{"id":12865,"date":"2019-07-18T20:08:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T19:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12865"},"modified":"2019-07-19T09:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T08:26:48","slug":"a-bit-of-a-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=12865","title":{"rendered":"A bit of a stink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A bit of a stink<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many of the poor downtrodden citizens of this country, our rubbish collection has been reduced to fortnightly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It goes like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 1: Green bin and Blue bins
\nGarden waste and Recycling (but not glass because Rushcliffe Borough Council doesn’t think glass is recyclable)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 2: Grey bin
\nHousehold waste<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 3: Green bin and Blue bins
\nGarden waste and Recycling (but not glass because Rushcliffe Borough Council doesn’t think glass is recyclable)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Week 4: Grey bin
\nHousehold waste<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Etc\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a couple of problems with this strategy.The Grey bin (Household waste) and the Blue bin (Recycling – but not glass because Rushcliffe Borough Council doesn’t think glass is recyclable) are both too small for a family of four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. The bins are too small for fortnightly collection for a family of four. I can’t be the only adult in Rushcliffe who has to get a step ladder, climb into the bins and stamp about\/jump up and down to compact the rubbish, so that we can fit the rest of the fortnight’s waste in? Can I?<\/li>
  2. The rocket scientists who came up with reducing the rubbish collections from weekly to fortnightly forgot that on this planet we have these things called seasons. And in the summer season everything is subject to rays of heat from the sun. So our waste, sitting outside the house in the Grey bin, actually cooks.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    We’ve had over a week of +38c daytime temps, so our nicely cooked rubbish smells like something unmentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This can’t be a health hazard, because our public servants who are tasked with such valuables as waste collection policies couldn’t be so shortsighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Could they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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