TOT household rubbish

When I cut the hedges the pile it creates takes about 10 bins, i.e. almo= st a year to collect.

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A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving = cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel. The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A ma= n would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.

Food waste is seperate from garden waste here. I can put meat or anything in it.

Who on earth would attempt to put human faeces in a bin?

Sandals are against health and softy regs.

Does that also work for Chinese take-away? Lot of fluids in that (water, sauce, etc).

I've still got my plastic Chinese takeaway boxes from years ago. Very useful.

Only if you carry them with you on the offchance that you might want a Chinese takeaway, so the food can be dispensed into those instead of a cardboard box.

I wonder how the people in NZ get round the problem of serving "wet" foods with sauces in boxes that are not watertight? Waxed paper might work up to a point, but you'd have to be *very* careful not to crush them and to get the food home as quickly as possible,

That's a point, will Asda take my bottles back after I've used them 5 times?

I assume he meant for other purposes.

Allegedly they used to make paper kettles from comic books.

In the US, Chinese takeaway food is in distinctive* cardboard boxes - the sauces are often provided in individual sealed packets.

• So distinctive, in fact that there is a card game using that design. It's called 'Takeout', and is available on the US Amazon site.

(Disclaimer - my niece designed the game, and her husband did the artwork. I am not being paid to plug it, though.)

I don't have a convenient takeaway. And I can make my own Chinese (style) food to a limited extent: stir-fry chicken/beef with veg; chicken and noodles; egg fried rice (with or without chicken).

I use loads of them, food storage, screws, etc. I even have an arduino in one.

Ours use aluminium boxes.

Yep.

You mean you've not had a Chinese takeaway since then?

More single-use plastic, then. And are those boxes sufficiently watertight? A helping of bean shoots is going to be very wet.

They appear to have some sort of coating - probably thin plastic...

Well here I effectively get plastic and cans collected at best monthly. Cos I can't be arsed to weaste tax money on collecting a quarter full bin.

Bottles go to the bottle bank

The nearest one is just 'mixed glass' but if I drive 4 miles I can have a choic of white and colored brown or green...

There is nowhere for the blue bombay gin bottles to go so I just throw those in the garden of a local Green :-)

Well I would if there were any

Its all complet bollox as everybidy knwos, except millenial snowflajes

- its just virtyue signalling 'eco ' legislation.

I reality the most effective way to recycle is to picvk off amnything oif enugh value to justifdyu te picking or odf enough posoi9on to justify it, and then incinerate the lot at very high temperaites in a flues scrubbed power staion, hopefully sited somwehere where the hot water can be used to do somethjingg more useful than make fish cosy.

Then use the ash as fertiliser, or bury it.

waxed boxes.

wax gotta be biodegradable. Bees make it :=)

In fact there are very few hydrocarbons that are not, the organisms to degrade e.g. PVC just haven't had time or reason to develop.

In the 1930s, I believe people would take a milk jug shopping to get milk put on from an urn.

In the 1950s, shipping came in brown ppare bags, or at best cardboard or cans.

You supplied your won basket or string bag, or wahetver.

Today I have a large plastic storage box in the car that fits nicely in a supermarket trolley. No more bags at all.