Rant, but maybe it'll amuse some of you.

Naf

We actually have some real nappies that we bought for our first, but found them to be absolutely terrible; leaking everywhere and just no good, especially overnight; but even just when we were out and about they were impractical.
A great suggestion (i'll admit, I was expecting it to come up sometime), but I'm afraid not the thing for us.

outtawork

We have 7 waste bins for 12 flats, with mutiple occupancy, not enough for us all, so rubbish is put in the recycled area. next year everyone here is having 6 bins per household.

coldcazzie

Fair enough. I find them like disposables in that manner - some brands fit much better than others. They do require a different way of doing things I agree. Twas merely a suggestion

kitschkitty

I have to admit I do feel very sorry for people whose councils are so strict about how much rubbish they will collect, it leaves no contingency what so ever for any time you may have more rubbish -how do people cope with additional waste at Christmas for example???

We are very lucky that we have rubbish collections every week and you can put out as many bin bags/bins as you like and a single fortnightly recycling collection for all paper & card, plastic bottles, tins & aerosol cans all in 1 green bin (and you can choose a box or 2, a bin or a large bin, and they'll take stuff not in the green boxes like large cardboard boxes). There are also lots of bottle banks all over the city so it's easy to recycle glass too.

The only thing our council won't collect (unless you pay extra) is garden waste.

lynnemcf

Naf, may I suggest that you take one small bag of rubbish out with you every day and put it in a "public" rubbish bin. Problem solved.

kathy206

lynnemcf wrote: »

Naf, may I suggest that you take one small bag of rubbish out with you every day and put it in a "public" rubbish bin. Problem solved.

Just make sure that if you do this, there is nothing that can be traced back to your address, as public bins aren't for household waste.

DCFC79

dontone wrote: »

BTW quick question. Do some areas have different rules as to what goes into which bin? Here, the green bin is for recycable cardboard & garden cuttings, and the blue bin is for newpapers, leaflets etc.

Yes some areas have different rules what goes in what bin/box, black bin is normal rubbish, green bin is garden waste, green box is paper, glass, plastic bottles eg pop, squash, cardboard eg cereal boxes and yellow pages. Our council wont let you put corrugated card in the green box so it goes to the recycling banks at morries or sainsburys.

Yet my nan has a blue bin for recyclables eg paper, glass.

Mrs_Arcanum

It does seem very counter productive to expect people to reduce waste without a corresponding increase in recyclables collected.

Perhaps one way of more forcibly making a point would be to find out where the councillor responsible for waste collections lives and leave bags of filled nappies outside their house. (Please do not so this but planning this may make you feel better)

You letter needs to point out: -
1) The councils own limited recycling service creates unnecessary waste.
2) Whoever decided what volume of waste a particular family produces need to be re-trained.
3) Some sort of system for excess/missed collections of waste needs organising.

lynnemcf

kathy206 wrote: »

Just make sure that if you do this, there is nothing that can be traced back to your address, as public bins aren't for household waste.

I live in a seaside town and we get campervans parked along the seafront. When they go home, they will leave a bag of "household" waste by the bin, are they breaking the law?

Have just found this article in The Sun from 2006 ... fined for putting litter in a bin, unbelievable!

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/40772/Fine-for-binning-rubbish.html

Please disregard my advice about putting your waste in a public bin, I dont want you to get fined.

VitaK

Could you ask a few neighbours on collection day, if they would allow you to top there bins up.