We put our cat's used litter as well as anyone else's poo that I find in the garden into the black bin (bagged). I found out recently that it goes here not to landfill, and they apparently extract plastics and metals, turn the organic matter into compost and the rest into fuel. This possibly explains why they don't seem to have any incentive to take non-bottle-shaped plastics in the recycling bin, or to provide separate food waste collection bins.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The govt really need to co-ordinate waste and recycling services and not leave it all to councils. Forty years down the line it's crazy that there isn't more organisation and it's so ad hoc.
The govt really need to co-ordinate waste and recycling services and not leave it all to councils. Forty years down the line it's crazy that there isn't more organisation and it's so ad hoc.
Trouble is, if all councils were forced to do the same, it'd end up at the lowest level not the highest. (Cynical eh??)
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
The govt really need to co-ordinate waste and recycling services and not leave it all to councils. Forty years down the line it's crazy that there isn't more organisation and it's so ad hoc.
Trouble is, if all councils were forced to do the same, it'd end up at the lowest level not the highest. (Cynical eh??)
Or the councils would say " due to government legislation we have to increase our council tax charges " Everyone is happy to pass the buck back and forward in local / central government.
We pay for a garden waste bin, makes it better to get brambles away, prunings away only had to pay in the last few years as before it was green waste bags council sacks, made it easier to get all around garden than a bin, so we fill garden bags then empty into the bin, also some bits from the allotment go into there as well, as you have to book a tip trip now
Well, I reckon you're all really lucky to have green waste collected, whether or not you have to pay (and I do think it's fair to pay for a service which you need but your neighbours don't). Here in Ireland there's no green waste collection, paid for or otherwise, unless you live in a biggish town. I can take my dock roots etc to the local tip, but have to pay €7 per rubbish sack to recycle them. And it's illegal to have a bonfire...
At my previous home in West Yorks there was, in theory, green waste collection for a fee. However, our lane was too narrow for the appropriate wagon to negotiate (they had a special small truck for normal waste and recycling, because a lot of the side roads were very narrow and steep, but it wouldn't take bags of green waste). I offered to take my bags to the side of the nearest main road for collection, but that wouldn't do, apparently.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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Trouble is, if all councils were forced to do the same, it'd end up at the lowest level not the highest. (Cynical eh??)
Everyone is happy to pass the buck back and forward in local / central government.
At my previous home in West Yorks there was, in theory, green waste collection for a fee. However, our lane was too narrow for the appropriate wagon to negotiate (they had a special small truck for normal waste and recycling, because a lot of the side roads were very narrow and steep, but it wouldn't take bags of green waste). I offered to take my bags to the side of the nearest main road for collection, but that wouldn't do, apparently.