How can I dispose of ...

Lobelia Overhill

...things I've had laying around the house for years? I have Depression and go through phases of not throwing things out, then when I'm "lucid" I have to get rid of the festering mess. I currently have a lot of toiletries (bought on BOGOF offers and not used) hair dyes (I became allergic), and a pile of stuff relations left when they stayed here, or things the previous occupants of the house left behind.

I can take any medical stuff to the chemist in the DUMP scheme, but what do I do with the other things? Is it 'safe' to use something that was opened 18 months ago and not used much? Shampoo, showergels and the like?

Also I've a load of jars of foodstuffs in the fridge that are going off, I throw some stuff out to the birds/wildlife, what about other things, like liquids? Is it OK to pour them down the sink?

Thanks

luckat

I pour gone-off liquid food down the toilet.

I don't know about recycling cosmetics - you might ask on the http://beaut.ie forum - they know everything about 'beauty' products over there.

Good luck with the clean-up - there's nothing better for a downer than a good tidying session.

Myself, I'm wondering how to recycle a bunch of old electric cables.

Run_to_da_hills

luckat wrote: »

Myself, I'm wondering how to recycle a bunch of old electric cables.

The travellers will take any old electric cables from you, they will remove the copper wire and recycle it.

here.from.day.1

luckat wrote: »

I pour gone-off liquid food down the toilet.

I don't know about recycling cosmetics - you might ask on the http://beaut.ie forum - they know everything about 'beauty' products over there.

Good luck with the clean-up - there's nothing better for a downer than a good tidying session.

Myself, I'm wondering how to recycle a bunch of old electric cables.

Most recycling centres have facilities for electrical waste. Im not sure all travellers are as trustworthy as the ones Run_to_da_hills knows.

Run_to_da_hills

here.from.day.1 wrote: »

Most recycling centres have facilities for electrical waste. Im not sure all travelers are as trustworthy as the ones Run_to_da_hills knows.

Travelers don't go near recycle ctrs, they take it to places like Hegarties, Galway Metal and Hammond Lane that reward them for their contribution towards the environment while the rest of us suckers get fleeced by the local authorities for doing our bit. Travellers have been recycling long before it became an enviornmental issue.

John Mason

try


freecycle.com - a yahoo group

jumletown.com

dublinwaste.ie

put your food wastage in your food recyle bin

Del2005

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Travelers don't go near recycle ctrs, they take it to places like Hegarties, Galway Metal and Hammond Lane that reward them for their contribution towards the environment while the rest of us suckers get fleeced by the local authorities for doing our bit. Travellers have been recycling long before it became an enviornmental issue.

And I used to regulalry ride where some of them did their recycling of car tyres and other electrical cables. Wasn't a pretty site.

Poochie05

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

The travellers will take any old electric cables from you, they will remove the copper wire and recycle it.

Sometimes by burning the plastic off it :eek:

Alun

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Travellers have been recycling long before it became an enviornmental issue.

Otherwise knowns as "stripping anything valuable out of it and then dumping the rest (i.e. most of it) somewhere by the side of the road in a layby in the Dublin mountains".

Lobelia Overhill

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

try
dublinwaste.ie

put your food wastage in your food recyle bin

thanks for that, but I'm not in or near Dublin

and we don't have a food recycling bin.