Recycling and bins

[Midwest]

Our council used to use a good recycling company that were then taken over and now our waste for recycling goes through an MRF so we have one bin that takes glass, plastic (tubs, bottles and film), foil, tins, aerosols and cardboard with a separate container for office and junk paper, another bin for green waste, raw and cooked food waste (sent to composting), a third bin for non recyclable waste that may still go to an automated facility for sorting out the recyclable material (but the part of it that composted for filler material broke down) and send the residue to landfill.
Generally a good system and gets very high recycling rates but many people do not recycle or contaminate the recyclable material (which is annoying to me).

Our council is going through the same change. As said everything was previously individually recycled, and their operatives put them in their respective parts on the truck.

Now it will be one bin, into truck and then sorted at a plant, except that damn fly away plastic

They will also collect, textiles, car batteries & small batteries, small electrical appliances presumably 'cos they can make money out of them! Suppose that's a good idea.

 

[Midwest]

Don't you guys have waste disposal units in the UK?

It's like the Wild West here we just have one big black wheelie bin for everything. If you want to recycle plastics, metals and glass it's optional but you can put it out on bin day in a separate clear dustbin bag and there's a recycle truck comes around and picks it up. We never put food waste in our bin, it attracts rats, snakes, ants, porcupines, stray dogs and baboons (not necessarily in that order).

Some posh people here Marvo have 'em. Not sure our drains could mange the extra flow if we all installed them!

Our councils have to hit a target to minimise lad fill, EU thing I expect. Don't see that changing after Brexit, as we are running out of holes to fill, plus I don't see as a good idea to waste natural resources, by bury it in the ground.

The food waste bins are quite secure, but we don't have porcupines! The food wastes is used to generate methane for energy and agricultural fertiliser.

Echo those who are annoyed with neighbours who can't be arsed to recycle. Mine used to stuff it all in their general waste bin. But they've learnt the council won't take it, with recyclables in there.

 

[Marvo]

I guess the climate helps, waste disposal units are more common here maybe because food decays a lot quicker in the heat.

 

[elsparko]

For years now I've been a really good boy, and recycled my waste as required by my local council.

We had small black bins for, glass bottles/jars, hard plastics, fly away plastics (crisp packets etc), paper/cardboard, tin cans etc. These were collected every week, along with a small food waste bin and alternating weekly general rubbish or garden waste wheelie bins. The largest waste product has been the fly away plastic, and it wasn't just crisp packets; everything seems to come in thin plastic now. At least it was getting recycled.

I'm not a nosey neighbour , but I've been observing the waste collection operatives recently, and they've been chucking my well sorted recycling into the one truck, apart from the glass

Now my council, has delivered a new recycling wheelie bin, which everything except glass goes in. AND they are only collecting recycling fortnightly AND discontinued collecting fly away plastic. That goes in general rubbish, which is also fortnightly, and goes to landfill. This fly away plastic will be the end of us

Mind you, I can see some of those waste collection operatives, getting bad backs if they are only collecting glass fortnightly.

If I take my overflow recycling to the local council recycling centre, like glass bottles for example, I have to pay a fee. It's enough to turn you into a Teetotaller.

What's your rubbish like?

when i was a young lad i did about a month on the recycling rounds, it all ends up in 1 big pile at the depot.

dont waste your time.

 

[telectrix]

not here, it don't. our local household waste site has 75% of all waste recycled.

 

[Des 56]

In Wales we are often behind the rest of the UK in almost everything

At least with the recycling we are getting well on top of government targets
It does seem like recycling here has become a duty that has been taken on board,with willing co operation by most people

A target for 64% of waste to be recycled in Wales by 2019-20 has been met four years early. Provisional data for the 12 months to March 2017 revealed an increase of 4% on the previous year's recycling rate of 60%. Wales is well ahead of the rest of the UK, second in Europe and third in world recycling league tables.

 

[Squid]

I just dump the rubbish the bin men won't take in the local council estate around the corner, my taxes pay for them so I may as well get something out of it.

 

[elsparko]

I just dump the rubbish the bin men won't take in the local council estate around the corner, my taxes pay for them so I may as well get something out of it.

binmen these days are fragile, if your lid is open by a couple of mm they wont empty the bin.

 

[Squid]

binmen these days are fragile, if your lid is open by a couple of mm they wont empty the bin.

The rubbish in the bins needs to be in bags as they are so fragile they can't lift the bins to tip them in to the wagon........

 

[telectrix]

The rubbish in the bins needs to be in bags as they are so fragile they can't lift the bins to tip them in to the wagon........

where you living; in a 3rd world village? we have bin wagons that pick the bins up for them. and the bins have wheels so the binmen don't have to lift them. it's called progress.

 

[Midwest]

For years now I've been a really good boy, and recycled my waste as required by my local council.

We had small black bins for, glass bottles/jars, hard plastics, fly away plastics (crisp packets etc), paper/cardboard, tin cans etc. These were collected every week, along with a small food waste bin and alternating weekly general rubbish or garden waste wheelie bins. The largest waste product has been the fly away plastic, and it wasn't just crisp packets; everything seems to come in thin plastic now. At least it was getting recycled.

I'm not a nosey neighbour , but I've been observing the waste collection operatives recently, and they've been chucking my well sorted recycling into the one truck, apart from the glass

Now my council, has delivered a new recycling wheelie bin, which everything except glass goes in. AND they are only collecting recycling fortnightly AND discontinued collecting fly away plastic. That goes in general rubbish, which is also fortnightly, and goes to landfill. This fly away plastic will be the end of us

Mind you, I can see some of those waste collection operatives, getting bad backs if they are only collecting glass fortnightly.

If I take my overflow recycling to the local council recycling centre, like glass bottles for example, I have to pay a fee. It's enough to turn you into a Teetotaller.

What's your rubbish like?

Well its a few weeks in with the new system, not too bad really. Except my household rubbish bin is now full to the brim with fly away plastic (most stop eating crisps) and her indoors has taken to midnight trips with the glass bottles (only fortnightly collection), so as not to hurt the collectors backs