How to tell which is which.
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.
Where I am we pretty much do all that already.
Why not just capture the methane directly from the rubbish dumps...with a little compression and drying will work fine in a gas engine to generate electricity.
How to tell which is which.
Without even thinking, I'm going to go way out on a limb and say that this effort will consume more energy than it produces.
England will be easily identifiable in France.
Is there no limit to the sacrifices to be made in the Green “Religion”?
this is exactly how the “Great Leap Forward” started in communist China.. requiring households to store waste items to fertilize goverment fields.
At least a week?
I think that slop bucket is going to be pretty ripe if it's only being emptied so infrequently. So much for beautifying Britain: this seems to me a bit of move down from "Cool Britannia" to "slop bucket Britain."
I think I would have to take it over to the Ministers home every night. I was thinking where would I keep it if USA makes this policy. I thought well the Kitchen is out because of flies and bugs so I thought what about the shed. Then I thought about rats and cockroaches may get in there. So my final thought is to take it to who ever approves of this nonsense bill’s home and let them deal with it.
That might make for a somewhat olfactorily interesting dining experience.
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A World Consititution.
I always thought separation of waste was a distinctively German thing. Many people here separate their waste religiously. Some going as far as washing the empty yoghurt glasses.
In the middle ages the church gave them an easy way to ease their conscience by buying letters of indulgence. Nowadays, when people don’t believe into God anymore but still have sprititual needs that material things can’t satisfy, they was their yoghurt glasses.
Japanese housewives separate waste. A quick Google search yielded the following instructions for residents of the city of Zama:
Separating the Trash and Taking it out to the designated pick-up location
Zama City picks up the trash according to the following categories : (1) burnable trash, (2) cans, glass bottles, (3) PET(polyethylene terephthalate) bottles, (4) plastic containers, (5) paper and cloth, (6) unburnable trash, and (7) large trash.
Please check the following before taking your trash out to the designated pick-up location. Trash should be at the pick-up location by 8:30 am. Trash bags must be transparent or semi-transparent. Large trash is handled separatery.
Plese see below.
(1) Burnable Trash
Please drain the water from the trash thoroughly, put it in a transparent plastic bag, and tie the top of the bag firmly.
(2) Cans, Glass Bottles
Please empty, rinse and separate cans and glass bottles. Then put them in a transparent or semi-transparent plastic bag. Please dispose of plastic caps as burnable trash and aluminum ones as unburnable.
(3) PET(polyethylene terephthalate) Bottles
Please empty and rinse. Then put them in a transparent or semi-transparent plastic bag. Please dispose of plastic caps as Plastic Containers, aluminum ones as cans.
(4) Plastic Containers（plastic bag, lap, tray, pack, cup, bottle, box, case and lid）
Please empty and rinse. Then put them in a transparent or semi-transparent plastic bag.
(5) Paper and Cloth
Bundle the paper and cloth trash separately with string. Milk cartons must be rinsed, dried, cut open and bundled together with string. Clothes must be washed and dried.
Please note that paper cannot be reused if it gets wet. Therefore, when it rains on the day of pick-up, please make sure it won't get wet by putting it in a transparent or semi-transparent plastic bag or placing it in such a way that it won't get wet.
(6) Unburnable Tｒash
Please wrap broken glass, blades, and other dangerous trash in paper such as newspaper and write “Danger”(“Kiken”) on the paper. Aerosol cans must be emptied and punctured.
(7) Large Trash
Large trash is defined as trash with one dimension over 50 cm long. A fee of 500 yen is required for each item. Please call the Waste Management Division (TEL046(255)1111, ext 2235/6) to make an arrangement for pick-up at your residence. Please speak Japanese when you call.
(Plese see below about taking the trash out to the designated pick-up location.)
Inquiries: Waste Management Division TEL046(252)7659 FAX046(252)7616
Aptly named.
Mandatory Gaia worship is next.
My understanding is that ‘recycling’ costs more in the long run, than it saves.
WOuld be nice to have access to some honest figures.
And we thought Jimmy Carter was bad telling us to adjust our thermostats so we would freeze in the winter and boil in the summer.
Now that looks like a lovely breakfast to me
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