Too Many Wheelie Bins!!!!!!!

R_P_W

aqua111 wrote: »

Rubbish
Garden Waste
Paper and Cardboard
Bottles and Cans
My Partner takes home Paper Cardboard Bottles and Cans.2 Bins never been used.
Complete waste of Council money!!!!!!!

Why does he take them home?

joansgirl

2 wheelie bins, grey for rubbish and green for garden waste. 2 boxes, 1 for paper/card and 1 for glass, and 1 bag for cans and plastics. It's a pita dragging the boxes up the garden on recycling day but rather that than extra wheelie bins. I myself don't use the bag. It blows away in the wind all the time so I use the plastic box that's meant for glass as I don't get much of that. When the recycling men come round they chuck the plastics/cans and the paper/cardboard on to the same lorry so it is immediately mixed up again. Bit of a pointless exercise separating it in the first place. We're supposed to use these silly bio degradable plastic bags for food waste and put them in the green bin but the council stopped handing them out about a year ago so nobody bothers any more.

aqua111

R_P_W wrote: »

Why does he take them home?

He takes them home so that at least one of us has something worth collecting, eventually, from four of eight bins we have between us!

Azari

We have:

Dark Grey: Landfill
Light Grey: Food waste
Green: Garden Waste
Red: Paper
Blue: Cans, plastic, and bottles.

You can imagine what it looks like where you have a block of six flats with a single bin area! (Admittedly they tend to only have one or two garden waste bins between them.)

Even the more common situation where you have two dwellings with shared or adjacent bin areas looks a right mess.

Krojan

We have 4 in Peterborough;

Brown for garden waste
Green for recycling
Grey for food waste
Black for anything else

Yet our pathetic council are implimenting a £39pa charge this year for emptying the brown garden waste bin alledgidly due to cutbacks, yet they still award shocking pay increases for the council fatcats, and those that don't sign up to this stealth council tax increase cannot request for their spare unused brown bin to be collected so we're expected to store it for them. Needless to say many people arn't doing this and are destroying their bins, fly tipping them etc, total beggars belief.

Paully232000

I must be quite lucky reading this, we have three bins, and the choice of small or large bins (as I had to ask for a larger one as the last person who lived in my house was on his own).
Blue: recycling all plastic, glass, cardboard, paper etc
Green: garden
Black: everything else

aqua111

It might be worth moving:j

Deep_In_Debt

I have 3 outside bins...one for general waste, one for recycling (cans, cartons, bottles) and one for garden waste plus a box for cardboard and paper and small food waste bins.

Somebody in my road has decorated their bins with flowery/grassy wallpaper...they don't quite blend in but look quite cool!

R_P_W

aqua111 wrote: »

He takes them home so that at least one of us has something worth collecting, eventually, from four of eight bins we have between us!

Why bother? Just use the bin at the house where you create the waste!

Twiggy_34

Surely they have alternative solutions for people living in flats etc? Guess we're pretty lucky here too, we have a small food bin, a black tub for recyclables and other household waste goes into normal black bags as we're on the 1st & 2nd floor (otherwise we'd have a green wheelie bin blocking the footpath).