"Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote:
>> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
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>>> Julie Bove wrote:
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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.

Not any more. The only farm that's around here is up for sale. They tore
all the others down. We just have racoons, a possum, rats, mice and loose
dogs. Also reports of coyotes somewhere near.