Recycling in different counties/areas
We have stayed in several different Cl's so far this year each in different local authority areas. It has opened our eyes to the differences in recycling policies between these areas. For example in some everything is seperated i.e. glass, paper, tins etc. On some sites glass is seperated and nothing else or on another site tins are seperated and nothing else. The biggest suprise was on the South Coast where there was no recycling at all. I appreciate its the local authority and not the CL but you would have thought by now there would be a common policy throughout the country. It does make me wonder that if recycling is just a nod and a wink and most of the stuff gets put in landfill anyway.
This is not political and is just observations from visiting CL's
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Would a CL not be trade waste rather than local authority? Anyway, waste handling facilities are now clever enough to sort wase automatically so even if it all goes into one bin it could be well sorted in the end.
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Oh how I agree with your post. At home we have to separate into different containers, no rushing out and dropping in the dustbin bleary eyed before they call . BUT our plastic recycling takes a lot of beating, lids separate from containers but you can
include cartons, such as fruit juice ones, carrier bags, no chance these days and bread wrapping. Our can/glass collection takes small electrical and batteries and textiles and shoes but these items must be bagged separately. I've not seen this collection
pick up but could be intriguing. Being used to recycling and sorting I'm shocked at collection points when visiting other places. We also have food recycling nowhere near as bad as I feared smell wise, too plus the garden waste. Our food recycling has it's
own special bag as does the plastic recycling, supplied free of charge by the local council, another cost effective/useful use of resources I ask myself? However all that said I would hope that there isn't an arrival at landfill of all the different carts
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At home we have 3 bins, 1 is a blue lid its emptied every 2 weeks, that takes any plastic, paper and carboard. Then we have a brown lid that's for garden waste and any food, cooked or raw, that gets emptied every 2 weeks for most of the year but in winter
once a month. The big green lid bin is for everything else, every 2 weeks alternates with blue lid bin. We don't have a bin for glass which does surprise me but all the supermarkets have them as does the recycle centre, which is ok for folk who have cars.
We have lots of pensioners in our village who don't drive so I guess the hlass goes in the genersl bin. It would be nice to see a standarised system but that would make sense so don't hold you breath
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The biggest problem with recycling are those too lazy or thick to do it. Even if the separate bins are next to each other, they still just chuck it in the general waste. Too dozy to flatten cardboard boxes before disposal as well. How did we ever surpass
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When I see the 3 containers for brown, green and clear glass at the local bottle banks all being emptied into the same skip on collection I sort of lose enthusiasm for being 'green'. Ditto in France when on bin collection day everything irrespective of the
container label went into the same place on the same dustbin wagon......0 -
We also have 3 bins. Recyclable, Non-recyclable and Garden. Our Recyclable and non-recyclable are collected on alternate weeks and our Garden (including waste food) is collected on the same day as the Recyclable.
For our recycling bin, the only thing we have to separate is the paper/card, which goes into a small container that fits on the top inside oF the Recycling bin.
David
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in my part of Yorkshire ,we have 3 bins grass household and recycling ,its only about a year since we could mix paper and glass and plastic in one bin as they have built us a new waste site ,we used to put paper in a narrower bin and glass in a box which
is now all in one bigger bin ,the house I used to live in they would pick the box up tip it into a bin and literally just let go of the box not caring where it landed so when it was windy they would fly all over the street I would often go pick them up and
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It very much depends on the system deployed by the local council or their agents. Having been to a mechanised waste plant it quite fascinating to see how recycling waste is sorted. If the end recycling/sorting is efficient enough it seems that it could
be a better system than separating out at source as you don't have to have specialist vehicles to collect the different sort of waste. No council would get away with sending everything to landfill because it would cost them and their Council Tax payer way
too much.David
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It is the cost of landfill that makes recycling more atractive to councils. Landfill tax is now so high that councils want to recycle all they can.
The only complaint I have with our council is the glass. We have a full size wheely bin which is collected every four weeks. The thing is just too large and even missing the collection after Christmas made very little inpact on what was in it. A far smaller
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We don't have bins but still black sacks. But we have a box for glass and tins, clear sacks for paper, plastic, textiles all separate of course and finally bags for grass etc. We also have a bin for food waste which we were reluctant to use but since we
did we now only use 1 30l bin bags a week.We still have weekly rubbish and food bin collection the rest if the recycling is collected alternate weeks.
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It is the cost of landfill that makes recycling more atractive to councils. Landfill tax is now so high that councils want to recycle all they can.
The only complaint I have with our council is the glass. We have a full size wheely bin which is collected every four weeks. The thing is just too large and even missing the collection after Christmas made very little inpact on what was
in it. A far smaller bin would work just as well and would have cost far less.We asked our council for a smaller wheely bin for glass and tins which they were happy to provide.
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I am still on black bags that go into a little truck. BUT I found out everyone is entitled to a grey and blue bin and green so I have them too but can only use if everything is bagged up! The council say we have alternate week collections i.e. We do have
recycling! But the bin man says don't bother as he has to take all to landfill in his little truck.
Result is I drive 5 miles
to recycle centre every now and again but household waste is collected weekly. It suits me ok as recycling isn't far from the shops. However it won't suit when I can no longer drive!0 -
At home, we have a "three bin system", ie non-recyclable waste Black bin), recyclable (blue bin), garden waste (green bin). Simple enough, but, although adjacent Local Authorities have same system, they use different colour bins! This causes confusion with
our off-spring, who live in adjacent LA. Why not standardise the colours!0 -
We have weekly black bin ie general waste collection, that is hardly full.
We have fortnightly green bin recycled waste collection that is cardboard, and we have 2 large wheelibins that are always filled.
We have fortnightly glass collection in a small plastic box, where all colours of glass go in the same bin. This is the same days as the other 3 wheeliebins.
We also have a fortnightly garden waste bag collection that we pay extra for. The neighbours use our bags too.
We also have a trailer we use for the bigger stuff that doesn't go in the wheeliebins that we take to the tip.
We used to get threatened with fines if we put the bins out too early ie sunday night rather than after 7am on monday. Before wheeliebins the waste colectors walked up the drive, took the black plastic bags out of the dustbins. Now we have to position the
wheeliebins at the boundary of the property with the handles out. The collectors just leave the emptied ones in the road or blocking the footpath.
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