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My apartment in Bahrain ( SPOT) |
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Taking in the view form the 20th Floor |
The first couple of days I had take away meals but then I collected some food from home and started cooking.
It was then I realised the apartment only had one bin.
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The single bin at my rented apartment in Juffair, Bahrain |
In Awali I had 6 bins:
- Glass
- Plastic
- Cans
- Paper
- Compost
- Trash
It seemed so strange putting everything in one bin after 10 years of carefully recycling everything! The bin filled up really fast with empty coke cans, plastic bottles and containers, and unused food.
At home I usually threw maybe two shopping bags of waste into the trash each week and 4 big bin bags go to the recycling cages at work.
The food waste went in my compost bins ( not only mine but also the vegetable peelings etc. from my two neighbours, Alpesh and Matthew.
I estimated 90% of my waste was recycled and 10% went to landfill.
In the apartment the black bin bag was filled every two days. So with 30 floors and 10 apartments on each floor that's 900 bin bags of waste going to landfill from one building, when. If they had provided recycling on each floor that could have been reduced to 90 bags.
The worst thing was the fact that I had no choice whether to recycle or not. I was not encouraged to recycle by the provision of recycling bins in every room like we had at work.
It made me realise how far that we had come on our recycling journey, that it now feels wrong not to recycle, and I have already sent all my recycling bins to the Philippines!
Until the next time, this is the British Kubayan, signing out.
Kita kits, Ingat Palagi
At home I usually threw maybe two shopping bags of waste into the trash each week and 4 big bin bags go to the recycling cages at work.
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The recycling cages at work took plastic, cans, paper and cardboard |
The food waste went in my compost bins ( not only mine but also the vegetable peelings etc. from my two neighbours, Alpesh and Matthew.
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My 6 compost drums in Awali that turned food waste, grass and shredded paper into organic compost |
I estimated 90% of my waste was recycled and 10% went to landfill.
In the apartment the black bin bag was filled every two days. So with 30 floors and 10 apartments on each floor that's 900 bin bags of waste going to landfill from one building, when. If they had provided recycling on each floor that could have been reduced to 90 bags.
The worst thing was the fact that I had no choice whether to recycle or not. I was not encouraged to recycle by the provision of recycling bins in every room like we had at work.
It made me realise how far that we had come on our recycling journey, that it now feels wrong not to recycle, and I have already sent all my recycling bins to the Philippines!
Until the next time, this is the British Kubayan, signing out.
Kita kits, Ingat Palagi
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