Why is it that when we were allowed to have open fires (I had two) and we were not so 'green', we had one bin for all the ash, clinker, cans, empty booze bottles etc. and it was taken off the premises, weekly, in a bin smaller than my wheelie by the dustman and thrown in his cart. Nowadays I have a large wheelie, a green bin for recycleable materials and a box for glass. From where is all the additional rubbish coming, it can't be all junk mail, surely.
1. Additional packaging 2. I don't know about you but once we replaced the coal fire with a gas fire we had loads more rubbish in the bin because so much went onto the fire before, any card or paper used to go onto the fire. Newspapers were used for lighting the fire.
I'm getting a brown and a blue recycling bin soon.</p> So I will have Gray,Green, Blue and Brown bins.</p> </p> We are living in a different world to the one we did 20 years ago. </p>
World was better in the 1950s. Coal fires, chimneys belching smoke, 10,000 steam locomotives doing likewise. Tracky buses spewing out muck (no change there), snow in winter and smog - but we had no glabal warming.
