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Mainlyu un recycliable plastic packaging. Everything other than large bones goes on the compost heap - even cooked meat and even the large bones are only thrown out after the cats have had them.
Kitchen scraps go to the poultry
However feel guilty about the amount of plastic drinks bottles that we buy, I am happying drinking tap water/squash, but OH insists on drinking pop.

It's mostly packaging for me. I try and get food from the market that comes in paper bags that can then be recycled, but I can't always do it.

I feel quite guilty actually when I but stuff that contains packaging that will be chucked and then I feel worse when I actually put it in the bin.

i know what you mean about guilt, i have a habit of hoarding stuff instead of chucking it, because i keep thinking 'well you never know it may be that i just havent found the right place to send it for recycling' or that somebody on here might come up with an interesting craft project using all these materials the day after i throw them away...

i just try to remember that im only human and to make a 90% effort is better than 0%

possum wrote:but OH insists on drinking pop.

Tell him how bad it is for his health. I read somewhere that folk who drink one glass of fizzy stuff per day (even the sugar free stuff!) have a much higher chance of getting diabetes. No idea why, though.

I try to buy stuff at farmers' markets and in a shop where I can bring my own bags for fruit and veg, but some of the stalls at the market have all their veg prepacked as well - stupid! To some farm shops I can return the packaging.

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Tell him how bad it is for his health. I read somewhere that folk who drink one glass of fizzy stuff per day (even the sugar free stuff!) have a much higher chance of getting diabetes. No idea why, though.

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The sugar free stuff is worse for you than the regular stuff ... take a look at aspartame .. its a killer and thats whats being used to sweetene pop etc. take a look here

http://www.dorway.com/

Sorry I know I have gone off topic it a bad habit I got ...

Back on topic ... cellophane mostly...and bread bags with the cellophane in ... but most stuff is recyled.

I buy Yeo Yogurt now just for the tubs ...Ok I like the yogurt. The card comes of to be recycled and the tub can be used to store left overs/soups/ etc in the fridge or teh freezer

That is my excuse for buying yeo valley too The Plum flavour is to die for.

I use biodegradable disposable on E, though they cost too much, I'd hate to change onto dreaded huggies. But they still go in the wheelie as we don't have the suitable wormery here.

The rest is mostly packaging too, though I save all plastic bottles, tetrapacs, yogurt pots, punnets, milk cartons and marg tubs. I have the fear of throwing stuff away then finding a use for it.

We don't have a recycling collection here and we are too busy to take stuff to the bank ourselves so it sits in big bins in the back garden until I come up with a plan...

Occasionally there is a bit of crumbled plaster, peeling wallpaper, etc.

We burn or compost all paper products or cardboard
We compost all food waste, we don't eat much meat and I am the waste disposal for anything E turns her nose up at.

red wrote:my cat brings in lots of mice and other rodents both dead and alive... could do without having to catch the alive ones in the wee hours...

Mouse in the shoe, out of the shoe, in the shoe out of the shoe AAAAARG! Cat thinks its a great game thought.

We are lucky to out our wheelie bin out once a month and when it does go out, it's never full.

Has anyone found out if Councils will reduce the Council Tax by the element of cost associated with current bin collections if they do implement the pay as you throw charge? Presumably not as it would be fair. Lets all pay an addition charge.....

I am not sure. I think this is a good idea in principle but can see how some people will be to avoid paying more for their excess bags. They will stick them in their neighbour's bins, or 'donate' them to the charity shop (there was an item on the radio just this morning about how charities have to foot the bill for stuff that goes in the bin - why donate it if it is basically crap?), or even worse, just dump them in a handy field.

Silver Ether wrote:
I buy Yeo Yogurt now just for the tubs ...Ok I like the yogurt. The card comes of to be recycled and the tub can be used to store left overs/soups/ etc in the fridge or teh freezer

And because they are almost clear plastic I also use them as cloches for small plants.

And oh yes, I love the plum flavour, too... But I rarely buy fruit yoghurt - have enough fruit and jam to make my own!

I'm doing another 'waste audit' this week (since moving in with my bf there seem to be a lot more crisp packets) which I'll be writing about on my blog if anyone is interested or wants to join in!

ina wrote:

Silver Ether wrote:
I buy Yeo Yogurt now just for the tubs ...Ok I like the yogurt. The card comes of to be recycled and the tub can be used to store left overs/soups/ etc in the fridge or teh freezer

And because they are almost clear plastic I also use them as cloches for small plants.

And oh yes, I love the plum flavour, too... But I rarely buy fruit yoghurt - have enough fruit and jam to make my own!

oh great never thought of using them for that ...

I tend to stick to vanilla and add things ...

Back to the pop thing - I have some water kefir which makes a tasty fizzy drink. Still loaded with sugar, but I use organic cane sugar & don't drink a lot of it. So on the rare occasions I do fancy a fizzy drink I have it without worrying about it.

Means I don't have plastic bottles to dispose off. Actually, a friend who does buy a lot of drinks in plastic bottles saves them all. Either we use them on the lottie as cloches or anti-slug collars, or our Ecologist friends want them.

Ranter wrote: Means I don't have plastic bottles to dispose off. Actually, a friend who does buy a lot of drinks in plastic bottles saves them all.

Same here. I sometimes find it difficult to get a plastic bottle of the right size when I need one... A friend with a son who drinks the stuff gives me a few sometimes, but she also uses them for the garden.