RE: Automated Bin - a more serious suggestion

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon  Sent: 30 March 2004 15:07
>
> 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,

Exactly the problem in the Barbican flats with their Garchy system. It's a
waste chute integrated into the kitchen sink drain that "flushes"
rubbish up to wine bottle size.
Great idea, but you spend a fortune in Jeyes fluid trying to keep the smell
at bay :-((

Tim H.


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