Bin Collection - Side Waste


And ring up and say me bin hasn’t been emptied
Wot yeh gunna Dee about it
The problem now is the amount of reyclt
No matter what I do and we don’t eat a lot of convenience food the bin is bursting
Admittedly can be a few delivery boxes that have been flattened
Perhaps internet delivery should include a surcharge for recycling services
I’m still suspicious about what actually happens with all the recycling
Normally councils are trumpeting about the recycling cycle and what they are doing to recycle and green credentials
Local councils are very quiet about it
Don’t gun me down here but I’ve heard only 2-5% is recyclable, or gets recycled. I might be on the money with flat 2%.
 
I didn't even realise they did take bags at the side of the bin until they said they were phasing it out. When we moved into our house I'd leave extra stuff out and they'd leave it out as well.
 
It’s absolutely crackers now man..lad in the gym who works on the bins was on about if they see grease on a cardboard pizza box they won’t take it..and i posted before about those white polystyrene cartons that kebabs and stuff come in..wrong bin and they leave them and you get a warning..as already posted..there’s going to be fly tipping arl ower.
 
It’s absolutely crackers now man..lad in the gym who works on the bins was on about if they see grease on a cardboard pizza box they won’t take it..and i posted before about those white polystyrene cartons that kebabs and stuff come in..wrong bin and they leave them and you get a warning..as already posted..there’s going to be fly tipping arl ower.
The rules tell you not to put pizza boxes in recycling.
The obsession with bins in this country is weird. People will talk about it in the gym and rant about it on message boards but ask them to take the slightest bit of personal responsibility like reading what goes where, and it's like you've asked them to climb Everest with a wheelie bin on their back.
 
Boxes, jars, food packaging, pop bottles, paper (not Xmas) empty tins, plastics that can be recycled etc.

Yes i guess my point is that just food waste recycling (things you’ve identified) shouldn’t fill up a full blue bin if collapsed correctly (perhaps excluding christmas)? If it a cardboard boxes then they can be easily stored and taken to tip etc rather than expecting them to be collected from someone’s front door. Must admit I didn’t even realise you could leave recycling out to be collected. Always thought you only had capacity of the bin and anything else was up to resident to get rid of.
 
Don’t gun me down here but I’ve heard only 2-5% is recyclable, or gets recycled. I might be on the money with flat 2%.
Could well be, the effort of sorting and reprocessing different type of plastics doesn't seem to make economical sense to me. Id guess most people don't know the difference between a thermoplastic and a thermoset anyway.

I've missed the blue bin collection twice and had to take the contents to the tip. On both occasions I separated the recyclables into different bags, but was told on arrival to hoy the plastic into the general waste. So they're not arsed either.
 
Yes i guess my point is that just food waste recycling (things you’ve identified) shouldn’t fill up a full blue bin if collapsed correctly (perhaps excluding christmas)? If it a cardboard boxes then they can be easily stored and taken to tip etc rather than expecting them to be collected from someone’s front door. Must admit I didn’t even realise you could leave recycling out to be collected. Always thought you only had capacity of the bin and anything else was up to resident to get rid of.
My daughter is 23 and severely disabled, still in nappies. I get them delivered in 4 huge cardboard boxes every 8 weeks and I used to fold them down and stick them behind my recycling bin, they always took them with my recycling. No idea what I'll do with them now as I don't drive so can't get to the tip and I never have the room in my bin to put them in there. They'd take up the full recycling bin on their own.
 
The rules tell you not to put pizza boxes in recycling.
The obsession with bins in this country is weird. People will talk about it in the gym and rant about it on message boards but ask them to take the slightest bit of personal responsibility like reading what goes where, and it's like you've asked them to climb Everest with a wheelie bin on their back.
Yep. Again, I knew they never took pizza boxes in recycling.

I sadly complained to Dominos a few years ago as they had it emblazoned all over their box that it was recyclable. Aye which it might be unused but once you put a pizza in it it's not.
Gave me some bull that they are trying to work with councils.
 
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My daughter is 23 and severely disabled, still in nappies. I get them delivered in 4 huge cardboard boxes every 8 weeks and I used to fold them down and stick them behind my recycling bin, they always took them with my recycling. No idea what I'll do with them now as I don't drive so can't get to the tip and I never have the room in my bin to put them in there. They'd take up the full recycling bin on their own.
Surely there would / could be special rules applied for your household my love ? 😘
 
Do they just leave the side bags??
As a family of 4 we struggle to half fill the rubbish bin once a fortnight
As far as i'm aware they have been instructed to. Whether they do or not is another thing. Problem is they won't know if a council spy is following them or not.
 
