Recycling

[Catzsy]

Wondered about the differences in recycling on the forum and also is there any other daft councils out there? We have recycling with paper and plastic in blue bags, Food bin and black bags. The stupid thing is that we are not allowed to put glass in any of these bags and have to take them to the local recycling centre. :@ What do we pay our tax for? Also it is about 2 miles away - no bottle banks in town so what on earth do Old age Pensioners or people without transport do? Crazy I feel.

[matt$]

I'd be gutted, and im with you what do we pay taxes for :L they should get the council to come to your houses and collect them. Where i live we just simple have a paper/cardboard recycling bin which is collected once a week i believe might be fortnight though not sure.

[dirrty]

erm not in a recycling scheme, but we always recycle. got a recycle bin the same size as a large standard bin, and then a small brown bin which goes inside the house for food waste which is then emptied into a bigger (but still small) brown bin that goes outside. and then they come and collect the recycled stuff every other week

[Caution]

We have a blue bin for recycling everything apart from glass and stuff, a black bin for all rubbish and a green for garden waste. I don't really see the point in the blue/black bin cos you can put pretty much anything in either. I've heard it's not even recycled anyway.

[Rozi]

we have fabby recycling. Just throw it all in a big orange sack the size of a normal rubbish bag and it gets collected every week. Food waste goes in the little green bin which goes on the compost heap.

[Shar]

We have the council recycling bins and we just re-use re-usable stuff really :D

[dogboy123]

We have council recycling bins, and also brown bins which are for like garden waste

[Smits]

We have brown bins for garden waste, blue boxes for glass/plastic/cans/tins and a sack for paper/cardboard and you can get one for textiles as well i think

[Angel-Light]

Green bin for general waste, Brown bin for garden waste, Blue Bin for plastics, cans, paper, cardboard, White bags for textiles and in the next few weeks a black box for glass and small electrical items

[Dan2nd]

We were just given two black bins for plastics and paper and tins.. glass we have to make an effort to drive to the bottle bank in town...

[Tintinnabulate]

We have like err 5 bins. Can recycle glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, good, grass etc.

[Swastika]

na we don't recycle in our house.
we get huge bins in the alley that everybody on the row of houses uses, no individual wheely bins or anything.
we just shot everything into binbags and into the big bins out the back, then i guess they get collected whenever they do.
have to phone the council though for them to take away old microwaves and tv's and stuff.

[Blinger$]

Hmm, in melbourne there are three (wheelie)bins..

One is for general waste which in general is about 120 litres (picture here) (http://binshop.com.au/images/kempsey%20bins%20036.jpg)
Another one is for recycling, which is for paper, cardboard, glass, plastic etc (anything recyclable) which has a yellow lid (picture here) (http://www.yankalilla.sa.gov.au/webdata/resources/images/yellow_bin.jpg)
And they recently introduced a new one, a "greens bin" where you throw out all the leaves/grass/trees etc that you cut down (picture here) (http://www.hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au/page/images/Green-Bin-240-%28CUT%29.jpg)


We follow that, but we dont have the green bin since we just burn the stuff we cut down or keep it on the grass. At work though we throw everything into a big dumpster/skip and that gets collected twice a week.

[Stefy09]

I take bottles to the bottle bank at the tip. But people think im an alcoholic because my sister is and i end up taking like 10 vodka bottles

[GommeInc]

The Recycling Scheme in this area is incredibly good :) We have a recycling box which takes cans and glass, and we're given plastic bags for paper and plastic bottles (obviiously in seperate boxes/bags). Cans and glass are taken one week, plastic bottles and paper the next. Generally food waste and so forth is taken every week. I think they also take clothes and stuff if you place them in a blue bag any week (they chuck them on the side of the lorry/van).

The "dump" is about 9 or 10 miles away.

[ecstasy]

we have a bin for a pretty much anything recyclable + recently got a bin for garden waste. lavly

[AgnesIO]

Mu council allows you to recycle virtually everything now

[Catzsy]

Green bin for general waste, Brown bin for garden waste, Blue Bin for plastics, cans, paper, cardboard, White bags for textiles and in the next few weeks a black box for glass and small electrical items

I am way impressed with this - your council seems very progressive.

[nat965]

We also have council bins, then reuse our empty bottles, jars etc. with cans, we just give them to our neighbour then he goes to the local dump & dumps it :P (we rarely do)

[Tintinnabulate]

If government gave more money to those councils who recycle more, every council would be promoting it so much more.

[Misawa]

We recycle, but the fact is the majority of it still goes to landfill.

[Catzsy]

We recycle, but the fact is the majority of it still goes to landfill.

Even the recycled material in your area goes to landfill?

[Storking]

Yeah, we have recycling bins but most kids around here tend to find stealing them hilarious.

Or using the lids as sleds in the winter :)

[Misawa]

I saw a documentary on it. The majority of rubbish in the UK that's supposed to be recycled goes to landfill anyway.

[Martin]

Mhmm we have purple and white bags, it's so annoying to have to sort stuff out and make sure it's clean etc. Although I guess it's doing a good job for te environment somehow. I normally take a trip to the skip (which has a recycling facillity) once a month and take a load of glass bottles, and other stuff which cant be recycled via the council.

But yeah at the moment it's just paper/cardboard and plastic that we have to put in the bags I think. Would be useful if there were more options here like it sounds other councils have. :D

[Catzsy]

I saw a documentary on it. The majority of rubbish in the UK that's supposed to be recycled goes to landfill anyway.

I seriously don't think this is true now - there would be a public outrage. It may have been a couple of years ago but I know where our rubbish is recycled.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I support recycling but not over-excessive recycling, ours is pretty fine but sadly the bin collection services that we pay our taxes for have been elongated from which I gather is thanks to European Union regulations meaning the bins stink and we still end up paying the same council taxes (higher every year) for less of a service that was there before. To add to that, the sight of bins everywhere is very unattractive (especially as Liverpool Council went and chose luminous purple). I hear they are introducing slop-buckets fairly soon which is a step too far - its almost rocket science now sifting through what goes where and for those with small gardens it must be a nightmare trying to find room to fit these numerous bins.

[Black_Apalachi]

You know you're in Liverpool when you see the purple bins, Dan :P

We just have the two; green for general rubbish and grey for recycling and garden waste I think. To be honest, as each bin only gets collected fortnightly, if you miss a week everything ends up in one or other of the bins anyway and nobody seems to check.

[Anarchist]

No bins here whatsoever. we have to use these huge sacks, and when the recycling person comes, he'll pay us depending on how much the sack ways.

I don't really think the government puts a lot into recycling anyway. So independent scrappers have to come.

[Black_Apalachi]

No bins here whatsoever. we have to use these huge sacks, and when the recycling person comes, he'll pay us depending on how much the sack ways.

I don't really think the government puts a lot into recycling anyway. So independent scrappers have to come.

Wait, you get paid for your rubbish?!

When I was living away at uni, we also had no bins and had to just leave black bags out. It was soooo messy.