Dustbins

2 Feb 2006

Ok call me old fashioned but our council now only collects our dustbin every two weeks.
It now stinks and is always overflowing with rubbish!. mad

If the lid does not close they throw the top bin bag on the bottom of the drive! :x
I called to have a moan and a woman with a robotic voice said "it is to help you to decide to recycle more items". I replied Oh yeah like at Christmas when you said that wrapping paper, and cardboard would not be recyclable items :x .
We cant even put glass bottles in the recycling bin as you have to take them to a bottle bank now! :x and now the other one stinks, people are stealing wheelie bins to fill two up.
Its a right mess, hows your council? Our council tax still goes up!

2 Feb 2006

Be gratefull you only got one bin!! We got a black one for rubbish, a green one for garden waste (but no vegetable matter) big white bags for paper!!! Need to keep half the garden empty just to store the bins and bags!!
I do believe in recycling, and think we should be encouraged, but two big bloody bins are pushing it a bit!!
As for the collections, black one weekly (that reminds me, put the bin out tonight) and the other fortnightly confused

2 Feb 2006

well last year we invested in one of those composters.
they are truly amasing, you wouldnt believe the stuff you can put in there :shock:
we now have more than halved what goes in the bin, would recomend to anyone :thumbup:
unless you live in a flat :shock:

2 Feb 2006

We got a compost bin for the vegetable stuff but we aint got a big enough garden to use it when it eventually rots down!

2 Feb 2006

Quote by Naughty Wigan Couple
We got a compost bin for the vegetable stuff but we aint got a big enough garden to use it when it eventually rots down!

ah, i might be able to help there
1 fill several plastic bags with compost.
2 stand bags by front gate
3 put up sign "home made compost for sale, 50p a bag
4 get rich
5 send donation to pete_sw
rotflmao

2 Feb 2006

Quote by Pete_sw
We got a compost bin for the vegetable stuff but we aint got a big enough garden to use it when it eventually rots down!

ah, i might be able to help there
1 fill several plastic bags with compost.
2 stand bags by front gate
3 put up sign "home made compost for sale, 50p a bag
4 get rich
5 send donation to pete_sw
rotflmao

:thumbup: looks like we are in business Pete, but does that mean I need to eat more veggies to fill the flaming thing confused

2 Feb 2006

Quote by Naughty Wigan Couple
:thumbup: looks like we are in business Pete, but does that mean I need to eat more veggies to fill the flaming thing

No... I think you're missing the point. You need to put the veggies IN the composter wink

2 Feb 2006

Quote by cu3b4ll
:thumbup: looks like we are in business Pete, but does that mean I need to eat more veggies to fill the flaming thing

No... I think you're missing the point. You need to put the veggies IN the composter wink

:giggle: :giggle::giggle:
I meant, I will have to peel more veggies so I have more veggie waste lol

2 Feb 2006

Quote by Naughty Wigan Couple
We got a compost bin for the vegetable stuff but we aint got a big enough garden to use it when it eventually rots down!

ah, i might be able to help there
1 fill several plastic bags with compost.
2 stand bags by front gate
3 put up sign "home made compost for sale, 50p a bag
4 get rich
5 send donation to pete_sw
rotflmao

:thumbup: looks like we are in business Pete, but does that mean I need to eat more veggies to fill the flaming thing confused

good idea, make sure the house is well ventilated though bolt

2 Feb 2006

Hmmmmm..... Just shows how different the area's are...
We have.....
Blue bin... for paper....
Green for Cardboard and garden waste....
Grey for normal everyday waste(ie Food)
and a Half bin... green with a black lid.... for jars, tins, glass and plastic bottles... AND.....we are even suppost to wash them out and take the labels off before throwing them out!!!!!!
I'd like to know exaclty what there job entitles seen as we seem to be doing it all for them!!!!!
Altho, they have been quite good with over flowing bins... they still empty them!!!!

2 Feb 2006

Quote by constance
Shock a shop assistant , refuse their carrier bags and take your own!!

An Aldi or Lidl carrier bag at Marks & Spencer, or Sainsbury's will make you popular with all the staff lol

Our council does a once weekly collection of black bags. Not a problem really as when the bin is full I tie the bag up and put a new one in, then on Wed mornings, the first (and possible second) bag get put by the side of the tree at the roadside ready to get chucked into the wagon.
We have a weather proof huge shopping bag jobbie for recycled paper too, which gets collected every 2 weeks. But just which week it is I don't have a clue. redface

2 Feb 2006

only colect rubbish every 2 weeks? thats outrageous mad

do they take bin bags or just the bin?

2 Feb 2006

The normal bin was every week, with the recyclables every two weeks but now they collect the main waste bin every two weeks. You cant recycle everything and it stinks!
Green bin for normal waste
Green bin with blue lid for recyclables
And they will not take ANYTHING that is in the bin that lifts the lid and they leave bin bags with a note to take them to the tip yourself!

