We compost so we don't use our bin/s. The neighbour is using ours to keep the kids lego blocks in.

MadEngineer:

 

Local council is going to provide food collection bins that nearly nobody wants but everyone will be paying for.

 

 

 

1.Think up a service that nobody will use that you can bill everyone for

 

2. ...

 

3. Profit.

 

The cost is minimal. Many Christchurch residents are annoyed that the bins are too small as they use them often.

Once again, the sheer bugginess of Windows. Yes, I appreciate Outlook reminding me that I have a meeting in 15 minutes, but that window shouldn't appear when the computer is locked!

MadEngineer:

 

Local council is going to provide food collection bins that nearly nobody wants but everyone will be paying for.

 

 

 

1.Think up a service that nobody will use that you can bill everyone for

 

2. ...

 

3. Profit.

 

As opposed to sending all that organic waste to landfill where it will face increasing charges for disposal and be breaking down and generating methane; instead it will be sent to be turned into compost which can be used or sold to offset the costs of collection.

If, by some chance, the Council does make a "profit", it offsets any other costs that the Council has to meet.

Daughter applied for an 18ID card online. Entered her full name, DOB and passport number. Instantly approved.

Daughter applied for a Kiwisaver account online. Entered her full name, DOB and passport number. Instantly declined. Then uploaded high resolution scan of passport. Got an email a day later saying they can't confirm identity and need her to go to a JP or CA.

18ID can do it, but a hundred of million dollars organisation can't?

FML. Or AML.

boosacnoodle:

 

The cost is minimal. Many Christchurch residents are annoyed that the bins are too small as they use them often.

 

The cost they should focus on is the food that is just bought then discarded.

freitasm:

 

Daughter applied for an 18ID card online. Entered her full name, DOB and passport number. Instantly approved.

 

Daughter applied for a Kiwisaver account online. Entered her full name, DOB and passport number. Instantly declined. Then uploaded high resolution scan of passport. Got an email a day later saying they can't confirm identity and need her to go to a JP or CA.

 

18ID can do it, but a hundred of million dollars organisation can't?

 

FML. Or AML.

 

How long did it take for the card to turn up? Son in Dunedin needs an ID card. Wondering if it is quickest for him to do this online or at a postshop or AA centre or if it makes no difference?

Lizard1977:

 

MadEngineer:

 

Local council is going to provide food collection bins that nearly nobody wants but everyone will be paying for.

 

 

 

1.Think up a service that nobody will use that you can bill everyone for

 

2. ...

 

3. Profit.

 

 

As opposed to sending all that organic waste to landfill where it will face increasing charges for disposal and be breaking down and generating methane; instead it will be sent to be turned into compost which can be used or sold to offset the costs of collection.

 

If, by some chance, the Council does make a "profit", it offsets any other costs that the Council has to meet.

 

cddt:

 

I was a sceptic of these but now am a convert. Even though we buried all our food waste in the garden for many years before these came in, it has been handy to have somewhere to dispose of scraps when too busy or when everywhere in the garden is planted. 

 

MadEngineer:

 

Fair point. We’re all running out of land suitable for waste disposal. Will the green part of that offset the diesel burned to collect it and drive it all out of town to where it’s going to be processed? Apparently not. 

 

Our food scraps go down the waste disposer and on to the Mangere sewage processing plant for conversion into biosolids that end being used to "restore" i.e. fill in the Puketutu Island quarry.

I suspect this has a lower carbon footprint than the rather significant exercise of driving trucks all over Auckland and picking up very few food scrap bins then consolidating them into truck deliveries to the Waikato processing facility.

Bung:

 

boosacnoodle:

 

The cost is minimal. Many Christchurch residents are annoyed that the bins are too small as they use them often.

 

 

The cost they should focus on is the food that is just bought then discarded.

 

That comes down to the large packages being the only way to get things. Also, the food waste bin is a pain as if I have half a jar of salsa I want to throw out, then I have to scoop it into the bin, and then rinse out the jar for the recycling, but put the lid in the normal waste. Too much work so the whole jar goes in the normal waste.

I may be one of the few that like the green waste bins. We barely use our insinkerator now. To be fair we are only a couple so may not generate as much. 

johno1234:

 

How long did it take for the card to turn up? Son in Dunedin needs an ID card. Wondering if it is quickest for him to do this online or at a postshop or AA centre or if it makes no difference?

 

Three business days.

X-Plore has started throwing ads at me on my Shield. Bad enough but the ads are blocking several files from view and there doesn't seem to be any way to get past that. I have happily used X-Plore as my Android file manager for years. It has some great features but I have had to dump it for something much less satisfactory. Seems like a pretty self-defeating policy to me.

Is an operating system without a file manager built in really an operating system ?

Dog poop bags seemed to have got impossibly hard to open! You are standing there under fire, people are looking at you like you are a filthy person, dog is like what the?, and that bag will just not open. Lick your fingers (in the correct order, not after the fact) and even still it will not open!!!