New food waste collection

[Archev]

That's Scotland, for ya.

Aye it is better quality trash after all

 

[Ian Key]

@salty is cutting down his options on where he's welcome in the UK. He's insulted Derbyshire and now Scotland. No wonder Yorkshire got pissed off with the Lancasterians in the War of the Roses

 

[Everest]

@salty is cutting down his options on where he's welcome in the UK. He's insulted Derbyshire and now Scotland. No wonder Yorkshire got pissed off with the Lancasterians in the War of the Roses

Hence his name?

 

[MG Clive]

@salty is cutting down his options on where he's welcome in the UK. He's insulted Derbyshire and now Scotland. No wonder Yorkshire got pissed off with the Lancasterians in the War of the Roses

Well I was born in Lancashire, and live in Yorkshire, so @salty will be welcome in Yorkshire.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

As a fellow Lancastrian, we have a song for that , stolen by Millwall fans in the 70s/80s .

 

[salty]

@salty is cutting down his options on where he's welcome in the UK. He's insulted Derbyshire and now Scotland. No wonder Yorkshire got pissed off with the Lancasterians in the War of the Roses

You know I'm only joking, love you all.

 

[securespark]

Food waste has also been collected for years in my part of the world.
I use biodegradable liners for the caddy.

Yes. We get a roll of biodegradable caddy liners from the council every year. They have got smaller over the years, so we do buy extra now, also biodegradable. But they go in the green wheelie bin here in Stockport, along with garden waste.

We now pay for green waste which we never did before, £59 pa, but if you just want to put food waste out every week, it's free.

The other bins are black (non-recyclable), brown (plastics*, tins and bottles) and blue (paper and card, including Tetrapaks etc).

For years, I have written to the council complaining that they originally only took plastic bottles. "If it's bottle-shaped, we take it".

I wrote to complain (Mr Angry from Stockport!) and said it didn't make sense because all the bottle-shaped objects were made of many different plastic types, why wouldn't they accept other items made of these plastics that weren't bottle-shaped?

They told told me they weren't set up to do this (???) but now they accept plastic meat containers, plastic veg boxes (like mushroom boxes), yogurt pots etc, just nothing thin.

Or bottle tops, which they didn't accept before.

So there's still lots of plastic going in the black bin, unless I can find somewhere local to take bags, cling film, bottle tops etc...

And SMBC have the gall to moan that its residents are not recycling enough.

The same moan at the tip, sorry, recycling centre.

There, you have to separate everything and put it in the correct skip so help you ... It's not too much of a chore, but often, places are not clearly labelled. The people there don't seem very helpful, but sure love to yell at you if you put something in the wrong place.

Rant over...

 

[mystreet]

All these different bins, colours, for various things, no wonder it does not work.

But, the government (UK) has a cunning plan. Bins of the same colour AND use for all. What could possibly go wrong

 

[Archev]

All these different bins, colours, for various things, no wonder it does not work.

But, the government (UK) has a cunning plan. Bins of the same colour AND use for all. What could possibly go wrong

Hang on - I’m working on that list

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Those sages of rock n roll AC/DC must have had a premonition when they wrote " Bin city " .
Just waiting for the various councils to hand out bins in competition to "Pure cremations ", not a new idea , re- hashed from the plague years, but less personnel.

 

[Bam Bam]

The most confusing one for me is Rushmoor (NE Hampshire).

They decided on green wheelie bins for general waste.

When they later introduced recycling green was not available so they used blue.

Everywhere else uses green for recycling so I just automatically put recycling in the wrong bin when visiting.

No forward planning there.

 

[Anon70]

The most confusing one for me is Rushmoor (NE Hampshire).

They decided on green wheelie bins for general waste.

When they later introduced recycling green was not available so they used blue.

Everywhere else uses green for recycling so I just automatically put recycling in the wrong bin when visiting.

No forward planning there.

Ahh, the red zone and the white zone...

 

[T1 Terry]

Here is the ultimate bin, you can't get it wrong

T1 Terry

 

[salty]

Ok in theory. But doesn't look like the stuff
would be separated, in the bin. So sort of defeating the object.

 

[MG Clive]

Ok in theory. But doesn't look like the stuff
would be separated, in the bin. So sort of defeating the object.

Yes, it's all going into the same green bag, that's clever.

 

[mystreet]

Yes, it's all going into the same green bag, that's clever.

At least, you think that you are 'doing your bit'