To bin or not to bin

[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.