Bring back Metal Dustbins

[hellabobby]

If we had metal bins they would probably be nicked by the scrap monkeys

[Lucifer]

Old Metal Dustbins. Do you remember when we had metal dustbins. They were about half the size of a wheely bin and used to last all week. We never had plastic bin bags to put excess rubbish in. Never needed them. All the peeling where thrown on the compost heap. Anything that would burn was chucked on the fire to save coal.

Every thing you bought came in paper bags. so no problems with plastic packaging.

Beer and pop came in bottles that you could take back to the shop and get money back.

 

It seems we are coming full circle. Instead of having fortnightly collections for rubbish they shoukd give us our metal bins back. If the shops and manufacturers went back to paper and cellophane packaging that would solve a lot of rubbish probelms.

 

A guy on the radio said that burning rubbish in your garden produces less carbon emmisions that the council incinerator.

 

 

The steel bin era goes back to the open fire age where people burned most of their rubbish on the fire to suppliment coal or coke leaving little to go in the dust bin.

[Barry Smith]

Imagine the bin men of today having to hoist a metal bin on their shoulder and tip it into a wagon,,,,some chance,,,takes them all their time to press a button on the wagon,,,and only then after we take the bin out to them