What cheeses me off

[drron]

Continually taunted by the simulation.

My blackbook of horses to follow had 1 winner from 9 horses in the blackbook today. I'd backed every other horse except this one.

The strike rate of winners of the horses from my Blackbook that I don't back is phenomenal. It's well over 50%. Punters would pay lots for this type of insider information.

So pick the ones from your blackbook that you think deserve a bet and then bet on the others. Simple.

 

[UP4014]

We dont have a blue bin. Red, yellow and green.

Ah, you must be in the outback.

There is a business in Sydney who issues blue bins you can fill with cans and bottles, they collect and give you the 10 cents then when they pass it on they collect another 3 cents for themselves.

 

[Quickstatus]

And glass bottles of different colours apparently should not be mixed. Contamination occurs when one colour glass is mixed with another colour glass. Who knows...

 

[blackcat20]

We have a red bin, a green bin and two blue bins. Our council seems to have the colours all around the wrong way, though I notice new residences get yellow instead of blue.

 

[Warks]

Ah, you must be in the outback.

There is a business in Sydney who issues blue bins you can fill with cans and bottles, they collect and give you the 10 cents then when they pass it on they collect another 3 cents for themselves.

I imagine that bin would be empty long before they came to pick it up around my way. We have people raiding bins for the deposit bottles and cans every week. I don't care as long as they don't leave a mess on the nature strip. We keep ours separate and give to a friend who cashes them in.

 

[Pushka]

We have a red bin, a green bin and two blue bins. Our council seems to have the colours all around the wrong way, though I notice new residences get yellow instead of blue.

So what goes in the blue bins? Recycling and 10c deposit items?

 

[blackcat20]

So what goes in the blue bins? Recycling and 10c deposit items?

Recycling, we don't have the 10xc thing yet.

 

[Seat0B]

What is the worst 'crime' I wonder. Putting potentially recyclable products into landfill or contaminating recycling by mistake.

I think that depends on who you ask.

In Canberra it is definitely contaminating recycling that is regarded as the worst crime - by the Govt and the recycling operators. The recycling enthusiasts in the office or community take the other perspective - it is a major sin to throw something to landfill that could be recycled.

I don't know how to solve it if people don't care, don't know or are confused. Maybe we need a "not sure" bin that is hand sorted at the resource centre?

 

[CMA222]

The strike rate of winners of the horses from my Blackbook that I don't back is phenomenal. It's well over 50%. Punters would pay lots for this type of insider information.

So pick the ones from your blackbook that you think deserve a bet and then bet on the others. Simple.

@JohnK you appear to bet like I use to invest (??) on the share market. I told friends that I did my research and then told them what I was going to buy, together with my recommendation that they should probably short-sell my choices. In the end I gave up share trading and invested it into my superannuation which has paid far better. Perhaps you should do the same so your family get the benefits and not the betting companies.

 

[Seat0B]

And glass bottles of different colours apparently should not be mixed. Contamination occurs when one colour glass is mixed with another colour glass. Who knows...

#WCMO And there is a never ending debate about whether plastic lids of different colour to the bottle/jar (eg milk bottlesetc) need to be separated or can be left on and similarly whether metal lids need to be removed from glass bottles (eg wine or spirits bottles, pasta sauce bottles). Even if you google this one, you get different answers as per the sample links I included. It's pretty confusing.

 

[Lynda2475]

The purpose of the colour bin lidss can vary between councils based on which provider they use to collect the rubbish, recycling and green waste.

For example the LGA i live is is one of the super councils that merged 3 previously separate councils.

The sections that were originally council 1 & council 2 have their rubbish and recycling collected by Cleanaway so have:
* Red Lid - rubbish going to landfill
* Yellow Lid - Recycling - bottles, cans paper
* Green Lid - green waste i.e. grass clippings and
* If you live in a MDU also a Purple Lid - for food waste. You get a mini purple bin for your unit and special biodegradable liners which you are then meant to empty into a common purple bin.

Whereas the sections that were originally council 3 have their rubbish and recycling collected by JJ Richardson and have:
* Red Lid - rubbish going to landfill
* Yellow Lid - Recycling - bottles and cans but NOT paper
* Blue Lid - Paper and Cardboard only
* Green Lid- green waste i.e. grass clippings
They don't get purple Lid.

