General Chat

We have the original green coloured household bin, a black one for recycling, a box for glass and a brown coloured one for garden waste. That costs us £39 pa and is emptied alternative weeks all year round. The rcyling ones are emptied every 2 weeks whilst the household is weekly. We don't bother putting it out every week as there isn't much in it.

Like IGP, our veggie peelings go on the compost heap. There are specific instructions not to put them in the garden bin. As they all go for composting, its a strange decision to have made.

It seems a strange suggestion to freeze your cooked food waste. It would only work if you have space and the scraps are 'fresh' when they are frozen.

Rollo - what did the council expect you to do with a fox carcass? Give them a ring or let it get turned into road squish for the street cleaners to scrape up?

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Someone has added to the neighbourhood site

To anyone who is concerned the new bins will be too small for a fortnightly collection of black waste - I've just spoken to the council and once everyone has their bins then you can order another one if you feel you will need it - fair enough?
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Lets hope that stops the moaners fussy.

At no extra cost that's fair enough then.

We must be weird around here cos our green waste goes in a green bin in fact all our various recycling bins, boxes and bags are green.

Islington rules say that you cannot leave the bin on the pavement.
So if yr house opens onto the street tough.
OH yes there must be a drop kerb for the wheelie bin.
If the truck driver feels that he/she is impeded eg somebody parking on the drop kerb thats yr lot until next time.
The price for recycled domestic waste has crashed.

garden centres are the leading vector for all kinds of nasty bugs to enter the UK. If brexit put an end to them it might just be worth it.

We don't have food waste collection here, but I try and keep that to a minimum anyway. Anything 'smelly' is wrapped very well before going in the bin. Veggie peelings go in the compost. All bins collected fortnightly - general, garden, carboard+plastic recycling, tin+glass+paper recycling. 3 wheelie bins and 1 box.

We have wheelie bins which have to be left for emptying on a recreation ground at the bottom of the road. I don't think bags would last long there with the various animals that find their way on to the rec.

Our council seems quite backward with its recycling. We have a black bin for general waste and a blue for recyclable waste, collected on alternate weeks. There is no provision for food waste which has to go in to the general bin. Glass cannot be put in the recycling bin but has to be taken to a bottle bank - difficult for those without a car. Textiles can go in the blue bin but they must be put on the top in a special bag which must be collected from the town hall and that's a pain if you don't live in the centre of town.

There is a fortnightly collection for brown bin garden waste. However it is £55 to hire the bin which seems more expensive than most councils

We used to have 3 wheelie bins (kitchen waste, garden waste if you wanted one and recycling) and a caddy for tins and glass. Now we have to put the glass and tins in with the recycling waste so the caddy has gone. Our problem now with the waste bin and recycling bins being the same size is that the waste bin is rarely a quarter full, yet collected weekly, yet the recycling bin is overflowing, (despite that we take all our shredded paper to a local smallholding) and is only collected fortnightly. :-S Black sacks would be ripped open by the foxes around here and be harder to carry down the drive with bad backs etc so I would hate going back to them.

I must be the only person with black bags :-0
We keep it in a normal dustbin until rubbish day so no problem.

Clear bags for recycling glass,paper and some plastic.

Different colour plastic bag for textiles

3 large bags for garden waste.
Small bin for food waste
Weekly collection for all of the above

All vegetable peelings go in our wormery or on the compost :-D :-D

I do have one gripe though and that is we can't recycle enough plastic. The adjoining council collects their plastic :-(

Von - JemimaFawr says she still has black bags for general waste. You're not alone.

I'm all for recycling but, from the sound of it, some councils don't make it easy.

We have two wheelie bins and a green bag.
Green bag is for garden 'waste', one bin is for recycleables - mainly plastic and cardboard/paper. The other is for 'general' waste.
Alternate weekly collections. One week General and garden waste, the next, recycleables.
No glass collection - the nearest glass disposal is about half a mile away - on the road to nowhere. It used to be a quarter of a mile away, on the way to town, but that car park is now being built on :-(
No good for those without cars.
There was a compost bin offer a few years back, where you could get one compost bin quite cheaply - but in reality, two compost bins are needed for proper composting.

My main problem is disposing of small electrical items. We have no option but to take them to the tip, which is difficult with no car.

Does anyone have this catered for in their area?

I have two black bins for normal waste
two green bins for garden waste

and a blue bin for recycling :-D

Our Binmen are wonderful guys :-D :-D

Lyndi, I just put them in a black bag and in the general waste!
Bad, I know, but that's how it used to be.

Energy saving bulbs must now be taken to the tip, as they contain mercury.
......like I'm going to save a years worth of allegedly 'long lasting' bulbs that last no longer than the traditional bulbs, in the hope someone with a car fancies a trip to the dump :-|

I put everything into my bins
When Stray had her bathroom done
There was 68 bags of rubble

I put a couple of bags in each bin and the bins of my neighbors for months

But I got rid of it No problem :-D :-D :-D

I've found rotten fences break down quite well after a while and can be shoved in a black bag and placed in the middle of the 'general waste' bin.

Just waiting for my shed to deteriorate a little more.......

When our lovely Builder replaced my Kitchen
I sawed the old one up

and did a repeat of what I did to the rubble :-D :-D

I must confess to putting some garden stuff in the general rubbish, the stuff that you can't put in your garden bin! ;-)

If you give them a good tip at Christmas
the Binmen sure look after you the rest of the year :-D :-D

You don't want to make your bin too heavy - it looks suspicious, and I have to drag mine up four steps :-|

I think wheelie bins win!!!!

I love our wheelie bins.

Fortnightly collection of household waste and alternate weeks thy collect recycling and garden waste.