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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I have three wheelie bins. Green for general household, Blue for paper, wrappings tins and cardbooard, plastics etc. brown for garden waste. Small unlidded green box for glass. Two a fortnight are emptied.
Got a note today saying all food and drink tins and plastic bottles are now to be put in the weeniest box with the glass. So an open bin with rinsed out food containers open to rats and cats and foxes standing around for a fortnight while the other bins are practically empty. When did we go back to open rubbish bins? Councils are mental.
I was a girl in the sixties - the bins were emptied twice a week by hand into the dustcarts.
More money they get the more they can't control services. Too many shirts sitting around thinking up crap schemes. |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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I am ashamed I only do the green bin with grass cuttings etc.. and the grey bin with everything else..
not the wee box with tins, papers etc.
I will burn in hell lol  |
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we have green bin for garden, brown for bottles, plastic and tins, grey for garden waste, bins for paper and bins for cardboard. Oh and pink bags for fabrics
Shouldn't they be paying us for sorting? |
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I went to my local recycling dump the other day, there are SIX stocky guys in security uniforms and bright yellow plastic vests pointing out the various piles and skips you put your wood/metal/garden waste/glass etc. in.
They stand there and watch women and old folks struggling to lift old televisions and heavy bits of wood out of their cars without ever offering to help give a hand.
When I asked this six and a half foot brick shithouse of a security guy to give me a hand with a heavy microwave he shook his head and declared that he is not allowed to handle waste!
What a caring world we live in! |
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By *iewMan
over a year ago
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"I went to my local recycling dump the other day, there are SIX stocky guys in security uniforms and bright yellow plastic vests pointing out the various piles and skips you put your wood/metal/garden waste/glass etc. in.
They stand there and watch women and old folks struggling to lift old televisions and heavy bits of wood out of their cars without ever offering to help give a hand.
When I asked this six and a half foot brick shithouse of a security guy to give me a hand with a heavy microwave he shook his head and declared that he is not allowed to handle waste!
What a caring world we live in!"
Health and Safety Jane ... health and safety.
and being bone idle.. bless him |
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By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago
North of The Wall - youll need your vest |
"hmmmmm n then they chuck em all in the same crusher machine.  "
And thats what drives me batty!
Have no objections at all to the recycling - other than I hate with a passion people that leave their bins out all the time cos they are too bleedin' lazy to take them back inside - but complete waste of time when they just chuck everything into the back of the same truck... |
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By *edhotminxWoman
over a year ago
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In my local recycling centre they are very helpful. That's because if anything is half decent, it's taken away from the waste area and walked across the road to the recycling shop, where they then sell it.
The old saying of where's there muck there's brass is very true, as this place is always busy with people buying stuff cheap. |
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"I went to my local recycling dump the other day, there are SIX stocky guys in security uniforms and bright yellow plastic vests pointing out the various piles and skips you put your wood/metal/garden waste/glass etc. in.
They stand there and watch women and old folks struggling to lift old televisions and heavy bits of wood out of their cars without ever offering to help give a hand.
When I asked this six and a half foot brick shithouse of a security guy to give me a hand with a heavy microwave he shook his head and declared that he is not allowed to handle waste!
What a caring world we live in!"
The guys our way are brill, practically empty my car for me, whilst stand around, it's great |
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"I went to my local recycling dump the other day, there are SIX stocky guys in security uniforms and bright yellow plastic vests pointing out the various piles and skips you put your wood/metal/garden waste/glass etc. in.
They stand there and watch women and old folks struggling to lift old televisions and heavy bits of wood out of their cars without ever offering to help give a hand.
When I asked this six and a half foot brick shithouse of a security guy to give me a hand with a heavy microwave he shook his head and declared that he is not allowed to handle waste!
What a caring world we live in!
The guys our way are brill, practically empty my car for me, whilst stand around, it's great"
Only because you are flashing them....put yer tits away woman!
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"I went to my local recycling dump the other day, there are SIX stocky guys in security uniforms and bright yellow plastic vests pointing out the various piles and skips you put your wood/metal/garden waste/glass etc. in.
They stand there and watch women and old folks struggling to lift old televisions and heavy bits of wood out of their cars without ever offering to help give a hand.
When I asked this six and a half foot brick shithouse of a security guy to give me a hand with a heavy microwave he shook his head and declared that he is not allowed to handle waste!
What a caring world we live in!
The guys our way are brill, practically empty my car for me, whilst stand around, it's great
Only because you are flashing them....put yer tits away woman!
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I have a long standing issue with my wheelie bin and this thread has re-opened old wounds for me.
Steve (that's what my wheelie bin calls himself) hates me. Granted I don't clean him much at all and he is made to stand on my drive in all kinds of weather. I also allow spiders (Rosie) to make their homes on his head.
