Recycling- tenants rights. Advice needed

FBaby

If the person blocking recycling is the landlord then that is true.

How can a LL block a tenant from recycling?

Smodlet

Is there perhaps a communal "chute" for rubbish collection, all of which falls into one large bin? If so, the cost of separating out landfill waste from recycling will not be feasible, I would imagine.

If you are so passionate about recycling (join the club) do it. Just take it with you when you go shopping, for example, so you are not expending any extra fossil fuel just to recycle. Our local Tesco's have a bank of bins for different kinds of recyclable materials; perhaps there is something like that in your vicinity?

pennystretcher

You are not alone. In one of my previous places, we had wheelie bins for general waste (one per flat) and no space to store them except on the street. Council then replaced them with one large bin - without telling us beforehand. Then they promptly went and removed that bin. Again, without telling us. :mad:

After asking what I was meant to do with my rubbish, they finally distributed garbage bags. Not ideal as you were only allowed to put the full bags on the street once a week. No recycling facilities either. After contacting the council they first suggested I take my recycling to nearest recycling point - which was about half a mile away!!! :eek: After lengthy discussion with them, we finally got a public recycling point on the street that can be used..still not ideal as some idiots keep setting fires in the paper compartment.. :mad: No wonder our council has trouble meeting recycling targets.

agrinnall

pennystretcher wrote: »

...they first suggested I take my recycling to nearest recycling point - which was about half a mile away!!!

Gosh, a whole half a mile away, how could you possibly have coped?

Slithery

pennystretcher wrote: »

After contacting the council they first suggested I take my recycling to nearest recycling point - which was about half a mile away!!!

Ahh, diddums.

I take my recycling 12 miles to the recycling centre when the communal recycling bin is full.

Nick_C

Slithery wrote: »

Ahh, diddums.

I take my recycling 12 miles to the recycling centre when the communal recycling bin is full.

I hope you are going there by public transport!

pennystretcher

agrinnall wrote: »

Gosh, a whole half a mile away, how could you possibly have coped?

I didn't (don't) have a car so try carrying glass containers, papers etc. every week to there..and the change affected about 800 flats in the area...

pennystretcher

Slithery wrote: »

Ahh, diddums.

I take my recycling 12 miles to the recycling centre when the communal recycling bin is full.

I hope you have a good pair of boots for your walk to the recycling centre - being an environmentally conscious person that you seem to be, surely you don't drive to do your recycling? :rotfl: Remember, not all of us have cars.

Comms69

You want to recycle - go for it. it should be commended, but it's not a right.

pennystretcher

Your council is bound to have a recycling target - ask how they are doing with that and estimate how much your flats could contribute towards the target.