2 Feb 2006

To be honest I blame the packaging that comes with shopping. I have just got back from shopping and I look at the amount of inner and outer packaging I have to throw away :shock: :shock: A few years ago one of the large wheelie bins would have been fine for 2 weeks. We are now in a throw away society which really isses me off as we are creating a nightmare of landfills for the future generations. Complain to your supermarkets as well as the council.
However I get twice as much in the bin if I stand on each bin bag lol.
Keep smiling - could be worse

2 Feb 2006

we have this to look forward to sad

the local council is trying to bring it in here as well & im not looking forward to it as i live in a flat we have no recycling collections in my area & a compost bin in my window box just wouldnt work confused

at the moment the bin area for the flats is full at the end of the week so its going to be a nightmare when it starts :(
oh well it should do the employment figures good though the council will have to take on more pest control officers to deal with the future rat infestation!!!!!

2 Feb 2006

Recycling, composting, watching what you buy (packaging wise) its all good stuff peeps, and itâ€™s the one time that we as individuals can really make a difference.
The age of the dinosaur (throw away society) is well and truly coming to an end.
Not too many years ago my garden was all lawns and shrubs n stuff. In recent years I have dug a good part of it up, I now grow most of what we eat veg wise, and catch/shoot a lot of my own meat.
My next trick is trying to dig a cellar. (what is it with the uk that so few houses are built with cellars?) mainly to house a bank of batteries that I hope to charge using solar panels. I will then convert all the lighting to 12v dc which believe it or not will save a tidy sum of money as well as being eco friendly.
Now donâ€™t get me wrong, Iâ€™m not a tree hugger but have come to understand that at some stage we do have to stop the planet for the sake of our kids and theirs.
redface

ops:
blimey, where did that come from?

2 Feb 2006

Mine:
Big green bin for non-recyclables
smaller brown bin for garden waste (no vegetable matter)
green container for waste paper (has to be good mind, non of that rubbishy paper like directories...or wrapping paper....or envelopes with windows etc etc)
grey container for cardboard (no corrugated stuff) and glass (washed and labels removed)
pink bin-bag for plastic and tins (washed and labels removed)
recyclable/non-recyclables are collected every other week in turn
I'm a big fan of recycling but even I'm getting a bit fed-up of the amount ofspace this all takes up. Not to mention the sheer number of containers I have to put out on a recycle day!
Dave

2 Feb 2006

we have that many bins in the backgarden we havent got room for a garden!!! and its nigh on impossible for any funtime playtime in the garden either as you are knackered doing an 'its a knockout' course just to get to a piece of garden that is 'bin free'.

3 Feb 2006

Quote by Martin_M
And they will not take ANYTHING that is in the bin that lifts the lid and they leave bin bags with a note to take them to the tip yourself!

FFS it takes more effort to do that than to take the bin to the back of the wagon,hitch it on the lift and push the f*****g button mad

:x :x :x ..
As for taking it to the tip well......
I suspect it would get as far as the council offices..

3 Feb 2006

Don't get me started on Gunwharf council tax costs! - But I do have 3 nice huge skips to fill up with my rubbish! If they get full, I'll just use my car! Although saying that, I have maybe one bag of rubbish per week!

3 Feb 2006

Fascinating topic....
we have a weekly wheelie collection and a fortnightly recycling collection (paper, glass, plastic and tins) though our bin only goes out fortnightly 'cos it's not used much.
We compost all vegetable and cardboard waste, refuse extra packaging and don't use ready meals. We assume that by the responses in this thread these packaging extras must contribute hugely to the disposal issue...?
However, our binmen will take anything placed with the bin like the post xmas big boxes etc.

3 Feb 2006

I like this thread as I am a refuse collector. At the moment we only do black bags but as from next week we start recycling. My typical day consists of me and normally two other collegues filling a wagon 3-4 times with rubbish. We have to put up with cat piss, dog piss, rats used tampons are typically left on top of untied bags. Our wagan will hold 15 tons and we do about 4000 properties per day. I put up with all this and on a thursday open my wage slip and smile. biggrin

:D :D
I love the people who say that they would love to do my job as its easy. Yes I finish early and thats as we always work with out taking any breaks. we have had reporters out with us and they couldn't manage the 20-30 mile walk without lifting the bags.
Del

3 Feb 2006

I'm with Huxley on this one, send them a letter saying you'll only be paying half the previous years refuse fee, along with an invoice for storage of their bin on your property, cleaning costs for when they drop stuff in the road, and a fuel bill for taking the excess to the tip. they'll have to spend a good hour or so processing the invoice before phoneing or writing to you to dispute it, at which point you can restate the reasons for doing it.

3 Feb 2006

From what I was told only about Â£2 per property goes on refuse the rest is on other council and public services. I don't know how true it is though.

3 Feb 2006

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3 Feb 2006

What a load of rubbish! bolt