What colour

nabsim said:
Well apart from the recycling bin I mentioned earlier we have a brown bin for garden waste and a black bin for everything else. Probably not green everywhere as folks may think its a green (environmentally friendly) option lol

Another thing they do in Hull which I had never come across before. Twice a year we get a letter from the council saying they will do street collections for anything you want to throw out on a certain date. This can be old furniture, white goods whatever. It amazing to watch, so many scrap dealers driving round that day trying to gram any metals before council lol Folks walking buy will take any furniture they may have a use for, its pretty good to see how much is actually taken before council folks get there.
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Little tip for anyone who needs shot of broken white goods ....

Don't put a sign on it saying "Free to good home" - no one wants broken gear. Put a sign on it saying "For Sale" and it will disappear overnight ;)
 
We have a blue bin for glass and tin . brown for cardboard and paper.green for non recyclable.grey for garden waste which costs £35 a year
 
What you can recycle is different too, no glass (the most recycled consumable) in Leeds but in Bradford it's okay.
 
It's different everywhere.

We have a grey bin with purple lid for cans, bottles, jars, aerosols, any hard plastics except black.

A blue bag for cardboard and paper except shredded.

A brown bin for garden waste only.

A green bin for everything else (but if you ask for a new one now it will be black)
 
Bags not bin
Red plastics blue paper orange cardboard black tub glass
 
We're about to switch from 'unlimited' general waste every week and recycling once a fortnight to only a small wheelie bin of general waste once a fortnight, recycling on the weeks that general waste isn't collected, and a tiny binful of food waste every week. The council expect us to return 'excessive packaging' to supermarkets etc. for them to dispose of (that ain't happening) and will start fining us if the lid of our wheelie bin isn't fully closed or if bags of rubbish are placed alongside. This could get interesting as the council insist the wheelie bins are their property and putting rubbish in someone else's wheelie bin is unlawful (fly tipping). Further, the liability to clean up after fly tipping lies with the owner of the property -- so the council refusing to empty their property (i.e. your bin) after someone else has fly tipped into it could mean they're not meeting their legal obligation... In the meantime, I suspect I'll be make at least one trip a month to our local waste transfer station (over 30 miles round trip) to get rid of what won't fit in the wheelie bin!

As to recycling colours: we have several:-
  • Glass and textiles: open topped black plastic box;
  • Metal and plastic: red woven plastic sack;
  • Cardboard and brown paper: orange woven plastic sack;
  • Paper (other than brown); blue woven plastic sack;
  • Food waste; green, closed-top plastic bin about 1/4 the size of our wheelie bin;
  • Food waste; silver caddy (to be used inside the home and the contents put in the green food bin for collection);
  • Garden waste; green woven plastic sack (this is a subscription only thing).
 
I hadn't realised just how varied this very important system is considering its vital importance to the environment and the cost to the councils you would think they would be more in tune with each other.
 
GeoffL said:
We're about to switch from 'unlimited' general waste every week and recycling once a fortnight to only a small wheelie bin of general waste once a fortnight, recycling on the weeks that general waste isn't collected, and a tiny binful of food waste every week. The council expect us to return 'excessive packaging' to supermarkets etc. for them to dispose of (that ain't happening) and will start fining us if the lid of our wheelie bin isn't fully closed or if bags of rubbish are placed alongside. This could get interesting as the council insist the wheelie bins are their property and putting rubbish in someone else's wheelie bin is unlawful (fly tipping). Further, the liability to clean up after fly tipping lies with the owner of the property -- so the council refusing to empty their property (i.e. your bin) after someone else has fly tipped into it could mean they're not meeting their legal obligation... In the meantime, I suspect I'll be make at least one trip a month to our local waste transfer station (over 30 miles round trip) to get rid of what won't fit in the wheelie bin!

As to recycling colours: we have several:-
  • Glass and textiles: open topped black plastic box;
  • Metal and plastic: red woven plastic sack;
  • Cardboard and brown paper: orange woven plastic sack;
  • Paper (other than brown); blue woven plastic sack;
  • Food waste; green, closed-top plastic bin about 1/4 the size of our wheelie bin;
  • Food waste; silver caddy (to be used inside the home and the contents put in the green food bin for collection);
  • Garden waste; green woven plastic sack (this is a subscription only thing).
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So let me get this right, 30 miles of fuel burned poluting the air to empty what wont go in the bin. :unsure:
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I hadn't realised just how varied this very important system is considering its vital importance to the environment and the cost to the councils you would think they would be more in tune with each other.
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You expect Councils to do joined up thinking???
 
GeoffL said:
In the meantime, I suspect I'll be make at least one trip a month to our local waste transfer station (over 30 miles round trip) to get rid of what won't fit in the wheelie bin!
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trevskoda said:
So let me get this right, 30 miles of fuel burned poluting the air to empty what wont go in the bin. :unsure:
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While you'll first get red stickers and 'stern warnings' on your wheelie bins, which won't be emptied if the lid isn't fully closed or there are black bags etc. next to the bin, any subsequent 'offence' is likely to attract a fine (I can't find a specified amount but £450 has been levied in at least one other authority). So if you have more waste than can fit in your wheelie bin, you have no option but pay for a private contractor or put the excess in the boot of your car and drive to a waste transfer station... Though quite what anyone who hasn't got a car is supposed to do is beyond my ken: presumably, they have to store it at home until they're overrun with rubbish, rats, flies, etc. and the council do an enforced (and chargeable) clean-up that could have been avoided!

The annoying thing is that they repeatedly say this is to help the county play its part in tackling climate change; something that these changes have less than a snowball's chance in Hell of achieving!
 
GeoffL said:
While you'll first get red stickers and 'stern warnings' on your wheelie bins, which won't be emptied if the lid isn't fully closed or there are black bags etc. next to the bin, any subsequent 'offence' is likely to attract a fine (I can't find a specified amount but £450 has been levied in at least one other authority). So if you have more waste than can fit in your wheelie bin, you have no option but pay for a private contractor or put the excess in the boot of your car and drive to a waste transfer station... Though quite what anyone who hasn't got a car is supposed to do is beyond my ken: presumably, they have to store it at home until they're overrun with rubbish, rats, flies, etc. and the council do an enforced (and chargeable) clean-up that could have been avoided!

The annoying thing is that they repeatedly say this is to help the county play its part in tackling climate change; something that these changes have less than a snowball's chance in Hell of achieving!
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Yep its all bull, i dont and wont fall for it, time folks stood up and be counted.
 
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