Does anyone use their Green Wheelie Bin?

savvy

I don't get it, why don't all councils have the same type of wheelie bins etc???

Godders gets a nice big green wheelie bin to put garden waste in and it get picked up more regularly in Brum than my little green bag that gets picked up once a fortnight down in Southampton.

On the otherhand I get a big wheelie bin with a blue lid to put plastic/tin/cans/cardboard/leaflets in but no glass and gets pisked up once a fortnight, whereas Godders gets a small green plastic bag and can only recycle paper and cans, and used to have to bring down his plastic and cardboard to me.

And then I get a green wheelie bin to put our dustbin bags in of unrecyclables, that gets picked up every week.

They certainly know how to make it difficult to recycle evenly across the country!:rolleyes:

1jim

Its mad, it would be alot easier if things were standardised across all councils...
we have
black bin, household rubbish (collected every other week)
blue bin, paper, cardboard, tin, plastic (collected opposite week to black bin)
green bin, garden refuse only for composting (collected same time as blue bin)

our council have started to remve the recyle points though, this means that we have to drive 10mile roundtrip to recycle glass :-(
also they wont allow us to put in veg peelings into the green comploostable bin saying that there is some legisltaion to prevent this :-( still whats hidden in the middle of the green bin who knows ;-)

also the council have said that they will not allow the compostable packaging that sainsburys have introduced to be included in the compostable bin

Our concil has also got very strict on bins, if the lids are open by a fraction they will not collect them

thriftyjo

OM my goodness I am confused - my bins are also different systems - I think if you are not sure about collections etc you should contact your local council -

Liney_2

heatherw_01 wrote:

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.

Some councils now chuck all recyclable waste into one big wagon that looks the same as the ordinary rubbish bin wagons. It apparently gets sorted at the end rather than when they collect it. Seems dubious to me too and Friends of the Earth say this practice is questionable.

MATH

Our collections in Leicestershire are excellent

Black Wheelie Bin - No recyclable waste

Brown Wheelie Bin - Garden cuttings and grass

Red Bag - Cardboard, paper, magazines, catalogues, junk mail, envelopes

Green Bag - Plastic bottles, tin cans

Green Box - Glass jars and bottles

Black Bag - Bric a Brac, clothes, shoes, books and other charity items

Kitchen peelings I stick on the compost

The black wheelie is collected one week and all the recyclabes the next. We actually qualify for a super-size-me wheelie because we are a family of 5 but we turned it down and had a regular one which we only half fill even with 2 week collection.

nickinoo

Here in Norfolk we have a green bin for normal waste & the grey/black bin is for recycling-that's logical They are emptied alternate weeks. We can pay extra for a brown bin if we like for garden waste.

In Suffolk we had black for normal waste, blue for recycling & green for garden/food waste, these were emptied fortnightly too.

Neither area recycled glass which I find bizarre.

Savvy_Sue

savvy wrote:

I don't get it, why don't all councils have the same type of wheelie bins etc???

:rotfl: because that would make it too easy ...

Anyway, the real reason is that the government has set targets of how much stuff councils must recycle. And if they don't meet those targets, they'll lose money. So suddenly, councillors who weren't quite so green think :eek: we need to recycle more or we'll have to put council tax up and then we'll lose votes.

and actually, what's appropriate in an urban jungle wouldn't necessarily be appropriate in more rural locations. There are streets near where I work with no rear access and just a VERY narrow strip in front of the house. And on bin day they're supposed to move their black wheelie bin OUT of this narrow strip and fully onto the narrow pavement. That gets exciting because the roads are quite narrow to begin with, so people often park half on the pavement.

If these households had four wheelie bins each they wouldn't all fit in this narrow strip, and the pavements would be permanently blocked!

The other thing is that one council may lead, and neighbouring councils start to catch on. We're one of the VERY few places in the UK with a kerbside battery collection service! But they've decreed that kerbside collection of plastic isn't economic, so we have to take it all to the local supermarkets, we're supposed to have one within a mile of our house although I don't think we do. Even if we did, I'd find it very awkward to walk any distance carrying a large bag of plastic bottles!

And we had a trial collection of garden waste a couple of years ago, they used 3 different systems in different areas. But now they've introduced it city wide, they are charging for it! They say that it's not fair to make people without gardens subsidise those of us who do which means some people are refusing to pay for it and continuing to put their garden waste in the landfill bin.

I mean, I thought the whole point of universal taxation was that you didn't only pay for the bits you chose to use ... Or did someone say I could stop paying for local schools when my boys leave, or stop paying for the fire brigade because I've never needed them, or stop paying for the police because they never come when I call them anyway? :rotfl: