Saturday, November 15, 2008

Going Green: food digesture - Part 3

The third update on my plan to reduce our household waste costs and to improve on the amount of material we recycle, so far the layout is as follows:
- Plastic covered box for cans & glass
- Two 80ltr bins for recyclable material (paper, plastic etc)
- One 90ltr bin to stockpile about 4-5 weeks of non-recycle material
- One greencone for food stuffs

So how it works is about once a month I need to do a run to empty the two 80ltr bins and about once every 4-5 weeks I need to empty the 90ltr non-recyle bin which doesn't tend to smell because all foodstuff that cause the smells goes into my greencone :)

Overall this costs me €6 to dispose of all my rubbish which is a good saving over the €25 monthly fee I'd have to pay to a waste pickup company.

So far so good and I'm impressed with how the system works so far, the initial outset for implementing my green waste plan were kinda high though:
- €145.00 for greencone
- €20 for 80ltr bin
- €20 for 90ltr bin
- €20 for plastic box
Total: €205

When compared to what I'd have to pay for a monthly pickup for the same material (12 x €25) €300, so after the first 12 months I'll really feel the savings :)

I hope I've helped to inspire others to try this as well.

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1 Comments:

At 2:05 PM , Anonymous Don McMahan said...

I have a compost bin similar to the green cone and also a worm composter called Can-O-Worms, I make frequent trips to the bottle bank, and we have a blue bin service where the refuse company takes away recyclables for less momey than they charge for ordinary rubbish, and I have dog that makes short work of most table scraps. It takes about 2 months to fill up the regular rubbish bin. my biggest problem is newspapers, my wife is a journalist and as part of her job she needs to monitor all of the local papers, currently they go in the blue bin but I would love to find another solution

 

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