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recycle?
Gordo:
Huntindonshire's recycling scheme is considered one of the best in the country - probably because it's simple. I have three wheeled bins: blue, green & Grey.
The blue one is for dry recycling: plastic bottles, paper, cardboard, cans and Tetapaks (juice cartons). They will take a small amount of shredded paper - too much and it causes problems when they come to sort it. We also can't put glass in there.
The green one is for garden waste and also food waste - cooked or uncooked, including bones, meat, fish, veg etc.
The grey one is for everything else.
I rinse out bottles and cans for the recycling bin to keep it clean - takes moments to do, and saves on having to clean the bin!
I tend to fill the blue one in a fortnight, and quarter fill the grey one without trying too hard. We can also get a bag of the composted waste to use as "soil improver" from the local tip (sorry, recycling centre).
I think people are annoyed where councils have tried to make it easier for themselves rather than their residents - some schemes have stupid rules, limits or lots of bins / bags / boxes to put different stuff in.
muddy4x4:
Well I think I can beat you all.
I have :- 2 boxes, 2 wheelie bins and a pink plastic sack
Brown wheelie bin for garden waste.
Green wheelie bin for normal waste that does`nt go in other boxes/wheelie bins.
Grey box for cardboard and glass.
Green box for paper and magazines.
Pink plastic sack for plastic.
All well and good but where the hell do I PUT THEM ALL ?
Also my bins only get emptied every 2 weeks.
The council sell the stuff on making money, so how come my council tax seems to go up every year ?
muddyjames:
ah, being a recycling ranger myself I maybe able to help!
Our council is very lax on taking things we shouldn't, ie we take stuff anyway as it is less ear bashing from the public for us!
Shredded paper is a nightmare to be honest. It blows back out the lorry when moving along to the next bin or there is shredded stuff under newspaper and we think it will fit in the side of the lorry, tip it out and shredded paper everywhere. It truly is a proper nightmare to pick up off the floor. Ever tried sweeping up shredded paper? This is probably why they dont take it.
as for the bag of recyclable stuff. As long as you split up the bag into plastic and another glass it is ok. We dont like sorting through bags of recycling as it is a; a pain to undo the super tight knots people put in them with gloves on, it is so slow to grab the plastic / glass out as our gloves stick to the bags and b; most importantly, it is too difficult to see if there are any sharp items in the bag ie needles or broken glass. In a box it is easy to see but a balck/pink/tesco bag is ghard to spot needles in and could potentialy pierce through the side and get us easier than the box.
Onto the person who said it has to be washed out. Oh, how we love those kind of customers. People who chuck non washed out dog tins in boxes and then get flies all around the box etc truely is just horrible to sort through and the smell can be very unpleasant. So this is why we like clean boxes. It is kinder on the nose and no maggots end up going down the inside of our gloves!
Hope this has helped out.
muddyjames:
Meant to say.
It is ALOT safer to put any confidential waste into your compost bin. Once it is in the back of the bin lorry squashed up against all the sap from trees and other rotting matter, once it gets emptied at the composting site it is unreadable and gets put straight through a huge shreadder again to make everything compost down faster. Putting it in your paper box means it could blow out the lorry into the wrong hands, once it gets tipped it is still in paper form so some horrible person could possibly pick it up and read it, once it leaves the yard, who knows where it goes then! Middle east or into a newspaper the same day? Who knows.
So I say any shreaded paper or confidential stuff, stick in your compost wheelie bin!
mike142sl:
All the stuff we shred goes straight into our own compost bin - makes great compost with all the other kitchen waste.
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