Tulse Hill news, chitter chatter and gossip

[Smick]

We're going to need to get used to reducing the size of waste. Empty milk cartons, after being washed, should be squeezed till as little air is left as possible. Same with milk, juice bottles etc. Cardboard boxes to have all tape removed and turned back to flat pack. Cereal boxes opened at both ends and flattened etc.

The two bins for our building were full last night so I opened them up, climbed on, and immediately they compacted to about 60% full.

 

[oldandjaded]

TBF it looks better than it has done for a while since they cut the hedge on the corner of Christchurch Road. There was always half a bed and someone pissing up the wall on that corner. I think I am immune to the nappies and litter on that street.

It's started already.

 

[Maharani]

Fuck me it's foggy.

 

[quimcunx]

I have clear Lambeth recycling bags and it cearly states the bags are recyclable on them.

Mine were always orange. Never seen the clear ones.

 

[Lizzy Mac]

I've had the recycle bin for ages as we were one of the test roads. When you decant into the bins a lot more stuff fits into the bins. Plus you can get into the bin and jump up and down on it and crush it in. If they lift the lid and see any plastic bags they don't empty it. They won't take it if they see a load of foil or dirty pizza boxes with crusts in.

 

[Maharani]

I keep meaning to get me one of these...

 

[boohoo]

View attachment 99247 I keep meaning to get me one of these...

I could do with one of those too.

 

[quimcunx]

I've had the recycle bin for ages as we were one of the test roads. When you decant into the bins a lot more stuff fits into the bins. Plus you can get into the bin and jump up and down on it and crush it in. If they lift the lid and see any plastic bags they don't empty it. They won't take it if they see a load of foil or dirty pizza boxes with crusts in.

I'd have to take a ladder out with me!

 

[Lizzy Mac]

I'd have to take a ladder out with me!

I reckon you could request another bin if you need one, after all it sounds like you are want to recycle. But you'll be surprised how much more fits in if not all tied up in the bags.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Lambeth recycling bin bags are not themselves recyclable so are a contaminant.

Yeah I get that but why is that only an issue when they are in a bin.

 

[quimcunx]

I reckon you could request another bin if you need one, after all it sounds like you are want to recycle. But you'll be surprised how much more fits in if not all tied up in the bags.

Sorry, I'm not one of the people newly getting these bins. I've had a communal recycling bin for years.

 

[quimcunx]

Yeah I get that but why is that only an issue when they are in a bin.

Well if you have to put your recycling out in a bin bag then it's a contaminant at the recycling plant but a necessary one because otherwise the recycling would scatter all over the place. Once you have a bin to stop the rubbish scattering the bin bag becomes an unnecessary (and theoretically unexpected) contaminant.

 

[Winot]

I reckon you could request another bin if you need one, after all it sounds like you are want to recycle. But you'll be surprised how much more fits in if not all tied up in the bags.

Perhaps quimcunx could request a shorter bin?

 

[quimcunx]

Perhaps quimcunx could request a shorter bin?

I could pay a local street urchin to come round with a ladder and jump on it for me. Are either of the winotettes looking for some extra pocket money?

 

[Winot]

I could pay a local street urchin to come round with a ladder and jump on it for me. Are either of the winotettes looking for some extra pocket money?

Always. Sorry to report that they no longer need a ladder though.

 

[discobastard]

If they lift the lid and see any plastic bags they don't empty it. They won't take it if they see a load of foil or dirty pizza boxes with crusts in.

I suspect this is not going to go well.

 

[Lizzy Mac]

Perhaps quimcunx could request a shorter bin?

Or longer legs

 

[Lizzy Mac]

I suspect this is not going to go well.

Well we all got the hang of it pretty quickly. Good luck Tulse Hill.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Well if you have to put your recycling out in a bin bag then it's a contaminant at the recycling plant but a necessary one because otherwise the recycling would scatter all over the place. Once you have a bin to stop the rubbish scattering the bin bag becomes an unnecessary (and theoretically unexpected) contaminant.

I dont like it. They should just let ppl use up their bags. If I still lived in Lambeth, I'd write an angry lettuce.

Auto corrected letter to lettuce but I've just left it like that.

Ps this reminds me of a joke that our dear Jenny told me a long time ago.

Q: How many urbanites does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: CHANGE????!

 

[quimcunx]

Change is bad.

 

[Boudicca]

I recently put some (non-recyclable) rubbish in my waste bin in Dorset in an orange Lambeth recycling bag.

I got a sticker on my bin admonishing me for putting stuff in the wrong bin.

 

[friendofdorothy]

I recently put some (non-recyclable) rubbish in my waste bin in Dorset in an orange Lambeth recycling bag.

I got a sticker on my bin admonishing me for putting stuff in the wrong bin.

odd - are they disputing that your lambeth plastic bag is not rubbish? when it is now rubbish in Lambeth. (a lot of things are rubbish here tbf)

I really wish they would standardise all this rubbish / recycling stuff across the country. It can't be cheaper more enconomic for every council to do their own thing.

 

[discobastard]

I passed the old Greenz on Station Rise and they have a new sign in place. Now I am going from memory but I think it is these guys:

Home

The website is currently playing silly buggers but this gives an idea:

 

[discobastard]

Well we all got the hang of it pretty quickly. Good luck Tulse Hill.

Thank you Lizzy Mac. Probyn Road is 'special'. But I have high hopes... It couldn't be any worse than the current garbage apocalypse.

 

[Boudicca]

odd - are they disputing that your lambeth plastic bag is not rubbish? when it is now rubbish in Lambeth. (a lot of things are rubbish here tbf)

I really wish they would standardise all this rubbish / recycling stuff across the country. It can't be cheaper more enconomic for every council to do their own thing.

Indeed.

They've had recycling bins here for at least a couple of years, so I thought I was safe putting a recycling bag from another pat of the country in the normal bin. All I can think is that the bin man was another former Lambeth resident.

 

[T & P]

I was thinking of this thread today as I discovered three used diapers in the garden, brought in by the local fox. Fucking yikes. And where are those people putting the used diapers that allow the foxes to get at them?

 

[discobastard]

I was thinking of this thread today as I discovered three used diapers in the garden, brought in by the local fox. Fucking yikes. And where are those people putting the used diapers that allow the foxes to get at them?

In their recycling bags on the street!

Exhibit 'A' m'lud

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I got maybe 20 summers left....if I am lucky.

Crushing millk bottles and flattening oj cartons and coke cans is not gonna be taking up any of that time.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

As for shitty nappies....I remember going to Lambeth town hall to register my boy's birth. There was an old window with a bit of greenery outside and it was full of used nappies where new parents were just lobbing them out the window.

I did suggest the town hall put a nappy disposal bin in the room. They looked at me like a I was a nutter.

 

[Winot]

I got maybe 20 summers left....if I am lucky.

Crushing millk bottles and flattening oj cartons and coke cans is not gonna be taking up any of that time.

Do it in the winter?