On Friday 23 August 2013 11:46 Muddymike wrote in uk.d-i-y:
You should try the "fancy" parts of London. Not allowed to leave bins out. So come rubbish day, the pavements are strewn with piles of black bin liners. Looks like a bad day in a third world country.
Talking about Kensington and the like here!
I have mixed recycling. I referred to a blue bin in an earlier post and that is where most stuff goes. SWMBO puts it in the utility room and I take it out from there. I really don't see the problem (assuming you have room for the bins).
And people think this "zillions of bins" stuff is easy. If it looks vaguely recyclable, it goes in the recycling bin. Let some Rumanian immigrant sort it out; I'm certainly not going to.
You've spent longer than that (much longer) arguing about it.
Tell someone who cares.
Except, as has so ably been demonstrated in this thread, you cannot rely on householders to get it right.
I *am* the "initial thrower-away" and I don't GAS about the rest of it. I pay someone to deal with my waste. Let them deal with it. I'll cheerfully sort my rubbish at my consultancy rate.
Good point, although it's the principle I object to. There are shedloads of things that businesses now expect the customer to do, which used to be done by them, and it pisses me off; self service checkouts, a lot of online banking stuff and sorting your bloody rubbish.
You save it up until it's worth a trip, bozo.
Utter claptrap.
I used to know a bloke who lives in the south. He once told me that they have to wrap the food waste up in newspaper and then put it in the bin. To me this seems to be begging for flies, maggots and horrible smells. We put the food waste in sealed plastic bags and then in the bin.
Where I live (Central Beds) the orange recycle bin take all types of plastic (apart from polystyrene), all paper, mags, all the crap mail that comes through the door and cardboard boxes torn into A4 size. I save the numerous charity bags that come through the door for cat shit Any metal waste I leave on the drive which disappears in a day, used to be pikeys but more often than not nowadays East Europeans, as non of them speak English not sure which country they are from. The green recycle bin takes the garden waste and branches up to 3/4", household garden waste I compost. Cooked kitchen waste I put out for the Foxes/Badgers every night including cat food, amazing how much moggies waste. The black bin does not get much at all mainly the Kitchen bin, cat shit and any rubble I may create. Glass I take to Sainsburys recycle bins once every month, usually a boot full, must tell the wife not to drink so much!
Barry
Surely stuff that's non-recyclable - or is that too obvious?
E.G packaging such certain types of glass, bullshit, plastic covered cardboards/paper, certain plastic containers, chemical containers - or anything that your local council won't or can't sell or compost - and different LAs have different ideas on what they will treat as recycling.
Carry on, there's nothing to stop you - other than it belongs to the LA and could be considered as theft if you do.
Talking about bins, time I dumped you back in it.
The LA provides you with the bins you keep in the kitchen? Mine doesn't even provide me with a general waste bin for outside.
Colin Bignell
It really does depend on your local council and available space. Those ones with four or five wheelie bins per household plus an equal number of other containers in a normal urban 3 bed semi setting are just plain stupid. Not enough space outside for the bins, not enough space inside to store the stuff before shoving it in the appropiate bin.
Ours seems to hit the balance about right, one wheelie bin for garden waste, one box for glass/metal, one strong reuseable bag for paper/card another for hard plastic. Single use blue bag for everything else.
We also choose to seperate out batteries, CFLs, foil and aersols but that is our choice, we also have enough internal storeage space for the recycling. The non-kerbside stuff gets taken to a HWRC close to one of the weekly supermarkest maybe once a year.
(Part of) my point exactly.
Ours has it spot on. Black wheelie bin for rubbish, emptied weekly. Orange for recyclables, green for garden rubbish (which we never use, because I compost, chip or burn everything), emptied alternate weeks.
Ah but bags is quicker to deal with than wheelie bins. One cannot have those labourers bringing down the tone can one.
Couple of chaps can lob a great pile of bags into the back of the wagon in the time it takes the same chaps to retrieve and hook on a couple of bins, wait while the machine hoists it up, turns it over, shakes it, lowers it down and the chap unhooks it. That's only two bins (two households), the heap of bags could well be all the waste from half a dozen households or more...
That would require a council who believed they were there to serve the council tax payers. Something most councils have long forgotten.
A few flayed corpses hanging on gibbets might remind them.
While expecting the council to sort it at the legal minimum wage.
So effing what? I'm not a charity.
He is rather dim isn't he? I didn't realise quite how dim though.
How can flies get in if the bin is locked? We have a small grey bin for this purpose and it's collected once a week. As the food waste *is* wrapped up in paper that makes it harder for flies anyway, even if the lid were open (which it's not).
Ours is in paper so it can be composted. Which it all is and then sold. In fact the council gives us an even smaller grey bin for indoor collection of food waste, but we don't see the point of that - just take it straight out to the proper bin after wrapping it in paper.
And we only put meat/fish/catfood waste in that anyway. All vegetable scraps we compost ourselves.
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