Julie Bove wrote:
> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>> "Cheri" > wrote in message
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>>>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>>>>> I must ask, why do you have so much rubbish for just two of you? I
>>>>> have such little waste my bin only needs to be emptied every 2nd
>>>>> or 3rd week. That's me and two teenagers. My recycle bin which is
>>>>> only a fortnightly pickup is full in a week (plastics, cardboard,
>>>>> paper etc). We don't have a yard bin where I live now. If we have
>>>>> prawns I put the shells and heads in a small bag in the freezer.
>>>>> At my old house I had a chest freezer too but that was out in the
>>>>> garage because of no inside room. I did the same when I lived in
>>>>> a box of a house, couldn't swing a dead cat there.
>>>>
>>>> I've always frozen my poultry scraps, fish scraps etc., and put
>>>> them out on trash day. I have very little actual garbage, but I do
>>>> have a lot of recycle. We are on a three barrel thing here. One
>>>> small barrel for trash, as many recycle barrels as we need
>>>> (they're large) I have one, and as many yard waste barrels as we
>>>> need. I have two of those. They are dumped weekly, and the stuff
>>>> in the freezer doesn't take up much space at all.
>>>
>>> Here's one thing I don't get.
>>>
>>> What good does it do to freeze something and then put it out on
>>> trash day? Yeah, it is safe from the animals on the days when it is
>>> in your freezer, but when you put the can out at the street, the
>>> animals can still get in. Right?
>>
>> Well, if you put stinky stuff in the bin straight away you could
>> have an animal problem 7 nights a week. Although I had my bins
>> behind the side gate at the old house. The slope of my land at this
>> house is such that I have the bins outside my garage doors. Not
>> only that it is really hard to take, opening a bin in high summer
>> that has had prawn heads in it for a week
>
> Ours our outside the garage, but we were told to keep them away from
> the house after we had the rat.

If you live near bushland or livestock it won't matter where you put your
bin.