RANT TIME: Feckin' Council and the Green Bin saga.

In theory, a fantastic idea. Everyone recycles, land fill reduced, better for the environment blah blah blah. Absolutely NO arguement with that whatsoever.

However, I do have an arguement with the jobsworth that gets paid to lift plastic lids, look inside, then slap a feckin' sticker on the bin that takes ages to bloody remove, saying that the contents have been contaminated!

It ain't my feckin' fault that a member of your (the council) taxpaying public decided to drop a plastic bag in the bin sometime last night is it!! Doesn't the rest of the bins contents, as well as the fact that the bag was just popped right on top of everything else, in clear view, give these nobs a feckin' clue?

And on about bins. We should all put a bloody claim into the council for disinfectant, air freshner and fly spray. It's all well and good saying that because people are recycling more, we don't have to empty the grey bins every week, but has any single arse in the town hall thought about the smell that the contents of the grey bin creates over a two week period? And that's not mentioning the flies it attracts! For fecks sake, our cats have brought 3 (three) rats into the house over the last month....That's the first time that has happened. Mice and birds are the norm.....but rats!

What's going to happen next week...are they going to refuse to empty the grey bin because it's full of overflowing green bin waste?

And check this one out. The powers that be have decided that it will be a wise move to suspend the green bin collections for a set period over the winter months. Just happens to coincide with Christmas and New Year. You know, the bit of the year where materials that can be composted and recycled are in abundance.......The feckin' mind boggles. It really does.

OOB.

 

Up in Livingston

Near Edinburgh they have a black bin, a blue bin, a brown bin, and a green bin!

All for individual types of rubbish...**** that for an idea.

 

Don't get me wrong..............

.........I'm all behind the idea of recycling. And we're lucky that we have room for extra bins. It's just that the ****-wits in charge storm through an idea before they even look at what will happen.

For fecks sake, a block of flats near my home has a single green bin for ever household......including the top floor flat, where the guy opposite who has very well maintained and very large garden gets the same sized bin!

Thought? Barnsley Council? (babyhaha)

 

When I lived in Scarborough, a bloke used to run a "wheelie clean" service - couple of quid for one cleaning a month. Probably took him less than five minutes per bin.

Toronto
blue bin - plastics
grey bin - paper
brown paper bags - "yard waste"
Wet waste - food
Normal rubbish - anything else

Then half of it gets driven to Michigan!

 

A bit like here...........ours gets driven to Nottingham!....Can't be that bad then!!

OOB.

 

Try Wandsworth's idea (SW London)

Here they deliver you orange plastic bags every 2 months or so. You always have enough, but if not, email or phone the council and they'll deliver bags the next day. You fill these with glass/paper/plastic/tins -anything recyclable all in the one bag. Put it out on the morning your dustbin's going to be emptied. A separate lorry comes round for your recycling bag. Simple.

 

Had the same problem here last year

Standard sized wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste collected fortnightly. That's fine if there were 2 of us but with three children too we were filling that plus 1 extra bag in a week! I ended up with a garage full of stinking rotting waste in bags which I eventually had to take to the waste disposal site myself. After that they delivered a large bin!!!

 

RE: Had the same problem here last year

recycling is bad!!!!

shouldn't create the waste in the first place!!!!

disposable razors? carrier bags? plastic packaging? sheff weds shirts?

tax the bloody lot to hell!!!!

that's what i say!

 

I don't get it.

Box for glass, blue bag for paper - yep thats fine, works well.

But to alternate a green bin for garden waste (no food peelings mind) and the grey bin for everything else is rubbish ('scuse the pun!), how much garden waste do people have for fecks sake! Shouldn't they be making compost with it anyway?
I don't have much of a garden and a green bin would be no use to me - at least they suspended rolling this out for the moment

 

RE: Had the same problem here last year

Aye - best thing is to use less in the first place.

Recall listening to Radio Dee-Dar last year on way to work and they were discussing the recycling - one guy said he wanted a bigger blue box for paper as he more than filled his whilst a neighbour hardly had anything in his - his theory was that by filling over a box he was doing more for the environment than his neighbour who hardly had any paper to recycle! ff Using that logic I think I'll buy loads of plastic just so I can recycle it!

 

Cardboard mate

Fill your green bin with cardboard.

Those Old Speckled Hen containers of yours should just about see to your green bin every fortnight.

i must say, my green bin gets filled for every collection. Plenty of grass bits, prunings etc, and all the bog and kitchen roll middles. Then there's the Amazon delivery boxes, beer packs, and other packaging. We've never done at our house.

 

RE: Cardboard mate

Well cardboard is fair enough - but don't think we have that much, cereal packets, err...err....no beer packs - or not usually.