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bugshaw at 04:46pm on 28/06/2005
bugshaw at 04:46pm on 28/06/2005My Green Bin (for compostable waste) and I have had a rather unsatisfactory relationship since we got together back in December. It was going to be wonderful, ecologically friendly, a seamless add-on to my existing recycling activities.
It just didn't fit into my life, though. It was too big, for a start, so I had to leave it on my porch, where passers by tossed occasional non-compostable refuse including entire bags of ordinary rubbish which rather contaminated the compostability notion. Sometimes I could hoick the bits out, though this was always difficult due to the bin being 1m deep and my arms only being 60cm long. Sometimes a tipping-out was required, which is gross what with my 2-week-old peelings and Other People's Rubbish.
Yesterday I brought the bins in after collection to find each contained a large black sack full of Other People's Rubbish. I was a Bad Neighbour (but not as bad as the neighbour who put the stuff there - it sounded like mostly bottles and cans anyhow - how difficult is it to put these in your big plastic crate, folks?) and dumped them back out on the verge. They had gone by morning.
I phoned the council today, and some time in the next 2-week recycling cycle they will deliver to me some bags of the purest brown for my compostable waste. They are a little larger than a supermarket carrier bag, nice and sturdy, and will fit inside the purpose-built bin cupboard, which will make a nice change.
I will wash out the green bin, rope it shut, and leave it out front. One day it will disappear.
It just didn't fit into my life, though. It was too big, for a start, so I had to leave it on my porch, where passers by tossed occasional non-compostable refuse including entire bags of ordinary rubbish which rather contaminated the compostability notion. Sometimes I could hoick the bits out, though this was always difficult due to the bin being 1m deep and my arms only being 60cm long. Sometimes a tipping-out was required, which is gross what with my 2-week-old peelings and Other People's Rubbish.
Yesterday I brought the bins in after collection to find each contained a large black sack full of Other People's Rubbish. I was a Bad Neighbour (but not as bad as the neighbour who put the stuff there - it sounded like mostly bottles and cans anyhow - how difficult is it to put these in your big plastic crate, folks?) and dumped them back out on the verge. They had gone by morning.
I phoned the council today, and some time in the next 2-week recycling cycle they will deliver to me some bags of the purest brown for my compostable waste. They are a little larger than a supermarket carrier bag, nice and sturdy, and will fit inside the purpose-built bin cupboard, which will make a nice change.
I will wash out the green bin, rope it shut, and leave it out front. One day it will disappear.
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