Wendi and I are united in rubbish!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/04/westminster-and-sheffield-trial-upcycled-electric-bin-lorries

An electric bin lorry will never be able to get up Sheffield's hills. They need nuclear-powered bin lorries.

Yes, but think of all those tonnes of stale parkin and condemned haslet powering the trucks.

I've not heard owt so blood daft, Waste not want not.

I was just trying to establish a small, coincidental connection.

Sorry I spoke.

Coincidentally, it's bin day here. Blue week, i.e. bottles, cans and general rubbish.

Our blue bins are for paper. They make us put cans and bottles in brown bins. And general rubbish in black bins. And garden waste in green bins.

We have a green box for cans/bottles. The green box is collected in blue week.

Green week is for garden waste, and paper/cardboard/plastic.

The green box/blue week discrepancy annoys me every time I think about it.

I feel a bit left out. I don't have different coloured bins. We now put things under the stairs (under the pavement technically) in bags and boxes. There's always bottle of Chanel No.19 kept in there so it's inoffensive. People from an agency come daily to sort through and take everything away. 

Very early morning - there was an argument because the people in the basement flat were being woken up, and put a framed notice on the mail table to say they weren't paying their service charge until this team changed working hours, but I haven't heard anything more about it.

I don't know if we have a publicly funded bin day as well. I did used to sling out all my refuse onto the streets where various restaurants added to the pile. But they started issuing fines to people doing that.

I'm an enormous fan of recycling, it goes without saying. I've just never done any*. Having it subcontracted out works for me.

*Actually I have - I got quite into going to the bottle bank. I found the crashing sounds quite satisfying, but I found other bottle bank users rather judgemental, so I stopped going.

cosmictanya wrote:

I feel a bit left out.

Judging by the responses I got above, best not to become involved in the first place I reckon.

Well I'd love lots of different coloured bins for various purposes. It looks kind of fun. I have friends in suburbs who don't simply put the rubbish out - they fold cardboard, wash out jars, steam labels from wine bottles. It sounds relaxing.

Flights aside, we are quite a green household. The heating is barely on, I prefer candlelight, we eat out more than we cook so there isn't an individual kitchen for just two people adding to pollution, and we only buy water in glass bottles.

Nightjar wrote:

Judging by the responses I got above, best not to become involved in the first place I reckon.

I think StevieBachyButtonBaby was just treating you to his rubbish-based puns.

No, it's not that.

Any Divine reference is on the table.

It was the faint whiff of negativity I experienced from you both when I posted a story I just thought was, well, just... nice.

It'd never work with Sheffield's hills...

Wasted parkin? Roobeesh, Lad!

etc

I then subsequently rage-quit the NHotW for 10 hours and nobody even noticed.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:

Nightjar wrote:

Judging by the responses I got above, best not to become involved in the first place I reckon.

I think StevieBachyButtonBaby was just treating you to his rubbish rubbish-based puns.

The ' so blood daft' bit was a reference to the fine people of Yorkshire throwing away t'parkin' and t'haslet. As they're all as tight as gnat's chuff. They wouldn't throw anything away.