Why I love the Daily Mail, as distilled into one story.

To be fair, it was John Kosh who said about "EMI said it won't sell", as stated in the Telegraph.

To be blunt, clearly the Daily Mail nicked the whole article, photos and all.

I didn't know Dacre was so into recycling!

In what universe is this a front page story, even in batshit Paul Dacreland?

eh who doesn't separate that stuff anyway?

Loads of people?

food waste? tbh once i take out the recyclable stuff that's all i have left.

I don't understand why they're getting quite so 'URRGHH SLOP BUCKETS' about this. Food waste is currently collected with the rest of your rubbish once a week. Under the proposed system, food waste will still be collected once a week, but just separated out from the rest of your waste. What's the difference?

Not sure which is funniest - the picture of the Victorian slop bucket or the nightmare vision of maggots and rats overrunning the nation's kitchens.

euroc-rats, surely

Yeah, that Victorian illustration is just someone emptying the laundry bucket, isn't it? Can't see it being appropriate unless they used to use rotting meat instead of fabric conditioner.

I can imagine Dacre having to be forcibly restrained from including an image of a 1665 plague-cart.

Well, I guess the slop bucket is what you have to put the food in during the week? Presumably this will be covered, perhaps with some kind of "lid", to keep the insects and rodents out.

I have one in my kitchen with just such an ingenious "lid" contraption. No maggots, flies or rats in evidence yet.

As long as it has an airtight lid it shouldn't be a problem.

gonna take millennia for this type of technology to become available cheaply enough to have in every home

Maybe when it does become inexpensive we could all throw parties...

...parties where we can discuss and maybe even purchase this awesome future tech.

jeez what planet you even on? that's crazy talk.

Is the Not In My Back Yard or Not Under My Kitchen Sink?

Mr Dacre and the Rats of Nimby

In what universe is this a front page story, even in batshit Paul Dacreland?

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 September 2009 12:13 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

600+ comments, though. anyone who's worked on a local newspaper knows bin collection is the only public service people really care about.

The same rotten entity that tries to enforce these unworkable bully boy policies are the same ones who know all about polluting our skies and air with CHEMTRAILS. Just look above your head every morning on the way to work.

I wonder whether this comment will get published!!

- Terry, London, UK, 15/9/2009 13:03

"They DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUNS to rule us. End of."

Steady on, Robert from Worcester. It's just a food recycling bin.

Hahahaha

Robert from Worcester gonna be all holed up in his cabin Charles Bronson-style executing hundreds of plastic bin-wielding council employees.

"I wonder if the Daily Mail will publish my comment against the government, based as it is on ignorance and mistrust" - Terry from Laahndon...

xp "I don't like bin-days"

Robert from Worcester: "Hey, Johnson. Recycle this."
Robert from Worcester: [detonates bin]

Robert from Worcester, walking away as backdrop explodes with huge loss of bureaucrat life:

"Takin out the trash"

Hillary Benn has just waded into the comments section, good luck there feller.

darraghmac just made me cry with laughter

It's a point your paper has made on several occasions and I agree with you on this. Every year Britain sends 6.7 million tons of food to landfill, where it contributes to dangerous methane emissions.

says Hil.

just to clarify something- when this food waste goes into a special bin, where does it go to from there if not landfill? pigfood?

Hmm, I pressed the green arrow on Hillary Benn's comment, now I see it's back to zero.

Anyone want to press some green arrows there? Just for the hell of it?

Actually, just realised I pressed the wrong one, about the dogs who woof down food.

As opposed to chickens, who just cluck it down, right?

cats' cheeeow down

just to clarify something- when this food waste goes into a special bin, where does it go to from there if not landfill? pigfood?

It basically gets composted. Both the end product and the heat the process generates can be re-used, along with any waste gas.

well that's highly commendable.

lol waste gas pfft

it's from all the baked beans...

My sister looked out of her window a couple of weeks ago, and there marching across the lawn was a sea of maggots from her and her neighbours dustbins.
My sister, niece and the neighbours were up until midnight putting salt down and bleaching the bins in the half-light from various front rooms.
Benn & co will have us slopping out out potty's next rather than use a flush toilet.

- Eileen, Herts England, 15/9/2009 14:45

bleaching the bins in the half-light

wb yeats on dis ting

sir,

may i, bleaching my bins by candlelight, express my full support for the government?

lol
- harry fredericks, bromley, England., 15/9/2009 14:31

green arrowed this guy

From last night's Wigan Evening Post:

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/5820/5530394.png

Nearly 800 comments now - it's like lightbulbs all over again.

Our local council, Cotswold, introduced exactly this awful scheme a year ago.

That would be a tory council then. Bloody Cameron and his eco-crazy goons.

Wheelie bins first deployed twenty years ago by a Conservative government.

wheelie?

Fantastic front page headline to-day (and url to go with it)

Dementia may have been caused by the Second World War, says scientist

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1213703/Dementia-caused-Second-World-War-claims-scientist.html

(xpost) Chorlton in Cheshire. They even made a stop motion animated cartoon about it...

stress was invented by the nazis. hmm.