WRT to 10c return and earn, I've noticed bin scabs go around the neighbourhood on bin day and take the 10c refund items out of people yellow lid bins to cash in themselves. No news on a new Blue lid bin type.

Living in an MDU there is always some tosser who puts plastic bags in the recycle bin (instead of taking to supermarket) or pizza boxes it is very hard to police even though there is very clear signs noting what can and cant be put in each bin with pictures on the wall of the garbage rooms.

When in Costa Rica there were 7 different bin colours everywhere - was quite difficult to work out which was for which but one was specifically for coffee cups

WCMO is they only collect Yellow Lid Bin fortnightly, but the Red Lid Bin is weekly - this is because the recycle truck is shared by multiple councils. BUT I always have 2-3 times as much recycling as general rubbish.

 

[RooFlyer]

Well, here in rural Tasmania, 2 bins, both green. Red lid = 'recyclables' (collected every second week) Green = everything else (weekly#)

I put my 'other' bin out every second week and the 'recyclables' maybe every 2-3 months.

Green waste - either compost it, or pay to take it to the tip ($10/trailer), where its eventually burned.

# Bloody shackies go home on Sunday & put their bins out, which are collected the following Friday - that is, if they haven't blown over. Sometimes, when this happens, I'll pick the rubbish up - and chuck it back over their fence.

 

[Forg]

Well, here in rural Tasmania, 2 bins, both green. Red lid = 'recyclables' (collected every second week) Green = everything else (weekly#)

Some consistency would be good, it's not just people moving but what about short term rentals like someone on holiday?

My council in suburban Sydney has a bin with a yellow lid for recyclables, a bin with a red lid for general rubbish that goes to landfill and a bin with a green lid for green waste ... so your red is our yellow and your green gets split into our red & our green!

 

[RooFlyer]

Some consistency would be good, it's not just people moving but what about short term rentals like someone on holiday?

I had a holiday rental until a few years ago, up Tas coast - the manager went round and put the bins out & brought them in again. But some 'air B&Bs' around here have no on-site manager/caretaker & you can tell them by occasional overflowing loads in bins. One in my street I or other residents put out/take back in, as the owner is nice & responsible.

 

[dajop]

At our holiday house in Victoria we have green (FOGO), red (rubbish), yellow (recycling) and purple (glass). And to confuse things these are collected weekly, fortnightly, fornightly and four-weekly respectively. It's always pot luck if timing for will suit the guests particular waste stream (type and quantity). (FOGO = Food organics + Garden organics, so everything from egg shells to grass clippings).

Now in the country I am currently living (Singapore) we have three "bins", all used for the same stuff - the rubbish chute, the recycling chute and the floor outside both chutes (#WCMO when people @(*#*s don't bother putting there rubbish in either chute, because they know the low paid cleaners slaves will do it for them.)

 

[Quickstatus]

But some 'air B&Bs' around here have no on-site manager/caretaker & you can tell them by occasional overflowing loads in bins

Some enterprising youngsters in jindabyne are getting a bit of $$ for taking out rubbish bins on rubbish nights and then next day putting them back for Airbnb places there. I heard the going rate is $5 per property

 

[Pushka]

Living in an MDU there is always some tosser who puts plastic bags in the recycle bin (instead of taking to supermarket) or pizza boxes it is very hard to police even though there is very clear signs noting what can and cant be put in each bin with pictures on the wall of the garbage rooms.

Pizza Boxes were supposed to go in our recycling bin in one council and green waste in another. All our bins are only collected fortnightly.

 

[Pushka]

More WCMO. Chat functions on websites where the chat reply disappears under the keyboard so you can't see what you've typed until it's sent.

Websites that have so many popups and that make the X to remove in greyed out font so you can't see where it is.

 

[Lynda2475]

Websites that have so many popups and that make the X to remove in greyed out font so you can't see where it is.

This is now AFF if viewing on a mobile or tablet unfortunately.

 

[Pushka]

This is now AFF if viewing on a mobile or tablet unfortunately.

For AFF iPad is fine as is phone?