Recycling??? ITS NOT OUR FAULT!!!

GreenB_2

I think a major problem is each council recycles different things, some accept glass bottles , some don't - some accept yellow pages, some don't.

It is this sort of thing the government could actually do some proper regulation on and say councils MUST recycle the following...........

I don't understand why our council will accept plastic bottles but not accept anything glass and you have to take these to the bottle bank (not enviromentally friendly driving around to recycle these is it?). As they are collecting anyway why not take glass bottles as well.

I also think councils should be made to supply a seperate bin for green waste so it is not shoved in a landfill site - green waste can be composted and reused. It could then be given back freely to the public to use in their gardens saving everyone money.

Also those councils that do not use wheelie bins and insist on using "black bags" are really contributing to more pollution as the bags are not recycled - Wheelie bins could be made from the plastic collected and recycled. It would be cheaper in the long term for us as consumers to buy the wheelie bin rather than 2 black bags a week.

surfcat

bridiej wrote:

Why? Council tax is already a complete rip off (ours is over £100 a month!)

Once successfully up and running recycling schemes earn money for the council. Council tax would thus be higher without them.

bridiej wrote:

Our black box this week has about two plastic bottles and one jar in it - yet our wheelie bin is already full and they're not emptying for another week under this new "schedule". It's ridiculous, we have nothing else we can recycle that they will accept! :mad:

Either you've got young children and are going through a lot of nappies, or you're consuming too much!

bridiej

surfcat wrote:

Either you've got young children and are going through a lot of nappies, or you're consuming too much!

Neither actually! It's just they dont accept a great percentage of the type of waste we have, e.g. I have soya milk - they dont accept the cartons, ergo they also dont accept fruit juice cartons which my husband drinks, or yoghurt type cartons come to that! We have a cat and the cat litter goes in the bin bag - cant recycle that or put it anywhere else!

We dont drink a lot of fizzy drinks, or great amounts of wine or eat lots of tinned food, therefore very little to recycle...

calleyw

jw1096 wrote:

To be honest - it would help if our stupid council would actually provide recycling boxes for our stuff - I would gladly sort if they provided the means to do so - I dont have the time to run around town to different sites to deposit various bits and pieces, and I certainly dont see why I should do when I pay to have the stuff removed in the first place.


Jo xx

Since when have they stopped providing boxes. I use to live in Southdown in Bath about 10 years ago and I had green box to put my recycling in. I assume the reason for no wheelie bins is because they look ugly and having no where to put them. As Bath has a lot of flats so there would a wheelie bin per flat. 10 flats so 10 wheelie bins to home.

Mind you nothing surprises me any more. Just look at the Spa project. ummmmmm lots of glass. Every time I walk past it about 10 pieces are smashed.

According to my leaflet in my black box I can put glass, tins, paper, and even spray cans. But no plastic. My green bin takes cardboard, and green garden stuff but no food.

I am lucky that I live 5 mins walk from my local recycling centre so can walk to it with my plastic. And even buy compost so no more buying from B&Q for me. And way cheaper. Take and fill your own bag £1. Bargain.

Yours

Calley

bridiej

There are lots of flats in Folkestone and they are provided with the big wheelie bins I think, rather than one per flat.

ashmit

IvanOpinion wrote:

because some mollie-coddling toss pot bureaucrat decided that there was a risk of suicide we all have to pay a fortune for 16 tablets.

suicide by paracetamol is a particularly nasty way to go. I'm training to volunteer for the Samaritans at the mo, and was told the other week that since the legislation changed, suicides from paracetamol have dropped significantly. I can try and find out a source for that if you want.

Also, I only pay 16p for 16 tablets. I don't think that's expensive.
But I do think that people who genuinely need them should be able to get them cheap on prescription. 100 tablets one one prescription is something like 6p each - may be worth it in terms of faff value but should be better financial value!

To get back on topic, though, the North Tyneside and Newcastle recycling scheme is great - garden rubbish, tins, glass bottles, plastic bottles, newspapers, magazines, yellow pages as long as it's just after the new ones come out, even batteries as long as you put them in a separate plastic bag! Placcy bags I use as bin liners or give to the Tesco delivery guy (so now all you who've seen me posting about how scary tesco is on the discussion board can call me a hypocrite!!!!!). Collected every other week. There were a lot of initial teething problems (unfortunately enough to stop one of my friends ever recycling again, I think ) but now they're sorted I'm really happy with the scheme. And Newcastle and North Tyneside have now started putting recycling bins in towns - there are recycling points with bins for newspapers, cans, etc right in the middle of town. No excuse now, other than laziness.

Those of you with cr*p council recycling schemes, get writing to your councils and ask when these schemes are going to start or improve! If we don't hold them responsible, nothing will ever change.

Rant over.

calleyw

bridiej wrote:

There are lots of flats in Folkestone and they are provided with the big wheelie bins I think, rather than one per flat.

But do they have the space to store them.

As Bath has a lot of converted houses with front doors that lead straight out on the path. So there is no where to store anything let along a great big wheelie bin.

This is world hertigage site so doubt they are keen to have any wheelie bins about. If I remember rightly a lot of the businesses that don't have place to store a wheelie bin still put there rubbish out in bags.

Yours

Calley

peter_the_piper

We come under the Rother council and they do not provide ANY bins for recycling at all. Living out in the sticks we are about 5 miles from the nearest recycling point, which of course is in the opposite direction to the way we normally go. We would love them to provide bins, they promised to do so about 18months ago but nothing yet.

bridiej

calleyw wrote:

But do they have the space to store them.

As Bath has a lot of converted houses with front doors that lead straight out on the path. So there is no where to store anything let along a great big wheelie bin.

This is world hertigage site so doubt they are keen to have any wheelie bins about. If I remember rightly a lot of the businesses that don't have place to store a wheelie bin still put there rubbish out in bags.

Yours

Calley

Yes most of the flats in folkestone are converted houses and they have room.

surely a wheelie bin is better in a heritage site than a load of bags that get ripped open by cats / foxes / birds?

calleyw

bridiej wrote:

Yes most of the flats in folkestone are converted houses and they have room.

surely a wheelie bin is better in a heritage site than a load of bags that get ripped open by cats / foxes / birds?

I agree but can only assume that is why they have no wheelie bins. Mind you most people only tend to put the bags out first thing in the morning anyway so would not be no foxes arounds but the cats might have a go.

Yours

Calley