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denviks:
i cannot belive this country ..... i just noticed that they didnt empty our recycle bin yesterday.... they only collect the rubbish once every 2 weeks......

so its at a premium for us as a family.... on opening it up there was a bulb in there which some nice person had put in when they went past.

so i called the council up to say that someone had thrown it in there after i had put my bin out thinking that maybe it was this.

well imagine my shock when i was told it wasnt the reason it wasnt collected, but it was the shredded paper that was in there. :? :? :?

we like mosts houses shred all paper work now through fear of id fraud......but it seems the council have caught on to this now and are no longer collecting bins with it in. you must take it elsewhere yourself ..

what a crack of you know what that is huh ...... to make it worse i was told i will need to empty my bin now as its contaminated....

that will be the end of recycling for us then ...im sorry but this country has gone mad  :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

ben-dent:
yep our bin men wont empty our recycling bins because we dont clean and remove every bottle and can and remove all the labels, and they dont like it because out curver box is not big enough for a household of 6 so we end up with a plastic bin bag full on top of the curver box they supply, yet only up the road in the flats a old couple who dont have anyone else in the household, they get a big dustbin for their recycleable, and they can mix all their plastics / glass and Tins yet they complain that we dont seperate them ](*,) ](*,) :scold:

JimP:
We now have 4 bins, rubbish, paper, bottles/plastic and a green garden waste bin, but if we want the garden waste collected we have to pay an extra £30 per year! but if we dont pay we still have to keep the green bin on our drive as they wont collect them back "in case they dont change next year"  :troll:

Why do we pay our taxes again?????  [-(

carbore:
I thin that recycling and bin collection is the biggest scam ever pulled off buy local govt in a way to provide a terrible service "For the sake of the planet"

And they wonder why there is so much fly tipping.

I wouldnt mind how complex they made it provided it does not cost any more, but it always always seem to end up whit us lot paying.

That said my binmen are fine, possibly something to do with the crate of booze I leave out on boxing day!

V8MoneyPit:
We can only put certain types of plastic bottles in our recycling bin and definately no yoghurt or spread cartons.

I've always maintained that for recycling to work, it has to be simple. No sorting, no removing lids and labels, no cleaning, etc. If it could all be dumped in the same bin, more people would do it. Surely, this has to be worth the additional cost of sorting it at a depot?

Fortunately, we barely get half a bin full every fortnight because we try to avoid buying products with too much packaging anyway.

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