Hmmm, there must still exist those posh banks in the city like Coutts which still have an old-fashioned manager who will serve your needs. Then you can be like Harry Worth and take your money out, look at it, and pay it back in in an endless cycle until you owe them money, rather than them owing you.
Righto. Then the council can charge you at *its* consultancy rate, that OK? Or bring in a user-fee at £1000/load.
Looks like I was right.
Ah, so you was just kidding us, was that it? Or do you just shove it all in the black bin?
Our council re-designated the large wheely bin for all recyclables. You can stick in paper, card, bottles, jars, cans, foil, plastic containers, and tubs etc. About the only thing they don't like now is thin film plastics like crisp packets. All sorted centrally - so it demonstrates that it can be done.
(There is then a two thirds sized bin for other rubbish, and a green one for food and garden waste).
It can be automatically separated - they do it here.
Food wrapped in newspaper rotting and stinking for two weeks. I think not.
I spent some time a few years back working out how to shift that. The local skip company would take water based stuff like emulsion, but not oil based unless dry (or soaked into something).
There are also some paint recycling schemes that will take left over tins. They then warehouse and keep them and distribute them to community projects.
We have a wheelie bin for rubbish (for us a carrier bag a week), a wheelie bin for re-cycling: rigid plastic, glass, paper card, metal, and an optional third bin for composting. I am pleased with it.
BTW I understand polystyrene is easy to re-cycle but isn't because EU targets are set by weight.
Jonathan
It doesn't cost much to ship it to the third world for sorting.
You will possibly find that you sort the waste and during collection it all goes into the same heap and then is shipped to one of the large waste recycling centres that have a mixture of machines and humans to separate it again.
Until recently people around my way sorted glass by colour into large road side bins. During collection each bin was picked up in turn and emptied into the single compartment on the back of the lorry. Possibly with no market for the old glass it went to landfill.
Tip it down the drain.
My local council were proud that over a million trips were made to the tip by residents in their cars.
The greener alternative may have been to ....... send around a lorry once a week to collect it.
In fact with the setup we have now, I do no sorting, except for deciding that something can be recycled and then putting paper here and the rest there. Glass, plastic, tin cans, spray cans (e.g. insecticide) all goes into the one bin. That bin also has the paper/cardboard compartment, and the lorry can deal with that properly when it empties the bin.
Our councillor, who lives down the road, is the cabinet member who dealt with the new contract that's just come in and I spent some time questioning her about how it works.
Fuck me, you need new glasses. What part of "it's collected weekly" is too hard for you to understand?
Yours may be, the bloke I was referring to has a two week collection. Sorry to confuse you, I should have made myself clearer. Do you really have to wrap stinking cat shit in paper?
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That is not supposed to go in the food recycling bin, wrapped in paper or no. If we still had my cat (RIP two weeks ago) and it used a litter tray, that would get put in the landfill bin.
It may be fine to sort it all if you live in a big house, but our kitchen has room for one bin. Even that means that if my wife is at the fridge, I can't get through between the bin and her - which seems to happen very frequently - and that is the only location for it as that is the only wall space that is not covered by a cupboars, appliance or door. The net result is that the items that need to be sorted separately end up hanging in carrier bags from the cupboard doors. We do it, but it makes the kitchen look a permanent mess; gets in the way when you want something from the cupboards and they are always falling off as you bump against them. It may save money to sort in the home, but there are real downsides to it.
SteveW
We use compostable plastic bags (council supplied) and into the green (garden waste and food waste) bin, but we only generally use that for things like chicken carcasses or packaged food that has accidentally been missed and has gone off. Most food waste goes down the waste disposal unit!
SteveW
New rules coming in soon for us:
"Due to government guidance we are no longer able to accept food waste wrapped in newspaper, paper bags or kitchen roll. Please either use the compostable caddy liners or tip the food in loose."
(And any bags must have the right symbol on them.)
Garden waste will no longer allow any food/kitchen waste.
I do wonder whether a windfall apple is food waste or garden waste? (Whether it fell in the tree owner's garden or over the fence for those who read u.l.m.)
Black (actually grey) wheelie - general. Green wheelie - garden stuff. Blue wheelie - mixed plastics, tins, glass and cartons. Green box paper. Red bag - textiles. Clear bag - batteries (PLace full bags on top of blue wheelie.) Grey (they call it grey) caddy - kitchen waste in kitchen. Brown bin - kitchen waste outside.
Well cut down her rations.
Bill
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