Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
When did that happen?
What little things have you done
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Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
friedaweed
Me and me girl named Jane
Today me and my wife rescued a bee (Well she saved it initially i just interfered out of interest) . It was definitely near death, on it's back right outside the back door where my size 11's (Big socks too) often tread.
Anyway, we fed it some honey and stewed hedgerow fruit in some tepid water which it lapped at ferociously, and then it died.
But you know, we saved it for a while, the small things. It didn't get squished.
Anyway, we fed it some honey and stewed hedgerow fruit in some tepid water which it lapped at ferociously, and then it died.
But you know, we saved it for a while, the small things. It didn't get squished.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
yeah, I do the saving bees thing a lot.
sad when you only postpone the end, but quite often we end up stashing them in the greenhouse for a while before they fly away.
Sometimes, they seem to prefer walking around on my warm hand before departing for fresh flowers.
sad when you only postpone the end, but quite often we end up stashing them in the greenhouse for a while before they fly away.
Sometimes, they seem to prefer walking around on my warm hand before departing for fresh flowers.
furluxor
snake with a claw
I feel like all those tedious resident surveys have paid off, our council has announced that they will be recycle type 5 (PP) plastics. Victory! This is technically what my council has done but I'm sure they wouldn't have budged if not for my scribbling in ALL CAPS on the side of the survey forms.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Wish Northumberland would be a bit more proactive with recycling ...
The better idea would be to use the pre-segregated boxes / bags.
Plus, I wish they would get their act together on the skips. If Cumbria can do it properly ?
and make it cheaper for bods to dump trade waste - I'm sick of seeing stuff that needs to be cleared out of roadside hedgerows & field gates.
The better idea would be to use the pre-segregated boxes / bags.
Plus, I wish they would get their act together on the skips. If Cumbria can do it properly ?
and make it cheaper for bods to dump trade waste - I'm sick of seeing stuff that needs to be cleared out of roadside hedgerows & field gates.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
A year or two back we stayed at the Nyhavn hotel in Copenhagen and everywhere you went there were signs and bins encouraging you to recycle virtually
anything and everything. Staying in hotel's in the UK inc. the Bamburgh Castle Inn I really don't think they have heard of recycling
anything and everything. Staying in hotel's in the UK inc. the Bamburgh Castle Inn I really don't think they have heard of recycling
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Why not meal containers? If you wash them with the washing up, you are not wasting anymore heat or water and recycling something else.
Your capital investment has paid dividends.
They don't recycle black plastic here.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Pleased to find that quite a number of plastic food trays that were black are now in re-cylcable colours [grey, mainly]
Makes no difference here, Brighton are useless at recycling. Only plastic they'll take is bottles. Tetrapacks have to go in a special bin in town, too.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Surprised at this as I always thought, politically Brighton was pretty green.
Politically the council might claim to be green but practically they're mostly just incompetent ime.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Aldi now have a plastic film bin - so that accounts for most of the landfill waste I produce on a regular basis.
The next step is to start cooking beans in bulk for the fridge so I can stop buying canned beans - at least 7 cans a week - leaving just tinned toms.
I probably ought to buy a Brita jug for the fridge as I get through far too many PET bottles and hauling 8kg of water home 1/10 mile is silly - though it's so cheap and I rather like the fizzy stuff ... other people get through at least as much diet pop ...
The next step is to start cooking beans in bulk for the fridge so I can stop buying canned beans - at least 7 cans a week - leaving just tinned toms.
I probably ought to buy a Brita jug for the fridge as I get through far too many PET bottles and hauling 8kg of water home 1/10 mile is silly - though it's so cheap and I rather like the fizzy stuff ... other people get through at least as much diet pop ...
ska invita
back on the other side
Northumberland isn't a patch on Cumbria, everyone knows that
ska invita
back on the other side
Soda stream or similar for fizzy water
That sounds good. Are we talking just cling film, or the stuff that covers ready meals and the like too?
A brief search of the interweb didn't provide the answers.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I'll have to check ...I'd think cling film would be OK, but it's really about salad and veggie and fruit bags...
I suppose it's no bother for them because of all the pallet wrap the have to dispose of anyway - some of which may be clingfilm I suppose.
I wonder what actually happens to it ...
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
yes it's pretty low-grade plastic and vulnerable to people putting random stuff into the waste stream.
Though I've always felt that at least all this plastic will be in one place...
The Coop started collecting crisp packets relatively recently, so they may be using the same model.
davesgcr
Reading books
Seem to be a solid take up here in leafy Herts for the soft plastic waste initiative. Often find the gathering receptacles full - (Tesco / M&S local etc) - if it does nothing , it seperates the waste down and even less in the normal waste (as oppossed to recycling bins) .....one hopes it does get properly recycled.
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