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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mr Skrunts on 05 February 2025, 06:36:03
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In the news again - Monthly Collections being considered in Bristol and now Dundee. :-X
Mine are :-
week 1 Pink - Food & Non Recyclable :y
week 2 Black - Tins & Glass :y
week 3 Pink - as above :y
week 4 Green - Cardboard & Paper :y
Works well for me.
News doesn't mention which bin it is, so assuming it's the Food/Non Recyclable.
Going monthly in summer may create vermin issues. But there are 2 options not mentioned. :-X
1st is to apply for a 2nd bin.
2nd is to supply larger capacity bins.
Either way the bin lorries will have to be modified or replaced as they will be required to cope with double the amount of waste if the rounds are halved. Unless the rounds are split into 2 groups/teams to serve the regions areas.
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What is wrong with people?
We get alternate collections
Week1 general waste
Week2 recycling and a paid for garden waste.
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Is the idea to get people to create less food and non reciclable waste?
As an aside my adopted country isn’t meeting its recycling targets set by mother in Brussels. So they are seriously considering supermarkets charging deposits on plastic and glass and introducing I store refund machines.
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we have 4 bins
grey ... general waste
blue ... glass, cans & plastic pots/bottles etc
green .... paper
These are all every 3 weeks
The brown bin is for garden waste & food waste which is collected ever other week
I don't think the deposit idea for supermarkets is a bad idea ..... it's them that create most of the packaging material in the first place. Years back when I was a kid & supermarkets had yet to become a thing, everyone managed with just 1 dustbin.
I see the amount of packaging that we use at work ie shrink wrap on a pallet. This is the wrap that still wraps a pallet of cans that are now in a cardboard pack on the supermarket shelves .... Joe Public is happy because he believes there is now less plastic packaging on the product.
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Sustainable aviation is pure marketing wank of the highest order.
The only catering things not incinerated into the UK are china, metal cutlery and linen.
Unopened juice, water etc is only kept if there's no opened ones in the same box or any other waste. Everything else? Yup, burned or poured down the toilets before landing. Legally half drunk drinks can't be collected to be used to make bio fuel. It all goes to waste.
We don't even collect recycling on board because it's all contaminated. :-X
Even before Brexit, waste was separated into Non EU, EU and domestic. I suspect it was the whole foot in mouth disease that started that.
If our local council can collect everything in one of two bins, I don't understand why no one else is capable. They've been doing it for over 20 years. It all goes to a county level plant where it's sorted and sold on. The revenue generated goes to help fund the whole thing. Even the garden waste gets put to use.
As for the whole separate bin lorry thing, don't you believe it. One lorry collects ALL the recycling waste and another one the garden stuff. Doesn't matter which lorry does what, they all get filled up the same. Obviously if one is doing recycling, that's what they do for the day, but the following day the same vehicle could be doing landfill.
If anyones council has a dedicated vehicle for each type of recycling then they're taking the piss and need holding to account.
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For us in South Somerset....
Weekly, on a Wednesday ... Brown Bin = Food Waste, Blue Bin = Plastic & Tin Cans, Black Bin = Cardboard & Glass
2 Weekly, on a Tuesday ... Green Wheelie Bin = Garden Waste
3 Weekly, on a Wednesday ... Black Wheelie Bin = Everything else
Basically, driving home on a Monday and Tuesday night you have to look out for what colour bins the neighbors have put out, hope they've got it right, and copy them.
I suspect Bristol are talking about the Black wheelie bin going 4 weekly.
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Sustainable aviation Roadside recycling is pure marketing wank of the highest order.
Fixed that for you. Once you get past metal, glass and certain large plastics, anyone who thinks an entire dust cart full of other mixed materials(let alone mixed types of materials) is actually separated, sorted, cleaned and sent somewhere to be turned into new material is deluded. What they're actually doing is spending your money to make you feel better about being a consumer that throws shit away. I'd suggest this ought to be called The Trump Effect, but I'd hear the cries of but he's so wonderful without needing the internet ::)
Why are those three thing worth actually sorting?
