Re: [lace-chat] how government works and recycling

2006-09-19 Thread Lynn Carpenter
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

[lace-chat] how government works and recycling

2006-09-05 Thread Rosemary Naish
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

Re: [lace-chat] how government works and recycling

2006-09-05 Thread Martha Krieg
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