Surely there would / could be special rules applied for your household my love ? 😘
It says you can be assessed to see if you qualify for a larger blue bin if you need one for medical reasons but I'm unsure if I would get one. I'd only need a bigger one once every 8-10 weeks (depending on when they're delivered), the rest of the weeks the one I have now is big enough.

Also when I rang and asked if I could get an extra green bin due to my adult daughter being in nappies they refused and said I couldn't. So I hid mine a few weeks later and said it had been stolen and I paid £25 to get a new one. I have 2 now.
 
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the effort of sorting and reprocessing different type of plastics doesn't seem to make economical sense to me
Has it ever been about cost? As far as i'm aware(not much) it's always been the ethics of it that were top priority.
It says you can be assessed to see if you qualify for a larger blue bin if you need one for medical reasons but I'm unsure if I would get one. I'd only need a bigger one once every 8-10 weeks (depending on when they're delivered), the rest of the weeks the one I have now is big enough.
Just get the big one. If it's only 1/3 full on some weeks. so what.
 
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Has it ever been about cost? As far as i'm aware(not much) it's always been the ethics of it that were top priority.

Just get the big one. If it's only 1/3 full on some weeks. so what.
It's whether I'd be allowed one, they send a waste assessment officer to come out to decide if I qualify for one. Don't suppose it would hurt to ask.
 
Certainly up to few years ago it was shipped abroad and then we didn't give a fuck what happened to it. The country told us it would be recycled. But there was a report on it where it was all going in land fill.
I'm under no illusion it's much better now
They were shipping it off east and it was getting burned causing loads of respiratory issues with the locals. Uk supermarket bags and food wrapping found in too large quantities for it to be a one off. Disgrace really.
 
That would be fine if they did weekly recycling. Our recycling gets full every week and we end up having to start using main bin for stuff that could be recycled.

They'll put them inside your bin after emptying it.
We've got 4 bins. Green for normal stuff (emptied every 3 weeks) Brown for food and garden stuff (every two weeks), Blue for paper, card, plastic and cans (every two weeks) and purple for glass (every six weeks). Seems to work ok (for us anyway).
 
We've got 4 bins. Green for normal stuff (emptied every 3 weeks) Brown for food and garden stuff (every two weeks), Blue for paper, card, plastic and cans (every two weeks) and purple for glass (every six weeks). Seems to work ok (for us anyway).
We just have two bins. A land fill bin and a recycling bin. They alternate every two weeks. They're both always full on collection day and the recycling bin is usually full in about 10 days.
 
Has it ever been about cost? As far as i'm aware(not much) it's always been the ethics of it that were top priority.

Just get the big one. If it's only 1/3 full on some weeks. so what.
It's always about cost mate. Plastics have to be manually sorted into polymers, each with different material properties including melting points. That means high labour and energy costs on top of the burden of environmental responsibility to do it without emissions. As such, most plastics still go to landfill.

I'm not an expert but I'd guess it's a fraction of the cost to manufacture new plastics on a production line as opposed to using recycled materials.

We really need to move to a reusing culture as opposed to recycling.
 
My daughter is 23 and severely disabled, still in nappies. I get them delivered in 4 huge cardboard boxes every 8 weeks and I used to fold them down and stick them behind my recycling bin, they always took them with my recycling. No idea what I'll do with them now as I don't drive so can't get to the tip and I never have the room in my bin to put them in there. They'd take up the full recycling bin on their own.
Explain this to the council and they'll issue you another bin.👍
 
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Few people in my street are going to struggle with that. Family up the street produce more bags than the Waltons at Christmas.

Not disagreeing with you but how many is in your household?
we had 5 adults (2 are away at uni now) and hardly ever had trouble with overflowing bins. i sometimes had to jump on the recycling one to compress it as it was half air. i'm not sure where some people get all the rubbish from. kids with nappies fair enough, that would be a lot.
 
If anyone wants an extra recycling bin, the Council are replacing lost bins free charge until end of March

Whilst I would never do this if your bin got 'lost' you could get another one for free
 

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