Bins & Eggs (light hearted)

Black bin household waste
Green bin recycling, always full from deliveries
Glass box
Garden waste bin, charged separately
Our own compost bin for veg/fruit peelings/eggshells etc.

Thanks for the information, Callistemon. Every day's a schooldays!

Love poached eggs.
Bin day Tuesday landfill and recycling, garden waste every other Tuesday March to November no extra charge. Food waste in with landfill since start of pandemic previous to that brown bin collected every Tuesday.

rubysong

Thanks for the information, Callistemon. Every day's a schooldays!

Yap!

Wednesday is bin day - recycling, garden waste and food waste bin one week, landfill and food bin the next week. And yes we have to pay for the garden waste, but not sure how much.

I love eggs of all sorts - poached, boiled, scrambled, fried, omelettes, french toast (eggy bread) with bacon and maple syrup, yum. Can't stand runny whites though.

I hope this doesn't make anyone ill but I also wash my hair with eggs and honey - not everyone's cup of tea I know

No bins here, apart from my small kitchen waste bin. To dispose of our rubbish we have take it to larger bins at the side of the road which are emptied about twice a week.
Most of the rest of the rubbish goes into a recycling containers divided for paper, plastic/metal or glass. I still haven’t worked out why plastic and metal should go in together or what happens when the bin collectors empty them all into the same lorry, as has been known to happen frequently.
I like most eggs if they are cooked the way I like them.

Interesting fact, most Portuguese (certainly in the Algarve) like chips and they like eggs. They think we are mad to eat egg and chips together as a meal.

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Last week this was my most favourite breakfast. My OH made me the best poached eggs, those yolks were so orange, on sourdough toast. I enjoy boiled eggs but dislike omelettes and fried eggs.

We have four bins, black for general waste, green for garden waste, brown for glass, plastic and tins,
blue for paper and cardboard .
We also have a small green basket with a roll of liners for food waste.
This can include kitchen waste, tea bags, bones, egg shells and left over food.
This goes into the green bin for garden waste.
Collected in rotation on Friday.
I like almost any form of eggs, fried, scrambled, poached, omelettes, I have never been a fussy eater.

GrandmasueUK those eggs look delicious.

Ooh this is exciting, can’t wait to tell the tale of all our waste.
Green bin for garden waste but not anything thicker than twigs collected every second week.
Black bin for general waste, anything that can’t be recycled collected every second week between green bin week.
Trolley which is stacked with three lidded crates, one for paper, one for tins and plastic and one for glass and cardboard.
Then, because our council are so well organised we have a little lidded food bin to keep under the kitchen sink lined with compostable bags. When full the bags are put in to the larger brown food bins. Everything on the trolley is collected weekly.
We have lovely binmen and I wrote a big thank you to them on my rainbow for the NHS which sits outside the gate.
As for eggs, they are at their best camouflaged inside a cake or pancake but I don’t mind them hard boiled or well scrambled.
The egg shells go in to the tiny brown food bin before finding themselves in the bigger one outside.
I do remember objecting to the whole recycling thing when it all began 30 odd years ago but now it’s second nature.
Gosh I enjoyed that cathartic exercise and hope everyone enjoys reading the story of my waste. Hope no one is shell shocked.
Septic tanks next week folks.

Is there a prize for the longest and most boring post.
A trophy ? for my mantle piece would be welcome.

You’ve won LauraNorder, and will be delighted to know that the prize is - an egg shaped food recycling bin, in gold (no glitter) bamboo (fully recyclable of course). It’s exactly the right size to adorn your mantelpiece until approximately 20th December, when you can ethically re-gift it to the bin men, with their Christmas bonus inside.

Sorry I’ve bin a bit late getting back to you Fanny but the telly was eggxellent tonight!
We have a green bin for the non green waste and a grey bin for the green waste! Also a brown bin for garden waste. Well, most of it. There is no place for the kitchen scraps except in the green bin with the non green waste, i.e. the general household waste.
Where we lived previously we had a general household bin and a green bin collected alternately, a little brown bin for in the kitchen, complete with biodegradable bags. When said bags were full, we transferred them to a larger, but still not full bin sized, brown bin which lived outside by the big bins . The ‘kitchen waste’ was collected every week. We also had two green sacks for garden waste, collected when the recycling was collected.
Maybe one reason we moved was to simplify our waste collection!
I still don’t like eggs, so not too many shells to dispose of.
Cadbury’s creme eggs are acceptable however.

It was a family joke that my mother didn’t like ‘eggy’ eggs.
She was never quite able to say what constituted too much egginess, but it was probably darker than usual yolks.

Egg problem solved: Easter Eggs ?

Bins: waste: black bin.
Green Recyling bin: Paper, except for shredded paper, card, certain plastic bottles but not the lids.
Not the plastic bags the supermarkets used to take.
Tina & cans but not aluminium foil. No black food trays. ?
Brown bin: Garden waste, but no peelings ? & twigs only.r
Glass has to go in the car to a recycling bin (try to sneak out with the wine bottles)

Wish DD would stop moving house - She's local but each move the rules have been different - within a 5 mile radius!

Grandmajet just seen your post - you beat me to it ?

Looks like still hold the title for the one thing I didn’t want to win.

'Morning all
Just quickly bobbing on to say thank you for all of your thoughtful, incisive and enlightening posts.
I've only scanned through quickly - but they look great, lots of insight into household bin management.
I look forward to reading them later properly.

A big thank you for the recipes, I really like the sound of the aubergine cheese cake. I'll give them the attention they deserve in due course

I've got to talk to the GP this am; the dog is going to the groomers' for the first time in goodness knows; andI've got an Ocado delivery. And then the cherry on the cake - it's Wheelie Klean (sic) day! (They didn't turn up last month, so I shall be watching them like a hawk).

So I really have got a jam-packed and thrilling day!
Have a good day everyone

Bin men have arrived as I type, how's that for timing.
Wheelie bin cleaner will arrive shortly.
What a packed morning ?

I like eggs but they don't like me.?
They make me chuck-up!

How many people have a wheelie bin cleaner?
Our neighbours do, but we bag all our rubbish so the bin doesn’t get really grubby, and the recycling is clean anyway. Are we just dirty people not to bother with this?
Waiting to be judged!

Food waste caddy weekly
Garden waste weekly
Black sacks (all non recycling) alternate week
Glass box, cardboard (tied up) recyclable plastic, cans etc in pink sack alternate week to black sack.

Cannot help with the egg problem as I love them however they are cooked, although my favourite is soft poached on whole meal toast.

Well normally a discussion about bins and eggs would leave me cold, but so very much more fascinating than anything H&M related.
First of all eggs, don’t like them, hate the smell of them, it even lingers in the dishwasher.
Bins. Well wheelie bin, going soon to a three week collection, actually I can’t be bothered to go on, what’s to say? It all gets collected, unless we are informed they have Covid related staff shortages, and aren’t coming. Cases are fairly low here now, so seems unfortunate that so many recycling centre employees have it.
Well after all this excitement, I’m off to calm down.

Yawn

Bins-how exciting.
Grey bin all general stuff alternate weeks, early morning.
On the alternate week we have separate bins; green for garden waste, collected mid morning, no collection in December and a £40pa charge, which you can share with a neighbour if you like. Red top bin for metal/plastic and yellow top card/paper (with some exclusions) collected very early morning.
We used to have a food bin, but they stopped that, so now veg waste goes in green bin and other food waste in the grey bin.

Eggs? As long as the white is fully cooked I love them in all forms.