General Chat

Thanks for reminding me of that site Ann, i have put it in favourites so I remember!

xx

Where we live in Oz we have three bins. Normal garbage, recyling for paper, plastic bottles etc and a "green" for grass clippings, prunings etc. It works well.

Sue xx

Anyone who is really interested in recycling (& I may have said this before so sorry if I have.) have a look at the website called My Zero Waste.
This is about a family who have no landfill waste at all every week. They have even got a place in a supermarket car park where you can deposit clean crisp packets. These are used by Phillipino women to make into bags etc.

up here in the north west of scotland, for the last two years we have 2 bins. one is for anything considered organic, paper, food cardboard, garden waster etc and a non organic for everything else.
beside the bin in the kitchen i keep a carrier bag and put all paper and food scraps in. i keep the plastic bottles in a box for when i go to local shop. they have a recyling skip behind the shop. at the end of each day i go out to the main bin and empty the carrier into the organic. if we put the wrong things in the wrong bin we could get told off or even fined, although noone has yet.

personally i dont find it to o much of a problem and leaving out the plastic bottles from the bin really cuts down the space. we actually have 2 ord bins and one org. our collection has only ever been fortnightly and they do fill up quickly.
if i sorting out clothes we are lucky to have acharity shop next to to our grocery store, just been completed 2 weeks a go.

i appreciate that not everyone has a car and could make it harder to transportthe goods. but im sure we all do what we can in our own way.

Yes. I'm a good girl lol.
We have general waste bin,paper and plastic and tins and a garden bin.
I also have a compost bin.
Bottles /jars I take and put in recycling bin at supermarker.


Marion

our council has started to collect Glass now gail
and we new have plastic bags for plastic good to now

Our new recycling scheme seems to be working well. Apparently our council have increased their recycling from 33% to 60% since it started at the beginning of April. We have a green wheelie bin for landfill.
Blue wheelie bin for Glass bottles/jars, newspapers, junk mail, A4 type paper, a small amount of shredding, cans, cardboard, plastic bottles/milk containers. (no yoghurt pots or food trays or tetra packs.
We have a brown wheelie bin for garden waste and we have a small green bin and a kitchen caddy for food waste (cooked and uncooked).
We also have our own compost bin which we put tea bags and uncooked veg/peelings in.
Green bin and brown garden waste bin collected one fortnight, blue bin the other fortnight, food waste collected weekly.

Food waste is to be turned into farm compost I think.

We have a large recycling machine at our T***o shop which will take glass, cans, plastic bottles and some food trays, margarine and butter containers (not yoghurt pots) and we have a bin for tetra paks.

We recycle most things here;

Black wheelie bin for 'non recyclable' rubbish collected fortnightly
Brown wheelie bin for garden rubbish collected monthly for no extra charge
Glass in a black box collected monthly
Paper and card in a green box collected fortnightly
All kinds of plastic and tins in a blue box collected fortnightly

Our council now offers recycling for yogurt pots and plastic food trays so not much goes in the black bin now.

I put all uncooked food waste and tea bags into the compost bin (provided for £10 from the council)

We have weekly doorstep collection of ...
Glass,paper, card, tins, cans and plastic( milk bottles, squash bottles etc but not yoghurt cups or plastic food trays)

All goes out in one large box, a bit like child's toy box, and is sorted at the kerb-side into the different compartments on the collection lorry.

I wish that more types of plastic were recyclable.

Garden waste is collected fortnightly( we pay an extra fee for this service) and the council turn it into soil- improver and offer it for sale back to the public.

Gwyn

In a word no used too until the lazy sods could not be botherd to walk 15 yds to pick it up , so dont bother now.

2 Boroughs (to my knowledge) do it in N Kent.

Don't know why we bother seperating them from the paper/plastic/metal as requested; it all gets tipped into the same lorry.

JoyBoro Angel. An addition to your post.

Have got chatting with friends, colleagues, etc. Just wondering if any council does doorstep glass recycling?

As I said before, we are fortunate that lot's of local carparks have recycling bins. But what about those who are elderly/infirm or without transport?

Just a thought, to give us recyclers more food for thought.

Gail

Have recycled all my adult life, low wages started me off and have kept it up. I cant think how many dresses became skirts and then pinnies. Stockings made stuffing for cushions and toys. Leftover food went on the dogs plate.

Yes we recycle.
Black wheelie bin for household stuff
Grey wheelie bin for Cardboard and garden stuff
Small blue box for glass and plastic,and cans
Small red box for paper
We have a compost where I chuck out any old potatoes and veg and fruit if they have gone past it.
Sometimes we have to take a couple of bags out of the black bin as it gets too full ,and take them to the tip.
I get really angry each weekend when I go to Tes** and use the recycling bins to see someone just dumps their rubbish there.It must be the same people who do it.I think it is a Bl**dy cheek.I hope someone catches them soon.

Here in Lanarkshire, we have 3 domestic bins, all are wheelie type.

GREEN BIN.- Is for general waste, and emptied every 2 weeks.

BLUE BIN- Recycling Bin. Originally only for paper products. Now includes polystyrene( excuse spelling) products, washed plastic bottles/ containers, textiles, aerosol cans, clean tin foil.tin cans.( Emptied every alternative 2 weeks)

BROWN BIN- Garden refuse. Emptied roughly monthly from March to October.

Glass recycling- We are fortunate as most large car parks offer a glass recycling facility.

Battery Recycling- Locally Asda and Tesco have a recycling bin for used batteries.

Gail x

Only on an Exercise Bike, Normally I prefer to drive.**M**.:o))>pmsl.

At the moment we have a green wheelie bin collected weekly and a brown one for garden waste collected fortnightly, we also have a large green box with a lid for bottles/jars, newspapers junk mail and cans (washed). We take plastic bottles and caardboard to a recycling centre at the local T***o when we do our shopping and we have a composter for peelings, tea bags etc. It becomes a way of life and takes no time at all. From April our system changes.

We have just taken delivery of a new blue wheelie bin which is for cardboard, glass, newspapers, junk mail, magazines, phone directories, shredding, cans, plastic. That will be collected fortnightly, then we still have the green bin for non recyclable, collected fortnightly, the brown bin for garden rubbish collected fortnightly and a small brown lockable bin for all food waste, including meat, gravy, small amounts of fat, bread, veg peelings, tea bags etc. Collected weekly, To go with that bin we have a caddy to keep in the kitchen. The food waste undergoes a special high temp treatment that turns it into compost for farmers.

If we don't recycle land fill sites will not be able to cope with all the rubbish, I think it is extremely important.

Joan we used to have the little bins which floated off every time with the wind the council now give us bags which are three colours for each item we noticed when the bags were picked up they all went in to the same lorry crushed together what was the point of all the separation? Puzzled Wales.

I unicycle does that count lol ??? xxxx

I havent read all the replies to this thread but re-cycling here in Wales is very much encouraged we recycle plastic cardboard paper. foil, and recently food! not peelings ect; just waste food sadly I dont really have any as I recycle into the dog. We do put all garden waste peelings into the bin which the worms eat and turns to compost eventually. It means there is hardly any actual dustbin matter any more so less for the landfill site.