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07/8/2016 at 6:18pm
Location: Isle of Mull
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MikeJ, the Council say only clear plastic bottles and milk bottles - most bleach bottles are a dark colour. They also won't take black plastic food trays, even washed, as I do all my plastic to be recycled. They want us to remove the plastic wrap labels that some laundry products and yoghurt drinks have - with arthritic hands, I find this very difficult. I queries this with the Council last week, but no answer!
I really envy some of you who get garden waste collections and weekly food waste collections. Our present alternate weekly collections for recycling and general waste, with glass once a month, usually works well, even for folks with families, except when the bin lorry breaks down, but this is going to be a nightmare, especially during the summer months, particularly for those people who, by nature of where their bins have to be collected from (i.e. the roadside), some distance up a track from their houses, are already getting fined because people see their bins and dump their refuse in whichever suits them.
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10/8/2016 at 10:25pm
Location: NW of Glasgow
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Here in East Dunbarton we have 5 different bins, one for paper and card, one for glass, plastic and tins, one for garden, one general and a small food one.
There are quite a few things they do not take in the recycling like yoghurt tubs, margarine tubs, and the trays that veg and meat are often sold on, but different coloured bottles are OK.
Food waste is weekly, then general + garden alternate with glass/plastic/tins and paper.
With just the 2 of us, we find it takes 4 weeks to fill a bin, unless we are having a big clear out, so we only put them out when full.
We have a waste disposal thing in the sink that grinds up all peelings, bones, tea bags etc, so we never have food waste.
Most of our general waste is packaging that our council will not recycle. Our son lives in East Ayrshire, their council take all sorts of plastic packaging in their recycling, so they have hardly any "general rubbish".
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11/8/2016 at 8:24pm
Location: Ayrshire
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Three bins in our part of Ayrshire - brown goes every week (garden plus food waste, never seen a maggot); blue for all recycling every 2 weeks (cling film, tinfoil, old pots & pans, glass, all plastic & paper including Yellow Pages or cardboard); then the landfill bin on the other 2 weeks (pretty much just dog poo bags & cat litter, gets whiffy in summer). We have stoves and burn safe stuff too.
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What makes me cross is folk taking perfectly good items to the crusher that could go to a charity shop - toys, bikes, small electrical items, almost-new bedding in last year's colours. Makes money for the charity, folk save money over buying new.
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