But he really really hates me! Every bin day I walk him up to the end of the drive and give him a little pat on his lil head and every night I find the fucking ingreat half way down the street in a pathetic bid to escape me.
Screw you Steve!!!
As for the other two, I'm not sure why they are there, I don't speak to them. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I am ashamed I only do the green bin with grass cuttings etc.. and the grey bin with everything else..
not the wee box with tins, papers etc.
I will burn in hell lol "
£1000 fine if you put polystyrene in the blue bin!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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we have 4 seperate bins .one for cardboard,one for newspapers,another for tins and the other for everything else.there is not one for plastics which is supposed to be one of the items that we should be recycling and there was a bin for this at our last house.if one councill is recycling one item but the other councill isnt what is the point .fact is all the recycling plants are full and nobody wants it so it will all end up in landfill anyway or transported abroad.complete waste of time |
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By *orestersCouple
over a year ago
The Forest |
I wish we had bins  All we get round here are two lots of bin bags - clear for recyclables and black for other. It's a pain lugging them all up the drive on bin-day and the local bloody cats rip them apart if you leave them out the night before. Admittedly, most of them are my cats, but still |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I wish we had bins All we get round here are two lots of bin bags - clear for recyclables and black for other. It's a pain lugging them all up the drive on bin-day and the local bloody cats rip them apart if you leave them out the night before. Admittedly, most of them are my cats, but still "
Its a pain in the arse storing them outside in an inconspicuous place - then you have to wash them out. Where did all of this rubbish come from? We used to chuck most of it on the open coal fire!!!
The sixties are becoming more attractive the older I get. We even had a park keeper who used to chase us off the bowling green - how did they afford all of these luxuries and services in those days???
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We don't have bins. We have bags. Pink for re-cycle waste. Black for food and non-recyclable. Clear for clothes.
The local tip are great. The guys there lift stuff for you, tell you where to put it, and don't care if you turn up with a big van full of stuff. |
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another note on composting bins sorry to be boring you can get granules so your bin will rot everything down in about six weeks,though warm weather will break everything down a lot quicker,and layer green waste with brown ,the green being veg waste brown being caerdboard and paper.it does actually work a treat. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"another note on composting bins sorry to be boring you can get granules so your bin will rot everything down in about six weeks,though warm weather will break everything down a lot quicker,and layer green waste with brown ,the green being veg waste brown being caerdboard and paper.it does actually work a treat. "
Composting is great I love it! I use those granules in winter and dont add any material to it from Novemberish till spring so it rots down. I stand it next to a veggie patch so all the liquid nutrients drain into the soil as the compost forms. |
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mines on my veg patch too.Isometimes put a sackful of fresh manure straight in my bin,it heats up and helps the process.all my seeds are planted in my home made compost they did fine last year.also make leaf mould,autumn leaves in black bags with a bit of water and stored away under the decking for a year or two great for your borders |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"mines on my veg patch too.Isometimes put a sackful of fresh manure straight in my bin,it heats up and helps the process.all my seeds are planted in my home made compost they did fine last year.also make leaf mould,autumn leaves in black bags with a bit of water and stored away under the decking for a year or two great for your borders"
Gardenings great isn't it you just chill out and mull things over without any other distractions. Then the thrill of just going outside and picking what you eat as the season progresses and choosing what you fancy not whats in the fridge |
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By *edhotminxWoman
over a year ago
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ok, I have to confess ........ I had a wormery. Simple to use, or so they said. Can't go wrong, or so they said.
Well after going back to get new worms, cos I managed to massacre the whole colony twice (which they said wasn't ever heard of before), I gave up and donated the whole thing to my neighbour.
So the council gets all my stuff and the worms are safe.
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"mines on my veg patch too.Isometimes put a sackful of fresh manure straight in my bin,it heats up and helps the process.all my seeds are planted in my home made compost they did fine last year.also make leaf mould,autumn leaves in black bags with a bit of water and stored away under the decking for a year or two great for your borders
Gardenings great isn't it you just chill out and mull things over without any other distractions. Then the thrill of just going outside and picking what you eat as the season progresses and choosing what you fancy not whats in the fridge "
I love it its a total distraction for me too I love growning my own !fab! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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recycling hasnt hit my little space on the south coast yet... ive just got 4 big wheelie bins to chose from and i put all my rubbish in one of them always recycle my bottles glass and cans tho at the local tip |
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"hmmmmm n then they chuck em all in the same crusher machine. "
here they collect paper box and can/plastic box on same round every fortnight ... thought odd they went in same dustcart but then did notice the inside was partitioned such that the paper and tin/plastic was separated |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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In Gloucester, we have a small brown box for food waste which ive never used and never will, the large green wheelie bin for grass which probably only gets filled once a year as im not much of a gardener, a black wheelie bin for household rubbish that they empty once a fortnight and a small box for glass, plastic bottles they empty on a weekly basis. I find it confusing because i can put cardboard in the small box but do they mean cereal boxes or brown boxes? Also why does the wheelie bin with household rubbish get emptied fornightly but the green wheelie bin every week totally illogical to me |
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"I have a long standing issue with my wheelie bin and this thread has re-opened old wounds for me.
