Council Wheelie Bins

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BorisThomson wrote: »

In many areas those bins are now the standard ones!

For fortnightly collection of waste from family homes?

Really?

It's a wonder the streets aren't swimming in uncollected rubbish.

Torry_Quine

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

For fortnightly collection of waste from family homes?

Really?

It's a wonder the streets aren't swimming in uncollected rubbish.

The smaller bin is quite big enough if you recycled everything that can be.

Keep_pedalling

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

For fortnightly collection of waste from family homes?

Really?

It's a wonder the streets aren't swimming in uncollected rubbish.

We have 3 full size bins fortnightly collections the blue and green ones fir recycling are often quite full, but the black one is rarely over 1/4 full, so I could deffinately live with a mini one of those.

Mr.Generous

Also depends what they recycle, we had our blue bin rejected for ridged plastic, they put a sticker on it and just leave it full. How ridged I hear you ask? Well quite ridged apparently. I phoned to complain and they asked if the bin had shredded paper in it - apparently a reason they reject many blue bins. No it didn't. They sent out a leaflet explaining what we could recycle, and it actually said YES to shredded paper and plastics.

If in doubt now it just goes in the black bin. It is usually half full, but we miss a bin pickup now and again with holidays / bank holidays / Christmas / Easter. so a smaller bin would be a bit more work.

2 adults in a band D council tax band house? I figure they get more than the Av £ per bin from us so I'll stick with the larger (not mahouseive) bin. Also they are looking at 3 weekly pick up for black bin for the future. plan ahead.

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I'm not even aware of a "black" bin. We have purple for household waste, blue for recyclable items and a green one for garden waste. Houses without gardens get only two bins.

amersall

We have a black bin for household waste, a green bin (same size as the black one) for garden waste and a green box for recycling.
We could use a smaller black bin to be honest as we recycle most things.

agrinnall

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

I'm not even aware of a "black" bin. We have purple for household waste, blue for recyclable items and a green one for garden waste. Houses without gardens get only two bins.

Different local authorities use different colour schemes: my bins are all grey but have a grey lid for general waste, blue for recycling and brown for garden waste (I have to pay £33 a year for the latter so I'll soon be due a partial refund as the industrial action here means it hasn't been collected for 8 weeks).

aife

There are some daft practices creeping into rubbish collection in some areas , but if the £20 is a one off payment it's actually pretty cheap and you should just pay up.
Alternatively you could just start smuggling rubbish in your pockets/underwear every time you leave the house and distribute it round your neighbourhood.

CKhalvashi

Torry_Quine wrote: »

The smaller bin is quite big enough if you recycled everything that can be.

Thats what I thought.

My black bin has about a black bag of rubbish a month go into it, the blue bin (recycling) is about half full every 2 weeks and the compost bin is really only used for garden waste and food scrapings.

I can't see any reason to have more than that for an average sized family.