Brown Bin for food (I have none)

ulfilas

Hi,

Coming from a 2 year working and living in Germany we used to have a brown bin to throw away food waste (also a paper bin and the grey bin). According to this in Ireland :
http://www.brownbin.ie/

I should have an outside brown bin by my waste collector.

I live in a house court with a lot of apartments and there are bins (grey ones and the general recycling ones) but no brown one.

What should I do with the food waste ?

Sleeper12

ulfilas wrote:

What should I do with the food waste ?

Have you asked your provider about a brown bin?

ulfilas

Well there about 100 people served from the provider, who am I to ask for a brown bin, and will this come with a charge?

Caranica

If there are communal bins there aren't brown bins and you put food waste in the grey bins. They don't do communal brown bins as they would be massively unsanitary.

ulfilas

They don't do communal brown bins as they would be massively unsanitary."

An 80 millions country has communal brown bins without falling to massive unsanitary environments. This has no relation to human reality but answers my question for this specific issue.

So no communal brown bin in Dublin, Ireland, ok thanks.

boardsuser1

When I was doing the bins some apartment blocks did have some compost bins, 140/240L bins.

They were taken away eventually as people were putting domestic waste into them so they had to revert to 1100L rubbish and recycling bins only.

ulfilas

Well that did not happen in other places I lived so this must be something local, but anyway what can one do this is sad, <snip>

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Owryan

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Is there management company/residents association you could approach re the bins or if you have your own bins just contact your service provider.

ulfilas

Well I do not go about with a brown bin or bins in particular when moving from one house to another.

I communicate with my Real Estate agency since according to the brown bin pdf it is supposed to be illegal to throw food waste in the grey bin so maybe we can get one brown bin.

guil

You wouldn't believe the amount of people that put waste in the brown bin. If you do manage to get one I'd say the chance of someone putting waste in it is highly likely.

ulfilas

Already added something about that. It is because nobody told them to not do that or there is some other problem, having lived 2 years in Germany I never ever show waste in the brown bin as one could throw his waste in the Grey bin and his paper in the blue bin.

Why is it so difficult to do this here?

Caranica

ulfilas wrote: »

Already added something about that. It is because nobody told them to not do that or there is some other problem, having lived 2 years in Germany I never ever show waste in the brown bin as one could throw his waste in the Grey bin and his paper in the blue bin.

Why is it so difficult to do this here?

Because it is new, relatively speaking. A large proportion of green bins also have general waste. We don't have a culture of separating waste, it's not so long since everyone only had one bin. It is slowly changing. I remember doing a project in school about recycling and waste separation in Germany almost 25 years ago. My development only got green bins 10 years ago.