I say southwark - fortnightly bin collections

[ClareC]

Sounds a good idea to me, we also do not even half fill our green bin each week. My only reservation is nappies..... Not pleasant if they fester for up to two weeks :-(

[duchessofdulwich]

bob :actually even better create a land fill on goose green !

[steveo]

I think the Chinese water torture might be paying off though Sean don't you?

[JohnL]

Those worm bins might help - if you don't mind the creatures.

[bawdy-nan]

Unless I;m having a huge clearout I never ever fill my gree bin and its a rare week when I use more than one black bin bag. I've two kids and we mostly shop at supermarkets so have plenty of packaging. WE do have a lot of recycling and a really big factor is that I compost all non-cooked and meat food waste...I'm happy about two week collection and if I had food waste collection too that'd be even better.

[*Bob*]

Our 'miniature brown bin' for outside has arrived!

It's so small and cute.. I just want to give it a great big hug. Mmmmmm... mwah.

[lorna63]

:))

[mrsw]

All those dirty nappies sitting around for two weeks in the heat in the summer will be lovely...

[Ridgley]

I hate it!! This will corse Rats and Fox problems what is wrong with the way the systems is? Not to mention fly tipping

[Polly D]

My big worry is a wheelie bin full of two flats' worth of two weeks' worth of nappies

Crossed in the post with mrsw

[ratty]

It will be a disaster imo!

[silverfox]

Peckhamgatecrasher said:

"Okay - I've read the leaflet properly now! I can use the large, brown garden bin for food.

That means I have a small, brown food bin and some bags going spare (I've been given 150!)..."

Hang on, my leaflet says I've been provided with 50 compostable food waste bags. Why should you get 150 if I've only got 50 (and I bet if I count them there's only 49!). Is it becuase you come from Peckham? What is this blatent discrimination against East Dulwich residents? I'm going to withhold my council tax until I get 150 bags like you.

[*Bob*]

Expect a perilous brown mist spawned by fetid child-poo.

We're doomed! Doomed!

[lorna63]

I was just thinking, if the bags are to go in with the garden waste, surely they will split, or at least some will. So you will end up with garden waste coated with food, and bins also. In the summer it will stink and be covered with flies.

[mrsw]

You can get those brown bags free from the garden centre for recycling garden waste - but it is still confusing having one bin for garden and food waste!

[*Bob*]

"One bin for garden and food waste"

How is this confusing?

[lorna63]

oh ok, i thought you could put them in with your garden waste, my mistake.

[louisiana]

Marvellous idea.

Crap implementation.

If even peeps on EDF are struggling to know what's going on so soon before the scheme kicks off, there has been a failure in comms.

Looking forward to the end of the pilot and the scheme being extended.

[*Bob*]

You can!

[lorna63]

sorry im getting confused now, i took this from the council website....

Food waste will be separated in the kitchen into provided biodegradable bags and then added to the secure garden waste (brown) recycling container. This will be collected weekly.

I still think this would result in split bags over the garden waste, or am i missing something?

[silverfox]

How is this confusing?

Because there's actually two. A small brown one to put the blue compostable bag in and then to put the food scaps into. Then take it out and transfer to big brown bin, not the green one, not the blue one and not the blue (non-compostable) bag. Also, no need for the divider in the blue box now because although you've been separating your tins and plastic bottles from your glass bottles and jars for the last three years we were only making fools of you - now simply throw them in all together because we only tipped them into one pile in the first place (pans to shot of Cadbury's Smash type figures laughing holding tummies with legs kicking in air).

[*Bob*]

Christ on a bike, it's all really, really simple.

Everybody seems to know how to set Sky+ for Strictly, roast a chicken, programme the Satnav, book a holiday on the internet, and read a bus timetable, but when it comes to the council making some dead simple changes it's suddenly too much to ask. "I just don't get it.. we have to do WHAT?!?! Arghh... my brain's exploding with these simple changes.. (BOOM)".

It might not work, but on the 'confusion scale' it must register about 0.1

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I don't think it matters, lorna. All waste (garden and kitchen) will go to the same landfill site. The 'plastic' bags are biodegradable.

[hibbs]

If you are worried about food spillages, why not use the little bins they have provided for the food stuff and the larger brown bin we currently use for garden waste?

lorna63 Wrote:

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> sorry im getting confused now, i took this from

> the council website....

>

> Food waste will be separated in the kitchen into

> provided biodegradable bags and then added to the

> secure garden waste (brown) recycling container.

> This will be collected weekly.

>

> I still think this would result in split bags over

> the garden waste, or am i missing something?

[lorna63]

The brown bins have just arrived in Fenwick Rd, they are delivering as i type, maybe i shall come to love them just like bob....hmm they do seem strangely appealing :)