{"id":4051,"date":"2010-11-07T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2010-11-08T11:31:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T11:31:18","slug":"recycling-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"Recycling garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/rubbish2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4052\" title=\"rubbish2\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/rubbish2-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rubbish2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/rubbish2.jpg 435w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a thing that we do every Monday morning. Well, sometimes we&#8217;d do it on a Sunday night instead.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d put out the rubbish.<\/p>\n<p>No, that&#8217;s not a euphemism.<\/p>\n<p>Putting out the rubbish would consist of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>shifting the big black &#8216;household waste&#8217; wheelie bin from the rear of the house, to the front and likewise,<\/li>\n<li>carrying the square, black plastic &#8216;recycling waste&#8217; bin around to the front.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Soph used to laugh at my approach to recycling.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I&#8217;d know that I should put glass jars and tins in the &#8216;recycling waste&#8217; bin, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;d do.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;d get told off for putting used teabags in the &#8216;recycling waste&#8217; bin, which I didn&#8217;t get, because teabags can be mulched down, and if that&#8217;s not recycling, what is?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed!<\/p>\n<p>Our local authority has designated our black &#8216;household waste&#8217; wheelie bin as &#8216;garden waste&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also given us a *new* &#8211; a second &#8211; wheelie bin. It&#8217;s grey and larger  than the black one.<\/p>\n<p>This grey monster is our new &#8216;household waste&#8217; bin.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ve been given a (slightly smaller) black wheelie bin which is our &#8216;outside food waste bin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>We have also been given a small, grey bin which is, we&#8217;re told, a &#8216;food waste&#8217; caddy.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re supposed to keep this new bin &#8211; sorry, caddy &#8211; in the kitchen somewhere. This is for dumping our *food waste* in to, as we generate it.<\/p>\n<p>I do have an issue with the whole concept of &#8216;food waste&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The only food waste we generate comes from things like the tops of leeks, potato peelings and egg-shells.<\/p>\n<p>We judge cooked portions correctly, we eat what&#8217;s prepared and cooked and we throw nothing away.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll accept that not everyone feels as precious as I do about wasting food, even though they bloody-well should.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of throwing away cooked food is abhorrent.<\/p>\n<p>But back to our ever-growing collection of bins, courtesy of our local authority.<\/p>\n<p>To recap&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We have our old &#8216;household&#8217; waste bin which used to be emptied weekly. This is now called our &#8216;garden&#8217; waste bin.<\/p>\n<p>It will be emptied fortnightly.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s our new &#8216;household&#8217; waste bin. This will be emptied fortnightly too. But not the same fortnight as the &#8216;garden&#8217; waste collection, obv.<\/p>\n<p>So they&#8217;ve given us larger &#8216;household&#8217; waste bins and a less frequent &#8216;household&#8217; waste collection service.<\/p>\n<p>Stunning.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s our new waste &#8216;food&#8217; rubbish collection service.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a weekly collection.<\/p>\n<p>Erm, huh?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, and then there&#8217;s our &#8216;recycling&#8217; waste collection.<\/p>\n<p>These will be weekly too.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck, is anyone else confused?<\/p>\n<p>Let me see if I&#8217;ve got the hang of it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>weekly recycling collection<\/li>\n<li>weekly waste food collection<\/li>\n<li>fortnightly &#8216;household&#8217; collection<\/li>\n<li>fortnightly &#8216;garden waste&#8217; collection (alternating with &#8216;household&#8217;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And lots of new bins too.<\/p>\n<p>Marvellous.<\/p>\n<p>Has anyone stopped to calculate the *true* cost of this?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>raw materials &#8211; all that lovely non-biodegradable plastic in those bins<\/li>\n<li>road miles (by my calculations that&#8217;s an additional 35% of collection journeys)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a thing that we do every Monday morning. Well, sometimes we&#8217;d do it on a Sunday night instead. We&#8217;d put out the rubbish. No,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}