Wheelie Bin Compactors anyone?

[John Rumm]

Pushing does not really work over uneven ground...

[John Rumm]

I would guess that part of the difficulty is the recycling facilities available vary with region, so the options change necessarily with region as well.

[John Rumm]

Our recycling scheme will take boxes with windows still in place...

[invalid]

They try to avoid plastics as they can produce dioxins if the flue temp is wrong. You don't want dioxins in the environment with you. This is why you shouldn't just burn your own rubbish with plastics in.

[Andrew]

Do a Barry Bucknell, add some really big wheels, like the ones he put on his tea-trolley :-)

[Roger Hayter]

Aren't modern incinerators designed to run so hot that hardly a single carbon atom escapes unoxidised?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Yup. Its not hard to decompose dioxins Just get it hot enough

The greater probvlem AIUI is not carbon and hydrogen, its things like sulphurous and nitrous oxides, trace heavy metal oxides and so on

[alan_m]

Where my friends live cardboard (boxes) has to be free of the packing tape for recycling.

[John Rumm]

Off road wheely bin, now I like the sound of that :-)

[tabbypurr]

Suggest it to Colin Furze

NT

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail], Chris Hogg [e-mail] writes

It's been a long time since I read them, but I think that my local council's instructions are that the contents should not be compacted in any way. Obviously, you take that with a large grain of salt. It warns about making the bin too heavy.

If I know there's going to be a lot to go in, I compact mine bit-by-bit as I fill it up, with the blade of spade (the bit you first stick in the soil - ie I don't whack it). However, I do think about the collection guys who have to wheel it, and try not to obviously overdo the compaction - but there have been occasions when I could hardly move it myself.

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[Ian Jackson]

But first you have to catch a cat.

[Ian Jackson]

What appears to be un-recyclable cellophane is being increasingly made from starch - and can be recycled.

[Ian Jackson]

In message [e-mail]>, Ian Jackson [e-mail]> writes

I should have added 'in your own garden compost bin'. The council might not realise it's compostable if you put it in your garden waste bin.

[Tim+]

But unless it?s clearly marked as such, you can?t really assume it. FWIW I?ve never seen anything labelled on food packaging as starch based ?cellophane?.

Tim

[charles]

"made from potato starch" was on the last one received here. But cellophane should be recyclable - it is made of cellulose - hence its name.

[Roger Hayter]

Unfortunately there seem to be at least two meanings of compostable. Many of the new "compostable" materials are only compostable in the high termperatures and intensive conditions of an industrial composting plant, and will show little degradation in an ordinary garden compost bin. I have found this with compostable food waste bags, which seem to persist for years at least in domestic compost.

[Roger Hayter]

But many things we think might be cellophane are probably PVC.

[whisky-dave]

No idea that's what I was told so I haven't done it. But when they say broken glass I'd always assumed they meant window type glass rather than bottle glass. But as most of my glass is bottles then it's not a problem for me.

What is a problem is them not reclying wood in the green bins. You'd think small pieces of wood would be OK.

[tabbypurr]

I'd think them being fake-claim products more likely.

NT