Metal - recycling is the same process a making it in the first place, but using less energy and without the need to dig up the base materials.
Plastic - large items(like car bumpers) that are large, well labelled and unlikely to be covered in organic contaminants, can be ground up, dissolved in original solvents and used as filler for lower grade products.
Glass - it's basically everlasting and there's no shortage of sand to make it. But melting it down and making new bottles is better than dumping it in landfill for eternity. What they don't tell you is recycling after one use instead of the possible several hundred is yet more marketing wank to make you feel better.
Paper - it's made from cheap softwood grown as a crop. Doing that is a dirty process that uses a lot of water. Recycling it is a really dirty process that uses even more water and chemicals to make bottom grade products like newsprint and packaging cardboard. Any paper contaminated with organic waste goes straight in their bin after being in yours. That includes all the expensive stuff like magazines or fancy outer packaging as they can't viably remove the clay that makes it shiny
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What is wrong with people?
We get alternate collections
Week1 general waste
Week2 recycling and a paid for garden waste.
Originally free.
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Since we had a whole day of snow last month, our bin collections are all to cock. The streets are full of bins of various colours, because no one knows when they're going to turn up and which bin they will choose to empty when they do.
Labour run Barnsley.
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What is wrong with people?
We get alternate collections
Week1 general waste
Week2 recycling and a paid for garden waste.
Originally free.
True but you can still take stuff to the tip for free. £4.50 a month is small price to pay for not having to do that...
£2.25 per collection.
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Since we had a whole day of snow last month, our bin collections are all to cock. The streets are full of bins of various colours, because no one knows when they're going to turn up and which bin they will choose to empty when they do.
Labour run Barnsley.
If only there was a universally available resource where the latest schedules could be posted for anyone who needs the information.
Imagine how cool it would be if you could access that information at no cost from a small screen you carry around with you.
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Since we had a whole day of snow last month, our bin collections are all to cock. The streets are full of bins of various colours, because no one knows when they're going to turn up and which bin they will choose to empty when they do.
Labour run Barnsley.
If only there was a universally available resource where the latest schedules could be posted for anyone who needs the information.
Imagine how cool it would be if you could access that information at no cost from a small screen you carry around with you.
It's there, on the council website. "Leave you bins out and we'll empty them when we can. Abuse of council staff will not be tolerated. Have a nice day" ;D
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Since we had a whole day of snow last month, our bin collections are all to cock. The streets are full of bins of various colours, because no one knows when they're going to turn up and which bin they will choose to empty when they do.
Labour run Barnsley.
If only there was a universally available resource where the latest schedules could be posted for anyone who needs the information.
Imagine how cool it would be if you could access that information at no cost from a small screen you carry around with you.
I get an emial every week to tell me which bin is collected that week :y
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That tells you just how over complicated the system is.
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I've been paying St Edmunbsbury B.C. to empty my brown garden waste bin for the last ten years.
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Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍
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Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍
Our black sacks, garden/food waste in a brown bin and paper/plastic/glass recycling are collected on Thursdays. I put it out when I get home from practice Wednesday evening and it's gone by about 11:00.
Large items are by arrangement.
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With the shenanigans of the last few weeks, I'm going to try to crush my cans and bottles and rip up my cardboard and try to get it all into household waste. There's only two of us, so should be possible. Fùck recycling.
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With the shenanigans of the last few weeks, I'm going to try to crush my cans and bottles and rip up my cardboard and try to get it all into household waste. There's only two of us, so should be possible. Fùck recycling.
You dirty bastard. :o Think of the little children! ::) :P ;D
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Now I'm being accused of being a dirty bastard with little children :o
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Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍
How's that simple?
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Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍
How's that simple?
Ours really is simple. Alternate Mondays = Green Recycling Bin and Brown Garden Waste bin. Alternate other Mondays = Grey General Bin. Food bin is emptied EVERY week on a Monday so goes out alongside whatever bin is due that week. We have a Binzone App that tells you what bin is due, just in case you forget.
I put out the bins for my 91 year old neighbour and he has next to no rubbish, which means over the busy Christmas period I can put any overflow from my bin in to his. ;D
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Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍
How's that simple?
