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Just out of interest how much does everyone recycle? Where I live we have 1 wheelie bin for regular rubbish 1 for compostable and garden waste and a box for glass, tins & paper.
They do not collect plastic, they says it's too expensive to recycle Rolling Eyes

so we have to chuck it away.
We try to recycle as much as we can if ony to make more room in the bin. Smile

Julia · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 9:41 pm Post subject:

we recycle everything we can:
ordinary wheelie bin + 'blue' recycling bin - from council
the other stuff we have to do ourselves since south/north lanakrshire (don't kwow which I live in!) are pants when it comes to environmental issues
so that means - we have a compost heap, recycle glass, recycle old electrical appliances, clothes (SallyAnn - slavation army shop or recycle point)
and also I cycle everywhere rather than using a car (I can't even drive!) and use train otherwise
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John W · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 3367 Location: Warwickshire, UK

We have a wheelie bin for garden stuff, and a crate for paper/cardboard.

Down the supermarket we drop in glass and clothes at the 'banks'.

Everything else (small) goes in another wheelie bin.

Big usable stuff like furniture, books, crockery goes to the council recycling centre in Leamington.

Rubble, junk metal, batteries and wrecked electrics go to the council recycling centre ('the tip') up in Coventry.

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Peek · Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:11 pm Post subject:

OK, the council take our newspapers/cardboard and glass twice a month, we put all the veggie stuff in a compost bin, and take plastic bottles down to the recycling centre ourselves. I reckon we've reduced our collected rubbish by 1 bag a week.

It has been rumoured that our ordinary rubbish will only be collected once a month in the near future...this would be ok for us, I'm not sure about alot of our neighbours though.
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Behind Geddon's Wall · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

Paper collected monthly
Glass/plastic collected every 2 weeks
Green/organic to one of 3 compost bins
Cardboard to the tip every 3/4 weeks.
Clothing either with glass if irredeemable, or to charity shop ( local hospice)

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SantaFefan · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:51 am Post subject:

I'm a bit of an oddball here then. As we are a commercial property, we have a trade waste skip, like a big wheelie bin.
It's a joke really because we generate lots of waste, particularly cardboard but there's no mention of recycling it because it's commercial! it all goes in the one bin and into the truck to be crushed!

Last week the guys on the truck noticed I had three tv's sitting on the car park. "Want them to go?" "But I thought..."
"Nah, chuck em in!" Crush - bang. gone.

I'm not saying it's like this now, but about 5 years ago, we took some commercial scrap over to a big yard for disposal.
I noticed the disposal skips laying around after being collected from parts of the town.
"Organised disposal now then?" I quipped.
"Not really" the owner said. "All these skips here, which people carefully sort the green, brown and clear glass, it all goes in to that one over there!"
Shocked

marietta honeybun · Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 915 Location: Holland

As I live in Holland we have to recycle just about everything. Big skips everywhere for glass, paper, clothes, shoes etc.
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RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

We have two wheelie bins - green for everything recyclable, that's paper, cardboard, plastic and cans, and black for everything else, and they're collected alternately, so each one fortnightly. This means that, in summer particularly, you have to be careful with food waste - I've always wrapped ours (though the council don't like you doing so in plastic carrier bags) but some people are less careful and I can forsee a potential problem with vermin in some areas.

We also have a box for glass and bottles, which also gets collected fortnightly, and if you pay extra you get a brown wheelie for garden rubbish which they collect fortnightly April to October.

All this together with a liberal sprinkling of recycling bins and sites at local supermarkets etc means there's plenty of encouragement to recycle normal household waste.
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Peek · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:39 am Post subject:

Forgot to say , that whenever we shred old bills and suchlike, that goes in the compost too....but you do have to be a bit careful with paper that's had a high ink content, like junk mail etc.
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Cherskiy · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:35 pm Post subject:

A big greenie wheelie bin for everything apart from paper, plastic bottles and batteries. They go in a little black plastic crate which is collected every fortnight, although given the time it is eventually collected, most of the contents have ended up down the street (usually by the local kids using them as footballs on their way to school).

Unfortunately, the crates have to be put on the street otherwise the recycling team don't take them (even on the driveway next to the gate pillar is verboten). Upshot is, hardly anyone bothers with the crate, since the collection is at around 1530 and people are at work, not wanting to leave rubbish out at the end of their drives all day.

Since I'm on flexi, I can get home once in a while to be there when the wagon comes around, so manage to get the crate emptied about once every six weeks. The council obviously have similar problems all over the city, as they sent everyone a bar code sticker to put on the side of the crate, with the incentive of a cash prize every month for one lucky crate owner. My suspicious mind tells me this is a cunning ploy to check up on how often the crates are being used, with a possible fines system being introduced in the future, levied against those who don't use the system each fortnight.

There's talk of getting a brown wheelie bin for garden refuse and /or food waste, to be collected each fortnight, which would mean the 'normal' green bin collection would also go to two-weekly. So that would mean two bins and a crate, all of which a householder is responsible for (you pay for replacements if they're damaged, lost or stolen), plus the problem of where to keep them all.

Parts of rural Northumberland are getting blighted by bins - and the problems are worse if you have a farm track or lane to a minor road or main road - as the bin wagons are too big for the minor lanes and tracks, a smaller vehicle sometimes has to accompany the wagon to access the bins - or in some cases people are told they have to take their bins to the nearest road, with pensioners suffering from disabilities being forced to wheel huge bins hundreds of yards to the nearest road in some cases.

I'm all for recycling - don't get me wrong - I've done it for years even before it became 'fashionable' - but there must be an easier way to achieve it.
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jennyw · Joined: 18 Dec 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Cardiff

I live in a block of flats so we all have to put our own recycling sacks out. Unfortunately, some of the tenants can't be bothered so their green bags are thrown in the large wheelie bins (and I mean large!). We can put everything recyclable in one bag but as the collection is every 2 weeks, I sometimes need an extra bag for newspapers.

They are saying that the council want to charge those who don't recycle but in our case, how can they tell who's who? My council tax is high enough but at last I contribute to my own wages (Police authority!)
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SantaFefan · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:04 pm Post subject:

I remember when Dustbin men used to carry the metal dustbins on their heads! and that's true. Shocked

and they always whistled too..... happy days.

Cherskiy · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:44 pm Post subject:

Today was the scheduled black crate collection day, so I left work to get home for 1500 and before the van came around. Guess what.... they came round at 1430. Rolling Eyes

Oh, well, maybe in another two weeks time, then....
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Peek · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

SantaFefan · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject:

The sack probably cushioned the weight of the coal sack on their shoulder. Didn't they used to bunch up the loaded sack and swing it up onto the shoulder?

There was a chap at the local timber yard here, now retired, but he had a well made leather shoulder pad on which he carried the larger timbers. The younger men there don't have such things - not cool maybe? Rolling Eyes

SantaFefan · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject:

or, thinking about it, our coalman pulled the sacks off the truck onto his back. Maybe it was to protect his back against wet sacks?

iknewdavidjacobsmum · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 336

Our dustmen carry dustbins on their shoulders. What's a Wheelie bin?
We recycle by taking it all down to the paper, can, glass etc bins at the recycle points. They tried to give us containers to recycle newspapers , but most people got confused as to when to put them out. Anyway it's easier to chuck yesterdays paper in the recycle point. I do notice that in the "Big Cities", eg Hastings, there aren't many recycle points

Peek · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:10 pm Post subject:

SantaFefan · Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject:

Hah! yes you're right! I remember those hat flaps! good idea when you think about it..

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