It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

elsien

My grandmother used to have a different problem. She'd carry her bottles to put in the bins in town because she didn't want the bin men to know what she drank - she wasn't a raging alcoholic, needless to say, and I could never convince her that they really weren't lifting the lid to check.

YoungBlueEyes

Pollycat said:

We can recycle most plastic, anything that says it can't be recycled goes in the black bin.
I wash out - not just rinse - all my bottles, tins and plastic containers. I do this in the washing up liquid after I've finished washing the pots. We don't have a dishwasher. So all my recycling is very clean.
I'm not - definitely not - saving up packaging that has contained food to take back to a supermarket in a week's time.

To the people who 'rinse' out the packaging:
where do you keep this until you're ready to dispose of it?

As you “wash out - not just rinse” your recycling, and all your recycling “is very clean”, it will not smell if stored in an old bread bag for a few days/a week ‘til you next get to a soft plastics receptacle. 

Pollycat

YoungBlueEyes said:

Pollycat said:

We can recycle most plastic, anything that says it can't be recycled goes in the black bin.
I wash out - not just rinse - all my bottles, tins and plastic containers. I do this in the washing up liquid after I've finished washing the pots. We don't have a dishwasher. So all my recycling is very clean.
I'm not - definitely not - saving up packaging that has contained food to take back to a supermarket in a week's time.

To the people who 'rinse' out the packaging:
where do you keep this until you're ready to dispose of it?

As you “wash out - not just rinse” your recycling, and all your recycling “is very clean”, it will not smell if stored in an old bread bag for a few days/a week ‘til you next get to a soft plastics receptacle. 

So what's wrong with putting my clean recycling in the recycling bin outside my house?

YoungBlueEyes

Your council accepts absolutely every sort of plastics in your recycling bin? 

Then the ‘store it ‘til you pass a supermarket’ thing doesn’t apply to you.

Pollycat

YoungBlueEyes said:

Your council accepts absolutely every sort of plastics in your recycling bin? 

Then the ‘store it ‘til you pass a supermarket’ thing doesn’t apply to you.

Didn't you only just find out about this?

YoungBlueEyes said:

I was talking to my lovely neighbour the other day. She was saying that not all the things with the recycling logo on them (the 3 circular arrows) are recyclable, you have to look at the number in the middle. The number relates to what sort of plastic it is, and some should go in the main bin. I just check there's a logo, then it's either my bag or the recycling bin. I didn't realise you had to check the number... I'll have to research that, see if it's right. Unless anyone knows?  

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm trying to find info on the numbers that's sometimes printed on plastic but it's not easy.

Checking my council's website I've been recycling the wrong things in the wrong bin for yonks. Very few of things with the logo on them are taken by my council, it doesn't matter what logo the manufacturers put on an item, council's decide what to recycle or not. Biggest surprise so far is what goes in my brown (garden/food waste) bin. The compostable bags do not break down in the "In Vessel Composting Process" and are not accepted in the brown bin system. So the bags the council give out for food waste in the brown kitchen caddy which has printed on them to dispose of them in the brown bin is not acceptable to go in the brown bin, according to the council website. 

I'm sorry I started this now

Check your council's website people :rolleyes:

As I said:
My kitchen.
My rules.

YoungBlueEyes

My quotes stand. Those 3 that you’ve quoted do nothing to further your point. 

I only recently found out that not all logo’d plastics go into our recycling, a lot depends on the number also printed on them. Also that this varies by council. These specific points are new to me. 

You please yourself in your own kitchen. But don’t deliberately misconstrue my posts to be argumentative, as you’ve done here. 

Pollycat said:

YoungBlueEyes said:

Your council accepts absolutely every sort of plastics in your recycling bin? 

Then the ‘store it ‘til you pass a supermarket’ thing doesn’t apply to you.

Didn't you only just find out about this?

YoungBlueEyes said:

I was talking to my lovely neighbour the other day. She was saying that not all the things with the recycling logo on them (the 3 circular arrows) are recyclable, you have to look at the number in the middle. The number relates to what sort of plastic it is, and some should go in the main bin. I just check there's a logo, then it's either my bag or the recycling bin. I didn't realise you had to check the number... I'll have to research that, see if it's right. Unless anyone knows?  

YoungBlueEyes said:

I'm trying to find info on the numbers that's sometimes printed on plastic but it's not easy.

Checking my council's website I've been recycling the wrong things in the wrong bin for yonks. Very few of things with the logo on them are taken by my council, it doesn't matter what logo the manufacturers put on an item, council's decide what to recycle or not. Biggest surprise so far is what goes in my brown (garden/food waste) bin. The compostable bags do not break down in the "In Vessel Composting Process" and are not accepted in the brown bin system. So the bags the council give out for food waste in the brown kitchen caddy which has printed on them to dispose of them in the brown bin is not acceptable to go in the brown bin, according to the council website. 

I'm sorry I started this now

Check your council's website people :rolleyes:

As I said:
My kitchen.
My rules.

newlywed

My council only accepts plastic bottles. No other plastic at all. And haven’t seen any specific plastic recycling options at smaller supermarkets or at the tip either… mind you I haven’t been there for some years now.

So glass, cardboard, paper and plastic bottles only…. With supermarket battery recycling. 

must keep more of a look out for other plastic recycling options… just in case I’m missing them

we don’t even have food waste collections


and I live in a “city” too…

Pollycat

YoungBlueEyes said:

You please yourself in your own kitchen. But don’t deliberately misconstrue my posts to be argumentative, as you’ve done here. 

Then try not to be a bully by attempting to put me in the wrong.
As you've done here.
I've been very clear on my stance on this.
Accept it.

Slinky

Pollycat said:

retiredinfrance said:

We keep food remains, sardine tins etc in the top drawer of the freezer as I don’t want any smells and it all goes into a black bag , then once a week the black one and the yellow one for the recycling stuff go into big communal bins down the road which are emptied once a week. The bin people also run the tip centers and are very knowledgeable. We get a magazine every so often with advice, ideas and updated information. They say not to expend extra water and soap to clean tins - just use the washing up water after the dishes, Most stuff is recycled here in the yellow bag.

Oh to have enough room in a freezer to keep smelly tins...

We had a problem with rodents in the garden. Our black bins are only emptied fortnightly. For a while the captured rodents spent some time chilling in yogurt pots in a drawer of the freezer, until we discovered the bins at the local park 75 yards away are emptied daily.

We do freeze fish leftovers, skin, bones etc otherwise the black bin is disgusting. Our food waste used to go in the garden bin but they changed it back to black last year

newlywed

@Slinky… you froze rodents????