General Chat

Dead snakes in a wheelie bin: what next! LOL poor Snakey, his descendants won't know where he ended up.

We recycle here. I spend a lot of time putting rubbish in different boxes.

When I was a kid nearly all waste was recycled. We had a 'pig bin' for food scraps, a sack for paper for the 'salvage' man and a compost bin. Not much went in the dustbin.

yes we do to be honest the only time it takes is with clothes,they get sorted into whats good enough to be resold by the various local charity shops and what can't be resold goes as rag as they get money for it by weight.
We have a large bag that sits next to the kitchen bin for bottles,jars& tins which is collected weekly with general rubbish,a garden waste bin which is so easy to wheel wherever working in the garden and a paper recycling bag.
Also as dau and I are both creative am always recycling bits and bobs there 2 its amazing what u can make and do with rubbish.

when my python died even he went in my wheelie bin

council cremation

We have no choice here. We have a wheelie bin for non-recyclable refuse, a wheelie bin for all the recyclable stuff, that is platic milk bottles, paper, tin cans, etc. and a green box for glass.

get it wrong and we're faced with refusal to collect.

I got some flowers from OH once, and when they were finished, I put them in the ordinary refuse bin, because no garden rubbish is allowed in the recycle bin.

The binmen refused to take empty the bin and left a card saying it was because of the garden refuse which should be either placed on my own compost (I don't have a garden) or taken to the tip (three miles away, no car.)

Now, if I get flowers or start giving my pot plants a haircut, it's cut up small and wrapped in newspaper and hidden in my household refuse, inside a black bin liner. LOL

i do send all my plastic pots and boxes
to the school for model making

poor baby satan goes some days
you can hardly see him under the mountain of bags

yes i do, we have a good collection here, box for paper, one for tins and bottles and a bin for green waste, and a big bag for cardboard,and i take the milk cartons and plastic food trays to Asda on the bus, they have all sorts of recycling bins in the carpark there.

Some councils make it much easier than others.

Maggie
Glass would be the heaviest to carry too. I never understood your system there.....

I recycle everything I can
I also wash yoghurt pots for reuse as paint pots etc.at the local school, as our councils won't take that type of plastic.

Gwyn

its not just the time
all those plastic boxes the council gave us
they are open and attract vermin (mice)
and i hate mice

so its in the wheelie bin for our rubbish

pmsl Maggie we use plastic cider bottles lol

Why does recycling take time?

Must add - bottles go into the general rubbish bin as there's noooo way iIm going to walk half a mile clinking like 'Edna the Inebriate Woman' to put them in the recycle bin!

I put cardboard & paper into the appropriate bin.
That's recycling isn't it?

We recycle everything in fact we only put a "rubbish bag" out once a fortnight and it still isn't full *straightens halo*

well i must admit

no i dont do you

i know i should but i dont seem to have the time