Does anyone else have this recycling/rubbish system?

System

we too have seagulls as we're a five mins from sea, but no probelm for me personally as no bags

Lotus-eater

islandman wrote: »

If you are lucky enough to have any form of garden waste collection, then for heavens sake settle for anything else,because if like us (now we've moved ) we're without one, there is no alternative other than to take it to the tip ourselves and we don't drive. A composter would be filled within a week. Other than that, the council will sell me paper sacks at £1.20p, so in effect I'm paying my rated twice, only THEY say, garden waste is not household waste.

Garden waste is not household waste and there is no good reason councils should take it away.

If you have a garden big enough to make waste, you have a garden big enough to compost and if you have a garden big enough to fill a compost bin in one week, you have enough space to build a bigger or multiple compost bins.

It's about time we all took some responsibility with our own waste.

Dave101t

its all in the council newsletter. plus when bins arrive, a leaflet is posted.
we had ours just yesterday, a new blue wheelie bin we can put cardboard and plastic bottles straight in, which is new.
also a new 'bits box' like the old one, but this fits inside the wheelie bin so nothing gets wet.
see:
http://www.gateshead.gov.uk/Environment%20and%20Waste/Waste/recycling/BlueBin.aspx

Mojisola

gabyjane wrote: »

thanks! I did say i had tried but it is always engaged..until i have nothing better to do than sit and re call every 5 mins i thought ide ask on here.

Don't they have it all laid out on their website? Ours does.

zarazara

If its compostable I put it on the compost heap. Tins and glass go into a box for council collection. Anything else goes in the bin for council collection. I believe that next year the council will start to recycle plastic so we'll get a box for that.

amcluesent

The irony is you separate everything into boxes on pain of £1000 fine, then it's all dumped back into a container and shipped to China so peasants can pick through the rubbish for $1/day.

The Council then spends your tax ££ promoting itself as a recycling 'centre of excellence' and the Councillor's go on a 'fact-finding' trip to California just when the weather turns nasty here.

gabyjane

Well i finally got through this afternoon and spoke to someone i assume is more clueless than me!!

I asked her about our green bin (currently recycling card etc) this is being removed.

I then asked her about the small caddy and what we do with our normal bin..my Brabantia which i saved up for and love and now seems it has no use!! i know i know im going on about the bin but hey!..this she said would be obselete and maybe we could use for one of the recycling items and ransfer to downstairs which actually was a good idea as before long our recycling will either blow away or be ripped to shreds with the seagulls who for some reason have decended here and haven't dnoe for 3 years of living here..they know things are going to be left out!!

Then i asked her about the grey bin (currently food waste) she said we would keep this and i asked what for as she told me to put the food waste in the small caddy and transfer to the medium box outside..she said to put anything else in that wouldn't go in the other boxes..i said 'boxes but they are recycling' she said yeah anything can go in that big grey one which i said but the food and recycling is not to be mixed surely and she said if it is left then it doesn't matter?? pointless really? so we will have all seperate boxes then a mixed bin?!

amcluesent pmsl i kind of have that attitude at the mo tbh as find it all such a faff when i don't have time to empty the bins now nevermind sort through them seperating it all out by each bottle and box type etc.

I'll give it time and see!

System

Actually, when I approached the council telling them I didn't drive, they said something like, then you don't have the expence of running one and upkeep, so you must be able to afford to pay someone etc.

mazinmouse

islandman wrote: »

Actually, when I approached the council telling them I didn't drive, they said something like, then you don't have the expence of running one and upkeep, so you must be able to afford to pay someone etc.

What a limited world view that person at the council had... I'm not suggesting this is the case for Islandman, but suppose the reason you didn't own a vehicle was because you couldn't afford to... and where does the money get magic-ed up from to pay someone to do it for you?

gabyjane

I'm back!! RIGHT!

We have our 2 boxes in the car port..one for card, paper etc and one for bottles, foil etc..all fine.

We have our small caddy under the sink for our food waste..all fine..does anyone know where we can buy the biodegradable bags from? this will be transferred to the bigger box when full.

So what about bits of card with food on..for example dd has just had one of those chicago pizzas..where does that bit of card go? And nappies..no idea where they go..food waste? if so the box will be full very soon as i look after twins and go through them like water! I'll ask the parents as they live up the rd but away at the mo.
Thanks x