

Boast post - in the five years we've lived here I don't think I've missed a bin night.

Woolwich has changed.

Oh 'down there'

• how ?
  

I don't remember it being quite so "my bins". Mind you I was only 8-10 at this point.

Pay off on that big chat:
"Did you remember to put your clocks forward?"

Green for general and black for recycling in Dartford - absolute opposite of what I grew up with, no idea why you’d do it!

What we need is a National Standard for Bin Classification, ideally this would be a new topic in the Bin subforum alas a matter of such importance can't wait.

I propose:

Green: Garden & Food Waste
Brown: Paper & Card
Blue: Bottles & Cans etc
Black/Grey: all the other non recyclable shite

Can you mix garden and food waste?