Been listening to a programme on the radio this morning about this. Now first let me say, I'm all for recycling household waste. I live in County Durham, land of the Prince Bishops. Therefore I come under the jurisdiction of Durham County Council. Now prior to the scrapping of the district councils we had two, as did most folk in Durham. We came under Derwentside but there was also Chester-le-Street, Durham City, Wear Valley & possibly others. Now as far as I'm aware, when they all went under the control of the county council they kept the rules in place as far as recycling goes that were in place under the districts. I have three bins, green, blue & brown. I also have a green box. In the green bin goes all cooked waste food, the film lids from microwave meals, foil tops from yoghurt pots, chocolate wrappers, the cellophane packaging from cigarette & baccy packets & so forth. In the blue bin goes cardboard, paper, tin cans, plastic bottles, yoghurt pots, sliced meat containers & so on. This is the most widely used bin in my garden. I crush the cans before I dump them, if I buy a 2ltr bottle of cider or pop, when it's empty I stand on it to squash it down & then put the top back on so it can't reinflate itself, this saves room in the bin. In the brown bin goes all the garden waste, hedge trimmings, grass clippings, weeds etc. In the green box goes all the glass. Bottles, jars and so forth. I also re-use my carrier bags. Some I use as waste bin liners, others, when I amass a few, I take to the Indian lass that runs the local shop, they get re-used & it saves her a couple of quid. What's it like where you live? Would be especially interested to hear from those who don't live in the north east & our ex-pat members.
Warrington council are decent enough. Black bin (general waste) once a fortnight. Blue bin (mixed recycling) once a fortnight. Green bin (Garden waste) also once a fortnight. My brother in Bury has his hands tied a little. Think the recycling is only once a month and they're really poor on what can be recycled. When I lived over in Brussels they were brilliant. Recycling came once a week and shops would give you a voucher for returned beer/wine bottles.
Very good that. The dairies & breweries recycled their bottles for donkey's years, long before it became trendy. These days the milk always comes in plastic bottles & the breweries no longer pick up the empties.
I have 6 bins, two black which I use for everything that I can't be arsed to recycle. Two blue, which are supposed to be for card board and paper, I use it for that, but rarely send them out to the bins as I have a huge log burner so I tend to chuck cardboard on to get it started. I have a brown bin, for bottles and tins, although the ****ers don't take them if they spy a bottle top in there, I normally screw off the tops and put them in the same bin but they fall to the bottom... then I have the garden bin, which gets used for leaves if I can be bothered to put them in, otherwise they go over the back fence into the school field. I ****ing hate the council and from what I hear, everything just gets piled together at the tip anyhow, so **** em.
Stockport council mate, I live in an SK post code. When I used to live in north Manc, under Bury council, they didn't give a **** they took whatever you put out on the day. My bin men are ****s, I have more respect for the **** in the back of the wagon than the lads sat in front.
Unlucky mate. My bin men are pretty laid back. They'll tip the blue bin providing there's no carrier bags in there. A few weeks ago my blue bin go nicked & I had nowhere to put the recycling. I just put it in the green bin & the lads were fine & just tipped it in the truck. Mind you, the bastard council charged me 20 notes to replace it.
Pack of ****er mate, stolen bins should be replaced by councils. Can't stand my bin men mate, if I spotted one who'd been ran over by the Biffa truck I'd probably kick him in the balls.
We have orange sacks for the recycled and black sacks for everything else collected weekly Pay 35 pound a year for a large green bin to take garden waste every other week
Since I've paid for the blue bin does that make it my property? They charge us £20 a year on top of the council tax for the brown bin too.
What's it like these days? Southend was like the Blackpool of the south. I got plenty of sex & drugs there in the 80's. Loads of slappers willing to put it out. Makes the Bigg Market look like the Vatican City.
Dont spend to many nights there now, but there is Cliff Pavilion that has some good bands/acts The Arcade's are dead now guess because the kids have xbox etc
I'd imagine so mate, unless the first one belonged to the council, then you're essentially just paying to replace something of theirs that you've lost.
