Our council seems to be pretty good. It collects, if you wish, EVERY WEEK, general refuse (up to 15 black sacks per household), paper and card recycling, general recycling (tins, glass, plastics, foil), and garden and kitchen waste. They also collect large items, at a cost. All from kerbside.
our recycling is collected every week and rubbish every fortnight. It takes me about 8 weeks to fill a carrier bag of rubbish. I've never used my food waste bin
I've been a concierge in a large AirBnB for over 2.5 years (Retirement? What retirement?) and not once, NOT ONE TIME has the recycling been done correctly by families, old folk, youngsters, black, white or in between. Just doesn't happen. The poor groundsman has to go through each and every bin picking out tissues, dirty nappies, unmention-in-polite-companiables! People are lazy.
@Lizzie27 Holy Cr*p on a cracker! Never mind crumbs. Bless you. Could you try pleading insanity......
We have a recycling bin in which paper/cardboard tins and some plastics are allowed. Figuring out which types are or are not allowed is a minefield. We place the simplest things in and the rest goes in the other household bin. Our household waste goes to an incineratory energy recovery jobbie. It is a magnificent beautiful structure at least ha ha! So I figure all the burned stuff is not wasted, even if it could be legitimately "recycled"in the green lidded bin
Where we live there is paid for option of garden waste recycle collection. But it is apparently "fully subscribed" you need to go on a waiting list. We cannot get a paid for garden recycle bin. Yet there are around 14 to 20 houses on each close/ short road on our estate. I count the nearest which have two or three bins collected. None in our road subscibe, or like us can't get it perhaps. Really poor use of resources? A bin lorry to collect two or three bins out of 60 houses? Even paid for can't be right .
Glass we have to take to local supermarkets or some other car parks that have bins. The local waste management recycling centre (TIP in olde language) no longer has glass bins....
Our recycling is paper, card, tin cans, aerosols and plastic bottles. No yogurt containers or any other plastic so we're spared the worry of the 'wrong' plastic. Glass in a separate container. Collected fortnightly. Alternates with garden waste (sign up and pay) and general waste. We have wheelie bins. At the moment we are in dispute with the council cos bin men have managed to dislodge the top bricks of our gate pillar due to careless bin handling.
We used to have those stupid 'bags' for various items to recycle. One for plastics and one for paper, if I recall. They spent most of their time being blown everywhere after being emptied. Absolutely useless, especially when the binmen couldn't be bothered putting them back where they got them, and often just threw them in the general direction.... We now have a separate bin for each type of waste, on a three week cycle. I rarely have to put the paper one out, as most gets composted. I only use the garden waste one for stuff I can't compost easily, or use elsewhere in the garden, and of course - for bones from meat, or layers of fat [boak] which don't get eaten. Chicken carcasses are the usual one. It's quite clear what can and can't be recycled here, and it's on the council website, but I think many people just can't be a*sed. It would help if every area had the same facilities, but that simply isn't possible. If a top notch facility which can recycle everything, is 50 or 100 miles away, it isn't environmentally friendly, or feasible, to take it all there. Rock and hard place. The companies which package goods need to be reliably consistent, especially with plastics, so that every item we buy is using the same, recyclable product, but I can't see that happening any time soon.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Plus also, and this isn't a dig at Brexit, but around Brexit time they showed on the news down here the recyclable 'stuff' that had been bundled up and was sitting at the port waiting shipping 'somewhere' to be dealt with.
Even that hasn't pleased the environmental lobby, although they seem incapable of coming up with a practical alternative.
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There will always be 'stuff' which needs to be disposed of. A solution for the landfill problem was needed now, not in the airy fairy future envisaged by some.
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It takes me about 8 weeks to fill a carrier bag of rubbish.
I've never used my food waste bin
People are lazy.
Holy Cr*p on a cracker! Never mind crumbs.
Bless you. Could you try pleading insanity......
We have a recycling bin in which paper/cardboard tins and some plastics are allowed.
Figuring out which types are or are not allowed is a minefield.
We place the simplest things in and the rest goes in the other household bin.
Our household waste goes to an incineratory energy recovery jobbie.
It is a magnificent beautiful structure at least ha ha!
So I figure all the burned stuff is not wasted, even if it could be legitimately "recycled"in the green lidded bin
Where we live there is paid for option of garden waste recycle collection. But it is apparently "fully subscribed" you need to go on a waiting list.
We cannot get a paid for garden recycle bin.
Yet there are around 14 to 20 houses on each close/ short road on our estate.
I count the nearest which have two or three bins collected. None in our road subscibe, or like us can't get it perhaps.
Really poor use of resources?
A bin lorry to collect two or three bins out of 60 houses? Even paid for can't be right .
Glass we have to take to local supermarkets or some other car parks that have bins.
The local waste management recycling centre (TIP in olde language) no longer has glass bins....
We now have a separate bin for each type of waste, on a three week cycle. I rarely have to put the paper one out, as most gets composted. I only use the garden waste one for stuff I can't compost easily, or use elsewhere in the garden, and of course - for bones from meat, or layers of fat [boak] which don't get eaten. Chicken carcasses are the usual one.
It's quite clear what can and can't be recycled here, and it's on the council website, but I think many people just can't be a*sed.
It would help if every area had the same facilities, but that simply isn't possible. If a top notch facility which can recycle everything, is 50 or 100 miles away, it isn't environmentally friendly, or feasible, to take it all there. Rock and hard place. The companies which package goods need to be reliably consistent, especially with plastics, so that every item we buy is using the same, recyclable product, but I can't see that happening any time soon.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There will always be 'stuff' which needs to be disposed of. A solution for the landfill problem was needed now, not in the airy fairy future envisaged by some.