Re: Automated Bin - a more serious suggestion

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That never happened in my apartments in the US, because the bins are always
kept in a locked room.  And being privately owned with live-in managers,
things like broken locks would be fixed straight away.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Automated Bin - a more serious suggestion


> I believe many 60's high-rise tower blocks in this country were
commonly
> outfitted with these waste-chutes, and I'm sure I recall reading
various
> tales of problems with them, including the smell coming back up the
communal
> chute and stinking out the flats, and occasional instances of the
chute
> becoming blocked, with ever-more rubbish then backing-up up the
chute... I
> also remember a tale of some little bast^H^H^H^H kids setting fires in
the
> bins at the bottom, sending smoke back up the chute and into all the
> flats....
>
> /shudder/
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
> >From: "Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> >To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Automated Bin - a more serious suggestion
> >Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 12:59:27 +0100
> >
> >When I lived in the US, all the apartment buildings has these -
much
easier
> >than carting the rubbish down yourself.  However, the room at the
bottom
of
> >the chute would stink to high heaven, especially in summer.  It's
probably
> >easier to hide that when you have a large apartment building, than
in a
> >house.
> >
> >Mal
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Mark Harrison (Yahoo!)" <mph@xxxxxxx>
> >To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 12:47 PM
> >Subject: [ukha_d] Automated Bin - a more serious suggestion
> >
> >
> > > Been doing some thinking about this, and I'm not convinced
that the
"bin
> >on
> > > wheels" in the right way to go.
> > >
> > > The problem is actually "how do I automate rubbish
removal" rather
than
> >"how
> > > do I empty the bin".
> > >
> > > The answer may be in "laundry chutes" - a
self-build friend of mine
has
> > > these, and they work very well. Just a big tube, at the
bottom of
which
> >is
> > > an oversized laundry basket.
> > >
> > > It wouldn't be beyond the wit of man to add one of these for
waste
> > > disposal... and add an extra in the kitchen that vented
organic waste
> > > straight to the compost bin outside.
> > >
> > >
> > > Not exactly retro-fittable, but worth considering for the
2007
> >self-build
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > M.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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