There's talk of Moreton Bay council bringing in a 3 bin system. I note there are some 3 bin systems around Australia which may or may not be the same and wonder how you get on with this, if you live in such an area.
The proposed system is:
Current 2 bin system
Yellow Bin: recyclables such as newspapers, bottles, cans, metals, plastic etc - FORTNIGHTLY
Green Bin: everything else you can cram in - WEEKLY
Proposed 3 bin system
Yellow Bin: recyclables such as newspapers, bottles, cans, metals, plastic etc - FORTNIGHTLY
Red Bin: organics such as garden waste, food waste wrapped in paper BUT NOT IN PLASTIC BAGS, dog shit. This stuff will be converted into methane in a digester. WEEKLY
Green Bin: everything else like odd packaging, CDs, stuff that isn't recyclable, whatever FORTNIGHTLY
Sounds reasonable, but for every household this would surely cause a huge problem in a subtropical area like here. For example everyone (unless you have a worm farm) does the following:
Crack a couple of eggs: shells go in the kitchen binny lined with the plastic bag
Peel some potatoes.... peelings to in the binny
Find something off in the fridge, put in binny
After dinner, plate scrapings go in binny
Then when binny is getting full, pull out plastic bag and give it a twirl to seal it off and pop outside in Green bin.
With the new system, every step above you have to wrap the shit in paper (what paper, newspaper from the throwaway local papers?) and trek out to the RED bin.
The reason for - currently - plastic bagging then if necessary double bagging the kitchen waste is to stop it reeking around the street. So now I put prawn shells, rotten meat etc in newspaper and into the red bin with no plastic allowed and it's 34 degrees ....
I can see a nasty fug around the suburbs, especially with a lot more apartments being built in this council area. <_<
How do you guys get on elsewhere?
The proposed system is:
Current 2 bin system
Yellow Bin: recyclables such as newspapers, bottles, cans, metals, plastic etc - FORTNIGHTLY
Green Bin: everything else you can cram in - WEEKLY
Proposed 3 bin system
Yellow Bin: recyclables such as newspapers, bottles, cans, metals, plastic etc - FORTNIGHTLY
Red Bin: organics such as garden waste, food waste wrapped in paper BUT NOT IN PLASTIC BAGS, dog shit. This stuff will be converted into methane in a digester. WEEKLY
Green Bin: everything else like odd packaging, CDs, stuff that isn't recyclable, whatever FORTNIGHTLY
Sounds reasonable, but for every household this would surely cause a huge problem in a subtropical area like here. For example everyone (unless you have a worm farm) does the following:
Crack a couple of eggs: shells go in the kitchen binny lined with the plastic bag
Peel some potatoes.... peelings to in the binny
Find something off in the fridge, put in binny
After dinner, plate scrapings go in binny
Then when binny is getting full, pull out plastic bag and give it a twirl to seal it off and pop outside in Green bin.
With the new system, every step above you have to wrap the shit in paper (what paper, newspaper from the throwaway local papers?) and trek out to the RED bin.
The reason for - currently - plastic bagging then if necessary double bagging the kitchen waste is to stop it reeking around the street. So now I put prawn shells, rotten meat etc in newspaper and into the red bin with no plastic allowed and it's 34 degrees ....
I can see a nasty fug around the suburbs, especially with a lot more apartments being built in this council area. <_<
How do you guys get on elsewhere?