City living Old Style?

juliapenguin

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I have a couple of questions .... do you all have doorstep recycling collection? If not how do you transport your recycling? How do you store your recycling prior to collection when you only have limited space?

I think that is an Old Style question, IMHO throwing anything away that is useful isn't Old Style.

It's a very good question indeed. We don't have ANY recycling - we have a basement rubbish area which the council access to empty the general rubbish skips and the day we moved in we phoned to ask why there were no recycling containers. THE COUNCIL TOLD US THAT THEY DON'T DO IT IN THIS AREA BECAUSE FLAT-DWELLERS WON'T RECYCLE!!!!!!! We were so shocked.

So, we keep our cans, bottles and paper in the tiny hall and walk to a recycling area half a mile away :cool:. It's only paper, glass and cans - no plastic or cardboard.

smileyt_2

Hi Juliapenguin

I was browsing the clas ohlson catalogue recently and they had a stainless steel cover for the kitchen sink to turn it into more work surface. I don't know if that's any good to you? http://www.clasohlson.co.uk/Siteseeker/Search_o.aspx?q=sink There's a clas ohlson shop in the arndale centre.

I think you can get shelves that hook onto the bottom of cupboards - lakeland probably do them - would they be any good?

I'm in Manchester too. Can I join the Manchester os group?

Asda Hulme have a plastic bottle and carton recycling bit in their recycling centre.

smileyt_2

This is the kind of thing I was thinking of. I imagine there are prettier ones around!

http://www.organisemyhome.com/3998---under-shelf-storage-bin-287-p.asp

juliapenguin

smileyt wrote: »

Hi Juliapenguin

I was browsing the clas ohlson catalogue recently and they had a stainless steel cover for the kitchen sink to turn it into more work surface. I don't know if that's any good to you? http://www.clasohlson.co.uk/Siteseeker/Search_o.aspx?q=sink There's a clas ohlson shop in the arndale centre.

I think you can get shelves that hook onto the bottom of cupboards - lakeland probably do them - would they be any good?

I'm in Manchester too. Can I join the Manchester os group?

Asda Hulme have a plastic bottle and carton recycling bit in their recycling centre.

Thanks for the sink idea - that is definitely an idea.

Of course you can come and play in our Manchester OS group! We need to get together a list of people who are interested and an idea of where to meet up! Any ideas? I know the London people go to places like independent coffee shops - what about 8th Day on Oxford Road? Or Oklahoma in the Northern Quarter?

Fire_Fox

juliapenguin wrote: »

It's a very good question indeed. We don't have ANY recycling - we have a basement rubbish area which the council access to empty the general rubbish skips and the day we moved in we phoned to ask why there were no recycling containers. THE COUNCIL TOLD US THAT THEY DON'T DO IT IN THIS AREA BECAUSE FLAT-DWELLERS WON'T RECYCLE!!!!!!! We were so shocked.

So, we keep our cans, bottles and paper in the tiny hall and walk to a recycling area half a mile away :cool:. It's only paper, glass and cans - no plastic or cardboard.

Bradford city centre doesn't have a doorstep collection either, but our residents association have had some success with the Recyling department (several of us had a negative response from individual approaches ...). My experience, and the experience of a number of other city centre residents, is that the council think we don't exist or don't need to be consulted.

Greenbee on the 'Green and Ethical' board pointed me in the direction of legislation on doorstep collections - when I quoted this at the council they got rather flustered!! :rotfl:

The article Greenbee linked to has disappeared but here's the info:

"After a long and hard fought campaign the Household Waste Recycling Act cleared the House of Lords and received Royal Assent on 30 October 2003, thus signifying the end of it's rollercoaster journey through Parliament ... By 2010, local authorities will have to provide every household in England with a separate collection of at least two types of recyclable materials."
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/biodiversity/success_stories/recycling_bill_success.html

Fire_Fox

Primrose wrote: »

We too have doorstep recycling although not for plastic as our local council recycling authority has told us there is no money in plastic recycling collections so we have too have to take it to a local recycling bin. It's difficult to do this without your own transport. Fire Fox - do you have any neighbours with cars who could take yours away to a recycling point on a periodic basis?

No parking at all for residents here. When my mum is home (twice a year) we drive to the big recycling centre. I collect tins, glass, plastic, paper and cardboard but can only comfortably carry the tins and plastic to the supermarket on the bus.

I am lucky in that I have a large cupboard off the communal hallway where we keep paper, glass and cardboard but I'd prefer a better storage solution for inside the flat. The card lives on the floor in the hall til one of us goes out with it , I have an attractive stainless steel box next to the sofa for newspapers and two plastic crates for tins, glass and plastic under the sink. It always seems to be a mess and overflowing tho.

Sarahlou_2

juliapenguin wrote: »

Of course :beer: As long as you're very good

Of course!! I'm not a manc, just gate crashed it 9 years ago and never went "home"

juliapenguin

There's some recycling bins on Oxford Road under the A57 bridge, so I try to take a few bits every time I walk past on my way to work. I hate throwing out cardboard and plastic, though.

Do any Mancunians know where I could recycle card and plastic? I'm right near Oxford Road station.

Sarahlou_2

juliapenguin wrote: »

Thanks for the sink idea - that is definitely an idea.

Of course you can come and play in our Manchester OS group! We need to get together a list of people who are interested and an idea of where to meet up! Any ideas? I know the London people go to places like independent coffee shops - what about 8th Day on Oxford Road? Or Oklahoma in the Northern Quarter?

Or Wetherspoons on Deansgate :rotfl:

juliapenguin

Sarahlou wrote: »

Of course!! I'm not a manc, just gate crashed it 9 years ago and never went "home"

Neither am I.... I was actually born in Blackpool, so if we do meet up I'll be the one in the Kiss Me Quick hat with candyfloss stuck to my clothes, doing beery burps . Actually sauvignon blanc burps with bits of cruelly expensive marinated olives stuck to my clothes, but that doesn't sound very Blackpool....

I LOVE Manchester - I never thought I'd be happy living away from the seaside, but compared to rural Cheshire, this is paradise.