Missed the bin men!

thomasross20

 There are 4 people and two cats here so two binbags over 2 binbags in 2 weeks is undoable. We do the recycling, too.

scrumhalf

We need to get serious about recycling. Nationally. it's a shambles.

We need:
1) Common standards across the country. Without this we are just farting around. We've got a pretty good cross-UK representation on this forum, I can gurantee that recycling policies differ widely.
2) All commercial packaging to be recyclable only unless there are very good reasons. And sensible restrictions should be placed on over-packaging.
3) As many things as possible to have their ability to be recycled to be noted somewhere on the item. If we can have "CE", or country of manufacture, or washing instructions or serving suggestions then we can have recycling instructions.

Hootsmon

awwwww.....for me it's my Aunt Ethel

57Deluxe

any neighbours on hollies still??  - use theirs!

guitarcookie1

RandallFlagg said:

...And people in Aleppo think they've got problems...

At least your house is still standing... 

vasselmeyer

We have FOUR wheelie bins  (organic, paper/cardboard, glass/plastic and general). Our local council (Stockport)  is outstanding and rated no.7 in the UK at 60.7% recycling, resue or composting. The recycling centres take pretty much anything. We have collections for, amongst others,  appliances, scrap metal, timber, DIY/building waste, light fittings, batteries, shoes, books, etc etc. You name it they can recycle it. Anything that can't be recycled is incenerated to plasma for power generation.

Bellycaster

RandallFlagg said:

I might lob stuff over the fence into the neighbours garden

Don't do that, it's too obvious...Lob it over next door but one's garden.

jonnyburgo

Just dig a big hole in the garden and dump it in there every fortnight, in no time your house will have its own renewable energy source, and you will be king of the street.

Handsome_Chris

jonnyburgo said:

Just dig a big hole in the garden and dump it in there every fortnight, in no time your house will have its own renewable energy source, and you will be king of the street.

And the lowest house prices in a 200 mile radius. 

EricTheWeary

vasselmeyer said:

We have FOUR wheelie bins  (organic, paper/cardboard, glass/plastic and general). Our local council (Stockport)  is outstanding and rated no.7 in the UK at 60.7% recycling, resue or composting. The recycling centres take pretty much anything. We have collections for, amongst others,  appliances, scrap metal, timber, DIY/building waste, light fittings, batteries, shoes, books, etc etc. You name it they can recycle it. Anything that can't be recycled is incenerated to plasma for power generation.

Well, I didn't know such a table existed. We are down at 193 ( of 352)at 42.2%. Number 352 is the Isles of Scilly with 14.1%.

ToneControl

it should be cold enough to stop it stinking too much, just  take your new rubbish to the tip every 3 days until they come again

Or buy a £15 metal incinerator and burn the stuff in your bin
Don't light it with petrol btw

Moe_Zambeek

thomasross20 said:

 There are 4 people and two cats here so two binbags over 2 binbags in 2 weeks is undoable. We do the recycling, too.

West Lothian used to allow you a bigger bin if you had 2 or more kids in the household. Have a look on their website, they may still offer an upgrade so you could go back to the old size . You could also rent a bigger bin for £35 a year.

I agree the new ones are tiny. Some folks simply kept the old bins when they were rounding them up to replace and use them as temporary overflow management...

Unlike some we don't get glass recycling pickups here. We have grey (general waste), blue (dry recyclables, not glass), brown (garden waste) and the little food caddies no one seems to use, which get blown up the street and disappear.

Sporky

I missed the bin lorry today.

I'll get over it. Might dump some in my dear old mum's bin when I go to ransack the rest of the workshop.