fairy&cake Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 How often do your council come and collect your recycling? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 We only get paper collected. Once a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ali-s Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 We get paper/cardboard, glass, tetra paks, aerosols and metal collected every week. the brown bin containing garden waste and the green bin containing eveything we can't recycle on alternate weeks. We cannot recycle any plastic here, if we could my green bin which contains household waste would be practically empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Paper,plastic,foils,tin etc once a week. I also go to the bottle bank once a week too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisa33 Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 From this week our council will be collecting tins, papers, glass and garden waste evry other week. Plastic we have to take to the recycling point (or to Andyman's mum whose council does plastic recycling) Before they only collected glass, papers, & gardn waste. We had to regularly go to the recycling point (or Andymans mums) with the ridiculous amount of empty strongbow cans that keep appearing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Fortnightly and we have recycling wheely bins which we can put cardboard, paper, glass, tins, cardboard, plastic bottles, cartons etc in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Forgot to say...I take plastic, glass and tetra paks to the recycling site once a week. You can't be a secret drinker and a recycler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I have a great service - alternate weeks recycling and ordinary waste. We have clear bags that take cardboard, paper, plastic, tinfoil, aluminium and tins, and white degradable bags for garden waste, and a box for glass. I've learned not to leave the garden bags anywhere damp or they start degrading before they've been used! I put most stuff on the compost heap but use the garden bags for woody prunings and things like bramble or ivy that would regrow. I probably put one small bin-bag a week in the ordinary bin, top marks to Epping Council for making recycling so easy. The only problem is where to keep it, I'm lucky as I have a garage but if you live in a terraced house then storing stuff for two weeks would be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Don't remind me of the recycle centre Egluntine - Carl's favourite trick (wearing a bit thin now ) is to announce loudly to the world at large each time he throws a bottle in that I really must stop drinking so much! - I don't drink......... and he drinks my share....... We have a fortnightly collection of paper/glass, alternating with the green waste wheelie bin (which we don't use since we moved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirl Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I put every other week. I think I'm right but the OH puts the bins etc out. The plastic recycling is a real pain because there is so much plastic they won't take such as yoghurt pots and juice cartons of which we have loads. We also have paper, cardboard, tins and clothes collection. With 6 of us in the house our bins is usually half full. If we could recycle all plastic it would be practicly empty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 We're lucky in Banbury - probably something to do with having the WRAP head office here - we have 3 wheelie bins; one for paper, card, tin, plastic and tetra packs; one for garden waste (this only gets stuff that won't readily compost); and another for household rubbish - this is always nearly empty. Our collections alternate like Ollys with recycling one week and rubbish the next. We have virtually no food waste - apart from eating practically everything, the chooks, bunnies or worms eat everything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Harborough council have quite a good system. We have a weekly collection of paper, cans and glass. Garden waste and household waste are collected from wheelie bins alternate weeks. The only thing missing is plastics, but there is a recycling bin in the village that we pass regularly so no problem to take those along. We rarely fill the normal waste bin over 2 weeks - not bad for a family of five! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 We don't get glass collected from the door, but then I don't have much. Phil takes it down the road when he takes his collection of drinks bottles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 All our rubbish is collected weekly. Tuesday for paper, card, tins and plastic, all put in giant pastic bags which are recyled as well, and you can put as many bags out on a weekly basis as you need to, then Wednesday for wheely-bins and garden waste. We got given one of those giant bins because there are 5 of us in the family, but we tend not to produce more than one binbag of rubbish a week, so the wheely bin can go for over a month without being put out. The local recycling centre takes tetrapaks and glass, so we pop that over when we go to the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Like Clare we have recycling (green bin for garden waste AND food s"Ooops, word censored!"s) and blue bin for card, paper, cans, plastic bottle and tetrapak etc) one week and other household waste (grey bin) the next. Chickens eat veg s"Ooops, word censored!"s and we have very little other food waste as only Mike eats meat - but he has veggie food most of the time - and nothing seems to get wasted. I was a bit about putting bones etc in the green bin at first but then I thought oh well the earth normally contains bits of insects and animals - not sure about the greasy stuff some people will put in though (but I think the watse is heat-treated). We can buy back compost from the council at £1 a bag but we have to drive to the recycling place to get it. The only thing that does not get collected is glass but there are lots of bottle banks around so that is not a problem (except I suspect loads of people don't bother because it involves actually doing it themselves). People round here are getting better but its clear some don't bother. An 3 wheelie bins is OK for us but if you had a terraced house and yard they would take up too much space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 The only problem with having fortnightly refuse collections is that people with babies find that the nappies smell a bit rank after a fortnight - they ought to get weekly collections IMO. My bin rarely has enough in it to smell, but I sprinkle it with Stalosan anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Tina, I;ve got a terraced house and have trouble housing/hiding my bins. I am end of terrace though, so don't have problems taking them out. Peopel who are mid-terrace and miles from the alley tend to leave their wheelie bins in the front garden, which isn't very pretty. I am amazed though at the number of household bins that are overflowing with recyclable rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 No - they ought to use washable nappies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Whoops a bit of a cross post there! I think if bins are lined up neatly in front gardens that is OK (we used to have ours out front at our old house) - wheelie bins are just a fact of life now. I know you can get big ones but it would be good if two-person households could have smaller ones. Elderly people might find it easier too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 No - they ought to use washable nappies! I agree Tina, and I would've used them too if I could. But some people aren't in a position to use washables. Our front gradens are small - only a sliver, so the bins take up most of the front of the house. Personally, I'd take mine round the back even if I were mid-terrace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina C Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I know it isn't easy and it was a bit tongue in cheek but napppies are a big problem. I am no angel - I used cotton nappies for a couple of years but unfortunately as Layla got longer and thinner and more mobile we couldn't get Bambino Mio outers to fit and she ended up leaking everywhere. We had to resort to disposables as weren't prepared to invest in a whole new set of nappies when she was on the way to being toilet trained (and we knew we were not having another child). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Oh, I totally agree Tina. There really ought to be more of a range of washables available. I hate the idea of disposables in landfill too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 At my last house (terraced) the bins had to be in the front garden - there wasn't an alley and the back garden could only be accessed through the house. However, my bin was a source of huge entertainment to my neighbours, as soon after moving friends bought me a lovely decal to disguise it. Take a look at http://www.pimpmybin.co.uk/ - if you HAVE to keep the bin out front, at least you can make it fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 I just love those Olly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 16, 2007 Share Posted October 16, 2007 Our council collects paper/card, tins and garden waste with the household rubbish every week. I take glass, plastic bottles and foil to the recycling banks which seem to be just about everywhere. I post our tetrapaks to Tetrapak in Bridgwater for recycling. This costs me about £5 a month and I wish we had a collection service for them. My household bin usually contains 1-2 pedal bin liners of rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
