Cardboard recycling

[Hedera]

I flatten small boxes and card tops etc and put them into an empty cereal box -it's surprising how much you can cram in! It can be put in with newspapers, glass bottles and plastic bottles now. Our council won't take brown/corrugated cardboard or boxes though. They did one Christmas have a collection for that but not since. It all goes in the general collection truck. And why won't they take the yoghurt recyclable pots??

[Paul mabbott]

Intriguing how some collections mix paper with card where others want them separately. In Northamptonshire card is collected with 'green waste' which suggests that is going for composting. In Clegoland we can put the card with paper although actually I put it on the compost heap.

[shenk1]

We're only up the road and our cardboard goes in the green waste which does actually go for composting (I believe).We can't put kitchen waste in with green though as some goes for animal feed.Ours gets put in the composter so free compost this time next year

You would think councils ,particularly neighbouring ones, would come up with a standard scheme as this surely represent better value for money
Hmmmm.........can't see that happening

[Dorts]

We have run a 'mail-order' business from home for the last 6 years.
Many items need a lot of packing, but never have we needed to buy any cardboard as we only use 'second-hand' .
I regularly visit various companies and take all their suitable cardboard.
So at least some of it is being used twice before being turned into something else, saving energy along the way.
Dorts.

[artdemole]

Cardboard in the area of Bath N.E. Somerset,goes into a recycle blue bag.It has to be torn up to to fit in bag with Staples and Brown tape and sticky backed tape removed.All yoghurt pots, clear trays green trays but Not black go in recycle bin.Also to go in same said bin.Shredded paper, all paper,newspaper.Glass jars and plastic cartons.This is placed out every Monday for collection by same wagon with different compartments for each.Also in same wagon goes bio-degradable bag full of all kitchen food waste. Juice cartons are not collected.There is a container for these at Co-op car park in nearby Radstock.

[Paul mabbott]

Originally Posted by shenk1

...........You would think councils ,particularly neighbouring ones, would come up with a standard scheme as this surely represent better value for money
Hmmmm.........can't see that happening

In the good old days there would surely have been a South Yorks Waste Authority ... ho hum. Certaibly we won't get joined-up services in the near future. Allegedly the Libdems in Sheffield signed a 40 year (forty years) contract for waste collection/disposal with Veolia.

[tom00_uk]

Originally Posted by Dorts

We have run a 'mail-order' business from home for the last 6 years.
Many items need a lot of packing, but never have we needed to buy any cardboard as we only use 'second-hand' .
I regularly visit various companies and take all their suitable cardboard.
So at least some of it is being used twice before being turned into something else, saving energy along the way.
Dorts.

need to be careful with the waste regulations that your not seen as a unlicensed waste carrier by taking on some one else's packaging byproduct. Its a real shame how when so many of these regulations were written they then made such a massive paper trail needed to comply with the law.

A firm i worked for used to give away to boxes that paper reams came in but when faced with filling in paper work or having a carrier take it away it was easier to go down this route. Business link or the local EA office can sort out to stay complaint if your not all ready doing so

[Paul mabbott]

We now have three collections (as well as the garden waste one which we don't take advantage of) but still have to take some of our stuff to a recycling place. I've been working out how to explain the system to people who come and stay when we're away - it's complicated:
1 glass (without lids) and cans (crushed) go into one bag for putting in the box with ...
2 plastic bottles - crushed - we keep the lids on while they're in the house but take them off before putting the plastic into the bin;
3 bottle tops, plastic bags, yog pots and so forth go into another bag whch we take to Tesco or another collection centre;
4 paper goes in a box for collection except ...
5 cardboard and financial correspondence (for security reasons) goes in a bag with food waste for composting;
6 batteries and light bulbs go to Sainsbury collection centre;
7 cartons go to the Waitrose collection centre;
8 books and journals go to Oxfam as do clothes and footwear.
That's without taking account of the bags for recycling ink cartridges and mobile phones (if only ....); and there's a man with a van comes round weekly to take away large metal items ....

You can understand why some people get a little confused .....

[pressld2]

We have a brown wheelie bin for compostable waste, a black box for glass, a green box for paper and card (we shred anything with confidential info) and a maroon box for plastic bottles and cans. All bottle tops can go in our plastic & can recycling but not yogurt pots or butter/margarine/ice-cream tubs. Don't know anywhere that takes them. I have battery recycling at work but almost all the batteries I use these days are rechargeables so I don't often have need of it. I didn't know about Sainsburys doing lightbulb recycling - I'll check that out this week.

Dave P.

[Dorts]

We have one just wheelie-bin and everything goes in it. There is no re-cycling in our area! We must be in the minority now.
Dorts.