*Rant* Council so cheeky recycling

saladfingers_2

My council are so annoying well someone in my family used to deliver papers so we had to recycle the left over ones and we always ran out of room in the recycling bins well we still do. Anyway we rang up the council and they said we can have more recycling bins but we have to pay! The cheek of them!

mattogier

Should the company that supplied the papers be responsible for re-cycling any excess - after all if there is a regular oversupply then they should not leave so many in the first place.

I under stand, to a degree, the councils position - there is a cost to recycle and if one person is running a high waste (albeit recyclable) business from there home why should domestic council tax payers have to pay?

I full sympathise with you wanting to recycle but feel that "unlimited" recycling facilities in the home are not the answer - better to create less landfill and recyclable rubbish in the first place.

We have eight of us living here and we produce the equivalent of two bin bags for landfill and four bin bags for recycling each week. We manage this by a combination of: composting, wormery, recycling and mainly careful purchase of goods that do not have ludicrous packaging.

Why not pass the excess papers back to the responsible organisation - they could save printing costs (or have a more effective circulation) if you were not binning them each week.

Cheers


Matt

Solomon_Broad

Do you have a neighbour who doesn't use their bin?

I can see it's frustrating, but I think (I'm not at all sure) that if the council give one person something, they have to give everyone that same something. Which in this case will double the cost of providing recycling bins. I contacted my local council about the same thing, and they said just to put bags out next to the box.

Contains_Mild_Peril

mattogier wrote: »

I under stand, to a degree, the councils position - there is a cost to recycle and if one person is running a high waste (albeit recyclable) business from there home why should domestic council tax payers have to pay?

My teenage son has a weekly paper round which earns him about £2 per hour - hardly "running a business from home", and certainly not enough to justify spending extra money.
You're right though - the newspaper company should leave the correct number, instead of convenient multiples of the big bundles into which the papers are packaged for distribution.
My son gives some surplus papers to neighbours, but we still have leftovers.

Sage

I got a second bin from my council for no extra cost.

paddy's_mum

Try offering the excess newspapers to veterinary surgeons in your area. They use them for lining out animal cages and in the practice I worked in, could never get enough of them.

Alternatively, an advert on your nearest notice board may get some takers. I use loads for firelighting in winter and for making biodegradable plant pots so someone somewhere will want to give them a good home, I'm sure.

saladfingers_2

Sorry if i didnt make it clear but they dont do the papers anymore but thanks anyway

Penelope_Penguin

Sage wrote: »

I got a second bin from my council for no extra cost.

Me too. I then upgraded from 240l to 350l (I think ) capacity, again at no cost.

Do we share a local authority, Sage?

Aliss

My LA (Lancashire) has grey wheelie bins, green wheelies for green compostables and two green boxes, one for glass and cardboard and the other for paper and cans. My OH works from home and we get through silly amounts of cardboard so I emailed the council asking for an extra box and got back a "dunno!" reply :rolleyes: but three days later a new green box appeared on my doorstep! I fell over it actually- should have sued 'em! :rotfl:

I agree with the 'ask your neightbours to use theirs' post, ours never seem to and the boxes just sit by the side of the house.

Justie

we get 2 recycling boxes free but if we want to upgrade to wheelie bin it costs about 20 quid... unless it's a house where you can show multiple occupancy where they gave them bins to begin with.