wheelie bin dilemma

mussgo

As little as 33 years a go I lived in a community that didn't have collections at all.

We bagged up stuff and took it to the nearest bin on our way to town. You could get a weeks rubbish into a carrier bag in those days! That was before all the packaging, pre prepared meals and everything else that fills our waste bins these days.

The locals would have done what thier parents and grandparents had done before them ...burnt or buried it!

everythingblogcast

Dont forget you pay them via your rates so demand them to collect you bins or you will take them to the EU court for not providing you the service that you paid for.

novelli

Altarf wrote: »

But you are allowed to put food waste in the grey bin.

http://www.suffolkcoastal.gov.uk/yourhome/waste/bluebin/faqservice/wastefaq.htm#17

What should I do with food waste?
Any food waste, cooked and uncooked, can be placed in the brown bin, and it will be collected for composting locally. Double wrapping the food waste in newspaper will help stop smells and flies. If you do not want food waste in your brown bin for up to a fortnight, it can also be placed in the grey lidded bin for collection during the other week. This way you will continue to receive a weekly collection of food waste, by placing it in the brown bin on recycling collection week, and in the grey lidded bin on the opposite week

My council follows exactly the same policy. I only use the green bin for the sort of food waste that will not attract flies, such as vegetable peelings (and then wrap them in newspaper). The cooked food waste and raw meat food waste is double bagged and goes in the grey bin for the whole fortnight.

Well thanks for that, maybe they need to let the binmen know then, as they told us we were only to put food waste unbagged into the brown bin (in fact one week they didnt empty the grey bin as there was strawberry in the top of it and left a naughty sticker)!!

From now on then i shall wrap food waste in newspaper and put in whichever bin is being emptied that week. hooray, no more slopping food into the bin.:rotfl:
ive still had no reply from council!! bank holiday probably, will c what they have to say tomorrow

novelli

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

who reported it though?

Hello.. is that the council? well, i'm disgusted and would like to make a complaint! my neighbour has the audacity to park in their drive. I want something doing about it straight away!!!!!

this is a strange village tho i have to say!!!! it took all of two days for my garden gnome who was being a naughty flasher to get himself on the agenda of the parish council meeting!!!

IvanOpinion

novelli wrote: »

this is a strange village tho i have to say!!!! it took all of two days for my garden gnome who was being a naughty flasher to get himself on the agenda of the parish council meeting!!!

If you lived in Dibley it would have been top of the agenda

Ivan

scheming_gypsy

novelli wrote: »

Well thanks for that, maybe they need to let the binmen know then, as they told us we were only to put food waste unbagged into the brown bin (in fact one week they didnt empty the grey bin as there was strawberry in the top of it and left a naughty sticker)!!

you should start sticking your own stickers on the bin. The sticker being a print out from the website about what can be collected

agnes_2

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

well yeah cos they can't say 'b*gger me thats hot'

you are so funny gypsy:rotfl: :rotfl:

KittyKate

novelli wrote: »

i think you are wroing when u say everyone else manages fine!! loads of people are moaning about the system, its a big problem for lots of people.

Also how on earth can i be more sensible re waste!!! its rubbish, it goes in the bin!!! what more is there to it!!! recyclable gets recycled.
and i cant bag waste meat as we are not allowed to bag anything!! i have to disguise the dog poo bags by wrapping in paper!! (paper which could have been recycled)!!!

I was actually in the back garden steam cleaning the paths when the binmen came so they cant have failed to hear that someone was there, they could have asked me to move the bags, but no its easier for them just to leave the bin full.!!

We are not allowed to put bleach in the food waste bin, as its used for compost

Alright, not everyone manages fine - but it seems to me the ones who moan the loudest are the ones not willing to work at making it work!
As for being more sensible re: waste - well, I create 1 black bin liner of rubbish a week. I use washable cloths to clean, I re-use jars and spray bottles, and I save/re-use my carriers. When I buy fruit & veg off the market, it is in a paper bag not a polystyrene tray wrapped in plastic. It's wrong to say rubbish is rubbish - most supermarkets are beggining to see it's much more than that. If you create too much waste, try cutting down! What other food waste would you have other than peelings? Maybe you buy too much food

At the end of the day you knew the rules & you broke them however petty that may seem, but there is a reason for the rules.

Why not try reducing your rubbish, making more of an effort to recycle, and re-use what you can. I bet a weekly collection would stop being a dilemma and become a good incentive to do your bit for the planet.

(And you can get seperate doggy poo bins if you are really concerned about the paper!)

(I'm also suprised you're not allowed to put bleach in the bin-who is using it for compost!?)

getcarter

Put the doggy poo down the toilet!

Carter

scbk

Up here there is no kerbside recycling (unless you live in certain parts of the city centre), and bins are emptied once a week. If you have any extra rubbish then a friendly word to the binmen as they do their collection and it magically disappears
And if you have any extra over that then there's the waste and recycling centre in Inverness, but that can get quite busy at the weekends as people throw out their year-old electrical equpment and near-new 3 piece suites :rolleyes: as they "want a new one". They used to be quite strict about possible trade waste there, my uncle used to get an ear bashing just for taking his large trailer down. That's changed now though, and once when I was helping a mate move house I went down there about 5 times in the same week, in my sign written van!:p


All our glass, tins, and papers get recycled though, and all veg peelings go on the compost heap. Food waste is pretty rare. Grass cuttings etc go on the compost and most branches are burnt off. In the average week we fill about half the bin, with a good proportion of that being plastics