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05/7/2018 at 6:56pm
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I was more concerned about the site owner finding mucky unwrapped items in with the papers than saving the environment.
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05/7/2018 at 9:04pm
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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
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05/7/2018 at 10:31pm
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Our Council has been charging for garden waste bins for a while. I weighed it up and decided to pay; my garden is quite busy and it's worth it to me to have all the prunings, clippings etc that can't go in the compost heap collected, rather than fill my little Corsa with bits and pieces and end up with woodlice and spiders staggering around the place, not to mention the hassle of loading and unloading. Yes, it used to be free - but central government funding to councils has been slashed and the council has to find money from somewhere to run its services.
As for rehoming the demijohns, do you have a local homebrew society? Or ask at the local allotments? Charity shops may be able to take them.
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06/7/2018 at 12:17am
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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 05/7/2018
I was more concerned about the site owner finding mucky unwrapped items in with the papers than saving the environment.
I shouldn't think site owners go sorting through the rubbish. The lorries arrive to pick up the full bins and replace them with empties and off they go down the tip.
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06/7/2018 at 9:22am
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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 9:49am
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I guess we must be lucky in our area. We have a black bin for general waste and a green bin for recyclable waste. The recycle bin is mainly for clean paper, cardboard, aluminium cans, and clean plastics. It seems they don't want anything dirty at the recycling depot.
They empty each bin every two weeks and garden waste goes into a green sack and is put out with the general waste bin. I have quite a large garden but fortunately have room for a compost heap otherwise I would need a dozen green sacks!
Since they forced us to have water meters thus doubling my water bill I refuse to wash out tin cans and they go straight in the general bin. I don't see why I should pay to wash rubbish that is going down the tip.
The downside is that I now have to have two pedal bins cluttering up the kitchen...one for general waste and one for recycling. We wouldn't have much room to move if we had to have special bins for everything!
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06/7/2018 at 10:26am
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We have a black bin for general waste and a green bin for paper, card, metal and plastics (not glass) - these are emptied on alternate weeks. We also have a brown bin for garden rubbish that is emptied every 4 weeks from April to the end of October (as both our front and back are paved, we use our brown bin maybe twice a year for the clippings from the very small hedge at the back!). Where my mum used to live (same Council), they had a black general waste bin, green bin for metal and plastic, green box for paper and card, blue box for glass, brown bin for garden rubbish and a brown bucket for food waste!!
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06/7/2018 at 10:29am
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We are lucky, we have 3 wheelie bins. 1 for garden waste (free at the moment ) 1 for general waste and 1 for anything that can be recycled. Recycling bin emptied one week and garden and general the following week.
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06/7/2018 at 10:37am
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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 12:55pm
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So as we are all now in the recycling mindset, why do we all forget about it on holiday? How difficult is it to separate your campsite waste and put it in the appropriate containers? Or do people like opensauce deliberately put everything in the same bin because 'it's someone's job to sort it at the centre'?
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06/7/2018 at 2:25pm
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We have a bag for messy rubbish and other non recyclables. Anything we think we can recycle stays separate. We get rid of waste as often as necessary, it's never that far to the bins.
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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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Quote: Originally posted by franbee on 06/7/2018
So as we are all now in the recycling mindset, why do we all forget about it on holiday? How difficult is it to separate your campsite waste and put it in the appropriate containers? Or do people like opensauce deliberately put everything in the same bin because 'it's someone's job to sort it at the centre'?
Oh for gawds sake. I did work in the recycling industry so I can point out that more or less everything that can be recycled is recycled as this is how the recycling industry makes money. They profit from processing recyclables but have to pay to dispose of non recyclables.
Of course they have systems in place to remove non recyclate from collected bins & skips of recyclate.
Putting stuff in correct bins in campsite is done by campers who also clean the showers after them & brush out the bogs after use which Is most of us I hope.
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