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Penny Outskirts



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 10 9:59 am    Post subject: One bin of rubbish a year. Reply with quote
    

https://myzerowaste.com/2010/01/the-greens-on-bbc-breakfast-tv/

Saw these people on our local news this morning, quite an achievement!

mochyn



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

We reckon to do 4 not-full bin bags a year.

ros



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

hmm, I guess ours averages a bin-bag worth a month, not sure how we'de reduce that - not until the kids stop being given endless easily broken plastic stuff anyway.

gil
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If I only 'put the wheelie bin out' when it was full, [or if it didn;t always sit at the road end anyway], it would only be every 3 months or so.

cinders



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 10 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

If OH didn't eat so many packets of crisp we'd hardly put out any rubbish

Tavascarow



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 10 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'm probably in the same league as Mochyn.
The only rubbish I put out is plastic food wrapping & I do my best to minimise that by reusing bags for freezing food etc.
Everything else is either reused or recycled.

Green Rosie



Joined: 13 May 2007
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Location: Calvados, France
PostPosted: Wed Jan 27, 10 7:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Our house rubbish is about 1/3-1/2 a bin bag a week and I really want to get that down. I agree with Ros about the children bit and here in this part of France there is a lot of plastic we can't recycle and there are only so many yoghurt pots and marg containers you can re-use

I might try and do a rubbish audit over the next couple of weeks and see if I can reduce it.

And I say house rubbish because I do not count the rubbish the gite renovation is creating and whilst we are re-using/recycling loads some things have no choice but to go in the bin or to the dump.

Aeolienne



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PostPosted: Sun Jan 09, 11 10:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Myzerowaste has made the news in Italy!

wellington womble



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 11 11:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Personally, we are rubbish at rubbish (although better than average, judging by the wheelie bins locally) although mostly one bag a week of endless endless packaging.

There is a very good blog by Mrs Almost Average called the rubbish diet which is quite entertaining and was going to be made into a book last I read. She ended up throwing away one sticking plaster on the original 'diet'

Went



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 11 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Recycling facilities here in Spain are widely available - our village has 40 permanent residents swelling to around 80 in holiday times. We have 3 recycling points each taking glass, plastic and paper. Any other recycling can be taken to other facilities about 5km away. We don't have individual rubbish bins but there again there are around 8 large community bins around the village that are emptied every two days.

We produce about the equivalent of 1 carrier bag full of rubbish per week. Trying hard to reduce this but difficult.

paul1963



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 11 11:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Three wheelie bins per year at our house. And that's only because we can;t find anyone round here to take black plastic

Cathryn



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 11 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Gawber wrote:
Recycling facilities here in Spain are widely available - our village has 40 permanent residents swelling to around 80 in holiday times. We have 3 recycling points each taking glass, plastic and paper. Any other recycling can be taken to other facilities about 5km away. We don't have individual rubbish bins but there again there are around 8 large community bins around the village that are emptied every two days.

We produce about the equivalent of 1 carrier bag full of rubbish per week. Trying hard to reduce this but difficult.


That sounds interesting. I wonder if our Councils have considered this here. Do you think it encourages recycling and using less packaging as people have to actually handle it more for themselves?

Nicky cigreen



Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 11 10:46 am    Post subject: Re: One bin of rubbish a year. Reply with quote
    

Penny Outskirts wrote:
https://myzerowaste.com/2010/01/the-greens-on-bbc-breakfast-tv/

Saw these people on our local news this morning, quite an achievement!


i dunno - they recycle loads and loads... which is good in a way - but bad in others.. we dont recycle much, cos we dont buy a lot of things that need recycling.

and we raise our own animals, so have bones etc to dispose of, whereas if you just buy from the butchers.. you can be smug about having little waste, whilst the butcher still has to dispose of the bones etc...

good on them for bringing the idea to a larger audience, but their blog is full of things like...tips on not wasting half a jar of pasta sauce.... obviously the first step is not buying the sauce in the first place... something not covered

Green Rosie



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 11 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

A agree CiG - the lady and I had a bit of an argument a while back over corks - she buys screw topped wine bottles that can be recycled as opposed to corked bottles. Corks are farmed sustainably from the Iberian cork forests which support many rare species including the Iberian Lynx. No cork, no need for cork forests. She acknowledged this to me privately but would not put anything on her bog about it. It seems to be that she's going for zero waste even when a little waste is in fact far more sustainable.

judith



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 11, 11 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I use corks for starting the fire - so they aren't wasted.
(Not that I have loads of corks at any one time, you understand .... )

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