Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on August 06, 2014, 07:07:21 PM
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:-\ I'm sure we have a thread here …….. what do others do with pillow due for throwing out? We have removed the 'slips' but the squishy stuff inside? Reluctant to put it into landfill ……..
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Perhaps use the pillows / stuffing when transporting delicate stuff which needs protection?
Or use pillows to protect shrubs / plants in cold winters.
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We take our pillows and duvets to our local tip. There is a special container for them. Not sure where they go after that.
Taz x
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:thankyou: ........... I have a mohair scarve outside for the birds to pull for nesting material.
I have an article still to read about where our recyling ends up ..........
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Not sure about pillows but if you have any old duvets find out if your nearest dog kennel want them. Our branch of the RGT got loads from approaching hotels in the Ipswich area and other than the ones we keep for putting in the back of the car they always get ours as well :)
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The local RGT didn't want them because if the dogs shredded the duvets ::) ........... cats shelter didn't want them because if the cat peeeed their washing machine wasn't large enough to take them ..........
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Lucky little birds with all that mohair, CLKD. Bet they're nice and cosy in the winter!
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There's a long shank of sheepskin rug hanging out of the rain too, so they have plenty of choice ::)
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I have used old pillows and duvets as garden compost 'bin'/heap covers. It keeps the heat in the heap.
i watched Pippa Greenwood on a gardening programme years ago putting on her compost duvet ! - this purpose made is rot proof - using an old duvet or pillows they will eventually tear but i've found they last ages - also lets rain water through to the heap which needs to be kept moist.
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I saw something on the internet that looked good if you have grandchildren to stay. Sew five pillowcases together longways then fill with pillows. Makes a long lounging cushion or an emergency overnight stay bed.
Ariadne xx
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I've got rid of these particular pillows due to allergies :-\ - the new non-allergenic ones have helped my over-night rhinitis loads ……… I don't usually take note of advertising suggestions (unless it's chocolate-based ;) ) as I am cynical …….. but the non-allergenic pillows seem to work!
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Just stick them in the bin.
We all go to all this trouble to separate all our waste.
The mxjority of our council's do not have the correct recycling facilities so a huge proportion of the stuff they can't afford to recycle ends up in the same place.
Makes me wonder why I bother.....Well actually I know why. If I don't separate then my bin gets over full. It's the only reason why I bother.
Reason I'm so cynical....My step brother works for the council and he has shown me the data.
Honeyb
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My bin wouldn't get emptied if I had a pillow or that sort of thing in it - you have to bury it halfway down so it's not visible from the top or from the bottom when the bin is upended.
Taz x
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Yep done that.....or just take it to the tip and lob it in the skip.
Ever been at the tip when the huge wagons come to collect the contents of each carefully labelled skip. Yep....lots of stuff go in together.
That was when I became so cynical. Hubby was very smug as he has been telling me this for ages and I wouldn't believe him ::)
Honeyb
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It then gets taken for sorting. At a central warehouse, where a lot of it is sorted by hand or put along rollers of separate widths which allows stuff to fall into huge bins :o. otherwise the Council would have to pay a HUGE fine. We get 3 monthly reports from our Council about where the rubbish has gone and how much we have been paid for it!
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all the pillows in ozz have a use by date on them its about 2 years
as for throwing them i put them in the rubbish recy bin
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Put them in a black plastic bag and put them in the green bin, I put all my rubbish in bin bags those with the draw string ties and tie them in a tight knot.
HB's husband is right it all get slung on the tip, not much sorting going on, I read about this ages ago.
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Our Council sorts really really well ………. I am in contact with the Councillor in charge of recycling, often ;)
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The shame of finding my bin with a CONTANIMATED sticker on it!
Taz x :lol:
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;D ………… what colour was the sticker ?
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It was a yellow one - I think most council's have yellow ones. There's a phone number you can ring so they can discuss your mis-placement of waste.
Taz x
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…….. and did you? Or would you be like me, put the sticker into the bin ;D
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No I phoned because if you don't then the bin wont be collected. It's very similar to Bournemouth's scheme http://www.bournemouth.gov.uk/Environment/RecyclingWaste/Recycling-InformationandAdvice.aspx
Taz x
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Oh the shame Taz ;D
Fascinated that Ozz has use by dates on pillows. I am dreadful with mine. Takes me ages to get used to a new one and then I'm reluctant to give up one that's been beaten into shape.
Honeyb
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Were you wrapped over the knuckles or did a 'very nice lady' explain the error of your ways? :D
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It was all dealt with very amicably and then the bin was emptied the next day which made me wonder how much more diesel was being used going round emptying bins which hadn't been emptied on the actual day of collection. Surely that's even more pollution!
Taz x
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Our small kitchen is made so much smaller with the different inside bins for plastic, tin, glass etc., we have a slop bin and three outside bins, as well as basket and small bin for newspapers so I don't worry about the odd stuff put in the green bin. Oh and I have forgotten the bin for garden waste e.g. grass cuttings.
Electricals etc. go to the main tip. I wonder what people who don't drive do getting to a remote recycle tip, the council charge to leave a large dumpster outside your house and then collect it, you have to order this.
It makes me mad that after the dustbin men have been or if it has been a particularly windy day they leave strewn rubbish.
We have a neighbour who sneaks his rubbish into our bins sometimes too, we have watched him :o
We certainly do our bit recycling on the home front and I wonder just what does go on at the other end and I as I have said I have read that it is not all that we our led to believe.
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Your Council web-site should have an environmental section which will explain where it all 'goes' and how much the COuncil saves by recycling. If not, send an e-mail!
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We only have two outside bins - a grey one for general stuff and a green one for cardboard tins and paper. There is a garden waste collection once a month but you have to pay for that so we don't bother. All of my uneaten food goes onto the birdtable were the starlings, magpies, robins and jackdaws make short shrift of it. I hate the wheely bins that line all the victorian terraced streets in town - they make everywhere look really scruffy.
Taz x
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Taz, we have bright red handles of shame that they hang on the wheelie bins. ;D Being London, no-one pays the slightest attention.
My neighbours used to have tenants who thought pizza cartons were 'recyclable' so we had a lot of red hanging about on bin day!
Since then, we successfully lobbied for those huge wheelie bins for communal dwellings. Works far better, although they locked the lid of the blue top 'green' bin so we had to get pliers and force it open. If Council think I am carrying down individual recycling by hand down 55 stairs they are wrong ;D
Publicity lately about how we all should be changing our pillows every 6 months. Ho hum. What is annoying is the amount of money the launderette charges for washing and tumble drying pillows, as you could buy a new one for that (as they told me) - £10. (I don't have a tumble drier in the flat and pillows don't dry properly in the open air).
I hate to think of landfill crammed with decaying pillows, but as someone with neck pain, I've never found any of the eco pillows either comfortable, or affordable.