| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Council decision re recycling collections | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 24/12/15 17:52:00 |
| Brilliant and bravo Adrian. Your daughter probably looks for your help and/or advice when something needs fixing and she can't which must be satisfying. That is the kind of house that I came from and with parents having lived in out of the way places in Africa, the Gulf, the middle of the Pacific and the English countryside there was a lot of re-purposing. We kids would see something bright and shiny in a shop window and talk about it and want it and Dad would go off down to the shed and drag something ancient out and ask would it do... Mum would fancy some lovely terracotta pots to plant flowers in and Dad would provide large oil cans or plastic containers with holes punched in the bottom... Occasionally she'd win. You'd be surprised at the number of people who cannot adapt things and think that if something isn't designed for a specific purpose then that is the end of that. What is wrong with keeping your shoes in a big flower pot? Just wondered if there was something you had missed. It is the families with babies in nappies and with clinical waste who will have more bulky waste. Some of this can be avoided with washable items but most won't be. I did watch a carer roll a catheter night bag up the other day and take her glove off over it greatly reducing the volume of it. Most of the carers don't bother and just take a swing bin liner instead. The District Nurse changing dressings leaves a pedal bin bag of waste every time she visits. That's a lot of residual waste and it's a more complicated area than the usual household waste. There is usually another way around things. It's just a matter of finding it. I myself need to grow more herbs and not to buy those supermarket ones which don't last very long and leave me with a pot and compost to get rid of. I kept the basil growing well this year indoors until a builder covered the conservatory glass... I'll have another go next year. |