Cheri wrote:
> "Ozgirl" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>> 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.
>
> Cheri

9 months of the year, it's cold enough for us to just tip the scraps
into a barrel lined with a bag, and the scraps freeze on their own


ok, maybe not 9 months of the year............