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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Snoopy on September 09, 2009, 08:23:44 AM
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We do not have wheelie bins. The lanes around here are too narrow for the large truck needed to empty them and most of the lanes have no pavements for us to block with our wheelies anyway.
Soooooooooooooo
We have a variety of transparent but differently coloured plastic bags. We are instructed that we should put paper and cardboard in a bag of a certain hue and place this outside of our property on "even" weeks. Another bag of variant colour is to hold plastics, Milk bottles, cream and yoghurt cartons, P.E.T. bottles, food containers etc. There is an instruction writ large upon the bag that all plastics MUST BE RINSED AND DRIED before being placed in the bag. This will be collected on "odd" weeks.
This morning, standing at the kitchen sink grumpily washing out a plastic 4pt milk bottle, four yoghurt pots and a cream tub prior to putting them in the appropriate bag the thought occurred that this a fvck of a lot of water being used. I suggested to the lady wife that perhaps we should wash them in the rain water butt as an economy measure. Having considered this suggestion for all of a nanosecond she replied "Would you like me to take the washing down to the river and beat your shirts on a rock as well?"
I took her point but I still say I am still paying to wash things that I want to throw away and frankly that p*sses me off somewhat. cussing:
I then suggested that we might put such items in the dishwasher along with the breakfast crockery etc but she pointed out that they are not in fact dishwasher proof and will melt and fvck up the machine.
My last idea was that we ought to line them up in the toilet and instruct users to p*ss in them and then tip the result down the bog before flushing.
This too she vetoed for reasons not explained ..... Well TBH she just gave me a withering look.
I am now seeking some alternative. After all I have to pay for the water used. It is of drinking quality and we are told it is in short supply and should not be wasted. This cannot realistically be said to be saving the planet.
PS We also have yet another coloured bag for tins that also have to be rinsed clean before being put in it.
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It's all bollocks
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Wot he said... ^^^^
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I agree with you both but it doesn't mean that I am prepared to be fined any more than you are. So like it or not compliance is the order of the day for all of us but some protest is in order surely. Unfortunately in the UK we cannot just tip our dead goats over a cliff ~ we have to wash them and put them in the right coloured disposal bag.
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And then pay for them to be taken, unsorted, to landfill noooo:
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And then pay for them to be taken, unsorted, to landfill in China noooo:
Fixed that for you...
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As there are only two of us we do not need a dishwasher so we have a small washing up bowl, & after washing the dishes, we use the same water to clean the tins, bottles etc.
We have a black bin for general waste, a green one for kichen & garden waste,
a brown box for papers, a grey box for cans & a pink box for plastics.
The black & green bins are collected on alternate weeks. The boxes are collected every so often (haven't yet workied out the format but it's only been in operation about 3 years so far). Since there are recycling bins just down the road, Saddler usually takes the newspapers, cans & bottles across there
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As there are only two of us we do not need a dishwasher so we have a small washing up bowl, & after washing the dishes, we use the same water to clean the tins, bottles etc.
We have a black bin for general waste, a green one for kichen & garden waste,
a brown box for papers, a grey box for cans & a pink box for plastics.
The black & green bins are collected on alternate weeks. The boxes are collected every so often (haven't yet workied out the format but it's only been in operation about 3 years so far). Since there are recycling bins just down the road, Saddler usually takes the newspapers, cans & bottles across there
from whence they are shipped to a hole in China noooo:
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As there are only two of us we do not need a dishwasher so we have a small washing up bowl, & after washing the dishes, we use the same water to clean the tins, bottles etc.
We have a black bin for general waste, a green one for kichen & garden waste,
a brown box for papers, a grey box for cans & a pink box for plastics.
The black & green bins are collected on alternate weeks. The boxes are collected every so often (haven't yet workied out the format but it's only been in operation about 3 years so far). Since there are recycling bins just down the road, Saddler usually takes the newspapers, cans & bottles across there
I am afraid there are five of us and that would be a lot of washing up. noooo:
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I have 1 wheelie bin....and a green box.
The green box is never taken away so absolutely everything goes into the wheelie bin
Simples
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Our 'recycling' is completely random
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The same thought about water usage also crossed my mind while I was rinsing out pots and tins. The water's not metered so I muttered "sod it!" and carried on.
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I have a water meter ....but as there is only me and the Brat this works out quite well for us whistle:
My monthly water bill is ?11 and I am in credit whistle:
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People would (IMHO) be more willing to participate in recycling if the government introduced some practical laws to restrict waste...
I've ranted about the use of plastic milk cartons before... if more goods came in (easily recyclable) glass bottles instead of mixed plastic/cardboard shite that can never be recycled we'd be a lot better off...
Yesterday I bought some John West light lunch tuna snacks or some such... they come in a foil container with a foil lid in a cardboard sleeve with a little plastic fork in a cellophane bag FFS.
My last Braun 'lectric razor has a mahoosive plastic 'cleaning podule' which gets chucked away every month or so...
Every day we are surrounded by products which have unnecessary packaging or are designed specifically to force us to purchase (and discard) plastic consumable bits like inkjet printers...
Some action taken to actually reduce the waste that is delivered to our homes would be much better than forcing us all to clean it and sort it into different bins...
