The Council and my dustbin

arlybarly

In birmingham we are really lucky still having weekly collections and recycling weekly as well. if i put 5 bags out they are all taken without any mess whatsoever. there was talk a while back about fortnightly collections but the council changed their minds after uproar by the people.

elisebutt65

We're starting all this new bin for recycling malarkey next week

1 Grey bin for non- recyclable waste - not delivered yet - just some grey binliners - maximum of 2 allowed per week

2 1 Small Red box for recyclable paper and plastics - only not all types of plastic and not all glass and not all types of paper - Once a fortnight - Have ordered another one as it's tiny but not delivered yet!

3 - 1 Green wheelie bin -For all types of food and garden waste - Collection as yet unknown and not delivered yet. Council just said when I rang - to put into 1 of the 2 grey bags I am allowed to put put each week!

Ok - They sent us all the info on this well over 6 months ago and our Council tax is now one of the highest in the country - Yet they still could not get their ar$$es into gear and deliver us the wretched wheelie bins on time????

What are the recycling laws for all the major companies -
What do Tesco's do with all their packaging?
What do any petrochemical companies do?
Why is all the focus on the man in the street when it is supposed to be Britain as whole that reduces their environmental impact???

I don't mind doing it - I've just bought a new bin from Tesco's with 3 separate compartments to make my life easier, and have been using my red bin for 2 years now anyway - only 1 of 2 people in the street to do so in fact, and I won't be using the green wheelie much as I got a composter last year, but !!!!!! - If they're going to fine people for not doing it properly - then can we fine them back for not setting it up properly in the first place?

alison99_2

Tesco recycle all their packaging and have done so for many years.

I must be lucky where I live, our wheelie bin and recycling containers are emptied every week and only a day late if it's a bank holiday week.
My council tax is less that half the OP's.

At £2000, I'd expect the Royal family to come and empty my bins!

novelli

We have the same problem, have had these wheelie bins for ages now and i hate them!!!
Ours are always full before collection day (and no i am not producing too much waste!! rubbish is rubbish)
we are supposed to just slop food waste into the brown bins with garden waste, which is disgusting!! we had huge maggot problems at first, so now i refuse to put food in the brown bin, it goes in the normal household rubbish bin inside the black bags!!! we are not allowed to put any bags in the brown bin, and slopping food into it is disgusting.
I have to have regular fires to get rid of rubbish, including recyclable stuff. sorry but i do not have time to go trooping to the tip every week causing yet more pollution and traffic!! u seem to have to have an ology at the tip nowadays too, in that each item has to go in certain bins etc etc. there was a time when our council tax covered all our rubbish collection, now the price has gone up it covers far less!!!
and councils wonder why flytipping has increased!!!:mad:

troll3d

tomstickland wrote: »

It's not !!!! though - it's things that were bought in pristine condition and only turn to !!!! when randomly combined in a rubbish bin.
Unless you eat your beans out of discarded cans?

The Sh*t I was refering to was from the babies Nappies.

I don't care anymore I have had my rant and now I will do as i'm told like a good little citizen.

This is a debate no one will win it's like the global warming myth it's big business and no one will tell the emperor he has no clothes on.

troll3d

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

I think you'll find that in other countries people recycle.

In fact the UK has pretty shamfull rates of recycling.

I blame lazy people.

I was not really thinking about the recycling so much then as the council and governments belief that the British will put up with any and all demands put to them, like the fuel duty we pay, and now the price increase we will pay for a service that we are doing more of ourselves waste disposal.

Our French neighbours would not put up with this behaviour from there elected officials.

Brooker_Dave

troll3d wrote: »

I was not really thinking about the recycling so much then as the council and governments belief that the British will put up with any and all demands put to them, like the fuel duty we pay, and now the price increase we will pay for a service that we are doing more of ourselves waste disposal.

Asking people to sort their refuse into rubbish and recycling is not much to ask.

andyrules

There seems to be a total mish-mash of approaches to the collection of rubbish in the UK, and it's time councils looked to the best working model and all adopted it!

It HAS to be something that isn't going to cause health hazards, recycles all recyclable waste and is workable for the householder - before economics.

We have the brown and green bins - the brown one works fine for grass clippings and card, but ridiculous coloured unlidded boxes for paper, glass and cans. One day of rain and cans are floating down the street whilst paper is a soggy mush! The least wind sees newspaper wrapped round every lamppost. Innovative:rolleyes:

Brooker_Dave

elisebutt65 wrote: »

What are the recycling laws for all the major companies

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/business/1745440/444663/landfill/1789720/

elisebutt65 wrote: »

What do Tesco's do with all their packaging?

"71% of our waste was recycled during 2006/07"

http://www.tescocorporate.com/page.aspx?pointerid=40329270EACF4567B72FF46DC3FAEF5A

elisebutt65 wrote: »

Why is all the focus on the man in the street when it is supposed to be Britain as whole that reduces their environmental impact??? then can we fine

Because domestic rubbish is the biggest culprit.

Brooker_Dave

andyrules wrote: »

There seems to be a total mish-mash of approaches to the collection of rubbish in the UK, and it's time councils looked to the best working model and all adopted it!

It's all contracted out, so different councils contractors have differing ideas as to what is best.