Bin bugging

[littleT]

The plastic bottles are allowed - but not the lids!!
Glass jars and tins, and the papers.

We save the milk bottle lids (other people I know give them to me too), these get given to my mum, who in turn takes them to my aunt, who then gives them to her partner, who gives them to his work collegue, who gives them to his daughter, who takes them to school, that gives them to a company that in return puts money into wheel chairs. They get recycled and made into parkbenches and other useful stuff - last thing I heard was equipment for a skate park.

If they can be so useful then why can't they be taken by our council?

I can understand why its so frustrating!! Yogurt pots etc go to school but there is only so much they can take. Yellow pages are collected at the local schools each year(around now) its made into a competition - who gets the most.

I take the cardboard to the tip which has a skip specified for it.
Plastic wrappings go back to the supermarket and into the plastic bags and packaging bin for recycle.

Certain food waste will eventually go into a compost heap/bin (and the rest goes to the dog).

So all in all most of us should be able to get by without bins!!
There will be the odd few that oppose the bin chipping, but personally I don't really see it affecting those that have minimum rubbish anyway.

[henrya]

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There will be the odd few that oppose the bin chipping, but personally I don't really see it affecting those that have minimum rubbish anyway.
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But if the bins aren't secure, then how is one going to stop turning from a "minimum rubbish" person to a "maximum rubbish" person, courtesy of anyone who cares to stop at your gate and fill your bin up?

henrya

[Paul mabbott]

And they do .... even bigger problems in blocks of flats and the like where bins are kept in a communal area or, indeed, where all rubbish is shuted down to a large container ... ho hum ...

Originally Posted by henrya

But if the bins aren't secure, then how is one going to stop turning from a "minimum rubbish" person to a "maximum rubbish" person, courtesy of anyone who cares to stop at your gate and fill your bin up? henrya

[henrya]

Mind you, at the moment 'they' don't bother with bins, they just dump the rubbish anyway. The worst was a complete house-worth of wooden window frames, plus the glass separately, which some kind soul left at my gate. The council (presumably - it disappeared) took the glass away, and the frames kept me in kindling for a winter, so it wasn't all bad! Currently there is a large car bumper hanging around. I don't think the council can cope with that!

henrya