wheelie bins wtf?

[Fisty]

So today, yet another bin has arrived at my house.

I now have...

Green wheelie bin for garden waste
Black bin for general waste
Another green bin for food waste
Green bag for paper
Blue bag for cardbord
Green box for Cans and glass.

Having no garden all this has to be kept on the road and keeps being blown away/knocked over. And god forbid you accidentlaly put something in the wrong bin as they leave you a sarcastic note and wont take any of it. Then its 2-3 weeks before they come again!

Im all for recycling but this is a joke! Anyone here still have the old once a week 1 bin collection?
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[ms51ves3]

I've given up with recycling. It's more hassle than it's worth, and they're forever changing what we can and can't recycle.

Everything of mine goes in the big black bin. Easy.

[Fisty]

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[ms51ves3]

[mad4it028]

most of my rubbish get burnt sod em
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[dodgydog]

I recycled stuff for years, but getting truly pissed of with it since the dead hands of the council "enforcement officers" got involved.

It's not worth it, to make an honest mistake with something and end up with a fine.

Black bags into one bin now, fuck em, they know how to seperate it, let them do it.


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[Serendipity]

Alternating weeks so each type gets picked up once a fortnight.

One week:

Grey wheelie bin for landfill/general rubbish.

Then following week:

Green wheelie for all organic kitchen and garden waste.
Black tub for cans + plastic.
Green tub for paper + cardboard.

We have to deal with our own glass, but that just goes in the hoppers at Tesco.

Not all that tough and once you clear out all the recyclable stuff it’s amazing how little goes to landfill.

Then, if you need any compost the council hand out the mulched, matured stuff from the green bins for free.
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[tatters]

We only have genral waste (green), paper/card/plastics (blue), garden waste (brown) does,nt bother me using them apart from the c*nt who lives two doors away sticking his extra rubish in our genral waste bin.
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Wheelie bins + council
2wk rota where i live.

The gimps that do mine wouldn't even take an old exhaust and other metal bits.
The cardboard bag i originally used is long gone. I did have #45s for a bit then one collection it also dissapeared.
The paper bag was collected once and never returned.
The metal and glass box has a lid that blows away in a light breeze.
In summer the black wheelie bin hums. I bleach it, but 2weeks old kitchen waste makes anything stink.

Wonder how much money 'our recycling' makes for our councils? Scrap prices are high.

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[Dazbo666]

Our black/general waste bin gets collected every week...
Then on alternate weeks it's either the green wheelie bin with food waste, garden waste and shredded paper, or the green recycling bags
We also have a small freen plastic caddy in the kitchen, used for temporary collection of food waste.

It all sounds like a lot of hassle, but we've been using the system for the last 4-5 years, and it's just 2nd nature now.


...as for putting everything in to the black bags, previously mentioned, our council will check the contents if we consistently put large numbers of black bags out
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[Asimo]

We have the 3 bin system too, general waste (black), recyclables (blue) and garden/veg matter (brown). Its not particularly hard to seperate into said bins but as said before its second nature after a few years.

They don't do a glass collection round here so we just stack them in a box and dump them into bottle banks when the box gets full.

I suspect if they went back to a single black bin then council tax will go through the roof to cover the fines for not meeting recycling targets. Not that I don't think the council won't just bump it up anyway to make up the budget shortfalls.

[Fisty]

Infact when i first moved here we had a party, I washed all the bottles and put thm upright in the box with other bottles upside down between them. The cans I crushed and put in a cardbord box.

They wouldnt collect either because the bottles "were too heavy" and the cans were "in the incorrect box/bag"

The will and have split open a black bag in the landfill bin to see if there are any recyclables in it and if so refuse to take it and in some cases a £60 fine!

As if my £170 a month council tax wasnt enough.
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[ms51ves3]

Your bins are chipped?

[WildGoose]

Yup, just under the front rim big hexangonal black plastic thing stuck into the honeycomb structure. Comes out easy with a large flat bladed screwdriver.

They claim for the moment that they are just there to help locate missing bins, find out when they were emptied etc etc.

It is there, and they have admitted this, to future proof against any possible plan to introduce waste charging.
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[Al]

I don't really see the big deal, I just have the two bins, recycling and general, plus one of those little food waste things.
Ever since I've lived on my own the same system as been in place so I guess thats all I've known, but its really not that difficult.
I normally have just the one bag of general waste a week.
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[Tonka]

This year my refuse collection changed from me being supplied with 2 rolls of 30 black bin bags to a fortnightly recycling collection. I was delighted (not) as I always recycled to the local tip and had bin bags supplied, now I have to buy binbags - bargain! Anyway, delightfully most of the rubbish in the black bin is either dog $hit or used cat litter

I was really diligent the first couple of recycling collections - washed everything, separated it all in the green box and neatly folded the 'paper' bag. The second time they just chucked it back on the drive willy nilly I thought f**k 'em and now I just chuck it all in and they can sort it out.

I still have to take my cardboard and gardening stuff to the tip so if they kick off I'll take it all and they can just drive past the house.

...............and whatever you do don't get me started on the size of black bin bags..........a black bin is standard size, so why the hell is the bin bag too small to fold over the top, so when I tip stuff into it it doesn't collapse and have all the rubbish slide down the sides? I've got so cross about it, I now buy the extra big bags at extra cost, I figured the reduction in tantrums and stress each week was worth it!
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[kitty kat]

We have 3 boxes, 1 each for card, glass & cans, a green bin for garden waste and a black bin for general rubbish.
We have a jobsworth on the bins here and he has been known to refuse our garden waste as it was too heavy or there was soil on the grass sods I put in.
We can BUY compost made from our rubbish from the local recycling centre (local tip to us old folks)
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[Phoenix]

Our bin men just collect the rubbish once a week, put it out in black bags at the end of the driveway, max of 2 or 3 bags per house I think. I just put everything in there, I don't have a recycling bin although I ought to apply for a free one as they do supply them. We have a green wheelie bin for garden waste too.

I think the fortnightly collections are a piss take, stuff stinks after 2 weeks, imagine seafood scraps after 2 weeks in summer, where are you supposed to keep the bags as a family is going to have more than one so unless they buy extra bins to keep them in. Dudley council have no plans to reduce it once a fortnight but I think they're in the minority now.

[Fisty]

[pits]

Where I live we refuse to have them, make the streets look untidy, instead we have the purple bags for most, and a food waste box, and big massive green sacks for garden waste. However I usually just take it into work and chuck it all in the skip, generally can't be arsed with it all.

[jay12329]

My 'rents council have the idea. One bin for waste and one for recycling.
So plastic, paper, tins, glass, clothing, shoes everything goes into one bin. Why do we think for years this area had the highest % recycling of anywhere in the country? The local landfill had a bit of a problem as they had only half filled one hole in the time they had expected to have filled 2 and moved to a new site they had already started to develop!

Make it easy and people will do it, give people 6 bins, 4 bags and a box and they are gong to be fucked off as it takes longer to sort the plastics then they take to biodegrade!

J

[blurredman]

I never believed in it.

I just put all shit in a black bag, and every Wednesday I go to the tip. Simples
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