Recycling cans

[Cowgirl]

Ours won't take lids from bottles etc either, all tins, plastic, aerosols & glass go in a blue box, green waste (no food) into a green bin for composting & we have a grey bin for non recyclables a blue bag (which often blows away & you have to go searching in the neighbours hedge ) for paper & card but they don't collect cardboard so I have a big dumpy bag which takes up most of my shed (& ambushes you when you go in!) which I take to the tip every so often.

Weird how different coloured bins mean different things to diff councils as well. My mums paper bin is green so I keep chucking the wrong stuff in when I visit .

[Cordaline]

We have to take glass to the recycle centre ourselves!
Lazy so'n'so's!
What do we pay our council tax for, eh??

[foxy mars]

My recycling collection does well from me, that is the box is full to the brim of lager cans or beer bottles. That's once a fortnight. But, it's getting less and less, having to cut back a bit.

We have a white bag for recycling cardboard, cartons, even batteries.

[Paul mabbott]

..... One side effect of all these recycling boxes/bins is that the main black bin is hardly used. We last put it out in early July - and that was only because the wife had a clear-out of some old things. At the moment the bin is empty but the kitchen bin is about half full: mainly of chewing gum wrappers, garlic stockings and odd bits of dirty plastic. I may only put it out once a year .... unless I can attract some of the neighbourhood cats ....

One thing that I'm not able to keep up with - charity collection bags. We seem to get about four or five a week which we never use: we take most of our unwanted stuff (not a lot of that) to Oxfam who don't do collections. All we can do with charity bags is use them in place of black bags in the kitchen bin .... I wish they'd use paper ones but presumably they wouldn't want stuff left outside in them during rainy weather ....

[snackdahl]

A bakers that I used to work for throw out aluminium drinks cans and food grade stainless steel bale wires in the general waste. I wasted a lot of time and effort to work out that they were throwing away about £2500 of stainless and £400 of aluminium every year and was sneered at for my efforts

The fact that they have about 13 other bakeries nationwide makes this all the more saddening, as well as helping the environment, all of this money could have went to help good causes

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by snackdahl

A bakers that I used to work for throw out aluminium drinks cans and food grade stainless steel bale wires in the general waste. I wasted a lot of time and effort to work out that they were throwing away about £2500 of stainless and £400 of aluminium every year and was sneered at for my efforts

The fact that they have about 13 other bakeries nationwide makes this all the more saddening, as well as helping the environment, all of this money could have went to help good causes

Yes, stupid isn't it but some people are like that, can't be bothered .... if it were my business I'd be quite keen to save three grand a year. I suspect that people like that won't bother until (if only) it becomes illegal to dump recyclable waste?

[werdnal]

Originally Posted by nightshade

I was watching the re-cycling truck collecting down our street, halfway they drove off but were back a little later. They had to empty the stuff they had already collected and the nice chap I spoke to explained that people were putting out UNCRUSHED Cans which took up an awful lot of space and now they collect plastics the bottles also take up a lot of room unless they are squashed flat and the tops retightened to stop them popping up again.
So CRUSH your CANS and plastic bottles, please

I squash our bottles as best I can, but we are told not to put tops in as they can't recycle them!

Also our recycling gang try to save time by not closing the cage on the back of their truck, and after their round we often find a couple bags in the hedgerows that have fallen off!

[Paul mabbott]

For some reason, our bins weren't emptied yesterday:

Disgraceful!