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Dealing with rubbish onbaord


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Hi all, just curious what ideas people have for dealing with rubbish on long passages or extended times. The amount of rubbish we tend to generate even in a week is quite amazing.

Where do people end up putting it? down the back hatch, anchor locker? problem is it starts to stink quickly, leak all sorts of nasties. Sometimes we end up filling the dinghy (hanging on davits) with bags of rubbish and recycling but rather annoying if you want to use it.

I only ask as we are doing a 6 week trip at christmas and wondering what good ideas might be out there. We are stopping at regular intervals in the 6 weeks so dont need to carry it for that long but it could be a good week or more between rubbish stops.

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The secret to dealing with rubbish aboard is to stop it coming aboard in the first place as much as you can. Repack what you can into resealable, reusable containers. Any stuff that must stay in disposable packaging such as vac packed meat, canned goods, beer etc. should be minimised and containers rinsed in sea water after use to keep the smell at bay. Try not to take glass bottles, remove bottom of tin cans and squash flat after rinsing. If you're uncomfortable throwing bones etc. over the side take boneless cuts of meat only.

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There is usually a rubbish barge in the Boi and another out at Gt Barrier over the peak holiday period. The Northland regional council has written up some fairly draconian laws re "anything" going overboard. The fact they don't have a snow balls chance in hell of policing it still doesn't mean that they won't try at some stage to make an example of some one. The Bureaucrats have to have to find something to justify their existence.

Hard case you coming North, we are heading South and had thought to catch up with you on the way back up the east coast.

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There is usually a rubbish barge in the Boi and another out at Gt Barrier over the peak holiday period. The Northland regional council has written up some fairly draconian laws re "anything" going overboard. The fact they don't have a snow balls chance in hell of policing it still doesn't mean that they won't try at some stage to make an example of some one. The Bureaucrats have to have to find something to justify their existence.

Hard case you coming North, we are heading South and had thought to catch up with you on the way back up the east coast.

 

Hi Steve

Yeah would have been good to catch up, where are you headed for christmas? and when are you heading back north again?

Good advice on the rubbish from everyone though, we try to limit it as much as possible but everything seems to be wrapped in plastic and then wrapped again just for the hell of it which is a shame.

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Not sure at this stage re Christmas, but the main plan is to head for Fiordland mid to late January, Stewart Island sometime in February then Dunedin, Akaroa, Lyttleton?, Marlborough sounds, move when the weather suits etc.

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We find the best way to deal with potentially smelly rubbish is to squeeze it into an empty milk or juice bottle. That way the smell can be contained for two or three weeks. Of course it takes some planning with food packaging but it works a treat and you will be amazed at how much you can squeeze in. No smells and you have a use for an empty plastic bottle. All other rubbish goes into a rubbish bag When it is full just make sure the top is on properly and put it in the rubbish bag. We use a separate bag (or bags) for bottles and cans. Six of us went away for a week and came home with just one non-smelly rubbish bag.

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And after you've been so good and saved up all that rubbish, you can be made to feel like a criminal when you wander ashore and try to get rid of it in places like Opua and Whangaroa.

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