Re: [lace-chat] how government works and recycling
Rosemary Naish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Someone who only had their recycling collected fortnightly, but had >also been the recipient of an edict forbidding food waste in the >ordinary bin, asked her local council what to do with the remains of >her sunday roast chicken until the recycling bin was collected. The >official, and absolutely serious, answer was either not have roast >meals until just before the bin was due to be collected or to put the >remains in her freezer until collection day! We live in what I often call "Southwest outer Nowhere", and we don't have trash pickup. Instead, our taxes to the local township pay for something called a "transfer station", which is basically a pickup point for all of our trash. The transfer station is open on Saturdays, and we haul our trash there. Each year they issue us a punch card, and if you use it up, you have to buy another. We recycle and compost most of our trash, but for fatty or greasy things like the chicken bones (which don't go into the compost heap, because caterwauling raccoons at 3am wake both me and the dogs!), we do keep a labelled bag in the freezer. Often we skip a week between trips to the transfer station, and I'm sure two-week-old chicken scraps would get pretty unpleasant if we didn't freeze them. Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com http://lost-arts.blogspot.com/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] how government works and recycling
Actually, the freezer wasn't such a stupid idea. My father used to keep an empty coffee can in the refrigerator with a plastic bag in it and the lid on it, for things like fruit peels, bones, and fat trimmed off meat that otherwise would have smelled in the trash. He'd pull it out and put it in the bin just as he took the trash out. At 7:37 PM +0100 9/5/06, Rosemary Naish wrote: Further to the mysteries of how the thought processes of government officials work was a story reported in the UK papers this week. Someone who only had their recycling collected fortnightly, but had also been the recipient of an edict forbidding food waste in the ordinary bin, asked her local council what to do with the remains of her sunday roast chicken until the recycling bin was collected. The official, and absolutely serious, answer was either not have roast meals until just before the bin was due to be collected or to put the remains in her freezer until collection day! they just don't live in the same world as the rest of us! Rosemary - rapidly becoming one grumpy old woman! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Martha Krieg [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Michigan To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] how government works and recycling
Further to the mysteries of how the thought processes of government officials work was a story reported in the UK papers this week. Someone who only had their recycling collected fortnightly, but had also been the recipient of an edict forbidding food waste in the ordinary bin, asked her local council what to do with the remains of her sunday roast chicken until the recycling bin was collected. The official, and absolutely serious, answer was either not have roast meals until just before the bin was due to be collected or to put the remains in her freezer until collection day! they just don't live in the same world as the rest of us! Rosemary - rapidly becoming one grumpy old woman! To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
