Suffer the inconvenience and use them as the council intended, for collecting cardboard and bottles?
50%
50%
[15]
Suffer the inconvenience and use them for my own purposes, such as brewing beer?
10%
10%
[3]
Take them to the local tip and dump them in the plastics bin?
6%
6%
[2]
Sell them on ebay?
6%
6%
[2]
Destroy them in a comedy schoolboy manner (fire, explosion etc)
26%
26%
[8]
Total Votes: 30
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
Grrrr... what do you suggest?
These were foisted on me by the local council this week!
Two of FOUR that they want EVERY household to have - FFS
They're ugly, pointless and take up space, difficult to get past the Disco up to the road every week (because of course the bin men won't put one step on private property any more to collect rubbish )
What do you suggest I do with them? Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
5th Sep 2009 11:07 am
NeilD
Member Since: 01 Dec 2008
Location: Sunny Surrey
Posts: 4845
Two of FOUR that they want EVERY household to have - FFS
Think yourself lucky mate!!!
Firstly, I only have two bins - black and blue.
Black is the standard 'rubbish' and is collected once a FORTNIGHT
Blue is for paper and is collected once a MONTH
Above this, we are required to separate plastics, tins, bottles (clear, brown and green separately) and keep them WITHOUT BINS and then take them to the local centre of our own volition which is a 14 mile round trip. My garden looks like a mini recycle centre with large open plastic 'boxes' lined against the garage wall waiting for their next trip in the FFRR rubbish cart.
So, I'm paying £2.5k in council tax for a garden like the Rainbow-Warriors galley and a total of 3 collections per month. Oh! I almost forgot....... One street-lamp too The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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5th Sep 2009 11:33 am
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Stop moaning, you'll be amazed at how much rubbish gets thrown away and this is a good way to demonstrate. It'll get you into the view of what products you buy with waaaay too much packaging & you may even end up choosing an alternative.
Totally agree Bodsy. Not sure if the 'moaning' was directed at me or Steve but I wasn't actually complaining about the recycling idea. I take great pains to do my bit properly and I don't have any issue with the 'green' aspect of this. I simply feel that there is no common practice which is UK wide and if anyone thinks that four bins being provided and collected is bad, they should consider the alternative. The older I get, the more I realise that people confuse wrinkles for wisdom
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5th Sep 2009 11:49 am
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5th Sep 2009 11:55 am
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The issue I have in the great recycling debate is that the roll of the goods provider is seemingly ignored and the weight of responsibility placed on the end user. The big 4 supermarkets play 'green' on issues such as plastic carrier bags but just take a good look at how everything else packaged and promoted. Not very green I would say.
IMHO They should provide a recycling centre at each of their locations where you can just take them their original rubbish ...they can then employ the millions of unemployed to sort and recycle it at their cost. 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
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5th Sep 2009 12:00 pm
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Oh, BTW, we have a big Green bin (for green garden stuff) 2 x Black bins (coz we have 5 or more people in the household) 1 x blue box for Bottles (we get through a few, so couild do with a big blue bin if you have that one spare Steve) 1 x black box for cardboard and papers.
Not too much trouble to seperate out & we have collection 1 week 'recycle stuff' and the next is general waste constantly alternating.
No problem with it at all (other than trying to remember which bins go for which days!) Bodsys Brake Bible
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5th Sep 2009 12:00 pm
craig
Member Since: 08 Aug 2006
Location: Home of LR.
Posts: 2545
We've just received a nice hessian sack, to put our cans and bottles into, so thats a
green tub for paper,
green bin for garden waste
black tub for plastics
and two (at present) black bins for other rubbish.
I'm glad i have a side entry therefore i have room to keep them off the driveway, however my neighbours don't have such luxury so these have to be stored either out on the front drive or in the garages.
I have no objection to recycling but nobody spares a thought for what to do with them when they're in passive mode i.e. not when they're being collected.
5th Sep 2009 2:33 pm
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Up here in the frozen norf we get weekly main rubbish colections and weekly recycling collection. For the latter it's paper & plastics one week, garden the next, even with a foot of snow on the ground and it's -15c! And no collection of bottles!!!
Garden wheelie bin is great for wood chip used as kindeling!
5th Sep 2009 2:50 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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JMC re sorting glass I can't be arsed after seeing collections from local recycling centre down south where containers were all dumped into the same lorry in the same place and all mixed up. Besides 95% of my glass is green and a little clear won't make any difference!
5th Sep 2009 2:54 pm
Dom Harvey Lord of the Four Fingers
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Pointless exercise...........recycling is a joke. Our's ends up in landfill anyway.2004 Discovery 3 - gone
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5th Sep 2009 3:10 pm
sideview
Member Since: 02 Dec 2006
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I don't understand recycling paper, trees are farmed like any other crop.I'm not so good at giving advice...may I offer you a sarcastic comment instead?
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Same here, the cardboard walk in skip is full so the rest goes in the general skip! Mind you our 4 or 5 D3 loads of cardboard from new kitchen certainly helped fill it up!
5th Sep 2009 3:17 pm
slipware
Member Since: 27 Dec 2006
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They're ok, we have two, but what I would say, and this is important, is DO NOT leave them right next to your house, in case the little shi, sorry darlings, locally set light to them which has happened on numerous occasions in Milton Keynes! Either lock them up, or leave well away from your wall!If you never try, you'll never know...
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