Re: dusty bin

Nov 29, 2018 Last reply: 7 years ago 5 Replies


jezus we now have FOUR piggin' bins,,,,,,what a carry on...soon be no


> garden left......

Some people would kill for that many bins. We have to fit all our recycling in a crate - and they give you a small bag for cardboard instead of a full-size bin for it, so you have to spend ages folding cardboard into smaller size that one side of a flattened box. And we don't get garden rubbish collected unless we pay extra for it.


Even recycling everything we can do, both our general waste bin (one week) and our recycling crate (the other week) are usually full to overflowing. And that's for just two of us, not with children.


It's fine to get people to recycle more, but the total amount of rubbish will still be the same. Somehow "they" want us to throw away less - even as recycling.

We have 3 primary: Waste, all-recycling and glass (as an exception).

As an optional paid service we have a garden waste bin.

A neighbour has observed the glass bin being emptied into the same truck (and same compartment) as the mixed recycling so we could probably just chuck glass into the mixed bin (some people do).

We have just two bins, general waste & recycling stuff collected alternate weeks. Our bins are often less than half full when they collect them. Often we don't put them out for collection.

We only have two now, back in Yorkshire we had 5 assorted bins and bags.

They are an eysore in streets with no gardens, plus all the commercial bins in town for shops and food takeaways that live permanently on the pavement.

Mike

We are told we can only recyle bottle type glass, and that means glass from broken windows shouldnl;t be put in the recycle bin with beer bottles as it's not the same type of glass.

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