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Owner to give up rabbits as green bin too small
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Willow_Warren
Mama Doe
I do find it frustrating that I can't put the bunny or chicken waste into the "garden" bin - it's perfect compostable material, they actaully advise it for home composting but not their bulk composting that gets to highter temperatures! Or at least you can't in beds of northants, you can in bucks - go figure!
Anyhow, she seemed to forget that she could home compost, it's amazing how much you can get into one bin as it decomposes down (she would still need a few though!).
Acutally if you can be bothered to separate it bunny pooh is a cold manure which means it can be applied directly to the ground withough the need for it to mature (where as something like chicke/cow/horse pooh needs to mature for about 12 months of so before being dug into the ground - if you plan on growing in it that is). Anyhow, I digress!
I'm sure she was trying to make a point! A lot of my bunny waste goes into black sacks and into the general landfill rubbish bin - it's a normal sized bin so even in the winter months where extra hay is used we don't have any problems.
Even with home composting and not using it for anything animal related out garden bin is full overy fortnight, but for a fixed fee you can get a second one. - I'm digressing again! :lol:
Hannah
Anyhow, she seemed to forget that she could home compost, it's amazing how much you can get into one bin as it decomposes down (she would still need a few though!).
Acutally if you can be bothered to separate it bunny pooh is a cold manure which means it can be applied directly to the ground withough the need for it to mature (where as something like chicke/cow/horse pooh needs to mature for about 12 months of so before being dug into the ground - if you plan on growing in it that is). Anyhow, I digress!
I'm sure she was trying to make a point! A lot of my bunny waste goes into black sacks and into the general landfill rubbish bin - it's a normal sized bin so even in the winter months where extra hay is used we don't have any problems.
Even with home composting and not using it for anything animal related out garden bin is full overy fortnight, but for a fixed fee you can get a second one. - I'm digressing again! :lol:
Hannah
yaretzi
Wise Old Thumper
I guess I'm lucky in that I'm allowed to put my bunnies waste in the garden bin! It's megazorb, hay, wee and poo. I emailed them and I'm 100% allowed as long as it's not just completely full with bunny waste. Don't see why more councils won't accept herbivore waste, as long as everything in it is compostable...
helen01
Warren Veteran
Only councils with the special incinerator will accept herbivore waste in the recycling, it has to be heat treated prior to going in the compost. That said she could still put excess hay in the 'green bin' and litter waste in the household bin...thats what I used to do before ours accepted it all.
Coineanach
Wise Old Thumper
Thank you for this, very informative.
Have fun with this one. I once asked several neighbours to take an extra bag for me as I was moving and had a lot of rubbish, and every last one reacted like I'd asked to murder their children. :lol: Bins are always full round here and the recycling collections are terrible.
Captain Helen
Wise Old Thumper
We're lucky in that we can put waste from herbivores in the green garden bin. I asked for an extra one (didn't need to say why) and got it for free, as they want to encourage more people to use the recycling and garden waste bins. I still have plenty left over though that I have to drive to the tip, (on the other side of town since they closed the local one :evil and I can put it in the garden waste bins there.
But her point seems to be that she's refusing to drive it to the tip as that defeats the point in recycling. After she's said it's not being recycled and has to go in the landfill bin. That doesn't make sense. :?
So the council isn't refusing to take it, she's just cutting off her nose to spite her face. With no regard for the welfare of her rabbits.
and I can put it in the garden waste bins there.But her point seems to be that she's refusing to drive it to the tip as that defeats the point in recycling. After she's said it's not being recycled and has to go in the landfill bin. That doesn't make sense. :?
So the council isn't refusing to take it, she's just cutting off her nose to spite her face. With no regard for the welfare of her rabbits.
Fee
Wise Old Thumper
Thank you for this, very informative.
Have fun with this one. I once asked several neighbours to take an extra bag for me as I was moving and had a lot of rubbish, and every last one reacted like I'd asked to murder their children. :lol: Bins are always full round here and the recycling collections are terrible.
I guess I am just lucky then, i have absolutely fab neighbours!!!...
yaretzi
Wise Old Thumper
But her point seems to be that she's refusing to drive it to the tip as that defeats the point in recycling. After she's said it's not being recycled and has to go in the landfill bin. That doesn't make sense. :?
So the council isn't refusing to take it, she's just cutting off her nose to spite her face. With no regard for the welfare of her rabbits.
