JumbleTown Ireland - View Single Post - Reducing waste and doing away with the bin collection

TheBear · **Posted: 01-02-2009 , 02:09 PM** #5

I almost certainly have a smaller household than you, but last year we put out our black bin only 5 times, and that was even having one very wasteful housemate who seemed philosophically opposed to recycling. (Actually, he was just really lazy.)

We recycled everything we could, and made trips to the local bring centre with stuff the green bin didn't take. Bi-monthly trips to recycling centres that took stuff our local one couldn't (styrofoam, etc.) also helped save stuff from the black bins.

The biggest reduction came from food waste, though. Our household compster, and now wormery too, take all the stuff that would be likely to attract rats, and condenses it down to a fraction of its initial volume, yielding a useful output at the same time.

I realise that living in Dublin means that everything other than fresh air is close at hand, and not everyone has a bring centre on their door step, but it was really remarkable how much a little effort cut down on our waste production.

	Posted: 01-02-2009 , 02:09 PM #5
TheBear Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Milltown/Dundrum, Dublin Posts: 188	I almost certainly have a smaller household than you, but last year we put out our black bin only 5 times, and that was even having one very wasteful housemate who seemed philosophically opposed to recycling. (Actually, he was just really lazy.) We recycled everything we could, and made trips to the local bring centre with stuff the green bin didn't take. Bi-monthly trips to recycling centres that took stuff our local one couldn't (styrofoam, etc.) also helped save stuff from the black bins. The biggest reduction came from food waste, though. Our household compster, and now wormery too, take all the stuff that would be likely to attract rats, and condenses it down to a fraction of its initial volume, yielding a useful output at the same time. I realise that living in Dublin means that everything other than fresh air is close at hand, and not everyone has a bring centre on their door step, but it was really remarkable how much a little effort cut down on our waste production.