Bins & Eggs (light hearted)

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.

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.

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

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.

GrandmasueUK those eggs look delicious.

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.

https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/202103/medium-902850-1a0bddb2-0e0d-4fd0-b8f4-57f0215d0aef.jpeg https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/202103/medium-859537-cf05e969-bf8b-4966-b2db-941f8849e49e.jpeg https://www.gransnet.com/uploads/talk/202103/medium-147645-fb5333ab-c852-4ecc-a27f-979520badf81.jpeg

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.

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.

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

rubysong

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

Yap!

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.

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

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.

Disclude - yes, I added it to the back of the dictionary.

Verb: disclusion

(Obsolete) A shutting off; exclusion. quotations
(dentistry) A separation of the teeth when the jaw is slightly opened.
(dentistry) Especially, a separation of posterior teeth when the lower jaw moves forward, as a natural result of the alignment of the anterior teeth.

I am practising moving my lower jaw forward to see what happens. DH thought I was pretending to be a Pekingese dog.

I'm enjoying this thread and looking forward to using the word 'disclude' once I work out what it means.
Our kitchen waste bin and waste paper baskets in each room go into the outdoor dustbin black bag on Monday afternoon, ready to be put by the gate on Tuesday afternoon for collection. DH usually performs these tasks. The kitchen recycling bin, when it is full, is taken to the greenhouse and the contents are put into the three bags (paper, cardboard and tins/plastic containers). On alternate Monday evenings they go down by the gate as they are collected at 7am the next day. The alternate Tuesdays are garden waste in a brown wheelie bin, (exciting, don't you think). We also operate a thriving compost dalek and I have a wormery.
As far as eggs go, how about dipping a slice of bread in beaten egg and frying it in a little oil? Delicious. We once ordered French toast for breakfast whilst visiting the USA. It came with cinnamon and icing sugar on which quite spoilt my day.

Yes same here Callistemon.....

I think it's about the same here, Shinamae and they only empty them for 8 months of the year.

i live in a block of 48 flats, our bins are the size of the ones that shops use..problems lifting the lid, we have 12 of those and 4 re-cycle, they get emptied every two weeks, by then they are overflowing.
eggs...love boiled, fried and scrambled, feel sick if it is an omlette or poached.

Yes £36 a year here in North Devon...?

We're getting compulsory wheelie bins - and we're so not happy about it. They'll just be a blight on the landscape as lazy folk will leave them out 'on display' permanently.
We've just had them delivered, my friend has covered hers in wheelie bin stickers, there are flower, leaf, tree patterns available.

Does everyone have to pay an annual charge for their garden waste bins?

Do any of you wonderful women have an 'egg gateway' recipe for me?
????????????

No eggs allowed here (or any animal products). My friend calls them 'a chicken's period' - enough to put anyone off, I'd say.

We're getting compulsory wheelie bins - and we're so not happy about it. They'll just be a blight on the landscape as lazy folk will leave them out 'on display' permanently.

Still, apparently, this is 'progress' we can't fight. I'm thinking of sinking mine into the ground - or maybe concreting it into place, behind screening - as a protest!

EggsAnother egg adverse, not helped by boiled eggs when I was at boarding school. The eggs were packed upright side by side in a Bain Marie and arrived on our plates rock hard one end and still clear uncooked egg the other.

Bins We have a landfill bin, a food waste bin, and a recycling bin into we can put anything that can be recycled. We have been issued with a little paper wheel that we can twist to get the arrow to point to the item we are disposing of and the window will then reveal where it should be disposed.

I am surprised that any council encourages all food waste to go on a compost heap (supposing you live in a flat). Fine for vegetable waste, but you should never put meat, fish or dairy waste, or cooked food on a compost heap as it encourages rats. All vegetable waste, plus bits of paper go on the compost heap, but if we have any meat or other protein waste, it goes in the food waste container.

My typing has gone to pot! Time to log off.

Ugh, hard boiled eggs smell horrible! Mr. B loves them, I get my revenge by eating mackerel, which I love and he hates. Tomorrow is Bin Preparation Day, when I must go around the house emptying all the small bathroom b8ns and waste paper baskets into one large bin liner. Then I take this out to the black wheelie bin. We have bi s for recycling that get filled as things get used. Our bins are collected every other Friday and it is garbage bin this week. It is Mr. B’s job to take the bins down to the bottom of the drive.

I hope you are all impressed with this glimpse of life in Blossoming Towers.