Rubbish diet – Monday meeting.

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5 responses to “Rubbish diet – Monday meeting.”

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   Karen@therubbishdiet

   30 January 2012

   Thanks Jax, looks like things are going in the right directon. As for the plastic bags, check with your local supermarket. If not, there will be facilities at the nearest Household Waste Recycling Centre, as all of Suffolk’ss HWRC’s collection them. 🙂

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   Ruth

   30 January 2012

   Our council takes plastic bags, tetrapaks, glass, plastic, paper and tin cans in one bin and food waste, cardboard and garden waste in another. I use plastic storage boxes and decant it as I go.

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3. 

   Daddybean

   31 January 2012

   Nothing to do with recycling, but I’ve set up both our phones to automatically upload their photos to a computer here. Primarily for backup, but also means no need to then download them again from the camera
   On my Android phone i’m using
   Filesync to upload to an ftp server running on the server in the cellar (though it does other stuff like dropbox). On H’s iPhone it was less of a fiddle as I just setup iCloud to copy the photos. And then setup the iCloud windows client to download them.

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   Alison

   31 January 2012

   I’ve got a set of these http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=110&storeId=10151&partNumber=8423328 – they’re narrow, so could fit in a gap, whereas lots of the recycling bin sets I looked at were side by side and I just didn’t have room for something like that.

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5. 

   Caroline

   31 January 2012

   We have the same set of bins as Alison and they are great (in fact we have two sets!). We used them exclusively for a while as the council were not collecting our recycle (living up a private lane and all), but now the council are collecting – and EVERYTHING goes in one ‘silver’ wheely bin ~ paper, card, tin, glass, tetrapac, envelopes, plastic ~ you name it just about. They still don’t collect plastic bags though. ATM we use our plastic bags as bin liners (don’t ever buy separate ones) and ‘recycle’ them that way. If we end up with a surplus ~ and we often do ~ they are taken to the local supermarket and stuffed in the ‘used bags’ bin. I believe they are used to make things like ‘fleece’ ~ so I don’t feel too bad about it 😀
   In the corner of our kitchen we now have a plastic trug (you know the big round rubbery kind with handles on), into which all the daily recyclables are thrown. At the end of each day they are all then tipped into the silver wheely bin outside.
   The ‘bins’ that Alison has are now used for other things here ~ kindling wood, toy storage in the shed, etc… so even when they became redundant as recycle bins they remain useful 😀
   We only throw away about a carrier bag full of rubbish each day ~ and a lot of that is cooked food waste and/or plastic wrappings from things like tortilla wraps, bread bags, etc… All our ‘veg’ containers are thrown in the recycle (they are tetrapac mostly) or reused as sorting trays or something such like, in school! Even with a family our size (11 people atm, as my Nan is living with us) we only fill one black wheely a fortnight 😀 Our recycle bin is usually overflowing and in need of being jumped in to get the lid shut!!

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