Why Don't We Burn Our Own Rubbish Anymore?

[Quenched]

I cant speak for everyone, but as a family of three, two adults and a child, our one wheelie bin of general waste which is now collected fortnightly instead of weekly, but we typically have at least one black bag too many as we can't physically put anymore in the wheelie bin. 

 

Then I remembered my parents and their parents before them always had a bonfire at least once a week in their garden and didn't have any rubbish to put out for collection. 

 

The only thing that got collected was things that couldn't be burnt like tins and jars, bottles. 

 

But actually our local shop gave you 2 pence with every bottle returned, why are shops not doing that anymore?

 

So basically we were in Aldi the other day and they were selling metal incinerators, they look a bit like a tin bin with holes in it, so we bought one and lets just say we no longer have general waste to go out at all.

 

The only thing we have left for collection is bottles and tins. 

 

So we help the waste collection men as we have zero general waste to go out like my parents used to do. 

 

Why can't as a nation we all do this? 

[1ozzy]

Quenched should be quenched, with a very large fire hose.

Alas, those poor bin men will be out of work and claiming benefits whilst the rest of you choke to death.

But, Quenched will have saved the world single handedly. 

What a legend!!

[douglas9401]

It's

A

Wind

Up

[1ozzy]

Hmm🤔

I'd never have guessed

[ToraToraTora]

07:23 I need a lie down! I agree with 1ozzy!

07:26 I thought that but he claims he really isn't that dim.

[Quenched]

Seriously its not a wind up folks. 

 

I'm merely returning to an age when our generations before us actually delt with their own waste and whatever could burn was indeed burnt. 

 

I honestly think these days we have way more rubbish than our ancestors, and its mostly to do with the invention of plastic and packaging today.

 

Its easy to see why some households are overwhelmed with rubbish, and we're no strangers in that. 

 

I just think if we go back to how people delt with their own waste it would ease such huge amounts of waste. 

 

 

[bednobs]

No it wouldn't, you are still wasting it. Congratulations on reaching saying the same thing at least five times on one thread

[Neveracrossword]

Quenched,I think part of the problem is that you seem to have an awful lot of rubbish! You say you have 'at least one bin bag too many', whereas most of us seem to have half-filled bins every fortnight. 

[ToraToraTora]

14:18 what a load of old pony! I'm not going to address each point, that's been done above. You're in fantasy land sunshine. Even when I was kid we had bin men with the old round metal bins, no one burned anything as a matter of course. You keep repeating yourself and it's all been refuted by multiple posters. Get it through your loaf me old china and stop it with this BS.

[Quenched]

If we had bin men when I was a child I certainly don't remember them, or parents putting rubbish out for them. 

 

The thing is our homes were not mini recycling plants then compared to now. Everything went in the same bin.

 

We are now basically doing the Councils job for them, yet Council tax continues to rise. 

[albaqwerty]

Council tax will always rise. They pay the living wage and have hefty pensions to pay out.

Parents never put bins out because binmen came to pick them up.

[Quenched]

albaqwerty, 

But presumably the bins would have needed to be outside for the bin men to empty them is what I meant, but I can't remember that at all. 

 

Baring in mind we lived in an isolated house with only a few neighbours but all spread out and no village for miles, so it's possible we didn't have a rubbish collection. 

 

People round here always had weekly bonfires, thats how I remember things. 

[Togo]

When I was a kid we did burn everything. We had coal fires and newspapers, cardboard and greaseproof wrappings etc. went on there. We even burned the potato and veg peelings on the coal fire. Shoes that were beyond repair   ...    on the fire, food bones    ...   on the fire anything that would burn was. The only thing allowed in the galvanised metal bin was ash. You could not put hot ash in there. Obvs! Where were you all in the 1950s?

[THECORBYLOON]

Are you going to apply for another bin or no?

[albaqwerty]

Now you do have me thinking. 

I remember the bin collections when I was a very young child. We moved to complete countryside, cannot remember bin motors, or even rubbish bins. Don't remember bonfires but do remember the blooming septic tank!

[Old_Geezer]

If they don't let you burn your own rubbish; make a deal with your neighbour to burn each others.

[bhg481]

I lived in a terraced house in the 1940s until the 1960s. We kept our dustbin in the back yard and the dustmen used to come in and collect it; it would have been impossible for the binmen to get the wagon dowd to collect it had we left our bins outside. On at least one occasion we forgot to leave the yard door unlocked and the binmen climbed over and opened it from the inside to take the bin.

[barry1010]

I was in similar. Binmen carried open containers like giant baby baths up the entry and emptied several dustbins in to it

The entry served 6 houses.  I remember our dustbin being full of ash and clinkers from the living room fire every winter.

 

[1ozzy]

//07:23 I need a lie down! I agree with 1ozzy!//

You need more than a lie down old mate.

A large dose of Diazepam perhaps,,

[Quenched]

Togo, 

 

Finally someone that is on the same wave length as me. 

 

My parents did exactly the same thing, and burnt pretty much everything on the open coal or log fire.

 

But we always had a bonfire at least once a week. 

 

Tins bottles etc we're stored up probably over a couple of months, and then got rid of. 

 

I was starting to think I was the only one with these traits. 

[DDIL]

Well my father and grandparents were from your neck of the woods and never burned household waste! 
Any food waste that wasn't given to the dogs went to the community pigs or compost .

there was very very little plastic as everything that came from the butcher was wrapped inside paper.

But to be honest it doesn't matter what anyone says to you as you think you are right even though it has been pointed out several times that what you want to do is illegal.