Full timing or give us ya money for rubbish Forums

artona · Moderator

I asked my wife to day whether we had put the blue bin out as the bin men were in the road. No, she replied, we do not use it anymore, not since they fined the women for putting the wrong rubbish in. Shall I paint the bin black then I said. Don't you dare said she.

What a load of ol rubbish.

But on a cleaner note I watched a great program tonight called Grey Nomads. All about 60/70 year olds setting off in their decreped motorhomes acorss Australia.

stew

eddied

My goodness, aren't you all lucky people. You mean you actually have someone come and collect your rubbish on a fairly regular basis?

Here on the Sorrento Peninsula, I pay Euro 192 every six months (over and above what you would call Council Tax) as an environmental charge i.e. rubbish disposal. This means that we have to sort our rubbish into 'wet', paper, plastic, glass, - and then cart it ourselves to the nearest set of rubbish bins. In my case these are 500 meters away. OK, so the doctor says I have to take a walk of at least 20 mins. each day, but also if you are caught dumping your rubbish outside the permitted hours of between 18:00 and 07:00 you face a massive fine ( the local policeman is very hot on this!)

So this would be OK if the rubbish bins were then emptied regularly, but there is an enormous waste disposal problem locally, and sometimes it sits for days if not weeks.

We suffer the same problem as everybody in that there is an excessive amount of packaging for everything, but I think that in the UK in general you aren't really all that badly off.

saluti, eddied

artona · Moderator

Hi Eddied

You are probably right my friend but it is change isn't it, nobody likes it.

I had my doctor telling me off the other day, she was quite right though, she certainly wasn't talking rubbish. I had arranged to see her to ask if I could be prescribed zenacol, a drug which aids weight loss. Lose 4.5kgs over the next four weeks without it and you can have it, she said.

She then went on to weigh me - 145kg, my target weight is 85kg, thats almost 23 stone down to 14 stone. She spent 2-3 tortuous minutes trying to spell obese on her computer - as if she did not know. More exercise she demanded of me.

Still I am now thinking of the benifits - feel better, more energy, more loading capacity in the motorhome - and of course less rubbish to find bins for.

stew

Pusser

artona · Moderator

The Obese One Kinobie Club, be on permanent holiday to get to your perfect weight by eating better food, more salad and swimming and walking more.

Now thats something that would be fun to market.

Now as to the field, how about The Arizona Desert

stew

royandhelen

Some parts of our estate have their w/bins emptied once a fortnight ''on a trial basis'' There is no rebate for less collections on their council tax, and as with others we now have 3 rufuge trucks around at the same time (more traffic problems ) one for recycleling glass, plastic, paper and metal, one for garden/kitchen waste, one for everything else and the stuff some people didn't recycle.
We try to recycle every thing, even an old portipotti (clean and empty ) in the plastic bin once.
Recycled Glass dosen't go into the remaking of glass, in this area it's crushed in put into concrete products, breeze blocks etc.

Roy.