And that's the other thing - how many millions of tonnes of plastic have been turned into fecking wheelie bins? I drove though Chalvey the last time I was over and each household had about four different coloured wheelie bins... the street was awash with the bastard things... noooo:
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I have a water meter ....but a there is only me and the Brat this works out quite well for us whistle:
My monthly water bill is ?11 and I am in credit whistle:
We have a water meter... our last (quarterly) bill was ?75 but that includes topping the pool up... whistle:
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With rainwater rubschin:
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With rainwater rubschin:
whistle:
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Got a new sportsbag for the Boy yesterday. Mahoosive plaggy bag inside stuffed with more plastic and other shite so it retained its shape. Why?
PS He is currently playing Rugby eveilgrin: What can possibly go wrong?
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Got a new sportsbag for the Boy yesterday. Mahoosive plaggy bag inside stuffed with more plastic and other shite so it retained its shape. Why?
Prolly stuff which has been 'recycled' by Mrs. Snoopy, shipped to China, plucked out of landfill by some underfed scavenging oik and sold to the sports bag company for 2p per tonne...
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I shall send it on its merry way then angel1
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We have a largish house. There are 5 of us in it. The first thing I did when we moved here in 2001 was to ask the Water Authority to install a meter.
"Oh you don't want one of those, it will cost you a fortune"
"No it won't so will you please fit one"
"How many people live in the house?"
"Five"
"Oh you'll have huge bills with a water meter"
"Why are you trying to talk me out of it?"
"I am only trying to give you our best advice"
"Thank you for trying now when will you be fitting the water meter?"
Meter fitted five weeks later. First half yearly bill = 45% of the standard charges for a house of this size.
Consistently our bills are less than half the rate they want to charge if I didn't have the meter. They have changed the meter, determined that the original was reading incorrectly ~ same result. No wonder they didn't want me to have a meter. ::)
We have a washing machine that is used daily and a dishwasher that is used twice a day, we have a bidet which is used a lot, all of which would suggest that we use a lot of water (just think of the number of times the toilets are flushed)
I still ponder the logic of charging for water depending on how many bedrooms you have. rubschin:
A neighbour has 4 bedrooms (same as us) and no water meter. There are only two living in that house, they wash up by hand and only use the washing machine twice a week yet his water bill is twice the size of mine. It makes no sense unless you see it as a blatant rip off.
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Interesting. I may try that rubschin:
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Water companies are obliged by law to fit a meter to any property where the owner/bill payer requests it ~ but they won't make it easy.
You can also ask them to remove it if your bills prove to be higher as a result of having it fitted.
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rubschin:
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Water companies are obliged by law to fit a meter to any property where the owner/bill payer requests it ~ but they won't make it easy.
You can also ask them to remove it if your bills prove to be higher as a result of having it fitted.
That's the clincher!
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http://www.uswitch.com/water/what-water-meter/
It's all in here if you dig around.
Can I switch back to an unmeasured water bill?
If you switch from unmeasured water bills to a water meter, you have the right to ask your water company to switch you back to an unmeasured charge within the first 12 months of installation.
When you switch back to unmeasured billing the meter will remain in your property and any subsequent occupants will have to pay for their water using the meter. Similarly, if you move into a house where a meter is already installed you will not be able to switch to unmeasured water billing.
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I then suggested that we might put such items in the dishwasher . . . .they are not in fact dishwasher proof and will melt and fvck up the machine.
This is not true.
Certainly milk 'bottles' will take boiling water, we regularly put them in the dishwasher with no problem.
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Well I'd have thought that too but SWWLTBO will not hear of it.
I was always happy, when milk came in real bottles, to rinse them before putting them on the step for collection. It seemed only decent even tho' I knew they would be washed and sterilised before being refilled but these nasty plastic things noooo:
Glass is, after all, only super heated sand and there is more than enough of that around (sand that is) so why do we need these plastic things anyway?
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Well I'd have thought that too but SWWLTBO will not hear of it.
I was always happy, when milk came in real bottles, to rinse them before putting them on the step for collection. It seemed only decent even tho' I knew they would be washed and sterilised before being refilled but these nasty plastic things noooo:
Glass is, after all, only super heated sand and there is more than enough of that around (sand that is) so why do we need these plastic things anyway?
Sneak one in while she isn't looking. (so to speak)
Glass is good in general but I would rather be threatened by a drunk holding a smashed plastic cup.
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And that's the other thing - how many millions of tonnes of plastic have been turned into fecking wheelie bins? I drove though Chalvey the last time I was over and each household had about four different coloured wheelie bins... the street was awash with the bastard things... noooo:
Dear God I hope you were travelling at speed !!
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Blah Blah Blah
from whence they are shipped to a hole in China noooo:
Yes I can believe that Nick. Sometimes people put the wrong colour bin out, but it still gets emptied into the dustcart ::)
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And that's the other thing - how many millions of tonnes of plastic have been turned into fecking wheelie bins? I drove though Chalvey the last time I was over and each household had about four different coloured wheelie bins... the street was awash with the bastard things... noooo:
Dear God I hope you were travelling at speed !!
Yes, and doors locked too... whistle: