Recycling in the home (50)
jac379pontyclun, South Glamorgan, Wales UK25 Threads 3 Polls 12,293 PostsThere's a few handy tips from you, Ginger. 
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GingerBe: Here we have recycle bins for plastics, polystyrene, aluminium, and paper.
I tend to buy very little glass and re-use it in the house, sometimes by painting it for candle holders or for keeping water or brushes when painting, or storing buttons for sewing.
Like Jac I use biscuit tins to store threads, buttons, scraps etc for various crafts.
Most groceries I buy without wrappers, veg, fruit etc. Lidl allow you to take the cardboard off packs of cereal etc., and leave it in the store for them to dispose of. The waxed linings from the cereal make good wrappings for cakes etc when storing them.
All food waste gets fed to the birds or composted. Cooking fat etc., is added to nuts and cereal for bird feeders. I never deep-fry anything, so no oil to dispose of. I cook with a little olive oil which is abosobed in the finished meal, or I oven-cook, steam, poach, or boil.
I tend to batch cook food too, so only one part of the cooker is on at a time making enough food for a few days, soups, stews or baked goods mostly. I tend to cut food small so it cooks faster so I dont use much electricity.
When I boil water for hot drinks, I boil the kettle once a day and then store the rest in vacuum flasks so I don't have to keep re-heating the kettle every time I need a drink.
I put stoppers in sinks when washing hands, showering, etc., to use less water. I hand wash clothes and dry them on the clothes line (or on radiators when they are in use anyway).
I cook 90% of my food fresh so don't have polystyrene or cans etc., consequently the bins only go out about once ever couple of months or so.
I use my car only when absolutely necessary so I use very little petrol, (around €10 a month or so.)
I tend to re-make clothes into new clothes. I rarely buy new. I wear shoes until they wear out.
If I hav eto paint my house I buy a large tub of white paint and then use smaller amounts of it to colour differently for the rooms I want to paint. No partly filled tins left then with loads of little bits of paint in them to store.
I wear more clothes in the house, so I use less heating oil too, so no wastage.
I never have any more than two lights on in the house a any given time, so lightbulbs last longer, (less recycling to do that way!).
There are many other things I do too but can't remember them all right now.
I tend to buy very little glass and re-use it in the house, sometimes by painting it for candle holders or for keeping water or brushes when painting, or storing buttons for sewing.
Like Jac I use biscuit tins to store threads, buttons, scraps etc for various crafts.
Most groceries I buy without wrappers, veg, fruit etc. Lidl allow you to take the cardboard off packs of cereal etc., and leave it in the store for them to dispose of. The waxed linings from the cereal make good wrappings for cakes etc when storing them.
All food waste gets fed to the birds or composted. Cooking fat etc., is added to nuts and cereal for bird feeders. I never deep-fry anything, so no oil to dispose of. I cook with a little olive oil which is abosobed in the finished meal, or I oven-cook, steam, poach, or boil.
I tend to batch cook food too, so only one part of the cooker is on at a time making enough food for a few days, soups, stews or baked goods mostly. I tend to cut food small so it cooks faster so I dont use much electricity.
When I boil water for hot drinks, I boil the kettle once a day and then store the rest in vacuum flasks so I don't have to keep re-heating the kettle every time I need a drink.
I put stoppers in sinks when washing hands, showering, etc., to use less water. I hand wash clothes and dry them on the clothes line (or on radiators when they are in use anyway).
I cook 90% of my food fresh so don't have polystyrene or cans etc., consequently the bins only go out about once ever couple of months or so.
I use my car only when absolutely necessary so I use very little petrol, (around €10 a month or so.)
I tend to re-make clothes into new clothes. I rarely buy new. I wear shoes until they wear out.
If I hav eto paint my house I buy a large tub of white paint and then use smaller amounts of it to colour differently for the rooms I want to paint. No partly filled tins left then with loads of little bits of paint in them to store.
I wear more clothes in the house, so I use less heating oil too, so no wastage.
I never have any more than two lights on in the house a any given time, so lightbulbs last longer, (less recycling to do that way!).
There are many other things I do too but can't remember them all right now.
Now where getting to the Point of this thread... There is so much that "We" personally can do in everyday life to make our Carbon footprint smaller.. this in turn has a flow on effect...
- Just think, every time you do not place garbage bins out
(Because of your recycling efforts) the Truck just drives by using less fuel(Thus emitting fewer emissions)
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One thing That I have done for many years is to pee on the base of a citrus tree.... 
Great food for it... Man! I must have saved a lot of toilet flushes.
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I don´t agree about re-using cooking oil after reading something many years ago about a toxin being released which causes a number of serious illnesses including cardiovascular disease so I´ve never done so. I also only use olive oil for cooking and which I drizzle on toast instead of butter.
I think it can be done safely a couple of times but it depends on the smoking point of the oil so you have to be very careful.
This extract from an article about cooking oils is quite interesting.
Spanish researchers found that people whose kitchens contained any type of oil that had been reused many times over were more likely to have high blood pressure than people whose cooking oils were changed more frequently.
People who ate foods cooked with sunflower oil also showed a higher risk of high blood pressure, while consuming more olive oil appeared to protect people from high blood pressure.
Based on the findings, study author Dr. Federico Soriguer of the Hospital Civil Plaza in Malaga recommends that people cook with olive oil whenever possible, and discard any oils after using them up to two or three times.
When oil is repeatedly reheated, the oils begin to degrade, releasing substances known as polymers and polar compounds that can become absorbed by food.
Olive oil that had been repeatedly reused tended to show a lower concentration of polymers and polar compounds than other types of oil, suggesting that olive oil degrades more slowly than other types.
I think it can be done safely a couple of times but it depends on the smoking point of the oil so you have to be very careful.
This extract from an article about cooking oils is quite interesting.
Spanish researchers found that people whose kitchens contained any type of oil that had been reused many times over were more likely to have high blood pressure than people whose cooking oils were changed more frequently.
People who ate foods cooked with sunflower oil also showed a higher risk of high blood pressure, while consuming more olive oil appeared to protect people from high blood pressure.
Based on the findings, study author Dr. Federico Soriguer of the Hospital Civil Plaza in Malaga recommends that people cook with olive oil whenever possible, and discard any oils after using them up to two or three times.
When oil is repeatedly reheated, the oils begin to degrade, releasing substances known as polymers and polar compounds that can become absorbed by food.
Olive oil that had been repeatedly reused tended to show a lower concentration of polymers and polar compounds than other types of oil, suggesting that olive oil degrades more slowly than other types.
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A lot of times people believe stuff that is obsolete. I thought foam pellets just went into the environment. I spilled a few in the back yard and they vanished.
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So, does that mean they are biodegradable if they shrink to nothing in just days? I think they are now. But they still put chemicals in the land.
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CuspofMagic: Which strategies have you implemented for recycling your household waste
We have three bins which are provided by the council. Black , Brown and Green.
The Green Bin is for paper, card, tin cans, clean plastics, tetra paks (milk and juice cartons)
The Brown bin is for organic waste ie garden waste, vegetable waste, food waste
The Black bin is for all other waste.
Households are provided with a calender of collection dates.
There is an annual charge to every household but also you have to buy a "bin tag" for the black bin which must be attached to the bin every time you put it out for collection.
This encourages people to use the green and brown bins as much as possible so they dont have to put the black bin out as often.
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Besides the mandatory Garbage collection services ,,, what specifically do you do around the Home/ farm /Office / Business ... replies please
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JAN_is: I don´t agree about re-using cooking oil after reading something many years ago about a toxin being released which causes a number of serious illnesses including cardiovascular disease so I´ve never done so. I also only use olive oil for cooking and which I drizzle on toast instead of butter.
I think it can be done safely a couple of times but it depends on the smoking point of the oil so you have to be very careful.
This extract from an article about cooking oils is quite interesting.
Spanish researchers found that people whose kitchens contained any type of oil that had been reused many times over were more likely to have high blood pressure than people whose cooking oils were changed more frequently.
People who ate foods cooked with sunflower oil also showed a higher risk of high blood pressure, while consuming more olive oil appeared to protect people from high blood pressure.
Based on the findings, study author Dr. Federico Soriguer of the Hospital Civil Plaza in Malaga recommends that people cook with olive oil whenever possible, and discard any oils after using them up to two or three times.
When oil is repeatedly reheated, the oils begin to degrade, releasing substances known as polymers and polar compounds that can become absorbed by food.
Olive oil that had been repeatedly reused tended to show a lower concentration of polymers and polar compounds than other types of oil, suggesting that olive oil degrades more slowly than other types.
I think it can be done safely a couple of times but it depends on the smoking point of the oil so you have to be very careful.
This extract from an article about cooking oils is quite interesting.
Spanish researchers found that people whose kitchens contained any type of oil that had been reused many times over were more likely to have high blood pressure than people whose cooking oils were changed more frequently.
People who ate foods cooked with sunflower oil also showed a higher risk of high blood pressure, while consuming more olive oil appeared to protect people from high blood pressure.
Based on the findings, study author Dr. Federico Soriguer of the Hospital Civil Plaza in Malaga recommends that people cook with olive oil whenever possible, and discard any oils after using them up to two or three times.
When oil is repeatedly reheated, the oils begin to degrade, releasing substances known as polymers and polar compounds that can become absorbed by food.
Olive oil that had been repeatedly reused tended to show a lower concentration of polymers and polar compounds than other types of oil, suggesting that olive oil degrades more slowly than other types.
Like you Jan, I have not deep fried for years and use Olive oil in all my cooking. The butter and other like solidified spreads have been discarded years ago. I find that a "Recycling resource mentality" gradually expands to other areas of personal life where you look more closely on what and how you consume...
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