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06/7/2018 at 9:22am
Location: Isle of Mull
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Quote: Originally posted by Gerry Williams on 05/7/2018
Quote: Originally posted by aliguth on 05/7/2018
Our Council gives us 3 wheelie bins. One for garden and food waste, one for glass, cardboard and metal items and another for "general waste" which is half the size it used to be.
You're lucky, our council have just started charging for the 'garden' waste bin - £42 a year, I'm not paying it, just because the bin will (just) take the cuttings from my front 'lawn', and I usually have to make the trip up the local tip with the rest of the garden waste (otherwise the compost heap would cover half the garden).
Our 'Recycle' bin we can't put glass in, have to use the local bottle bank for jars & bottles (the tip will only take 'flat' glass) - got a load of old demijohns which I can't get shot of, too big to fit the holes on the bottle banks
Do you have a local "buy and sell" group? If so, I'm sure that the demi-johns will be snapped up! We also have a local charity shop for the community which will take such items.
Reading several posts, it seems that each area and even within each area there are so many different arrangements for recycling it's chaotic! We have a green bin, collected every 3 weeks (ironically for general waste including food waste); a blue bin for paper and we also have to put separate bags containing (1) plastics and (2) metals, collected every two weeks and a grey glass bin (but not flat glass - that has to be taken to the tip) every four weeks.
There's no garden waste collection, so if you've got a lot to go we borrow a friend with a trailer - they snag is that he also uses it commercially so we end up with a big debate at the tip as to whether he pays for commercial waste!!
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06/7/2018 at 10:37am
Location: Wirral
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Here on Wirral, it's a green bin for general 'last resort' waste, grey bin for paper, card, tins, plastic bottles and brown bin for garden stuff, all collected fortnightly (except brown bin in Dec/Jan). Other kinds of plastic - yogurt pots, margarine tubs etc - can be taken to a container at the supermarket.
I feel it's almost too late to standardise, though that would have made life easier - the bin colours at least! Not sure it would be possible anyway, as different areas have facilities to recycle different things. Wirral has a big MRF where waste is sorted. Some areas have a wierd and wonderful selection of boxes, bins and bags - must be a real headache where space is limited! Design of lorries would have to change too - costs of standardisation would be massive. We have to start paying attention to trying to generate less waste to start with, I think.
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06/7/2018 at 10:34pm
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this evening I have just nipped out to our local co op, as I parked the car the white one next to me pulled out, no rubbish on the floor, I was in the shop long enough tp pay cash for a pack of cigs, there wasn't anyone else in a que and served immediately, when I came back out the car that had pulled up into the place of the white car as I entered the shop had emptied the contents of its door bin on the tarmac right by the drivers door, as I got in my car I asked the passenger if they could pick up the rubbish! he went on the defensive right away, "how to do you its ours" blah blah ok he got out the car to look but made no effort to pick it up, but thought it best to make a note of reg number of my car, he then said ok so are you going to hang around to give an apology then when he asked his driver if she had dropped it, well as my car was already fired up I had startd to back out by then, but said yeah sure I apologise if it wasn't them, and continued to reverse out he then mouthed the reg number of my car again, I just said its ok mate its all on camera hich it was as I had the keys int he ignition before I had said a word to him, and then drove off, next they have only found where I live and knocked on my door! him gobbing off!
point being is that if it was me I would have just picked it up and binned it on the way into the shop, yeah ok I didn't drop it but it incesses me when others see to use it as some sort of thing to dish out agro to others and im sick to death of the state of this country! its filthy!
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