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It's quite sunny and nice hactually :)

Mental scenes last night as 100+ 18 year olds from West Hampsted mysteriously turned up in the Marquis of Lorne :confused:

Never seen it so busy. Regulars were drafted in behind the bar and me & my mates were collecting glasses. On the upside, J's cash register will be stuffed full of cash this morning :)
 
It feels feckin freezing. But that may be because I forgot my gloves and can't feel my fingers
 
Because you don't know when or whether I was intending to put my rubbish in there, obviously. I work shifts, so sometimes my rubbish goes out very early in the morning, or last thing at night. I have had my bin filled with other people's rubbish in the past. If that happened now, I'd be at risk of not having my bin emptied. You're also obviously not making full use of your recycling options, if your bin is that full. ;-) I wouldn't make a big deal of it like my neighbour did though!
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I am making full and comprehensive use of my recycling and compost options. I'm the annoying person who corrects guests as they go to one bin or the other. I am the person who fishes through bins and plates to correctly assign trash to the appropriate bin or caddy.

I have recently moved into this house. As a consequence of emptying boxes and sorting through everything, I am currently generating a great deal of trash and waste. I am taking anything useable to the charity shop. I am putting all paper and card etc. into the orange bags (the last few weeks, I've had up to a dozen orange bags outside the house, despite carefully crushing and treading down all the wrapping paper as far as possible). Some of the waste - for instance, bubble wrap - cannot be put into the recycling, and has to go into the wheelie bin. Also, this house has been a building site for a long time, so there is a lot of waste that is neither recycling, nor appropriate for the compost; that too is going into the wheelie bin. (No, it's not builder's rubble: that's going into the skip.) I expect this state of affairs to settle down very shortly. In the meantime, there is sometimes too much trash/garbage of a non-recyclable and non-compostable nature that I want to get rid of.

If, at gone ten at night, or even close to midnight, a neighbour has put their trash and garbage and wheelie bin and compost bin outside their gate and their house lights are off, I have a sense that they have put their trash out and they have gone to bed, with no further intention of putting any other bin bags out that night. If their wheelie bin only has one black bag inside it, and I have a wheelie bin that is too full, I can't see the harm or the hurt or even the annoyance in putting an extra bag into their wheelie bin.

Since this is not a result of me being feckless or thoughtless or meanspirited or stupid or selfish or even unneighbourly, I really can't see why it would cause ay irritation or offence to my sleeping neighbours.

I would never go up their garden path to put it into their wheelie bin while it is on their property. I would never put an extra bag into another household's wheelie bin on any other night but bin night. I would never put an extra bin bag into another household's wheelie bin unless it is late at night on bin night, and the wheelie bin is outside their front gate, ready for collection the following morning. And mostly, I do not put a bin bag into another household's wheelie bin if it is almost full: I look for almost empty wheelie bins.

I hope I have addressed all your concerns with this, Ms T . :D


I see them as communal bins.
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I do too, leanderman .... They're provided by the council, they are not owned by the householder. They're there in order to enable a service provided by the council. I don't feel in any way territorial or proprietorial about wheelie bins. I don't care if I get this one or another one back after bin day (other than I 'd rather not harbour the really stinky ones a-wash with bin-juice... although I have in the past simply hosed it out and let that one be "my" one.) I find it really odd that people customise and personalise their wheelie bins with that sticky-back-plastic stuff. When I recently and briefly lived on a street where the wheelie bins lived on the sidewalk cos there was no room for them inside the property boundary, I was always very glad to see them being used by passer-by's putting their crisp packets and empty pop cans into the wheelie bins. And if I'm ever walking about with some rubbish, I feel no compunction about putting my trash into the nearest wheelie bin rather than carrying it home.
 
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Finally got to look inside St. George's Residences. What a lovely building with a fantastic community garden.

Instead of encouraging BTL fuckers to exploit the housing shortage, everyone should be able to live in lovely affordable Housing Association developments like this.

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Just up from the Harmony (neé Mingles) public house on Railton Road is this early example of a purpose-built block of flats. Built in 1878, the central tower houses a large water tank.
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Communal bins that's the way forward, a big skip at the end of every road. All this individual bin nonsense is just capitalism gone mad. Think of all the savings we could make if we came together, no more slipping out in the middle of the night to dispose of some out of date chipolatas. We've got to live together if we want to be free.
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
Communal bins that's the way forward, a big skip at the end of every road. All this individual bin nonsense is just capitalism gone mad. Think of all the savings we could make if we came together, no more slipping out in the middle of the night to dispose of some out of date chipolatas. We've got to live together if we want to be free.
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But then you open the communal bin and see what the others have decided is suitable recycling material. ( a broken, shattered, showerscreen one time FFS :mad: ) *hyperventilates*
 
Dexter Deadwood said:
Communal bins that's the way forward, a big skip at the end of every road. All this individual bin nonsense is just capitalism gone mad. Think of all the savings we could make if we came together, no more slipping out in the middle of the night to dispose of some out of date chipolatas. We've got to live together if we want to be free.
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I recently proposed this to the council on a street which has been taken over by wheelie bins with nowhere to go. They said that there were two main problems with that proposal: no one wants the communal bin immediately outside their house (smell and noise) and they invariably attract fly tipping.
 
story In your situation I would still ask my neighbour(s) first before availing myself of their bin. Not every time, obvs. Just the once.
 
Onket said:
Is glass not recyclable when it's broken?!
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What is and isn't recyclable seems to change from time to time and from borough to borough. Last time I looked I think it was no flat or broken glass. Also I don't think the metal frame was on the ok list.
 
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Finally got to look inside St. George's Residences. What a lovely building with a fantastic community garden.

Instead of encouraging BTL fuckers to exploit the housing shortage, everyone should be able to live in lovely affordable Housing Association developments like this.
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When I first moved to Brixton in 1995, my landlady lived there as a social tenant. At the same time as owning the flat that we were renting, thus making a tidy profit.
 
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What is and isn't recyclable seems to change from time to time and from borough to borough. Last time I looked I think it was no flat or broken glass. Also I don't think the metal frame was on the ok list.
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I put everything recyclable in.
 
Had a lovely walk through Brixton in the sunshine this morning. Popped into the village which appears to have become even whiter and more middle class since I was last there in the summer.
 
editor said:
Finally got to look inside St. George's Residences. What a lovely building with a fantastic community garden.

Instead of encouraging BTL fuckers to exploit the housing shortage, everyone should be able to live in lovely affordable Housing Association developments like this.

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I've seen that from the street, but not seen a way in. How do you get in there?
 
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