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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago
Over the rainbow, under the bridge |
"does anyone know what day their bin gets emptied, or do you just copy your neighbour?"
Our local council regularly sends out a calendar. Mine is on my fridge door. This week it is black, blue and green bins. Next week it is green and brown. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"does anyone know what day their bin gets emptied, or do you just copy your neighbour?
Our local council regularly sends out a calendar. Mine is on my fridge door. This week it is black, blue and green bins. Next week it is green and brown."
Similar to us, we get a calendar of the collection days  |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"What are the different coloured bins? We have a black bin and a green food bin but that's it."
It varies from area to area.
Where I am now has grey/black bins for regular rubbish and green bins for recycling. We also have a green tub for glass collection. Food is not collected here but compost bins are available from the council at a discount.
Norwich has green bins for regular waste and grey bins for recycling. That really confuses me! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"does anyone know what day their bin gets emptied, or do you just copy your neighbour?
Our local council regularly sends out a calendar. Mine is on my fridge door. This week it is black, blue and green bins. Next week it is green and brown."
How many bins do you need?  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"thursday..thats if they can be bothered
we have the same bin men I think!"
dont know why they bother, they leave most of it on the road..i really do wonder what i pay my council tax on  |
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By *andWCouple
over a year ago
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"What are the different coloured bins? We have a black bin and a green food bin but that's it.
It varies from area to area.
Where I am now has grey/black bins for regular rubbish and green bins for recycling. We also have a green tub for glass collection. Food is not collected here but compost bins are available from the council at a discount.
Norwich has green bins for regular waste and grey bins for recycling. That really confuses me!"
Thankyou. Wish we had bins for our recycling, we need to keep them all in the black bin and carry the bags out, recycling every week, and every fortnight you can add your black bags. |
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Previous occupant of my house was on the assistance list so even if I forget or decide it's not got enough in to worry about the binmen take it anyway.
Has been handy this year while I've been below par.  |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
I really ought to go out and get my bins in. Collection day was yesterday but I couldn't be arsed to wrestle them back into place last night, (it involves having to lift them both up onto a step about a foot high). Hauling smelly great wheelie bins around rates quite low on my fun things to do scale. |
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By *andWCouple
over a year ago
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"What are the different coloured bins? We have a black bin and a green food bin but that's it.
Blue is paper and brown is plastic and glass bottles."
That's a lot of bins, do you keep seperate bins for them in your houses or go out to the big bins every time? |
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We have 3 bins. Green for household rubbish. Brown bin for garden waste and a blue recycling bin. Our council provide a bin hanger at the beginning of the year stating what bins what week. Pleased hubby puts ours out. Lol. |
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Mine are collected on a Friday and I always remember.
We have a small kitchen food bin in the house and when the bags are full these go in the bigger food bin in the garden.
A big black box for tins and jars and glass bottles, a white bag for plastics and a green bag for paper.
'Residual' waste i.e. anything else goes in my allowance of 5 black bin liners per fortnight but usually only use 3. They did change to wheelibins a while ago but because my garden has the grand total of 2 steps we didn't get one.
The residual waste is taken fortnightly and all the recycling and food waste is taken weekly. |
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"We have to pay for garden waste collection. Then the council composts it and sells the compost!
Gits."
Same here. I have to go to the council buildings and buy garden waste sacks at around £2 per bag, and then the idea is the recycling people will collect them on the usual waste collection day. |
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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago
Somewhere in North Norfolk |
"We have to pay for garden waste collection. Then the council composts it and sells the compost!
Gits.
Same here. I have to go to the council buildings and buy garden waste sacks at around £2 per bag, and then the idea is the recycling people will collect them on the usual waste collection day."
I think ours is a subscription service, paid up front - so paid for whether you use it every fortnight or not. I think it was £24 last year, which allowed one bag (of a set size) per fortnight. It has probably increased in price this year. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"does anyone know what day their bin gets emptied, or do you just copy your neighbour?"
Fortnightly Tuesdays you dare not risk missing it if you had to wait another 2 weeks.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I usually find that I get woken up by them then run out in my dressing gown and ask them what colour bins they are emptying"
I'll bet your bin men love that.  |
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