Nice People 13: Nice Save

vivatifosi

I bet those prices still put people off. We have a completely new system here. Everyone I know thinks it is much better (unless they live somewhere like a flat, where the system is different). We have three huge bins. One is for household waste, one is for all recyclables, one is for garden waste. All are free to use. We then also have a kitchen caddy for food waste. I love not having to separate everything out and recycle way more than previously as a result. Very rarely is my household bin full, but the recycling one often is.

vivatifosi

Your neighbours sound lovely Nikks.

Nikkster

vivatifosi wrote: »

Your neighbours sound lovely Nikks.

They are I only know one set well, but the new ones seem nice toI (from a brief chat in the street/ when I dropped a card and bottle of wine round to introduce myself). And they've not done any gardening at all yet (my Dad and I managed to fill their bin last weekend).

Everyone's also probably grateful that I'm making some/ any kind of effort to make my place look more presentable too!

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I bet those prices still put people off. We have a completely new system here. Everyone I know thinks it is much better (unless they live somewhere like a flat, where the system is different). We have three huge bins. One is for household waste, one is for all recyclables, one is for garden waste. All are free to use. We then also have a kitchen caddy for food waste. I love not having to separate everything out and recycle way more than previously as a result. Very rarely is my household bin full, but the recycling one often is.

We have a 'normal' bin, a cardboard and plastic bottle bin then one of those crates for recyclables. ( this is such a faff we just take ours to a recycling centre ourselves.) we can have more than one of those crates, but they are heavy and awkward, I find them too much too bother with. Much easier to divide at home daily and take to tip as and when. The green bin is no longer free and we didn't bother with it much when it was...only things like ground elder and ragwort if we could be bothered. Dried out till 'deaded' they can compost, or they can go on a bonfire here.


For some house holds the green bin will be a really fantastic investment at 41 quit a year, much cheaper than repeat trips to the vet etc. I'd rather the way to get rid of things like recyclables we all use wax more reasonable tbh than those crates .

zagubov

Here there's a green bin collection every two weeks and all glass/ metal / paper just goes in there. We're getting charged for bags of garden waste now, and so we never see them. It's the wrong time of year I suppose but we wanted to use the free service but I lost the use of my arm and couldn't even drive to the tip. That'll be one of my Easter jobs now.

When I was a student living in Nikksterville we had to borrow a scythe from a neighbour to chop down our lawn! It was like something from Children of the Corn.

CKhalvashi

Lets make subtle change for the logo this year....

Maybe not, but it was fun anyway

CKhalvashi

zagubov wrote: »

Here there's a green bin collefction every two weeks and all glass/ metal / paper just goes in there. We're getting charged for bags of garden waste now, and so we never see them. It's the wrong time of year I suppose but we wanted to use the free service but I lost the use of my arm and couldn't even drive to the tip. That'll be one of my Easter jobs now.

When I was a student living in Nikksterville we had to borrow a scythe from a neighbour to chop down our lawn! It was like something from Children of the Corn.

We have a black, brown (garden and compost) and blue.

Blue is usually 40-50% full, as is black. Brown is usually empty, unless the grass has been done.

Black is done one week, blue/brown the other.

michaels

You lot are all conscientious

We have a green wheelie for garden, and household compostable but only put garden in it.

We have various boxes for cardboard, paper, glass, plastic which we use, cardboard used to be allowed in the compostable which was much better as you could put big packaging boxes in but apparently the compost wasn't very good so now it has to go in one of the small boxes which is a bit of a joke.

Recyclables are collected every two weeks.

Then we have a black wheelie for non-recyclables collected every two weeks on the other week, ours is always overflowing....

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

Recyclables are collected every two weeks.

Then we have a black wheelie for non-recyclables collected every two weeks on the other week, ours is always overflowing....

Yes, all ours are only collected every two weeks. We do not fill the waste bin usually ( it was very empty until RP moved iin, then all bins very much filled. )

Cardboard bin is useful. We don't NEED it, ( most cardboard can compost) but it never the less is handy. The plastic bottle element is very useful. Plastic bottles take up lots of room in standard bin if a council don't recycle them, or lots and lots if they do but only give small crates for recycling.

Nikkster

Sometimes I feel like I'm a recycling evangelist. I've lived with 4 other people in the last 2.5 years. I've been the recycler in all of those households. First of the 4 would even put glass in the main bin :eek: Not sure whether I've manage to convert anyone on a more long-term basis, but I've definitely done my best when we lived together.
I thought it was just what everyone did nowadays.

Over here all the recycling goes in the same wheelie bin, except for glass which we have to take to bottle banks. When I'm living alone I take out the carrier bag I've been using the night before the bins are collected. Like viva I generate a lot more recycling than rubbish.