To bin or not to bin

[STEED]

This one made me laugh and why? I believe starting next year every home with be getting a wheelie bins. I suggest to Portsmouth council and any other council in the same position stop wasting money and get your dustcart's updated, well as we all know this is a fact they will wast money on a reports first, oh dear.

Householders told NOT to put rubbish in dustbins - because binmen might hurt their backs lifting them

[Camaero]

You Brits can be very strange sometimes.

[Kapitan]

Same in our council the only wheelie bin collection we acctually have is for green waste on a set lorry, not all of our lorries have bin lifts and we are a bag collection counci.

Bag work is easier than bin work but what makes it so stupid is if you have a full wheelie bin route then they should make 100% sure that the lorry is capible of doing the work its silly but its not the residents fault its the neglegence of the council they should have sent a lorry with a bin lift out so any claim should be made against the council for not supplying the proper equipment.

Also as a rule here on my council we will not collect wheelie bins unless the person is disabled, if its in a bin we will not get it out its left regardless.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Kapitan

its not the residents fault its the neglegence of the council

Correct Kapitan, as you and I know and hopefully the rest of the U.K guys here know the council we always pass the buck and claim it's to expensive, they want to remember that the next time they agree to a fat pay rise and wast a vast sum of money on something.

[Weigh-Man]

It seems strange then that in my area the council have now supplied us with the following -

1 Standard Grey Wheelie Bin
1 Recycling Green Wheelie Bin
1 Plastic Box for Cans/Bottles
and a Sack for paper and newspaper

What's that going to do to the 'poor' dustmen

[AntEater]

Three wheelies here, organic, plastic, paper.

But from the title I thought this was about Bin Laden

[Kapitan]

My councils recycling consists of

black sacks general refuse
Pink sacks mixed recycling (paper cans card plastics all together)
White corn starch sacks green waste

And in only two areas green bins for garden waste.

[bigboywooly]

Well our fortnightly collections started end of July
One wheelie bin per household
Ummm except no wheelie bins being delivered till around Feb

2 Orange boxes
1 for card\paper and one for tins\glass

Clear plastic sack for plastic bottles ( at a cost of 20p each )

They will also take garden waste in green sacks
We can now use our own - before we had to buy from council at a £1 each

Tis daylight robbery I tells ya

Gets any worse and I may as well take it down the tip for the b***ards as well

[Jimbuna]

Where's that ? :hmm:

Elland Road :rotfl:

[STEED]

I got one green box for paper and card and one tough carrier bag for garden wast, the bin men come around once a week for the house hold rubbish only in black bin bags but I hear they are to change to light Orange colour. As for the recycling they are picked up by some one else green box one week then the garden stuff and back to the green box.

In the past my council farted around with a load of boxes and cutting the bin service to once a fortnight but people power sorted them out.

[Jimbuna]

Sounds like a load of old rubbish to me

[lesrae]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Sounds like a load of old rubbish to me

Ka-boom-tish

We've had the fortnightly wheelie bin collections and weekly recycling collections here for about 18 months now. It works fine for us, compostable rubbish into a brown sealed box collected weekly, general recycling (paper, metal, glass) in a black box collected weekly and everything else in the wheelie bin collected fortnightly.

The main complaint seems to be about smells/rats etc, but if you use the system properly there's no need for that - it's people who leave food waste in the bin for 2 weeks that have the problem. Also, the people who dump food waste straight into the composting box and never clean it out - disgusting in my opinion. We buy the compostable plastic liner bags, working out at 10p a week or so, and rinse the thing out every week.

[Jimbuna]

Okay, the serious version:.................I suppose we are a little luckier than some, we have a weekly wheelie bin collection. We also have a fortnightly green wheelie bin collection for compostables as well as a black box for recyclabes (the box is devoid of a lid and therefore open to the elements) so if it's put out too early you can imagine the resultant outcome

[bigboywooly]

Ah well see we dont have a compostables collection
Garden waste is garden waste - not food
Card and paper are seperate - again not food
So food waste goes in the general waste which is once a fortnight


Lucky we have had a ****e summer

[Kapitan]

Wow some of you guys have it bad our general rubbish is weekly and thats put into black sacks now we do acctually deliver black and pink sacks free of charge to houses all around basildon, but a role of black sacks on the market or in a ship is only £1 so not forking out too much.

You can get the pink sacks for recycling at a libray or any council place again free of charge can have upto 5 roles of sacks (a roll will last a good 2 weeks maybe more depends i know a role lasts my family of 4 3 weeks and we are heavy recyclers)

The only ones we have to pay for is garden waste sacks which are white cornstarch they bio degrade, the cost £1 a roll again you wont go through them like water unless you have a huge garden, but come next year it will all be wheelie bins which again are distributed free of charge, and in the collection we do take certain food waste.