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Blog Thread 4; Live Free or Blog Hard - 'cos we all like blogging
Akima:
--- Quote from: mtmerrick on 08 Apr 2013, 18:30 ---240 liters = 63.4 Gal. we have a 64 Gal, and are trading up to a 96 Gal. You must live alone or something to make that little garbage. :psyduck:
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I thought you said recycling? In our municipality each household has three bins (blocks of flats are slightly different). We have one 140 litre wheelie-bin with a red lid for garbage (material not eligible for recycling), one 240 litre with a yellow lid for recycling (glass bottles, cans, cardboard, paper, some plastic containers), and one 240 litre with a green lid for vegetable/garden waste (brought in after the state government banned backyard burning in bonfires or incinerators back in the '80s). We put the garbage bin out once a week, perhaps half-full. The recycling takes weeks to fill. The vegetation bin goes out very occasionally, because we compost. We do seem to produce less rubbish and recycling than our neighbours, but I am not sure why. I assume it is because our diet is different.
OK, so I was exaggerating a bit about living in the recycling bin :-P, but I was comparing it with the canonical homeless person's cardboard-box rather than a real house. I am 160cm tall (just under 5'3") and Evelyn is... um... more robustly build.
mtmerrick:
we have the same, except our colors are brown for garbage, green for organic waste, and gray for recycling. the trash trucks come every friday at far-too-early o'clock.
we have, if i'm not mistaken, a 64 Gal green bin, a 64 Gal recycling, and a 96 Gal garbage bin. the green bin rarely gets touched, and at the end of the week the garbage bin is at about 50-70%, depends on what we did that week. but the recycling is filled up nearly every to the brim every week, so we got a bigger one.
Jace:
Today (the 9th of April) is my and my lady's 3rd year of dating together. Yesterday (the 8th, but still technically today for me as its only an hour past midnight) we went out for dinner and I bought her flowers.
While at dinner my card was declined and it turns out that paypal took out an extra $345 for the rattan order I did on Friday. I'll be getting it back tomorrow probably (I called with a very wtf tone in my voice) and so it will be okay, but it was still a bit jarring to see my checking account at zero dollars when I thought it should be around $250.
pwhodges:
My wife and I generate considerably more recycling than rubbish (garbage). We compost, but use the council garden waste bin for pernicious weeds, because they compost at higher temperatures which can destroy them (branches and twigs we shred for mulch); we also have a small council bin for non-compostible food waste (non-vegetable and cooked), to reduce the attractiveness of the compost heap to rats.
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Jace on 08 Apr 2013, 21:53 ---t turns out that paypal took out an extra $345 for the rattan order I did on Friday. I'll be getting it back tomorrow probably (I called with a very wtf tone in my voice) and so it will be okay, but it was still a bit jarring to see my checking account at zero dollars when I thought it should be around $250.
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I had a time when a sales website kept crashing mid-transaction - and I found that PayPal had "reserved" the amount in my account each time; it wasn't taken, but became unavailable. I did wonder how it could have been done without, and whether full-on crashproof transaction programming is practical through a browser; at the least, the banks would have to cooperate a lot, I guess. (It's not a field of programming I know much about.)
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