Rubbish!!!

julesgr

Daisydoll wrote: »

I think I need to get recycling again, I did start to do it a while back but kidof gave up our council only collect normal balck bins, garden waste(only hava yard so don't get a bin for that) and paper(which I don't have a sack for)every other week. The rest I would have to take to local tip. Luckily there is one about 3 mins away by car so don't really have an excuse! I think I'm going to get some recycling bags or boxes and start again. We usually fill our black bin each week and that's me 2 kids and 2 cats(dh in forces so away majority of time)

I did notice that our tesco extra are doing a set of recycling bags and a set of boxes at much more reasonable price than I've seen before.

luxor4t

Recycling here would be almost impossible if we did not have a car.

Kerbside collection (fortnightly) is limited to:
- glass /cans
- paper

There is a voluntary scheme for foodwaste (veg peelings etc)but that is a fortnightly collection - very awkward in the summer heat - and the boxes are thrown towrds your house or left in the road!

There was a green waste trial scheme, (for garden waste) with a fortnightly collection between march and october, but the operator took the bags away & the council want to charge for new ones.

At the nearest re-cycling centre there are hoppers for:
- cardboard
- wood
- scrap metal
- plastics
- tetra packs
- garden waste
- book bank
- clothing / shoes
- glass
- paper
- oil
- paint
- electrics
This is a car ride away, so if we did not have transport then we would be putting 3 bags a week minimum out for land fill. As it is we can manage on 5 over 4 weeks. (4-5 people in the house).
There are no bottle banks etc in the community but some supermarkets offer a limited range.
I feel the council here could do far more in terms of kerbside collection!

sianb84

we have:
grey bin - for general waste
green bin for garden waste - we can't put in food waste of any kind, soil, or waxy card but can include other cardboard.
Blue box - glass and tins
blue bag - paper, magazines, phone books

However the box is quite small so can't fit a fortnights recycling in - won't collect anything not in the box! The box and bag can get quite heavy when full. I think if we had a bin for recycling we could recycle much more.

We have to bin all plastics as they don't accept them and I don't drive so can't get to a recyling point.

nickj_2

if people are charged extra to get rid of their trash they will just chuck in the hedge ,it happened when councils started charging for the disposal of fridges and cars , they were dumped at the sides of roads , now the council comes and pick them up for free i don't see as many

it's manufacturers that should be taxed on the amount of waste their products produce , most packaging is either far too big for the product , or over engineered .

a lot of plastic is shipped over to china where no doubt it is laying somewhere festering away and polluting their country instead of here

catkins

I usually have 2 black bags of rubbish a week with just me and OH. I do put papers and bottles out for recycling. I must be honest I don't always bother with tins, glass or plastic bottles because I can't be bothered to wash them out. Also I have been told by a few people that our council just tips all the rubbish and the recycled stuff together (2 of the people who told me this work for the council!)

LittleVoice

There are two of us. We rarely eat out. We recycle paper, card, tins, and plastic and glass bottles.

The Council provides bags for the recyclable material but not otherwise. We don't have wheelie bins but do have weekly collections.

On average we produce one medium to large carrier bag of non-recyclable rubbish every week.

Only problem with this is that the carrier bag won't be black and therefore sometimes the collectors ignore it and use "black bag rubbish" as meaning they won't collect anything which isn't in a black bag. And the black bags are much bigger and costly than recycling a Tesco or Sainsbury's carrier for this purpose. (Also sometimes the Sainsbury's bags are rejected because orange is a code for the contents being builders rubble and the collectors don't use what should be common sense to see the difference!)

[Deleted User]

I live about two minutes from the recycling bins and so I can recycle almost all of my paper/cardboard ect.Tins get flattened, and put in the 'tin bin' Bottles/glass goes the same way. I have a Tesco plastic bag about once a week that goes into the litter bin tied up tight .So I rarely if ever have a black bin liner to go out for the dustman unless I have a de-clutter.Most things that I can get rid of go to charity shop when not needed i.e. clothes /books ect.Old envelopes get used at my craft class as 'shirts ' on mens cards, the insides look really good folded and with a few tiny buttons down the front, and sometimes clear plastic as well will go in our big box of odds and ends that we use.
If I can't re-use something then I will find a place for it to go if possible.
Although I have a garden my sis-in-law takes my lawn cuttings for her compost bin as I do not do a lot of gardening anymore owing to various health problems. I think if we all looked at what we threw out we could probably find ways to re-cycle things even more.

daisyroots_2

Now that Islington collects our recycling (new house - they didn't know we were here):rolleyes: we use about one big bag a week. That's for two adults, who only cook from scratch. Recycling tqkes everything except polystyrene, clothing, food and garden waste. We have a small compost bin in the kitchen, this goes in a shared compost bin with the other houses, its used for the communal areas, but people take compost as & when they need it - only a few of us have gardens.

At the moment we're doing a house exchqnge in the South of France - hence weird typos, the keyboqrd is different - in the Languedoc (Montpellier) normal rubbish is collected 3 times a week, which seems a bit excessive, and recycling once a week, but it won't tqke glass. For this you must drive :mad: to the supermarket, but we drove all over the cqr pqrk today and couldn't find it so our exchanger will have to do it when she returns.

Everyone wheels their bins into the square in the evening, it seems to be quite a social thing. There might be rules about precisely where you cqn put your bin, but we havent figured them out yet and may be doing it wrong. In Australia, where we have qlso exchqnged, there are three bins, one for garden waste, one for recycling; one for normal rubbish.

I agree thqt manufqcturers should pay for excessive packqging - Marks & Spencer qre huge culprits in my opinion. And a tax on plastic cqrrier bqgs.

celyn90

We're lucky too, plastic bottles, paper, card and metal is collected here, food waste is eaten by the sink monster waste disposal unit. Batteries I take to work for recycling. Plastic carrier bags go back to tesco delivery driver (although to be fair we don't have that many). Only leaves cling film, polystyrene and plastic tubs. My dad makes us save the plastic tubs for growing seeds in and we rarely get polystyrene. Possibly one carrier bag of waste a week for us because of all this, which gets dumped in the wheelie bin bank behind the house.

Where I lived before, they even collected clothing and books for charity, mobile phones and batteries which was great.

Crazychik

We are a family of 2 adults, 2 children, 1 dog, 3 cats, 1 rabbit & 1 hamster

we have a black wheelie bin for household waste (collected fortnightly through the summer months) also a green wheelie bin for card board, garden waste, etc (collected fortnightly). Its only during October - March that the green bin does not get collected! But the black bin is then collected on a weekly basis!

we also have a blue box to be filled with glass & cans
and a blue bag for newspapers - both collected fortnightly. Occasionaly all my newspapers are shredded and used for the rabbits bedding.

I re-cycle all plastics, from food cartons, pop - milk bottles, to fabric softner & washing liqud bottles. I usually save up 2 black sacks and take to the re-cycling bins twice a month

My food waste (veg) goes to the rabbit, or what she doesn't eat, goes in a bag, and my mum has for her compost bin. The waste from the rabbit also goes to mum's compost bin.

Clothes, what's good enough to pass on to charities, goes into a bag ready for what ever charity is collecting in this area. Or anything decent, pass onto friends or sell on car boots or ebay. Like wise with shoes, but we do have a shoe re-cycling bin for the 3rd world countries! (however - Ive never had to use this)

Christmas wrapping paper - if opened carefully, this can be saved & re-used for the following year!


I must admit, I have been really pleased with myself for all this recycling, but Im sure there is a lot more I can be doing.