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Unless I;m having a huge clearout I never ever fill my gree bin and its a rare week when I use more than one black bin bag. I've two kids and we mostly shop at supermarkets so have plenty of packaging. WE do have a lot of recycling and a really big factor is that I compost all non-cooked and meat food waste...I'm happy about two week collection and if I had food waste collection too that'd be even better.

Peckhamgatecrasher said:


"Okay - I've read the leaflet properly now! I can use the large, brown garden bin for food.

That means I have a small, brown food bin and some bags going spare (I've been given 150!)..."


Hang on, my leaflet says I've been provided with 50 compostable food waste bags. Why should you get 150 if I've only got 50 (and I bet if I count them there's only 49!). Is it becuase you come from Peckham? What is this blatent discrimination against East Dulwich residents? I'm going to withhold my council tax until I get 150 bags like you.

I was just thinking, if the bags are to go in with the garden waste, surely they will split, or at least some will. So you will end up with garden waste coated with food, and bins also. In the summer it will stink and be covered with flies.

Marvellous idea.


Crap implementation.


If even peeps on EDF are struggling to know what's going on so soon before the scheme kicks off, there has been a failure in comms.


Looking forward to the end of the pilot and the scheme being extended.

sorry im getting confused now, i took this from the council website....


Food waste will be separated in the kitchen into provided biodegradable bags and then added to the secure garden waste (brown) recycling container. This will be collected weekly.


I still think this would result in split bags over the garden waste, or am i missing something?

How is this confusing?


Because there's actually two. A small brown one to put the blue compostable bag in and then to put the food scaps into. Then take it out and transfer to big brown bin, not the green one, not the blue one and not the blue (non-compostable) bag. Also, no need for the divider in the blue box now because although you've been separating your tins and plastic bottles from your glass bottles and jars for the last three years we were only making fools of you - now simply throw them in all together because we only tipped them into one pile in the first place (pans to shot of Cadbury's Smash type figures laughing holding tummies with legs kicking in air).

Christ on a bike, it's all really, really simple.


Everybody seems to know how to set Sky+ for Strictly, roast a chicken, programme the Satnav, book a holiday on the internet, and read a bus timetable, but when it comes to the council making some dead simple changes it's suddenly too much to ask. "I just don't get it.. we have to do WHAT?!?! Arghh... my brain's exploding with these simple changes.. (BOOM)".


It might not work, but on the 'confusion scale' it must register about 0.1

If you are worried about food spillages, why not use the little bins they have provided for the food stuff and the larger brown bin we currently use for garden waste?


lorna63 Wrote:

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> sorry im getting confused now, i took this from

> the council website....

>

> Food waste will be separated in the kitchen into

> provided biodegradable bags and then added to the

> secure garden waste (brown) recycling container.

> This will be collected weekly.

>

> I still think this would result in split bags over

> the garden waste, or am i missing something?

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