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wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
Posts: 15051
Location: East Midlands

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 1:20 pm Post subject:
I went to Oxford recently - in the city, they have litter bins for glass, paper plastic etc. I was mightily impressed! I wonder it's such a lottery?

Sherbs

Joined: 27 Apr 2007
Posts: 1931
Location: Swansea

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 1:29 pm Post subject:

We just have clear plastic bags for the recycling so you can put out one with tins, plastic and glass in, and another for paper but you can't put them outside too early or they get destroyed by kids, animals and weather so we've ended up with three kitchen bins in our kitchen which takes up loads of space. I think if we had proper bins for them we've put them in the front with our regular wheelie bin.

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42219
Location: North Devon

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 1:41 pm Post subject:

wellington womble wrote:

I went to Oxford recently - in the city, they have litter bins for glass, paper plastic etc. I was mightily impressed!

I wonder it's such a lottery?

We've got them. No idea whether they get used properly or not though.

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 09 5:15 pm Post subject:

Treacodactyl wrote:

...Finally I've written my house number on my bins in huge black permanent marker, this avoids people "accidentally" taking my bins.

Wish I'd done that on my wheelie-bins - last week I got someone else's vile stinky bin back in place of my own nice clean one

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Almost everyone around here leaves their bins in the front garden - after the first week you stop noticing them.

Mustang

Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Posts: 768
Location: Sunny Suffolk

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 09 9:05 am Post subject:

Recycle items at an earlier point so you don't need to use the wheelie bins (or at least, downsize to smaller ones). So, leave excess packaging in the shops and get them to deal with it. Re-use 'stuff' for other purposes, compost green waste, etc.

Wheelie bins are a pain if you've got no reasonable place to put them. They are therefore making some streets an eyesore because they are left on the pavement (e.g. if people don't have front gardens), and can also make it difficult for people (esp with prams,wheelchairs etc) to get past them.

I see them as simply an 'easy way' for local authorities to cut their collecting costs (reduced to every 2 weeks), claim they are 'green' etc. They are not really helping fix the problem at source (ie use of excess packaging, wasted food, etc). I think I saw a research report that even showed that the bigger and more 'recycle' bins that were given out, the more 'rubbish' was generated as people simply filled them.

maryf

Joined: 25 Oct 2009
Posts: 341
Location: suffolk

Posted: Sat Nov 14, 09 9:33 am Post subject:

We have two wheelie bins, one for landfill, the only things I put in there are poultry bones and when I do have it, polystyrene. Paper and plastic goes in the othe wheelie bin, mostly junk mail and food packaging - I would leave it in the shops but they just mix everything up and send it to landfill. Glass (not that we have much) goes to the bottle bank as the council won't collect it from domestic premises, and metal (cans etc,) I sort into steel, ali etc and take to the scrappers every now and then, the council will collect this but I'd rather get the money for it!! We don't have any food waste as it gets eaten by us, dog, rabbit, hens etc. and we don't seem to throw anything else out . . . . Ashes from the fire onto the garden, anything compostable in the compost bins.
When we lived in a town we also had two wheelie bins and everyone put them by the front gates - not the prettiest sight but they all looked the same - and most had put their number on them.

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