Ours really is simple. Alternate Mondays = Green Recycling Bin and Brown Garden Waste bin. Alternate other Mondays = Grey General Bin. Food bin is emptied EVERY week on a Monday so goes out alongside whatever bin is due that week. We have a Binzone App that tells you what bin is due, just in case you forget.
I put out the bins for my 91 year old neighbour and he has next to no rubbish, which means over the busy Christmas period I can put any overflow from my bin in to his. ;D
Indeed anyone with an ounce of common sense can cope with bin collections, simples 👍 Our council tried to change days etc but dropped the idea , our waste collection guys do a really good job.
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Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍
How's that simple?
Ours really is simple. Alternate Mondays = Green Recycling Bin and Brown Garden Waste bin. Alternate other Mondays = Grey General Bin. Food bin is emptied EVERY week on a Monday so goes out alongside whatever bin is due that week. We have a Binzone App that tells you what bin is due, just in case you forget.
I put out the bins for my 91 year old neighbour and he has next to no rubbish, which means over the busy Christmas period I can put any overflow from my bin in to his. ;D
Indeed anyone with an ounce of common sense can cope with bin collections, simples 👍 Our council tried to change days etc but dropped the idea , our waste collection guys do a really good job.
I think DG was referring to the fact that you have 3 different bin days in one week, or 3 different bin days every fortnight. :y
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Been exactly the same system for the last 38 years , so I think I'm kinda used to it, brown bin for garden rubbish started about 12 years ago for £50 a year and is brilliant no trips to the tip anymore.
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Been exactly the same system for the last 38 years , so I think I'm kinda used to it. 👍
Got it off pat after the first 20 eh, Mick ;D
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Been exactly the same system for the last 38 years , so I think I'm kinda used to it. 👍
Got it off pat after the first 20 eh, Mick ;D
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Yes easy , got my daily routine all worked out for each day of the week creature of habit..😂
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Been exactly the same system for the last 38 years , so I think I'm kinda used to it, brown bin for garden rubbish started about 12 years ago for £50 a year and is brilliant no trips to the tip anymore.
Ours started 10 years ago and cost £45, just had my reminder and it's £76 this year. :-\
That's still only £1.46 a time though, so still cheaper than going to the tip which is about 10 miles away. :)
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Been exactly the same system for the last 38 years , so I think I'm kinda used to it, brown bin for garden rubbish started about 12 years ago for £50 a year and is brilliant no trips to the tip anymore.
Ours started 10 years ago and cost £45, just had my reminder and it's £76 this year. :-\
That's still only £1.46 a time though, so still cheaper than going to the tip which is about 10 miles away. :)
Have you never heard of a garden bonfire? You can then paint your green bin whatever colour the general waste bin is and put two out.
No need to thank me.
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Talking of Wheelie Bins, my neighbours are having their whole driveway re-done so I said that they could park both of their cars on my driveway as I have the space and they can both come and go as they please without interfering with us. I also suggested putting their wheelie bins on our side of the fence so that they can just lean over the fence to put their rubbish in their own bins.
Anyway, the second evening that she parked down our driveway I heard a scraping noise as she parked. She had hit her own bins and pinned them against our house wall. ;D ;D I didn’t go out in case I embarrassed her but luckily no damage to anything.
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Why can't the different authorities standardise the colour of wheelie bins? Seems a simple idea to me...
Our collection day is always on a Thursday with general waste in a grey bin - empied fortnightly, paper / cardboard is blue, and glass /tins/ plastics in the brown bin emptied every alternate fortnight with the blue. Garden waste
is (green) is fortnightly - £35 a year per bin. Plus they provide an idiot sheet so the correct bin is put on on the correct day. Quite simple really.
Yet I go to my parents 25 miles away, but in a different county and the colours are totally different. And cardboard can't go in with paper (??), tins go in with general waste......
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Talking of Wheelie Bins, my neighbours are having their whole driveway re-done so I said that they could park both of their cars on my driveway as I have the space and they can both come and go as they please without interfering with us. I also suggested putting their wheelie bins on our side of the fence so that they can just lean over the fence to put their rubbish in their own bins.
