Fratton, it looks like you have the same problem as me, namely bins lying around your front door. Or was it bin day?.

Quote from: painbrook on April 17, 2013, 04:10:17 PM
Fratton, it looks like you have the same problem as me, namely bins lying around your front door. Or was it bin day?.

Same here. Out front we currently have 2 large wheelie bins, a large blue box and a large white bag. A couple of weeks ago we got a letter from the council detailing revised recycling requirements and announcing we are to get a 3rd large wheelie bin! I'm going to have to start parking the car on the road as there is no room left on the drive. It seems to be staying as normal refuse every other week with recycling in between.
Gareth

Quote from: thebrighton on April 17, 2013, 06:23:01 PM

Quote from: painbrook on April 17, 2013, 04:10:17 PM
Fratton, it looks like you have the same problem as me, namely bins lying around your front door. Or was it bin day?.

Same here. Out front we currently have 2 large wheelie bins, a large blue box and a large white bag. A couple of weeks ago we got a letter from the council detailing revised recycling requirements and announcing we are to get a 3rd large wheelie bin! I'm going to have to start parking the car on the road as there is no room left on the drive. It seems to be staying as normal refuse every other week with recycling in between.
Gareth.
Wait till you get your grey, brown and red ones. To make it worse, with the strong winds up here in Fife a lot of the bins have shed their loads . John.

Don't get me started on 'bins'! OK you just have...

I don;t do recycliing... why?

I now have bins for garden (which I use) general (ditto), kitchen waste, which I stopped using several months ago as the bin was not emptied. Why? Because I placed on my garden wall (2 feet high) to avoid blocking the pavement... evidently the pick up operatives thought this was a H&S issue

so my food waste goes into my 'general bin' and to landfill.

But on 'other' items I make the effort to take those  items to recycling that I can

I had a marvellous conversation with a man from the council who explained we'd put our bins out too early and they were a hazard. I asked him in that case why binbags were black and had the council done a risk assessment 

Alan

We're up to four bins in Peterborough...

1) Black for general waste
2) Green for recycling
3) Brown for Garden Waste
4) A small grey caddy, collected, weekly for food waste.

Got to admit that, despite my scepticism, it works pretty well for me, living in a bungalow in a more agreeable part of town.

It's not such a great system where there are lots of Victorian terraces, no front gardens and really narrow pavements.

Obviously people are throwing away too much these days. 

There was a time when just one small silvery metal round profile dustbin was sufficient for all of a household's weekly waste. Now it seems we need at least three huge plastic bins, several bags and a food container. I'm amazed that it seems that some families now can't even manage to get all their recylable waste in to one massive wheelie-bin and leave the lid up with rubbish overflowing the path.

H.

When the council don't come for a fortnight, you have a fortnights waste - not just one week like in the old days of aforementioned "one small silvery metal round profile dustbin".

Also - how many bother to squash etc packaging, or just chuck it in the bin as-is and taking up lots of cc ?

That's one good thing about living in Spain, we get a collection every day, yes every day including Christmas day.  Admittadly we have communial bins but it is only 100 yards to walk at the most with your rubbish.  There are separate bins for general rubbish, bottles, tins and plastic cartons, paper and cardboard, old oil, old batteries. 

And what do I pay for this service, 90.00 euros a year!  and if you're a resident and on the electoral role you get 55% discount off of that, as you also do with your council tax. 

3 bins here plus that stupid shopping basket sized food waste bin.

Garden waste bin hardly ever used, just when we prune the pyrocanthia (sp?)
Recycling Bin usually 2/3 full every fortnight - yes we flat pack old boxes.
Ordinary bin  one or maybe 2 binbags a fortnight.
Food waste thingy - we don't waste food. Think at the moment it has decorating brushes and roller in it.

Three bins (at the moment)

Brown bin for garden waste
Black bin for recycling
Green bin for normal household.
Black plastic crate for glass

The council was a wheelie bin pioneer and the first bins were green and have stayed that way, even though they are not for 'green'

Just gone over to brown bins, previously had green bags (for garden)

Thankfully, we only have a black bin for general rubbish, a green topped bin for paper, plastic bottles and tin cans, and a blue box for glass. Surprisingly, it is always the blue boxes that are fullest!!!! We can also pay for a brown topped garden waste bin.
Unfortunately, there has been a lot of publicity, locally, that the paper/plastic/can bin loads are not sorted by the collectors, but exported intact. The recipients (China) do not sort either, but put direct into landfill, so not very green at all.

We get bags but its mostly terraced and with steps down so wheelie bins wouldn't work too well. Only thing not a bag is the food bin.

Plastic and rubbish one week, glass, metal, paper, card, boxes etc the other, food bin every week. Can't remember when the garden stuff goes as its months since I put any garden waste out.

Plastic recycling made the big difference - our black bin contents more than halved.

Other handy thing is the council then make the resulting compost available, and also run a "junk" stall where you can buy all sorts of things that were deemed worth trying to recycle as is really cheap.

Alan

Quote from: MikeDunn on April 22, 2013, 10:20:15 AM

When the council don't come for a fortnight, 

Not so around here, and I suspect most other places. They still come once a week but don't empty all the four, five or six bins, although they still always emply at least two or three, which are massively larger than the one old dustbin.

H.

Quote from: Kipper on April 22, 2013, 11:55:48 AM
Unfortunately, there has been a lot of publicity, locally, that the paper/plastic/can bin loads are not sorted by the collectors, but exported intact. The recipients (China) do not sort either, but put direct into landfill, so not very green at all.

Sounds dubious to me -  the Chinese are not known for wasting any opportunity to recycle metal and their rules on waste especially incoming waste are pretty tight.

Alan