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well i must admit

no i dont do you

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

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

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

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!

Why does recycling take time?

pmsl Maggie we use plastic cider bottles lol

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

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

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.

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

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

when my python died even he went in my wheelie bin

council cremation

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.

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.

OMG Joy, you can say that out loud?

We'd be fined for that for sure, not just by the council either.

JoyBoroAngel - rather bemused when you say you "don't have the time".
I think I'm just over the border from you in Stockton. We have a bag for plastic & cardboard and another for paper. Perhaps we're lucky in that we have an enclosed porch where we can keep these bags. Then, outside, we have a box for glass and metal. If we choose we can get a lid for this box.
We recently lived in an upstairs flat which just didn't have space for recycling bags but the council gave up lidded boxes, free of charge, which we kept outside. Because they had lids we never had problems with wildlife.
Don't see how "time" is an issue here?

Hmm...I wonder how much a python would weigh.?

Watch out for the new 'chip' system being introduced Joy.
It weighs the rubbish for each household.

Gwyn

i have a busy life hun
the boxes our council gave is are open topped
but then again stocktoin council always looks after their tax payers
better than the boros
we dont recycle and cardbord here where i live
just tins and bottles newspapers and garden rubbish
better than the boros

he did nt weigh that much hun
an indian rock python maybe a stone or so if we where lucky

he was very old 20 and a half years old he was

bless him

I didn't bother recycling when we had open boxes.....green for paper and blue for bottles and other things???

the council changed the system to wheelie bins. grey for landfill, blue for recycling.

the recycling lives outside my kitchen window. We can put virtually anything in it, except food waste, polythene and butter/yoghurt pots. At the end of two weeks it's brimming.