Does anyone use their Green Wheelie Bin?

I'mcomingbackasaman

Brown bins are for food and household rubbish, black boxes for tins and glass bottles. Our green bins are for all the garden cuttings, lawn, hedges but we can also put teabags in and cardboard so it comes in useful. Ring your Council if you have absolutely no use for it, they could give it to someone who can use it I'm sure.

littleange

Our green bin is for recycling paper, cardboard, tins and plastic here in leeds.

I wish I had a spare one as they only collect the thing once a month and the black rubbish bin every week

We have so much recycling in a month that is doesnt all fit in the green bin, we don't bother putting the black bin out every week as its never that full.

I think it would be better if they collected both bins fortnightly instead.

We have a compost bin for the garden waste and take the glass to the recycle place in the local supermarket car park.

Alison_B

We have a black bin for normal household waste, a blue bin for waste paper and a green one for garden rubbish. We have also bought an old fashioned bin for plastics, tins and glass.

jockettuk

in huntingdonshire we have 2 green bins one for garden waste and one for recylce.. the recycle one came first along with the black bin for household waste.. the recycle gets done fortnightly on a monday and the black and garden waste rotate fortnightly on a thursday.. if you put the wrong one out they wont empty it..

im moving to bucks were there system is hopeless so i will miss my bins in huntingdonshire and by the way when i leave next week if i dont leave 3 bins i will have to pay for what is missing

BaileyB

I think they did do that with us but have stopped it and now everyone has plastic bags

All these get empited every week

Black Wheelie Bin - Normal Waste
Clear Plastic Bag - Paper/Magazines
Green Plastic Bag - Garden cuttings only (No soil etc)
Blue Plastic Bag - Plastic bottles (pop bottles/shampoo etc)
Green small box - Glass Bottles.

A Green wheelie bin - Nothing!

I could either use it to store the plastic bags of things above untill the bin men come and empty it on the street or give it back/away.

Savvy_Sue

littleange_com wrote:

I wish I had a spare one as they only collect the thing once a month and the black rubbish bin every week

We have so much recycling in a month that is doesnt all fit in the green bin, we don't bother putting the black bin out every week as its never that full.

I think it would be better if they collected both bins fortnightly instead.

I've just said much the same to my MIL who is visiting from elsewhere. Our recycling is to be collected weekly and our landfill rubbish only fortnightly. I know this has caused problems elsewhere but it's surely the best way to go if you want to encourage people to recycle.

littleange

Savvy_Sue wrote:

I've just said much the same to my MIL who is visiting from elsewhere. Our recycling is to be collected weekly and our landfill rubbish only fortnightly. I know this has caused problems elsewhere but it's surely the best way to go if you want to encourage people to recycle.

Exactly, people would have to make more effort then. Even better how about a coucil tax discount for those who recycle

jayarr_2

speaking personally, i wish i had even half the options that you're talking about..we have:

big green wheelie bin-any rubbish (collected weekly)
green box-glass, newspapers and tins (collected fortnightly)

and that's it..doesnt matter that on the opposite side of the road, the odd numbers have got a garden refuse bin, and a bin that takes all the recycled stuff-apparently theyre doing it in stages, the annoying thing is the majority of the odd numbered houses dont have gardens and as such dont have need of a garden refuse bin whereas, yes, you guessed it, the ones on my side have huge gardens but no garden refuse bin..it's a good job i'm not paranoid or i'd be thinking they'd done it on purpose!!
we have so much recyclable stuff our box gets filled in less than a week and as i don't drive i struggle to get stuff to recycling points..
we also save all our plastic bottles and take to the supermarket point-or my mum does, as again, it's difficult for me to get it there-i prefer to walk to the supermarket and taking a big black bag of bottles would be a little difficult on the 25 minute walk..
:undecided

Savvy_Sue

jayarr wrote:

speaking personally, i wish i had even half the options that you're talking about.

Give it time ... our council's services have improved steadily, and now radically, because the government is starting to penalise councils who don't get their recycling % up!

jayarr wrote:

yes, you guessed it, the ones on my side have huge gardens but no garden refuse bin..it's a good job i'm not paranoid or i'd be thinking they'd done it on purpose!!

Can't you make friends with someone living opposite you? :rotfl:

jayarr wrote:

we have so much recyclable stuff our box gets filled in less than a week and as i don't drive i struggle to get stuff to recycling points..
we also save all our plastic bottles and take to the supermarket point-or my mum does, as again, it's difficult for me to get it there-i prefer to walk to the supermarket and taking a big black bag of bottles would be a little difficult on the 25 minute walk..

They mount up so quickly, don't they? But I was shamed into recycling stuff by taking it to the supermarket in the days before kerbside collections were started, when I realised that my parents were taking their tins and bottles to the supermarket ON THE BUS, and I was driving ...

Anyway, just wondered - and please don't be offended by this! - if a trolley bag would help at all? I don't know how many squashed bottles you can get into one of those ...

Jay-Jay_4

We were doing really well with all the sorting and recycling and collections every fortnight but have just been told that we're going back to weekly collections Why, because people have complained that they can't go two weeks between collections :rolleyes:

We're an average family of four and we're not mega green when it comes to packaging etc but we've improved 100% in our recycling since our collections went from weekly to fortnightly. Now, people are going to slide right back into landfill bins and no recycling

What's the betting that this will be reflected in our council tax :rolleyes: