Compost fruit and veg scraps, coffee grounds and tea leaves. Let the dog at anything else. If he won’t touch it, freeze it until bin day or just put it out. It’s a bin, no issue if it stinks.
I use compostable bin liners. If you recycle everything inc light plastics the only leftovers should be food or compostable things anyway.
And if you use Nespresso they have a recycling service. Their capsules cannot be recycled in normal city council recycling centres. It’s a bit of extra effort to bother recycling, but then again a Nespresso coffee works out to roughly $3 cheaper than a cafe cappuccino.
Composting isn’t viable to a lot of inner city dwellers, but my aunt came up with a solution. Freeze scraps until bin day, like you said.
Chicken bones? Meat fat? Frying pan remnants? Scrappy leftovers from dinner? Fact is, it doesn’t matter how much you take out of the bin, the same bin needs the bag replaced daily. There is no saving in any way.
I can’t imagine anyone that runs a full size household thinking “compost” is a solution to most of what goes in a bin…
So why can’t we have compostable bags from the supermarkets? Why has this cost been allowed to be shifted onto consumers? This is what political parties like Labor actually should be fighting for…
In the freezer until bin night if I think it’s something too stinky. Do you have a lidded wheelie bin? I’ve never had any issue with animals getting in since we’ve had wheelie bins. We’d change the kitchen bin weekly if we even put a bag in.
Like you (I suspect) I’ll use a couple of supermarket bags during the week just hanging on a knob to collect other odds and ends. I really should start separating my soft plastics and recycling them with unwanted plastic bags. Getting better though at not using them after a trip to Tassie in February this year. Still using the Woolies bags I bought there and have bought the wife a reusable tote bag.
Never used one myself, when I lived in the inner city I was lucky enough to live on the ground floor with a small garden so grew veggies and had a compost bin.
One of Gerry Harvey’s arch enemies is so-called short seller John Hempton. Harvey’s memory of his one meeting with Hempton at a lunch is sparse, and he says Hempton pretended to be a friend. Hempton says Harvey was charming, and has this anecdote.
Source:
https://amp.afr.com/brand/rear-window/gerry-harvey-lets-rip-on-enemy-john-hempton-20170907-gychsr
Yesterday I used Android Pay at Woolworths and won a $5 Coles voucher. It seems the prizes in the promotion are actually random.
This sign has been added to each of the self-checkout machines at my local Woolies.
Well, I waited till the receipt finished printing and then removed it, but the printer did not jam.
I always give the receipt a good yank while it is printing because I receive more paper that way.
Don’t yank it or you will go blind.
I saw the most disgusting piece of branding from a major company I have ever seen! The new dark blue Big W on a light green background. Yuck!!!
Talking about your past experiences again Jim!
Paid parking will be introduced to Westfield Southland on October 16, to discourage commuters using Southland station from parking there. The cost will be similar to the one at Westfield Doncaster.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-south/westfield-southland-parking-shoppers-will-have-to-pay-from-midoctober/news-story/4719336507567a19bdc73b0d39713a7f
Which begs one question: why is not a commuter car park built nearby? There is plenty of space at Sir William Fry Reserve across the railway bridge.
Park and rides are inherently unsustainable, outrageously expensive to build in urban areas and just generally a totally inefficient waste of space.
I’m not a treehugger by any means, but the size of a car park that would be required to adequately serve the volume of people using that station would be absolutely monstrous (taking up a huge chunk of that reserve) and would be incredibly expensive. It would be the size of a small shopping centre, and then some. It would cost in the realm of $100+ million. And even then, it would almost certainly be full before 7am.
Politicians will often spruik new park and ride projects with 100 spaces. People read that and say ‘oh wow! 100 spaces! we’ll surely be able to get a spot now!’, not realising that the demand for parking is somewhere between 3000-5000 spaces. It’s like using a safety razor to fell a tree.
It’s almost always a better idea to invest the money in more bus services to carry people to the station.
And introducing paid parking at a place like Westfield Southland is basically the only thing possible in this circumstance. People will bitch and moan about how they’ll never shop there again, but if the parking remained free and taken up entirely by commuters, then they won’t be able to shop there anyway.
This is what Brisbane is hoping to do once Cross River Rail and/or Metro is done. Small feeder lines around suburbs every 15 or so minutes going to the nearest train or metro station, where residents then transfer to the higher capacity and faster mediums to take them into the city core. It’s commonly referred to in town planning as trunk routes.
I use Park and Ride at my local train station on weekends. There is almost never any trouble finding a park. Weekdays are different so I wouldn’t even consider it.
Domino’s has dropped Coke in favour of Pepsi although they haven’t updated their menus at all.
It was reported months ago that they dropped Coke, so they’ve had plenty of time.
More bad news for brick and mortar retail.
Myer said it would close stores in Colonnades in Adelaide, Belconnen in Canberra, and Hornsby in Sydney.
Belconnen was always going to shut down. Possibly the oldest Myer store in the country that has never been touched. Let’s hope they now proceed with a new store in Woden.