Nine-bin recycling system introduced

Originally Posted by LondonRoad

I'd be able to comply and would but I'd see it being unworkable for most people.

What LR said.

We have 3 wheely bins (normal, recyclable, garden waste), and we also keep bottles in a different container and take them to the bottle banks, and compost any waste food - but 9 sounds a lot.

[Xaccers]

Where are you supposed to keep the bins/bags inside as you fill them?
My kitchen isn't tiny but we've only got room for 2 bins.

MK has a higher than average recyling rate, weekly collections of unrecylables, recycleables, glass, food, vegetation.
We only have a wheelie bin for the vegetation. Strange how the council didn't see fit to ask the locals, whereas their excuse for not providing wheelie bins for other rubbish in the past was that they asked locals and were told no one wanted them.
We're provided with a little box for waste food, and if we actually produced more than a banana skin of waste food a week, we'd use it.
We're also given a blue crate for glass.
Bags for paper/cans recycling are free, although they've just changed to a thinner sort, but they are still strong enough for the job.
We can even get a reward if our rubbish pile is reported as being particularly tidy or artistic.

In my little town we have two wheelie bins a black one for unrecyclable stuff a green wheelie for garden and non white cardboard and then we have three bins currently a green one for tins, glass and suchlike a blue one for white cardboard and paper and the brown turd looking food waste bin but nothing for plastic recycling. I am all for doing my bit but for gods sake please think of those of us who struggle as it is without the need to carry all this carp out onto the street.

Enviromentalists are becoming a complete pita and are alienating more and more people with the things like this right now. People want to do the right thing but if you have to spend hours every week figuring it out and then taking the bins\bags onto the street many will simply stop. As a country we must be doing so much better then we were even a few short years ago but you never hear about that only that we need to do more and make greater efforts. As a kid i was constantly told you bring more people along with praise then constant criticism but when it comes to the enviroment it seems that more guilt and emotional blackmail is best and i am getting heartily fed up of it.

[Hom3r]

Our council has a great system.

You have two green bins for food waste (collected weekly) 1 small for kitchen (must only use compostable bags in these), and a larger one outside.

We have a black bin for no recyleable rubbish, and a blue bin for recycleable stuff. These are collect bi weekly on alternate weeks.

The black bin is a 3rd smaler than the blue bin.

The only annoying thing is that the black bin must have the lid fully shut, if it is part open they will not take it, and no black bin bags arround it will be taken.

The blue bin can have oversize boxes around it, and you can use the older style box and bag for over spill.

If you don't adhere to the rules the bin will not be taken, and you will have a warning sticker on it, a second offence, you will have to get rid of the rubbish yourself.

The council said that these bin should be kept in your garden where possible. but as most house would have to drag them through living rooms, they can be kept out the front, and they just fit.

But 9 is taking the mick. Soon you'll need a degree to be able to sort you rubbish out/

[Dai]

I'm guessing that there is no significant profit from most of these recycled materials. If that's the case the councils will be wanting to save money by having us do the work rather than take it to a recycling centre to be sorted.

[Kymmy]

We have 4 seperate bins here (5 if you include our compost bin at the end of the garden)

1. Orange for recycling
2. Black for landfill waste
3. Green for Garden recyling
4. small black tub for glass collections

The Orange and green are emptied every fortnight with the Black bins the other week. Must admit though that between the now increased items that our council can recycle and the compost bin we have very little landfill waste. All we need now is a larger recycling bin as a standard wheelie bin isn't large enough for two weeks

[Delta Whiskey]

I live in an area containing 84 flats, three of us put out green bags. Says it all really.
The council will start issuing pink bags for plastics from next month, I wonder what the take up will be. I can't imagine having to sort the rubbish out into nine different bags, I just don't have the room in my tiny kitchen, three bags is bad enough.

[Jimmy-J]

This just shows how much the majority of us are living beyond our means. Remember when all we had to dispose of our rubbish was one small tin bin and a coal fire?

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by Product 13

This just shows how much the majority of us are living beyond our means.

No it doesn't.

[joglynne]

Originally Posted by Product 13

This just shows how much the majority of us are living beyond our means. Remember when all we had to dispose of our rubbish was one small tin bin and a coal fire?

Aye, I remember it well, the Milk Man took away the empties and the Rag and Bone man's horse left freebies.

[Jimmy-J]

Originally Posted by joglynne

Aye, I remember it well, the Milk Man took away the empties and the Rag and Bone man's horse left freebies.

The Rag and Bone man gave the kids a balloon or a bow and arrow in exchange for a few rags.

And the bin men would carry the heavy bins on their backs.

[Spectato]

Originally Posted by DaiNasty

I'm guessing that there is no significant profit from most of these recycled materials. If that's the case the councils will be wanting to save money by having us do the work rather than take it to a recycling centre to be sorted.

I'm sure I read somewhere that waste disposal actually became profitable for councils, after compulsory recycling had been introduced.
More likely, this is an attempt to further capitalise on the situation, getting us to do more work for them (whilst paying them ever increasing council tax), so they can have thicker pile carpets and gold taps at chez council offices, and no doubt trim off some staff too.
These 'systems' certainly aren't developed for our convenience.

Well if the worst comes to the worst I'll start removing the packaging at the supermarket and they can pigging well deal with it..most of it is down to them unnecessarily over packaging their goods anyway..

Of course everytime they are taken to task about it they say it's us the customer that wants all this rubbish encasing what we buy.

One example of how they stymie us is the hand pumps for cleaning products where you used to be able to buy a refill and re-use the pumps in the new refill bottles.Now I can't even get the bloody refills so I end up recycling the bottles but have to throw away the sodding pumps. Why should I be penalised for that?

[alferret]

Can we charge the council for storing their plastic bins on our property? £1.00 PW per bin should do it me thinks.

we already have 3 wheelie bins ,1 for general waste ,1 for recycling ,1 for garden waste ,we also have copious bottle/clothes banks ,at least 4 (that i know of)household recycling centers run by the the local authority and 5 (that i know of)major recycling centers run by private companies that are making fortunes out of recycling .I have just paid the local authority £90 for a waste transfer licence to transport old wood windows and glass from the site i work on to the company skips (there are 5 of those) emptied at a cost of £385 per skip on a 2 day cycle (depending on how much work we do) .all of this is taken to one of the private companies ,sorted and sold on (clear glass is worth about £30 per ton i think)

so if any dipstick from the the Newcastle L.A turns up at my house with another bin and asks me to further sort my rubbish so they can make even more money out of me then i will recycle a few council officials