Popular Post mjmooney Posted March 17, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted March 17, 2021 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted March 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 17, 2021 6 hours ago, mjmooney said: Which one's @bickster? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 1964? How'd he get one of these in his car? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 17, 2021 Ringo story aside, what really cheered me up was the fact that they're all still alive, look in pretty good shape, and are still in touch with each other. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 They’ve changed the shape of the Activia yogurt pot. Previously, if you ate two, you had to sort of scrunch one inside the other as they were cylindrical. the new ones are a slight taper, a slight cone shape, if you will. So now they slot neatly one in to the other. Minimising the space taken up in the plastic recycling tray. Very happy with that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted March 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 18, 2021 3 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: They’ve changed the shape of the Activia yogurt pot. Previously, if you ate two, you had to sort of scrunch one inside the other as they were cylindrical. the new ones are a slight taper, a slight cone shape, if you will. So now they slot neatly one in to the other. Minimising the space taken up in the plastic recycling tray. Very happy with that. The boring thread’s over that way, mate. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 Just now, blandy said: The boring thread’s over that way, mate. Boring? You should see my happy little face! It’s going to revolutionise my midnight snacking routine. You sir, have a very low boredom threshold if yogurt pot design development fails to ignite a little spark of something inside you. I may pen them a congratutory tweet. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 1 minute ago, chrisp65 said: Boring? You should see my happy little face! It’s going to revolutionise my midnight snacking routine. You sir, have a very low boredom threshold if yogurt pot design development fails to ignite a little spark of something inside you. I may pen them a congratutory tweet. Let me drop some recycling street knowledge on you. Foil, milk bottle tops, viscount biscuit wrappers, tops from tins of coffee etc. Start a ball of the foil and add foil to it. That way little bits of foil can be recycled. Yeah you ****. This is what middle age looks like. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Let me drop some recycling street knowledge on you. Foil, milk bottle tops, viscount biscuit wrappers, tops from tins of coffee etc. Start a ball of the foil and add foil to it. That way little bits of foil can be recycled. Yeah you ****. This is what middle age looks like. Well I’ll have to run this by the council recycling team first but it sounds good. We have excellent recycling stats around here, UK leading levels of recycling, partly through a programme of public awareness and partly through Sam the Sticker Man who goes around in advance of the recycling truck, checking the bags and sticking a big red sticker on anything containing a non-compliance. Just lobbing a ball of foil in the plastics and tins bag (one blue bag allowed every week) could get this house its first red sticker. I’ll get my people to check it out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 18, 2021 15 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Well I’ll have to run this by the council recycling team first but it sounds good. We have excellent recycling stats around here, UK leading levels of recycling, partly through a programme of public awareness and partly through Sam the Sticker Man who goes around in advance of the recycling truck, checking the bags and sticking a big red sticker on anything containing a non-compliance. Just lobbing a ball of foil in the plastics and tins bag (one blue bag allowed every week) could get this house its first red sticker. I’ll get my people to check it out. Thank Eff we don't have to do that separating nonsense anymore. 1 Wheelie Bin (Grey) for Non-recyclables every fortnight, 1 Wheelie Bin for recyclables (Brown) the following week. Plus One Green garden refuse Wheelie Bin every month. Much sodding simpler than when we had to do all that separating nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 We have a bag for card, green bin for general waste, blue bin for recyclables, a brown bin for garden waste and my wife has a separate bin that she takes to a local place that recycles stuff the council don’t. She also weaves from hamster fur and eats dung. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 33 minutes ago, Seat68 said: Let me drop some recycling street knowledge on you. Foil, milk bottle tops, viscount biscuit wrappers, tops from tins of coffee etc. Start a ball of the foil and add foil to it. That way little bits of foil can be recycled. Yeah you ****. This is what middle age looks like. Middle age? Aren't you 50? You planning to live to 100 are ya? Middle age is 40! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 7 different bags and containers here, some such as food waste go out every week, some such as non-recyclable and garden waste alternate with each other. We’ve got the non-recyclable down to about half a bin bag a fortnight. Food waste we’ve got down to half a small bag a week, the rest we compost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) Why the hell isn't recycling standardised across what is only a small country? Every bloody local authority is different. Leeds: Plastics (types 1, 2 and 4 only), card and tins all go, unsorted, into the green bin. Garbage in the black bin. Garden waste in the brown. No glass collection. Bradford (right next door): Plastics and card in the black bin. Garbage in the green bin. Blue bin for glass. No garden bin. It's a shambles. Edited March 18, 2021 by mjmooney 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted March 18, 2021 Moderator Share Posted March 18, 2021 20 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Every bloody local authority is different. It's even worse than that, its actually different in our authority depending on where you live! There's wheelie bin areas and bag areas. In the bag areas you get delivered 26 bags per yer and one hessian sack (for recyclables). You can only put your rubbish in an official bag or sack. The bags and sacks have nowhere near the capacity of a Wheelie Bin. If you are in a bag area, you have to request a garden refuse collection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) Are Birmingham still only collecting bags or have they finally moved to Wheelie Bins? It was like moving to a different country on bin day when we moved over the border to Solihull. No rubbish strewn across the street every morning by scavaging foxes. Edited March 18, 2021 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 48 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Why the hell isn't recycling standardised across what is only a small country? Every bloody local authority is different. Leeds: Plastics (types 1, 2 and 4 only), card and tins all go, unsorted, into the green bin. Garbage in the black bin. Garden waste in the brown. Bradford (right next door): Plastics and card in the black bin. Garbage in the green bin. Blue bin for glass. No garden bin. It's a shambles. Everything bad in local government is Eric Pickles' fault. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted March 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 18, 2021 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Why the hell isn't recycling standardised across what is only a small country? Every bloody local authority is different. Leeds: Plastics (types 1, 2 and 4 only), card and tins all go, unsorted, into the green bin. Garbage in the black bin. Garden waste in the brown. No glass collection. Bradford (right next door): Plastics and card in the black bin. Garbage in the green bin. Blue bin for glass. No garden bin. It's a shambles. We got a bit of a telling of when we moved from Leeds to Bradford and didn't realise they'd swapped the colours of the bins over. Silly us thinking green was for recycling and putting our general waste in the black bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted March 18, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted March 18, 2021 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Rds1983 said: We got a bit of a telling of when we moved from Leeds to Bradford and didn't realise they'd swapped the colours of the bins over. Silly us thinking green was for recycling and putting our general waste in the black bin. Exactly this! Apart from being different, it's totally counterintuitive. (Although why anybody would choose to move from Leeds to Bradford is itself a mystery). Edited March 18, 2021 by mjmooney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 3 bins here. Green, garden waste Blue, all recyclables Black, non-recyclables Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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