whisky_galore wrote: » Old metal bins, like the one Oscar the Grouch lives in.
odyssey06 wrote: » It was a lawless time. There was no internet. Kids were bored and the environment was just the name for a government department. They would keep the birds away from the bin bags with catapults and nobody would bat an eyelid.You don't want to know what they would do to a frog if they caught one.
garv123 wrote: » They were just called bins. wheelie bins without wheels.. Plastic or tin. Some of the fancy folk had metal clips to keep the lid on, middle class had bungee cord, us peasants sat a big stone on the lid to keep it in place
Mint Sauce wrote: » Because it was a council service, before it was privatised to the highest bidders, and it became a for profit service. It's the kind of thing our property tax should be for.
smurfjed wrote: » And we werent told that because the Chinese didn't want our rubbish we needed to start paying for it to be recycled, I find it strange that we are actually shipping garbage to China in the first place, surely the environmental damage done by the fossil fuels outweigh the damage of the garbage! Where I am now, we have one wheelie bin, everything goes into it and its collected DAILY for free
whisky_galore wrote: » I think even the Chinese are fed up of our low grade rubbish, esp when people throw everything from nappies to dogs into recycling bins.
Kermit.de.frog wrote: » The thread on waste fines got me thinking... There was a time I am told when we had no wheelie bins in Ireland. I'm too young to know/ remember. So all the rubbish was just dumped in bags on the street to be collected?? Can only imagine what that must have been like in weather like this. How did you keep the birds away from pecking at the bags? The 80's must have been a dark, dark place in Ireland. Be interested to hear how people lived then compared to now and your refecltions :cool:
wexie wrote: » They stopped taking it and apparently there is nowhere else in the world with the capacity to take over plastic recycling on that scale. So as a consequence of that chances are a lot of the stuff we recycle is going to end up in landfill anyways.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chinas-plastic-ban-will-flood-us-trash-180969423/
Stigura wrote: » I'm just an old fashioned guy, I guess
Axton Beautiful Sortie wrote: » I keep birdseed and nuts in one.
freshpopcorn wrote: » A metal barrel and a match in the back garden was very common!
Keyzer wrote: » Back in the day there was a 'man' for nearly everything: Coalman - brought lumps of black rocks to you to burn and stave of freezing to death Milkman - brought you cow juice and other such produce to feed your offspring Insurance Man - took money from you for insurance purposes and got robbed at the end of his rounds every week Window Cleaner - cleaned your windows if you so wished Ice Cream man - seller of ice creams in a clapped out van playing ****e songs Church collection man - took money from sinners who wished to repent by bribing God My personal favorite was the man who came by every couple of months to sharpen your knives and garden shears. Convinced he was on month long benders ala Richard Harris and dropped by to replenish his Scrumpy Jack fund. Scrumpy Jack is cider btw. People got fúcked up on it in fields when I was chissler...
Ciaran_B wrote: » Chimney Sweep (man) - come around once a year and stick brushes up your chimney to stop your house burning down or filling up with smoke.
seamus wrote: » ...It was basically a plastic box about twice the size of a banker's box, and you threw in mostly paper and cardboard.
smurfjed wrote: » And we werent told that because the Chinese didn't want our rubbish we needed to start paying for it to be recycled, I find it strange that we are actually shipping garbage to China in the first place, surely the environmental damage done by the fossil fuels outweigh the damage of the garbage!
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