[Lostrider]

Old Metal Dustbins. Do you remember when we had metal dustbins. They were about half the size of a wheely bin and used to last all week. We never had plastic bin bags to put excess rubbish in. Never needed them. All the peeling where thrown on the compost heap. Anything that would burn was chucked on the fire to save coal.
Every thing you bought came in paper bags. so no problems with plastic packaging.
Beer and pop came in bottles that you could take back to the shop and get money back.

It seems we are coming full circle. Instead of having fortnightly collections for rubbish they shoukd give us our metal bins back. If the shops and manufacturers went back to paper and cellophane packaging that would solve a lot of rubbish probelms.

A guy on the radio said that burning rubbish in your garden produces less carbon emmisions that the council incinerator.

[sandie]

Hi Lostrider,

I totally agree with you, bring back brown paper bags and carrier bags, let us all have metal dustbins and bins with holes to burn rubbish.
Compost heaps for pealings and our own veg plot
Regards

[lakerman]

I've still got my old metal bin. I use it to store all my spare plant pots and other small garden items in.

[Malky]

How is it that one small metal bin lasted a week but some people can’t make a large plastic bin last 2 week.

[Lostrider]

Originally Posted by Malky

How is it that one small metal bin lasted a week but some people can’t make a large plastic bin last 2 week.

It's the manufacturers fault, the amount of packaging we get through in a week is beyond a joke. Every thing you buy is wrapped in plastic, to get into some packaging you need a chainsaw or a small nuclear device.

Bring back the hardware shops where you could buy half a dozen screws in a paper bag instead of 50 percent more than you need in a huge blister pack.

Have any of you bought tablets from the chemist lately. When you open the 4" x 1" box there is a strip of tablets inside you could fit in a matchbox.

If they want to wrap stuff up in clear plastic why dont they use cellophane like the used to have around bottles of lucozade. Its basically made form grass and eventually disolves in water, how enviromentaly friendly is that?

By the way did any of you used to stick the Lucozade wrapper on to your B&W TV screen and watch TV in Colour. Sad wasn't it.

[poppins]

They still have them on Desperate Housewives

[medusa]

I've still got my old metal bin- it's got a lovely campanula growing in it!

[Malky]

Originally Posted by Lostrider

It's the manufacturers fault, the amount of packaging we get through in a week is beyond a joke. Every thing you buy is wrapped in plastic, to get into some packaging you need a chainsaw or a small nuclear device.

Bring back the hardware shops where you could buy half a dozen screws in a paper bag instead of 50 percent more than you need in a huge blister pack.

Have any of you bought tablets from the chemist lately. When you open the 4" x 1" box there is a strip of tablets inside you could fit in a matchbox.

If they want to wrap stuff up in clear plastic why dont they use cellophane like the used to have around bottles of lucozade. Its basically made form grass and eventually disolves in water, how enviromentaly friendly is that?

By the way did any of you used to stick the Lucozade wrapper on to your B&W TV screen and watch TV in Colour. Sad wasn't it.

We have gone from having one metal bin to having a bin twice the size plus a green bin then a blue box for bottles/cans and a blue bag for papers, the strange thing is they all get full.