🍺 PUB TEST: How Do You Feel About FOGO Bins?

Do FOGO bins pass the pub test?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The Jonesy demand of arms, the pub test today fogo
bins do they pass?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
The pub test on new laws? Are going to force
every new Southwest council to introduce the food scrap bins.
They rolled out in a West recently and they had
to roll them back again because it was brought in
in tandem with a change to the red bin collection,
which went from weekly to a fortnightly service. And people said,
well that's that's you know, you can't do that because
there's stuff like nappies and stuff you can't put in

(00:29):
in your fogo and that just stinks up your yet whatever.
So but now they are saying this won't interfere with
the weekly collection of rubbish. I've got a fogo bin
I've got on my bench top. You can put bones,
you can put meat, you can put paper. You can't
it says he you can put dog poo. I didn't
think you could. I thought they said not to put
them in those bags. I had a bit of fomo

(00:50):
that I was missing in on a fogo.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
The problem for me is therefore, in the summer you
kind of it's just all those food scraps sitting there
on your bench. In that terr heat, we had maggots
and I'll put in a green bin out the front. Maggots.
But you know, I guess if you mixed up with
other rubbish, you don't notice it so much. But the idea,
of course is that this is going to mean less
landfill less you know, the food waste is an easy
and effective way for this to be composted efficiently. How

(01:15):
do you feel Fogo bins as they passed the pub test.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
We've had these bogo bins for years. Amanda just said
you can't put dog poo in. You can, but it
needs to be wrapped in newspaper. And our green bins
the council actually give us environmentally friendly bags to put
your green waste in and then you put it in
your green bin which ours is collected weekly and as
a penwith council.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
No they don't. I've just emailed the council because they're
introducing me in paramatter they've reduced our number of red bins,
increased our number of yellow bins, and i'd point out
the council what's going to happen is if they haven't
got enough room in the red bins, they're going to
be putting the rubbish into the wrong bin, which doesn't
help the collection service, and it doesn't help me if
they just put the rubbish in a bag on top

(01:59):
of the bins.

Speaker 4 (01:59):
Yes, they do pass the pub test and they have
them on your bench in summer. You just have to
change the bag over more frequently and put it outside.
You only get maggots if you don't put the lid
on tightly and you let flies in. But just change it,
put it outside, put it in the bin. That's fantastic.
Keep going, keep going, man right on