Anyway, the second evening that she parked down our driveway I heard a scraping noise as she parked. She had hit her own bins and pinned them against our house wall. ;D ;D I didn’t go out in case I embarrassed her but luckily no damage to anything.
A few weeks-ago, on bin collection day, I reversed off the drive in the Omega forgetting that they had just been emptied, and I reversed into a bin that had been randomly dumped on the middle of the drive after been half flung there from the back of the bin wagon after being emptied....
My fault, as I should have checked better, but nevertheless the little dent on the boot lid under the lip spoiler still pi$$es me off...
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Years ago I lived in Bedminster, Bristol, an area of Victorian terraces with street parking and finding a space could be tricky at times, especially after work. :-\
A bloke up the road used to put his wheelie bin in the space outside his house and I always reversed straight in with my trusty old Rover 216D and pushed the wheelie bin out of the way. I always carefully put his bin back outside his house where it should have been. :)
One evening I did this, and was just putting his bin in it's place before heading up to my house, looked up and he was standing in his window staring angrily at me! :D
I gave him a cheery wave and a grin and buggered off! ;D
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Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍
How's that simple?
Ours really is simple. Alternate Mondays = Green Recycling Bin and Brown Garden Waste bin. Alternate other Mondays = Grey General Bin. Food bin is emptied EVERY week on a Monday so goes out alongside whatever bin is due that week. We have a Binzone App that tells you what bin is due, just in case you forget.
I put out the bins for my 91 year old neighbour and he has next to no rubbish, which means over the busy Christmas period I can put any overflow from my bin in to his. ;D
Indeed anyone with an ounce of common sense can cope with bin collections, simples 👍 Our council tried to change days etc but dropped the idea , our waste collection guys do a really good job.
I think DG was referring to the fact that you have 3 different bin days in one week, or 3 different bin days every fortnight. :y
Exactly and why you have to separate tins and glass and paper and card makes no sense. They have to sort whatever is supposed to be in the bin anyway so why not put all recycling in one bin. We used to have separate boxes for tins/glass and paper but that was replaced about 23 years ago with a single recycling bin.
It used to be that paper was allowed with cereal boxes but corrugated card was not... Something about the glue... But now it all goes in one bin. Garden waste bins were a newer idea, but it makes sense to collect it the same day as the recycling.
We don't throw away any food and anything like broccoli leaves or dead flowers all go in the garden bin along with wooden trays that some meals come in. Composting is a non starter as it encourages foxes and rats. We could probably do without the garden bin but it's handy when all the leaves come down in the autumn and cuttings from the communal lawns.
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WE have black bins for waste that cant be recycled and green bins for stuff that can so all paper, plastic, glass goes in to the sorting place . Alternate weekly collection, mum has a brown garden waste bin but most folks take their garden rubbish to the local skips where it gets composted. 9 flats where I live and we have 6 or 7 black bins that never get filled but only 3 green bins that are over flowing---------------
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We have green bin for household/food waste,red bin for cardboard/plastic,brown bin for garden,blue box for paper and green box for glass/tins.Collection day is Friday when one week it's green bin and both boxes with the alternate week for red and brown bins.Brown bin collections are suspended from November through to April.I have the smallest sized bins available and after two weeks the red and green bins and both boxes are very rarely even half full.
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We only have one bin for garden waste, green bags for recycling don't have to separate anything ,black bags for everything else fortunately we have a sensible council, why change when it ain't broken, dead simple 👍
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Since we had a whole day of snow last month, our bin collections are all to cock. The streets are full of bins of various colours, because no one knows when they're going to turn up and which bin they will choose to empty when they do.
Labour run Barnsley.
If only there was a universally available resource where the latest schedules could be posted for anyone who needs the information.
Imagine how cool it would be if you could access that information at no cost from a small screen you carry around with you.
It's there, on the council website. "Leave you bins out and we'll empty them when we can. Abuse of council staff will not be tolerated. Have a nice day" ;D
Yo need to go on a diversity and inclusion course. Your Labour run bin men probably have to. >:D