Steve (that's what my wheelie bin calls himself) hates me. Granted I don't clean him much at all and he is made to stand on my drive in all kinds of weather. I also allow spiders (Rosie) to make their homes on his head.
But he really really hates me! Every bin day I walk him up to the end of the drive and give him a little pat on his lil head and every night I find the fucking ingreat half way down the street in a pathetic bid to escape me.
Screw you Steve!!!
As for the other two, I'm not sure why they are there, I don't speak to them."
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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If you think that is bad here the council do not collect plastic for recycling. Considering this is 80% of my waste its a bit crap.
They do say, oh but you can drive down to the local tip and put it in the recycling there... yeah 40,000+ people doing that each week in their cars is actually going to be more damaging than throwing it in the black bin bag. (they don't even have wheely bins here, just bags...)
Where I used to be in the Midlands it was really well done, I filled a black wheely bin every 6 months with none recyclable waste! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Am in a flat, no ground floor space just lots of stairs, our huge bins are microchipped, council wrote threatening a £1000 fine if rubbish is not sorted correctly.
Bins for all the flats are stored in a car park which has free access to anyone and at least 6 comercial premises who fill the bins.
When I got the letter I went to council and had a quite word......they came and actually checked I was telling the truth about flats, stairs, commercial rubbish etc., etc.,...all they said was "We can see your problem"
The only polite thing I said was "My problem?" If I told the rest of what i said in the forum I would probably get banned lol
Not heard from them since they got a very strong mouthful of verbal abuse five months ago |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"If you think that is bad here the council do not collect plastic for recycling. Considering this is 80% of my waste its a bit crap.
They do say, oh but you can drive down to the local tip and put it in the recycling there... yeah 40,000+ people doing that each week in their cars is actually going to be more damaging than throwing it in the black bin bag. (they don't even have wheely bins here, just bags...)
Where I used to be in the Midlands it was really well done, I filled a black wheely bin every 6 months with none recyclable waste! "
The green issue of recycling makes me smile. All containers have to be rinsed out (so that means using water - if cold water doesnt work you have to use the gas to heat it)Then if the bins are full you are not allowed to leave bin bags so households have to drive to tip using cars leaving a carbon footprint. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have 2 bins, the blue is for, plastic, card, paper, cans and tins the black is for food etc, Glass is not collected, I have to take that to a recycling centre or find a car park with a glass recycling bin in and as for garden refuse I have to contact the council to bring me green plastic sacks and pay the council to take them away when filled |
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By *plpxp2Couple
over a year ago
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Well a green bin for rubbish, a dark green one for garden waste (they stopped accepting veg peelings etc), a blue bag for paper (cards without glitter but not shredded paper), a clear plastic back for plastic bottles etc and cardboard and finally a green box for tins and bottles, all collected fortnightly. Its a nightmare to store it all  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a bag for cardboard
A box for glass and cans
A bag for plastic bottles
A general waste bin
A garden waste bin
And a food scrap waste bucket
Six in total and i read the other day that parts of stoke on Trent have up to nine different containers
Crazy xx |
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Just 4 different bins here-blue boxes for glass, tins, & fizzy drink bottles, brown for wood, card etc, black for everything else, and a grey tub for food waste(eeewww, no way Im having food lie about for a week!)
Wish they would standardise colours everywhere though |
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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago
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Well I get a green box for glass, plastics and metal cans, a green back for paper, a red bag for batteries and other stuff has to go into a black bag which we have to supply ourselves. However, during the winter when we have fires, paper is usually a fire starting fuel! Tins of both sorts are saven and taken to the metal recyclers myself, especially the aluminium ones! After all, it`s what the council do so I just as well have the dosh myself! I used to compost vegetable matter but thanks to next door`s managerie I have a rat problem. I don`t like putting poison down as I have cat that`s quite a good ratter.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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its all to do with contamination.
if the resident sorts out all the recycling for the authority the better the recycling credit and a lower gate fee for the authority. It also depends on whether they have a access to a multi recycling facility where mixed recycling can go and the recyclates are sorted mechanically.
ok now? lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I have a bag for cardboard
A box for glass and cans
A bag for plastic bottles
A general waste bin
A garden waste bin
And a food scrap waste bucket
Six in total and i read the other day that parts of stoke on Trent have up to nine different containers
Crazy xx "
Do you have a bin just for yur condoms soapy ?? hahaha  |
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