Recycling

[bethypoos]

I have a confession - i am crap at this! I've been meaning to start recycling my newspapers at least, and as i don't get a council collect them yet it's always been easier to throw them out.

Well, yesterday i was at the carpark at the gym and there's a recycling bank which was overflowing. This guy i know from the gym walked up and there was no where to put his papers. Instead of dumping them in the bin or on the floor he took them into the gym with him. I heard him in the bar talking to someone saying he'll take them back home and bring them back when the bin has been emptied.

I felt SO ashamed. He was going out of his way to do his bit, and there's me with a car who can't even be bothered. So, I'm making an early new years resolution that i'll remember this sweet guy who was so thoughful, and use it to make me a better person

[oldspice]

Your council should have a recycling policy. Councils that don't will have massive levy charged to it which they will be forced to pass on to rate payers.

I have been recycling all my life (49 years). I was born into it. Nothing at home was ever wasted. Peelings went on the compost heap, cardboard boxes were flattened and used for various purposes, dad repaired our shoes on a shoe last, we burned all sorts of things on the back room fire and grew our own fruit and vegetables. All this in London!

[Velvet Darkness]

Good for you Bethypoos. I admire you for making the effort or at least deciding you will from now on.  

I do some recycling but probably not as much as I could.

Oldspice you were lucky to have had such a good example set by your parents.

 

[Forth Bridges]

we have a
grey bin- waste 
blue bin - paper
and a brown bin - garden waste

soon to have a green bin - glass/ plastic

[loulou]

Where do you keep all these bins?

[oldspice]

We have three bins too:

Black - general rubbish

green - recycling (not glass though)

Brown - garden waste

 

We keep the black and green bins in the front garden, under the conifer trees and the garden bin generally stays in the back garden until the night before it is collected. The black bins are collected on alternative Thursdays with the green and brown bins collected on the Thursdays in between.

[goldencup]

We have large and small wheelie bins (large for all recycling, including glass) and small for general rubbish.  We have special bags for garden refuse.  Rubbish bins are emptied weekly, recycling fortnightly.  If they find the wrong thing in the wrong bin we're supposed to get a stroppy notice and they don't empty them, but I haven't had one yet!

[oldspice]

They have actually 'chipped' our bins so that they can keep a close eye on what we put in them. The first time you 'sin your bin' they send something round to explain the system (96 different languages are spoken in Peterborough) but if you keep doing it they fine you.

[loulou]

   We get a green wheelie bin for general rubbish and then  a stupid black tub with no lid and doesn't hold much at all for recycling. What annoys me with it is if it is raining the collectors end up with a tub of soggy paper and then then they don't have the sense to put it back in my garden upside down so I come home to half a tub of rainwater. My green wheelie bin has to be collected on Tuesdays from the back gate but the recycling tub has to be collected on Wednesdays from the front gate.  People with gardens get a brown wheelie bin for garden waste and that is collected fortnightly.

They have actually 'chipped' our bins so that they can keep a close eye on what we put in them. The first time you 'sin your bin' they send something round to explain the system (96 different languages are spoken in Peterborough) but if you keep doing it they fine you.

I thought that was a hoax!

[oldspice]

No, a random number of bins have had chips inserted under the rim. Periodically these are removed and a new batch are chipped.

[StrollingMinstrel]

We have a black rectangle tub, with lid, for paper and translusant green bin bags for plastic and cardboard. The council collect every fortnight.

I do try and recycle most of these bits as they have tried to make it easy for us, but I have to admit to sometimes throwing things in the bin automatically without thinking.

For glass we have to take it to a recyle place/bin ourselves, which does mean they tend to pile up a bit before I get around to doing it.

[oldspice]

But that's a good thing because you waste less energy if you make one journey every now and then to deposit a large number of glass objects rather than making frequent small journeys with a small amount each time!

[StrollingMinstrel]

Good point! Feeling little more smug about that, even if I didn't think of it!

[kevvosa]

As I live in a flat we don't get any form of recycling bin. If there was I would use it.