Recycling blue box

noonesperfect

I know this is really petty, but this gets up my nose!!:mad:

Since we got a blue box to put glass/plastic bottles/tins in I have carefully tried to separate them in the box, not just thrown everything in higgledy-piggledy like some.
Having noticed that some people go a step further and separate things into bags within the box I thought I'd do the same.
At first it was OK but the last two times they've been they've whipped my bags. If they'd been really grotty carriers on their last legs I wouldn't have minded, but they were fairly decent "bag for life" type carriers.

In future they can sort the stuff out themselves - I was only trying to make their lives easier!

chuckley

the mistake was using decent bags. mine dont take the bags they put them back in the bin.

noonesperfect

I think you're probably right. I only used the oldish "bags for life" as they're bigger and would tip out more easily than an ordinary carrier.
Anyway, I'm not wasting any more bags on them!

Justicia

Perhaps in fairness to the collectors, carrier bags can be recycled also, so how were they to know (constant doorstop enquiries wouldn't assist efficiency) that you particularly wanted the bags back and were not recycling them also (hence being in the recycle box)??

Tozer

Not sure what the vent is about? You put carrier bags out that you wanted to reuse again but the binmen chucked them out?

noonesperfect

Tozer wrote: »

Not sure what the vent is about? You put carrier bags out that you wanted to reuse again but the binmen chucked them out?

Not the binmen.
Bin men empty the bins, the people who collect recyclable rubbish come along later (I think they're contracted to council) i.e. different logo on vehicle

Tozer

noonesperfect wrote: »

Not the binmen.
Bin men empty the bins, the people who collect recyclable rubbish come along later (I think they're contracted to council) i.e. different logo on vehicle

You know who I meant.

noonesperfect

why ask then

Tozer

noonesperfect wrote: »

why ask then

Eh?

Check the posts and i don't think I asked about who collects the waste.

I think I asked why the OP was venting about losing a carrier bag.:rotfl: :rotfl:

DCFC79

Justicia wrote: »

Perhaps in fairness to the collectors, carrier bags can be recycled also, so how were they to know (constant doorstop enquiries wouldn't assist efficiency) that you particularly wanted the bags back and were not recycling them also (hence being in the recycle box)??

yes the bags can be recycled but it depends if the OP's council collect the bags as ours dont, tehy put the bags into the box, i used to put paper into a bag but i dont as i saw it was a waste of a bag so i put any paper in the box with the cans, jars etc

Justicia

DCFC79 wrote: »

yes the bags can be recycled but it depends if the OP's council collect the bags as ours dont, tehy put the bags into the box, i used to put paper into a bag but i dont as i saw it was a waste of a bag so i put any paper in the box with the cans, jars etc

Either way, I am assuming that the collectors aren't directly sorting the rubbish to an large extent at the door and that this is done back at the main collection depot, so the chance of individual items (such as the carrier bags in question) being sifted out and returned to the householder were always going to be slim surely!