Does anyone use their Green Wheelie Bin?

BaileyB

I moved in my house 2 years ago and there were 2 wheelie bins there a Black one and a Green one. Now the bin men work take the green one even if it's filled with normal household waste. And we have diffrent colour bags for Paper, garden waste, plastic bottles and glass bottle. So i have no need for it.

Does anyone use theirs, and can i just get rid of it as it's taking up space now and doing nothing.

heatherw_01

I use my green one to put my items to recycle in.

I must say I have seen them empty my green into the van that empties the grey once. I was not pleased to see this.

arkonite_babe

In my area the recycling bins are blue. If it doesn't get emptied for whatever reason the council just tell you to leave it out with your normal bin for emptying :mad:

Ken68

Mine is full of rainwater, so is the blue one and so is the brown one.The small green box is now a solar cooker.
Take my rubbish anyway to the local recycling centre, once a week, have a good look at what is for sale....wheelbarrows £2..doors with locks £5....exercise bikes..£5..a whole set of golf clubs £10.....always lots of wall and floor tiles. Aladdin's cave.

babe_ruth_3

Mr_Kennedy wrote:

I moved in my house 2 years ago and there were 2 wheelie bins there a Black one and a Green one. Now the bin men work take the green one even if it's filled with normal household waste. And we have diffrent colour bags for Paper, garden waste, plastic bottles and glass bottle. So i have no need for it.

Does anyone use theirs, and can i just get rid of it as it's taking up space now and doing nothing.

I thought everyone used them for garden rubbish ie grass cuttings, weeds and dead flowers, prunings etc and cardboard. Ours are emptied every other week. I once put the green bin out (instead of the black bin) by mistake and they emptied it along with the black bins.

Could you not ask the council to take it back if you don't have any use for it?

moneysaverandy

lol seems if you hav a bag for organic/garden waste you have no need for it... the green bins near us are for organic waste (so thats left over food, peelings of veg, garden waste and thin cardboard) then we have a green tub for cans, plastic bottles, glass and paper which we seperate ourselves into different bags, but for some reson we are the only town in the area that dosen't have green wheelie bins so we just have a compost heap instead

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In South Gloucestershire we have a green bin for garden waste, thick cardboard, etc., a green box for paper, glasses, tins and tin foil and a black bin for everything else. The black bins are collected one week and the green ones the week after and then they alternate.

A couple of years ago they also gave out compost bins but I didn't get one. :sad: (although I have my eye on one which just sits in the car park and looks like no-one actually uses:D ) At the moment they won't take food waste in the green bin but apparently they are building a new site which will mean they will be able to soon. :j

Savvy_Sue

We have to pay to have our green wheelie bin emptied (garden waste only), but think it's worth it, it's a manageable amount of gardening. New system which hasn't actually started yet properly but there was a trial of the green wheelie bin last year.

Anyway, we have a

Black Box for tins, glass, foil, paper, shoes, batteries, textiles
Brown Box for food waste
Green Bin for garden waste
Cardboard to be left under the black box.

These are to be emptied every week.

Everything else goes in the Black Wheelie Bin, which is only going to be emptied every OTHER week.

The only thing that bugs me is plastic - we have to take plastic bottles to the supermarket (or put them in the black wheelie bin), and although everyone is supposed to have a supermarket within one mile which takes plastic, we don't, and the supermarket I go to doesn't. Also the bins at the supermarket say that it's bottles only, and we seem to generate quite a lot of plastic which isn't bottles but says it is recyclable. I never know whether to put them in the plastic bank or not!

The challenge is keeping everything sorted until bin night. I'm lucky, I have a porch where the black box lives so we can toss everything out there, but it's still a bit of a nightmare, and if you didn't have somewhere like that to keep your black box I imagine it would be a real nightmare!

moneysaverandy

im sure i heard somewhre that they are getting too many plastic bottles now than they can do anything with so when clothes come over from china the send the plastic bottles back to china to be burned? probarbly wrong though cause i cant remember the source of this info

twink

we have a brown wheelie bin and a green one
brown- garden waste, green- household waste, emptied week about
blue plastic box - paper, orange box - tins and glass, emptied weekly

paulow

We have a green wheely-bin, It is just for garden waste (leaves, branches, grass etc) and cut flowers, we have been told not to put vegetable waste like potato peelings in, as it may have been contaminated by meat in the kitchen!