Frugalists

I wonder just how much we all do, or do we even care?

Moss

Do I recycle?

No, I bicycle.

How many wheels on a recycle?

Now , now, Moss is attempting to get a sensible thread going in Bedders ( best of luck ). Next you'll be saying your brother used to play the Frugal in the primary school band as he was warned of blowing a French horn until he went to public school . (he will get really miffed !!!!)

Moss should know better.

But anyway, living in Vietnam we do not have all the wrappings and packings on bought goods, but we do have an ellofalotta plastic bage - even for the fresh-baked bread. Which means the bread loses it's crustiness within minutes of being bought. So I use / re-use an old paper bag for that.

Plastic bags get re-used for trash, but there is no recycling scheme for rubbish here. It goes out in the street to be picked over by dogs, cats and old people. The dogs may later get eaten themselves, so that's recycling, but I've yet to have roast old-folk or braised cat. (But in Thailand there's the Tom Yam soup - cat & potato?)

Really, in UK everything has to go in the right wheelie-bin or it's left un-emptied, but out here there is not even the thought of recycling anything.

Personally, separate bags for plastic, metal and glass all collected by a man on a motorcy and trailer ...... no such thing as food waste here, not with my dogs.

my ex always finds a "way" to be recycled after being dumped by another woman .

After the regulation in the UK, and now possible fines for putting the wrong thing in the wrong bin, I find the Thai system refreshing.

Everything goes in the same bin, and by the time the dustcart has reached the next house the guys in the back have already retrieved and sorted anything recyclable. Plastic water bottles are reserved for sister in law who sells them for 8 baht a kilo (it takes alot of bottles to make a kilo I can tell you).

As a family we now take bags to the supermarket. This was brought on by guilt, but now we do it, I have no idea why we did not do it before. Plastic splits, cuts your fingers and is in general, a waste of time.

Take your own bags !!!

Now , now, Moss is attempting to get a sensible thread going in Bedders ( best of luck ).

I live in eager anticipation.............

Moss should know better.

You would think so, wouyldn't you?

Moss