Saving The Planet

[McMouse]

Council has introduced a new re-cycling regime with 5 difference bins. I've just about fathomed out what does where, but not without casualties.

1. Turned ankle stamping on beer cans which have to be fattened.
2. Couldn't face breakfast after retrieving fork accidentally dropped in festering food scrapping bin.

[Baldric]

Saving The Planet . . . But at what price?

(I do like the idea of Beer cans being fattened though)
;-)

[LyndaB]

I don't flatten my beer cans, I just put them in as they are

[Frank97]

I committed the offence of not flattening a beer can, the buggers left it in the box!

[ummmm]

I don't flatten cans. I might scrunch them with my hand before I throw them in.

I absolutely refuse to use the food waste. It's never going to happen. I'd start heaving everytime I had to open it...

We have...cans & plastic, glass, paper & card, textiles, food.

I really long for the days when we could throw everything in the bin and no one batted an eyelid if you put 8 binbags out. Our council will only take two binbags a week.

[sandyRoe]

Do you have to flatten beer bottles too?

[McMouse]

Linda, our bin police were trained by the KGB. Anything not rinsed, squashed or in the wrong bin results in non collected and warning label stock on lit. Roll on the local elections.

[ChillDoubt]

Turned your ankle stamping on them? Dear oh dear...

I lay them flat, make a dent in the side with the edge of my foot so they look like a 'V', gentle pressure on each end of the can and voila!

[Baldric]

I refuse to rinse/wash cans etc, we're throwing them away afterall!

[nelliebee]

We have three bins, brown for garden waste, green for recyclable, black for everything else. Our brown bin collection is suspended from Oct to early March, (the council perhaps think that we don't garden in that period) we don't have a reduction on our charges during these months..... Now the council are probably going to charge about an extra £4.20 per week to empty the brown one (debating as we speak !!) They do not call this town Pottyborough for nothing !!!

[Old_Geezer]

Whoever you vote for they retain the cwrap of the last lot and add a layer of their own. I'm all for doing the right thing but these idiots in power seem to know nothing of balance or limits. Who cares if the tins are messy, they're to be melted within days aren't they ? And if not why not ? Apart from a revolution and putting them all up against the wall, I think your only escape is to try to find a sane country to emigrate to. And best of luck with that one. Otherwise you are just going to get imposed upon by the ego maniacs who delight in making life as difficult as possible for others.

[Georgiesmum]

Our council will be starting to collect garden waste in May. It is £25 for the wheelie bin, plus £50 ayear . They will collect fortnightly.
We still dont have a collection for glass. We have to take ours to a nearest bottle bank ourselves.

[mazie]

We only have the one large wheelie bin for our recycling which is collected every two weeks. It works really well and our council have seen a massive increase in the people that recycle. I also could'nt do the food recycling thing.

[Old_Geezer]

Oh that's another thing. One would have thought a council would want to protect the good things in a society. But S.Glos (probably among many) has decided to charge annually, on top of the extortionate rates it already demands, for a service we expect to be provided already. Collecting garden refuse. Is the aim to ensure everyone paves over everywhere so the place looks like an industrial estate ? Or maybe it's such fun to get folk to fly tip on our property. Or maybe the aim is to get loads more cars on the road wasting fuel and causing further pollution taking it to the tip themselves ? I look forward to all the rebates they must be about to give me, first because a service is no longer provided so the rates must come down, then further refunds for the services I don't use like schooling and suchlike. Or does it only work that they enact things where they can mug you because they are powerful, and the individual powerless; but ignore the situations where they should be playing fair and passing back swag unjustifiably demanded ?

[Jeza]

We have a full size wheelie bin for paper but only a small box for cans, glass and plastic which all go in together. (I call it the Cameron box)

[EcclesCake]

I really wish our council took glass, it would save the shame at the bottle bank on a Monday morning ;-)

We have a recycling bin that cans (uncrushed are accepted), plastic, paper and card goes in; a general waste bin, and if you wish to pay you can have a garden waste bin or buy garden waste sacks from the local shops.

Other than bones and fish skin I can't imagine what I would put in a food recycling caddy thing.

[ummmm]

Never anything to scrape off your plate, Eccles?

[baza]

we have a garden waste bin collected every week bar Christmas, a paper, cardboard and glass/plastic bin emptied once a fortnight and a non recycling rubbish bin emptied once a fortnight, that's my bit for saving the planet.

[EcclesCake]

Apart from bones and fish skin I can't think of anything else I'd leave on my plate.