At 6th form in our common room the external walls all had exposed cavities (it was a typical 1960's timber and plasterboard lean-to type building) which we gradually filled up with Dr. Pepper cans over the course of two years. We eventually filled up almost all of the cavities in the room with them, and someone calculated the cost of all those cans, which I think was somewhere approaching £3000!Indeed, they have been building up for just over 4 years now, but luckily they are fairly stable. Only when someone feels like starting a coke bottle pool while mildly drunk do they fall over! Some vanilla and cherry coke bottles are mixed in, but the vast majority are normal.
"Life after the oil crash" - very scary shit
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Big Brother
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Well Angus Council do all this for free. But the Green Compost bin smells putrid. Once you cut the grass and put that in it's over. It smells mouldy, there will already be flies and maggots in it from the food. And my step-dad didn't put it out one week and we had a brown tar seeping from the vents rofl! Which the neighbours kindly cleaned off the pavement for us!noelfirl wrote:We have just anout managed to switch over to a relatively good recycling system. Whereas before the normal black bin would be automatically emptied out each week by the county council in return for a one off payment at the start of each year, the payment has been abolished and now each time you want your bin emptied, you have to buy a €6 tag to put on it.Big Brother wrote:My local council has started this major recycling programme... in which we have no choice but to take part. lol
We have been provided with a large Green Composte bin. And a decent sized Green box for all things paper, plastic and cans.
The Compost bin gets emptied every 2 weeks and the green box every week. Meanwhile there is a sting to it. The traditional black "wheelie" bin as it's known usually fills pretty quickly and hence why they were emptied weekly. Not anymore. Know your traditional wheelie bin only get's emptied every 2 weeks when the green one doesn't.
A lot of people are moaning about it - mainly because they can't be bothered to put bottles in the box and raw food waste in the green bin. Certain streets are now filled with rubbish people cannot be bothered to put in the correct box/bin.
It's the way to go, but it demonstrates the british publics ignorance in recycling... coincidently Angus Council refuse to go back to emptying the bins weekly.
€6 a week actually costs more then the original once-a-year bin tax, so many people have managed to reduce putting their bin out to once every two weeks. Carboard, paper, cans and tins go into the green recycling bin which gets emptied once a month (for free), and if you want to you can get a free composter from the CC for your back garden, put all the veggie skins and stuff in there and a few months later you've got compost for your back garden, or you can get the county council to take it away. It doesn't smell either if you keep a good mix of things in it. (Althoug egg shells accidentaly ended in it one week, the less said about that the better)
Surely you mean RAT?Big Brother wrote:And my step-dad didn't put it out one week and we had a brown tar seeping from the vents rofl!
You must be like my mum, she calls them "Tar's".
When in fact they are RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS
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Really? Our bin has had grass, hedge trimmings, grass, lettuce, orange peels, grass, etc. and has never smelled except for the egg episode.Big Brother wrote:Well Angus Council do all this for free. But the Green Compost bin smells putrid. Once you cut the grass and put that in it's over. It smells mouldy, there will already be flies and maggots in it from the food. And my step-dad didn't put it out one week and we had a brown tar seeping from the vents rofl! Which the neighbours kindly cleaned off the pavement for us!
Good question. Apparently we have already passed 'Peak Gas' and, for the first ever time, we are a net importer of coal, oil and gas.Chris wrote:Are the rising prices in gas and electricity a sign of worse things to come?
Or is the energy industry just going through a rough patch at the moment?
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Big Brother
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No Tar. You don't put meat products in it. I'm sure the sticker says that - for the very reason you mention. Rats.Jamez wrote:Surely you mean RAT?Big Brother wrote:And my step-dad didn't put it out one week and we had a brown tar seeping from the vents rofl!
You must be like my mum, she calls them "Tar's".
When in fact they are RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS RATS
But anyway, it was a brown tar like liquid.
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Andrew Muir
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I had an idea whilst cooking a duck.
So much fat came out of it surely the government could set up duck breading camps and burn their fat for fuel. Re-fining it for petrol could have some issues but no-doubt diesel cars could run on it, they seem to run on most other things!
So much fat came out of it surely the government could set up duck breading camps and burn their fat for fuel. Re-fining it for petrol could have some issues but no-doubt diesel cars could run on it, they seem to run on most other things!
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MrTomServo
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Actually, you're not far from a very popular idea. There is a great ... uh ... movement ... around using biomass for fuel. This includes farm waste, household garden waste, and (gasp) poop. It's not a bad idea, but doesn't please the clean air folks, because it does release a lot of stuff into the atmosphere.Andrew Muir wrote:I had an idea whilst cooking a duck.
So much fat came out of it surely the government could set up duck breading camps and burn their fat for fuel. Re-fining it for petrol could have some issues but no-doubt diesel cars could run on it, they seem to run on most other things!
