DUST-BIN DON’TS

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3494, 2 November 1926, Page 4

DUST-BIN DON’TS

1. Don’t be without a proper regulation dust bln.

2. Don’t place your dust bin In an out of the way place. It will save time if placed in a convenient spot. 3. Don’t put hot cinders and ashes into your dust bin. It is highly dangerous. 4. Don’t put garden refuse in your bin. Burn it, or bury it in the garden; it makes good manure. 5. Don't put broken bottles or broken crockery in your dust bin_ Kemcmber that the refuse men might cut themselves, causing blood poisoning. G. Don’t put unburnable refuse In the bin. Meat, fish, fruit, and Jam tins, -and one kerosene, tin, crushed, per week are allowed. S. Don’t empty sloppy material or water into your bin. Wet refuse is insanitary; and will not burn. 9. Don’t fail to put the lid on the dust bin every time it is used. This will keep the rats away and the flies from breeding, 10. Don’t allow refuse to .'.-ollcct in your yard. It may bo the means of causing epidemics and loss of life. 11. Don’t fail to have your dust bln out for the refuse collector if you arc going out the day he calls. It will save him making a special trip. 12. Don't fail to put a sheet of paper in the bottom of your dust bin. It will allow the refuse to empty out cleanly, and will preserve the bln. 13. The most sanitary way to deal with your refuse is to make each daily collection into a small parcel and to place it in the bin.