Indeed , so sad
happysaz133
Wise Old Thumper
I think if she cared that much about them, she'd be willing to drive to the tip...
But I agree that councils are very unreasonable. Our rubbish collection sucks.
But I agree that councils are very unreasonable. Our rubbish collection sucks.
Elena
Wise Old Thumper
I do find it frustrating that I can't put the bunny or chicken waste into the "garden" bin - it's perfect compostable material, they actaully advise it for home composting but not their bulk composting that gets to highter temperatures! Or at least you can't in beds of northants, you can in bucks - go figure!
Anyhow, she seemed to forget that she could home compost, it's amazing how much you can get into one bin as it decomposes down (she would still need a few though!).
Acutally if you can be bothered to separate it bunny pooh is a cold manure which means it can be applied directly to the ground withough the need for it to mature (where as something like chicke/cow/horse pooh needs to mature for about 12 months of so before being dug into the ground - if you plan on growing in it that is). Anyhow, I digress!
I'm sure she was trying to make a point! A lot of my bunny waste goes into black sacks and into the general landfill rubbish bin - it's a normal sized bin so even in the winter months where extra hay is used we don't have any problems.
Even with home composting and not using it for anything animal related out garden bin is full overy fortnight, but for a fixed fee you can get a second one. - I'm digressing again! :lol:
Hannah
I wouldn't recommend putting it on directly though as hay is full of grass and weed seeds.
Willow_Warren
Mama Doe
Just the pooh, not the hay
there's a technique to shimmying the bunny pooh from the top of the litter tray so the hay doesn't come with it, then if you shake the receprical you've put it into any little bit of hay come to the top and can be picked out...Er.. even with that technique I prob get less than 50% of the acutally pooh my bunny does - but it's still a fair amount!
Hannah
I wish we had brown bin for garden rubbish - unfortunately don't think it is widespread.
The Duchess
Wise Old Thumper
Same here, we don't get brown bins either, but you can join a Green Waste Club run by a waste disposal company and they give you a bin, but you have to pay £50 a year
Luckily our tip allows bunny dollops in the green waste, just as well with the amount we produce.
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Wish all councils would get their act together and decide what can go in which bin, and provide necessary bins.
In our green bin we can only put cardboard, paper and plastic bottles. Have to bag up my rabbit waste and put in ordinary black bin, or take to the tip. I do 'harvest' some of the poos and put on the garden. I would love a bin for garden waste.
fruitandnutcake
Mama Doe
Our council won't give an extra bin. Our recycling bin isn't big enough for me and my two boys...and we don't fit the criteria of being a four person family to get a bigger bin..doesn't mean I'm going to give up my kids though :roll:
Chances are she isn't serious about giving up her buns but using this media stunt to force the hand of the council.
There are other options..composting if you have a big enough garden, or donating to someone at a nearby allotments. Im not keen on taking my rabbit waste to the tip...but if it comes to it, I will..
when I read the title I thought her 4 buns were living in the green bin :lol::lol::lol:
fruitandnutcake
Mama Doe
Our council also has a 2 weekly "garden waste" collection which we would have to pay for...but the bins are so small !
Santa
Wise Old Thumper
There is a good reason for that though which isn't quite as ridiculous as it sounds. Each county makes their own waste disposal arrangements (sure it would be great if the whole country did the same, but that's not each local authority's fault) so they will vary. In some counties, they may heat treat garden waste to kill off various nasties, but in other counties it may simply be shredded and left to compost naturally. If you live in an area where it is not heat treated, it won't get to high enough temperatures to kill off various nasties and in fact will probably get to a nice warm temperature to encourage them to grow! It's one thing to do that yourself at home with your own waste, but it's quite another to be foisting that waste on other people.
Personally I would be extremely miffed if I discovered that I had an outbreak of coccidiosis or e.cuniculi caused by me buying garden compost which had been contaminated because someone else put their own rabbit poo into it, and I'm sure you would feel the same. Please everyone, think twice and please don't put rabbit poo in green waste if you are told not to in your area. It's not a ridiculous rule for the sake of it, it's there for a reason!
Back on topic, it does sound to me a bit like emotional blackmail, I can't believe she really would rehome her rabbits for that reason. Even if her green ethics meant that she wouldn't take it to the tip (you just would if your bunnies meant that much to you, surely!)you'd just set up a row of home composters and do it yourself.
