Disposal of Household Waste.

I heard about this on Radio and the basic concensus was bullshit. Just a way to save some money floating on the whole environment thing.

The fact is at grassroots we have to goto tesco to buy stuff to eat which is in packaging, cutting pickups in half will not solve this issue.

If its any conciliation where we live has a recycling policy, they collect every two weeks and take it straight to the dump, they never got round to building the recycling plant.

Still we all feel better for our paltry attempts, we look so sad compared to Germany and Austria.

It will soon be happening everywhere, I'm just one of the pilot schemes, no reduction in council tax by the way compared to friends 200 yards away in a different street who still have their rubbish collected weekly.

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If its any conciliation where we live has a recycling policy, they collect every two weeks and take it straight to the dump, they never got round to building the recycling plant.

In relationship to plastics, bottles, aluminium I agree (not the dumping), but is your kitchen waste ie (household rubbish collected every two weeks?)

Justyn

Justyn.

Our household rubbish is collected every week (just finished putting it out), & additionally,one week the paper recycling bin is collected, the next week it's plastics,tins, & cardboard.I also use a bottle bank for glass. A lot of other local councils only collect every 2 weeks, so you are left with a choice of rotting old food smells, or "eau de jeyes fluid". Recycling is the norm for us now, & it would feel weird not to do it. I do wonder, however, how smaller houses/flats, etc find room to keep a wheelie-bin, + 2 recycling bins. If they are stored too remotely, it would be too easy not to use them.
matt.

Where we are, in east central Scotland, we have 3 bins, a grey one for general crap, a blue one for dry recyclables, and a brown one for organic rubbish. The grey one is emptied every other week, the others every "other alternate" week if that makes sense. It works quite well but we have enough room for 3 bins instead of 1. Not everybody does. We now automatically put stuff in the correct bin.

Justyn,

I've been on the Green/Brown bin+paper fortnightly collection scheme for over a year now. (Some of us are getting a blue bin as well very soon). Works well enough for me as I live alone (sad old git) but for some reason my green bin stank so badly I had to put it right at the bottom of the garden last week. The council recycle the garden waste and sell it cheaply as compost the following year.

The biggest problem is for people with families, the green bins soon become full after just a few days.

They collect our household waste weekly and the recycling fortnightly.

We were offered garden collection for £20 a year this is in essence a really small bag you fill up and put out fortnightly. It wouldn't take half a lawn mowing so we never bothered.

So we got a composter. I can dig out the details for people in the south where you can get a compost bin delivered for £5

Newport Council has been set a target of acheiving a re-cycle rate of 25% for all household rubbish. Obviously there are only certain things that they will accept. Whilst I agree with this policy, (We do re-cycle a lot more rubbish now), it pisses me off to see the dipsosal truck collect rubbish every week from up the street from us and drive straight past. Some weeks I end up taking rubbish to work for disposal (lucky I have that opportunity). I've spoken to a few neighbours especially those with a few kids and they used to struggle to manage even when the collection was weekly.

Rubbish bins around here are becoming like skips - (You turn your back and next thing you know a couple of bags have been discreetly dumped in your bin (if there's room).

It concerns me that this will end up with people fly-tipping a lot more rubbish.

Justyn.

We also now have green and brown bins emptied on alternate weeks. During the summer months it kinda makes sense but in winter it's completely stupid. In a neighbouring district they have the same system but with a well-considered twist: For a month around the Christmas period only the household waste bin gets collected. This makes a lot of sense when you consider that once all the autumn leaves have gone there will be no garden waste till Spring, and we tend to have a lot more household waste over Christmas.

I doubt they have thought about that in my district.

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Originally posted by Justyn:
Is there anyone else on this scheme?.

We've been on it for nearly a year, I think, although it seems like several years because so much has gone wrong so many times: rubbish not being collected at all; bins either being found on other people's property or disappearing; bins being lined up across our driveway, preventing cars from entering or leaving; clearly labelled bins being swapped with other people's clearly labelled bins - particularly annoying if their bins were dirty; a bin that had been clean being returned with sticky liquid or traces of garden waste inside; unwanted extra bins being delivered.

Until now, I've only had to clean the standard bins for the above reasons but it's only a matter of time before it becomes necessary because of the nature of the bins and the collection period.

Eventually, the problem was sorted out but it took months of phone calls to the council. I think it would have been easier for them to sort out if the workers had been council employees rather than private contractors...

As for the garden waste bin, I don't want to talk about it!

I've heard that some people who live in terraces have had to wheel their trash through their houses, although I cannot verify this.

Most people (including me) purchase/consume/waste too much.

Ideally Western (and Eastern these days) economies/Governments would restructure/rephilosophise to encourage responsible manufacturing/purchasing/wasting.

This is unlikely to happen, so personally we can do our bit - or just moan on this thread.