Penn and Teller riduculed this in B#llshit. They had about 8 containers and got a bunch of LA Libs to try and separate their garbage with ridiculour rules like "blood products" "Wet Garbage" etc.
Posted on 05/20/2007 12:31:37 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
Ministers want a slop bucket for food waste to be placed in every kitchen under their latest plan to generate green electricity.
Instead of throwing out scraps, households would be required to store them separately for at least a week until they are collected by recycling teams.
The rules will oblige some homes to sort rubbish into five containers – or potentially risk fines. Some councils already insist on separating glass, metal, paper and nonrecyclable refuse.
David Miliband, the environment secretary, is expected to unveil the scheme this week as part of the government’s waste strategy. Food accounts for about a fifth of domestic waste and releases greenhouse gases when dumped in landfill.
Now local authorities are set to be given the power to introduce schemes whereby methane generated by decomposing food will instead be trapped and used to generate electricity.
The proposal is part of a wider shake-up of Britain’s waste collection. The government also plans to give councils the power to introduce “pay per throw” charges, levied according to the weight of rubbish. Households would not be charged for recycled waste.
During the recent council elections there was a backlash in some areas against the scrapping of weekly collections. Fortnightly collections were blamed for causing infestations of vermin.
However, advocates of recycled kitchen waste insist that sealed containers will provide a hygienic solution. The idea was inspired by the government’s waste body, Wrap, which found that homes across Britain waste a total of 3.3m tons of food a year.
He is also likely to outline a plan for giant incinerators to burn more than 20% of rubbish that cannot be recycled. This too would be used to generate energy.
Absolutely - the whole thing is unforceable as well. Our the local authorities going to go through the plastic sack you put out for the dustman (refuse collector) before they allow it to go to the tip.
Whilst I agree certain items such as glass and cans in large quantities say at Christmas should be recylcled where the odd one or 2 each are used then the time and effort is not worth it.
I can remember years ago my mum keeping the glass bottles etc and we took them to a recycling centre every 2 or 3 months.
We had one of those when I was a kid. We fed it to the hogs. The slop, not the bucket.
Doing exactly that in my town
"Under the agreement, ESG will purchase Iris Glen landfill methane gas from the city for the next 25 years, providing the community a new and long-term revenue stream. This supplemental revenue will enhance the city's financial, taxation and budget flexibility. Through this project, methane gas emitted at Iris Glen landfill will be processed to serve as an alternative fuel for the natural gas currently used by several local companies. ESG will develop, implement and manage the infrastructure to deliver the methane to the local VA medical facility and the Johnson City Medical Center (a 500+ bed primary care facility)."
This is absurd!
Yes, the first time that I saw the comprehensive instructions that the city of Tokyo (not the ones I quoted from Zama) sent out, I thought they were pretty excessive myself.
However, this new British idea of requiring people to keep a slop bucket for at least a week with the possibility of even longer seems to me far more absurd. At least with my experience in Japan, there was no requirement to keep a slop bucket for such an extended period.
My grandparents (who farmed) always had a slop bucket under the sink. Every couple of days, the pigs got a treat.
This is the green agenda - go back to the hard life our grandparents and our great grandparents had. (Us not them of course.)
The fortnightly garbage collection is EU totalitarianism at it’s finest. Read about all the health hazards at:
Britain: “Green” garbage collection bad for your health
http://antigreen.blogspot.com/2007/04/britain-green-garbage-collection-bad.html
STENCH!
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/2007%20April.htm#stench
At least the commies picked up the frickin’ garbage. The Greenie version of “1984” is worst.
Bugs placed secretly in wheelie bins to check up on recycling
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article621121.ece
As one who grew up in the family metal recycling business, trust me when I say that if it is possible to recycle something at a profit, a scrap man is already so doing.
Let some goobers in a gooberment agency get their manicured hands on the tax payers cash via “recycling” programs and prodigious waste becomes the daily drill.
The situation is compounded when GangGreen whackos are ‘stake holders” and are allowed any ‘stake’ other than the one they should be impaled on.
Miami, that festering pit of socialism at the tip of FloriDUH, tried recycling things such as glass, only to find out than most glass factories prefer sand.
Only when “encouraged” by government intervention, could the bottles be disposed of with any income at all to the Gooberment. “Recycling” is all too often another example of an inferior government product/service at an inflated price.
If a slop bucket is being emptied only once a week (or even less, as the article implies might happen), then my experience would suggest that it is going to be pretty rank no matter how strongly sealed the container might be.
As I mentioned earlier, restaurants in particular are liable to be redolent in my opinion if they can only empty the slop buckets weekly or fortnightly.
BTTT
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