Does anyone else have this recycling/rubbish system?

Sally_A

A chap cheekily wrote to our local paper to ask if he needed planning permission for all the extra recycling bins. If I ever moved out of the area my brain would probably implode - luckily here they aren't fining people £1000 for mistakenly putting teabag into the compost rather than the kitchen waste.

1 green box recycling for paper, tins, plastics, glass (batteries in a separate bag), old car batteries alongside, and they will take waste oil, shoes (in pairs) clothing etc etc. Luckily we seem to have acquired a couple of extra boxes :cool: or it would never fit.
1 green wheelie bin - compostable waste only, no old food, so that's perennial weeds, blighted toms/spuds, and anything else I don't feel like sticking in my 4 dalek compost bins.
1 dustbin - filled with kitchen rubbish, and black plastic.
1 big blue sack for cardboard.

Coming soon!
Kitchen caddy for waste food (ie cooked food, bones etc, stuff not normally suited for direct compost).
Larger kitchen waste bin, we are getting supplied with 52 compostable liners for the first year.

Outside our back door there is a good 8 - 10 ft taken up by council recycling bins - can I charge them rent? and what with roadside collection only (how did that happen?, in my younger days the bin men used to come up, take the bin (just the one mind you) and return the bin), now they moan they don't get Christmas boxes - course you don't you lazy gimps, in the past we knew who you were, and you offered a real service - my mum used to leave a half bottle of whisky on top of the bin for them - imagine doing that now collections are roadside:think:.

Tell you what, let's knock 25% off our council tax and we'll take the stuff to a communal collection point.

gabyjane

Lol Sally all of that is very true!

Well we had tonight our food waste in the little caddy..only just fits in our cupboard under the sink and is stinking already and is only half full.

Then we had (now going to the tip so freed some space in the kitchen at least!) a basket which was for the card, paper etc which was full, i then had a carrier now for the tins and bottles which had 4 jars and 2 tins in and then we have the odd bits we are not sure of and tomorrow the nappies which im still confused over! So me and dh went down and sorted through the whole lot with it taking about 10 mins at 9pm at night which tbh is stupid, the box for the card etc is now chocka despite us ripping all the boxes up so i assume we use the big grey bin for anything left..does this include food waste therfore defeating the object of sorting it out?!!
That is 1 days worth as we always have lots of rubbish. I bet any money come the time the binmen come the seagulls or our cats will have ripped it all out of the boxes (despite the nets) which will increase the workload..what are we paying our council for now? Sure id'e be better off being a bin man watching them move the bin to the side of the pavement while the truck does the rest but guess they are going to have to bend down now for the boxes.

Another thing that bugs me is the fact hardly any of the neighbours have even touched theirs and they are still neatly stacked outside their doors. Some i know will prob not bother and be fine but little old us who really try will god forbid put a t bag in the wrong box and prob get fined! Oh and it's not just me maoning there are lots of complaints in the papers.

Oh well will see what happens come thursday!!

tanith

I get my biodegradable bags for my food caddy in tesco and if its hot I empty it every couple of days before it starts to smell..

gabyjane

tanith wrote: »

I get my biodegradable bags for my food caddy in tesco and if its hot I empty it every couple of days before it starts to smell..

I'll look for some of those,thanks x

MMMIaRMW

You can line your caddy in most cases with newspaper - more money saving that way - it also helps to soak up the extra 'juice' and therefore not smell as much, and then transfer into the one outside.