I am used to finding Ironing Boards, Office Chairs, and bits of Furniture, placed by our bins, but this was the first time I'd come across a bog!
Normally a plumber would take such things away having replaced them, so I must presume that this was left by an 'amateur plumber'. A DIY person. Although it's not a job I would recommend that one undertakes lightly.
On a related subject, we have now all received a small plastic container, with a couple of rolls of rubbish bags, for our new collection of Green Waste, that will become either Compost, or Pigswill. The new veg' bin is on the right in above photo. The small plastic container and bags are shown below.
I cannot imagine how much all this is costing. The big bins (not yet in use) are now on every street corner, and every household has received a dinky little indoor bin. The amount of PLASTIC involved is horrendous.
I haven't looked, but what's the betting that both the large and small bins were 'Made in China'.
So, it's all go in Rubbish-Land. One used Bog 'going-begging', and the prospect of ridding ourselves of Cabbage leaves and Orange peel comes ever closer.
Life doesn't get much more exciting than this.
I hope that porcelain throne was clean?
ReplyDeleteI didn't check!!!
DeleteOld thrones next to our rubbish bins are a common sight. The men get extra money for dirty and unhealthy work. They need it.
ReplyDeleteIn France they get broken-up for hardcore, and I expect the same is so for here. It's unusual to see one in the road. I hope their new one is better!
DeleteI'm always surprised by the amount people throw away here too, especially plastic chairs.
ReplyDeleteI have saved several perfectly good plastic (and wooden) chairs in France. I think people throw them away after their holidays!!!
DeleteWe have had separate bins for food waste for years now! A small one for the kitchen and a larger one for outside. They are collected from our property every week. Seems some councils are only just catching up......Bedfordshire, next to us , is also only just starting separate food waste collection. I find it odd that you have communal bins on street corners. Is that the case all over Brighton? Every household here also has its own wheelie bins for various recycling, garden waste, cardboard and one for everything else! (3 wheelies and one black box.)
ReplyDeleteYes, we have large communal bins for ordinary household waste, bins for recycling, and soon we'll have the 'green waste' bins. We have daily collections (even this morning; Sunday), and the system works very well. I just hope that the new food bins work as well. I hate seeing those wheely bins outside houses.
DeleteFunny when things get either dumped or stolen, no one ever sees who does it? Do they creep around in the night ?
ReplyDeleteThey creep about at night along with the Graffiti people.
DeleteWe have had food waste bins for at least 11 years. We now have 5 bins general waste, small food waste, bottles, other recycling and (for an extra fee) garden waste.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a nightmare. Our rubbish goes into a bag under the sink, then straight out to the big bin outside which is taken away almost at once. No unsightly bins outside each house.
DeleteNot a nightmare at all. We don’t use the kitchen waste or the garden waste as we compost. The others are easily manageable.
DeleteWe've had these for years. I'm actually surprised that 'green' Brighton is so far behind.
ReplyDeleteI'm not surprised at all. We've had a 'Green' MP for years, who was more interested in legalising drugs than saving the environment.
DeleteYou'll have to start generating more rubbish as you'll soon have more bins than crap to put in them. Unsightly things are bins.
ReplyDeleteThey're an unsightly necessessity. I can't imagine what towns would be like without them.
DeleteThe food waste bins are a good idea, sadly I don’t think many people will use them. I agree with you about too much plastic. When I lived in Guernsey, you had to pay for black bags of general rubbish to be collected, but recycling and food waste were taken for free. As a result they have one of the highest rates of household recycling in the world. Unfortunately I don’t think such a system would work over here, there would be too much fly tipping
ReplyDeleteWelcome Lamb Chop.
DeleteI hope the new food bins will prove to be a good idea, but I have my doubts. We will only know in a year or two.
In Frane we pay a flat-fee for rubbish collection, and a fee for using the dustbins. Of course, holidaymakers don't subscribe, and therefor don't have a card to use the bins. Their rubbish is left anywhere; often just thrown from car windows!
DeleteI am surprised that the new bins are for ALL food waste and not just fruit and vegetable peelings, crushed eggshells and recyclable teabags. I have been composting our food waste for years but not cooked items - nor meat waste.
ReplyDeleteI would never put meat on the compost. I don't know exactly what they'll do with it; it may go to create gasses.
DeleteI saw something funny on facebook recently. A man was chuffed with his delivery of a new food waste bin. He hung a toilet roll on the handle with a piece of string, and thanked the Council for his new portable toilet for his campervan. I won't be using my bin for it's intended purpose. There must be something I can do with it.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as we were told there was to be a special new bin for kitchen waste, I went out and bought special indoor containers. What a waste of money.
DeleteLast week we were bombarded with six of the little brown bins here in the Borough of Barnet, I guess one for each flat in our house.
ReplyDeleteAsking my neighbour how they're used, she told me that she threw away all her ones and deposited them in her blue plastic recycle bin.
People do get very fed-up with all the different bins, and especially with having them all lined-up outside their homes. They are an eyesore.
DeleteMy community is looking for a contractor to take kitchen waste for composting.
ReplyDeleteI have just found one of the small grey bins by the big dustbins. Someone had taken the bags, and dumped the little bin. On the bottom it says 'Made in Italy'; well at least that's something!!! I shall use it as a Sandwich Container for traveling.
DeleteThe biggest problem with all the plastic bins is when they are at the edge of the street, if it is windy, the bins fly all over the place.
ReplyDeleteI still wonder where all the trash goes. I do know in some places it all goes into an incinerator.
Yes, that remains a mystery. I expect most goes to landfill. In a nearby town they used to have a very hi-tec sorting system, which sorted metal from cardboard, peelings, from glass, etc. Everything was re-cycled. I wonder if it's still operating?
DeleteWe have a brown bin for all compostable waste, be it garden or kitchen. And a green one for paper and cardboard, a yellow one or yellow plastic bags for all plastic packaging, and a black one for all the rest.
ReplyDeleteHilde in Germany
I don't like seeing rows upon rows of rubbish bins in roads. I much prefer our current system where we take a filled plastic bag to the large bin, and it's all taken away every morning. I've even got to know the bin-men; they love Billy.
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