Be Excellent To Each Other

Looking at their website http://www.eastleigh.gov.uk/waste-recyc ... rades.aspx

The standard bins are 140 litres , the larger ones are 240 and you can apply for an additional bin if you still cant cope (I realise this is not standard everywhere)

Or else of course they could just stop being so silly and if someone's bin is overflowing then allow a bag alongside it if necessary. Sending round an extra truck to every house each week just seems like a backwards step to me.

Yeah, it's worth phoning them up and asking. It wasn't until I saw someone on the street had a recycling bin that I realised I could just phone up and ask them to replace my shoddy little recycling box with a full-sized bin. For free.

In the grand scheme of things this has to be the best way to do it. It's surely more efficient to sort the waste in one place rather than have everyone do it bit by bit in their own homes. However getting people to understand this and accept that they would have to pay for this time-saving is probably another matter.

We had a man come round the other day to let us know that they've now extended the recyling further. All plastics, textiles and shredded paper are accepted. Of course, for a considerable time I've been doing that anyway, on the basis of 'you should recycle this shit'. It is now just food and nappies in the bin, and everything else to recycling.

This does sound sensible. Our council is slowly going this way - cans and plastic (seemingly almost any plastic) now go into one bin, and you still sort the coloured glass. Not sure why considering it gets made into insulation or whatever, but it's not exactly a hardship.
By bin I mean large skip thing in the village - you still have to drive it there. Normal landfill rubbish collection is fortnightly and has been for a long time.

And yes, my point was that there's no real need for any more frequent collections, it is a waste of money (and a bit shocking for a government to interfere and bribe councils to do this) especially as it would disencourage people to minimise the landfill waste.

Sorry for that hand grenade though, we have done all this before...

If only there was £250M lying about that could be spent on resolving a minor inconvenience eh?

we have:

Orange bag, plastic
Blue Bag - Cardboard
Red Tub - time and glass
Blue Tub - Paper
Green Bin - Garden waste

Black bin - rest.

Recycling day takes about 3 trips to take all the stuff out!

Huh, I didn't think the Chronocycling plants had come online yet. Apparently all the recycled time is being shipped to China, so they can get extra shifts out of each factory worker.

tin not time....

Our place.

2 huge communal bins for general waste.
1 huge communal bin for cardboard and paper.

That's it...

We did all get given a tiny grey container for food waste, but no large bin to put it into in the communal bin store, so nobody uses that.
Everybody also uses the bin store as a general dumping ground for any large rubbish (mattresses, sofas etc...). The management company gets a truck round every couple of months to pick up the large stuff, and sends everyone a letter every six months saying stop dumping your large rubbish in the bin store, which obviously works as well as you can imagine.

Ill tell you this much, if you miss a fortnightly black bin collection in the summer months you better be prepared to take measures to dispose of the stinking waste or be prepared for pain.

We have two enormous bins. One for all recycling (nobsorting) one for waste.

Given I only produce one carrier bag of waste every 3 weeks or so, I don't have much of a problem.

Eat more fibre, that doesn't sound healthy.

Collecting it in a carrier bag and keeping it for three weeks is even less healthy.

Keeping it in glass mason jars is the way. Makes cataloguing and sorting far easier.

Dirty minded buggers

They aren't the ones shitting in carrier bags.

Or nobsorting.

Nor am I. It wouldn't be the first thing I'd think of either when talking about refuse collection.

Do you stick your legs through the handle loops when you shit into the carrier bags, Mr Dave?

You could just walk around with it on, like a horse, until it's full. Unlike a horse, though, you can't then swap it around with the feed bag for perpetual energy.

Oh, and don't pee in it too, those anti-baby-suffocation holes are a bastard.

We have three wheelie bins.

One for non-recyclables
One for recyclables
One for food/garden waste

All are collected weekly.

It's rather great.

My, that is good.
We have a wheelie bin for non-recyclables, another for green waste (surely much too large for most people's grass clippings and not even used at all for 6 months of the year), each collected fortnightly and on alternate weeks.

Then we have a small box for glass and another for recyclable plastics and metals, again all collected fortnightly.

As others have said, woe betide you if you forget (or are too ill) to put your non-recyclables wheelie bin out during the Summer - 4 weeks is plenty long enough for it to become a maggot-infested, disease-ridden, stinking biohazard. Also, forget about adding even so much as a single extra bag of rubbish out, they always get left behind, with or without nice explanatory notes, requests, or even hard cash.

If the wheelie bin lid isn't fully closed, you get a warning that if it happens again, they won't collect. Same goes for if it is "overweight". I wouldn't mind so much, but I pay £300/month Council Tax and don't even have mains drainage...

Stockport:

Four wheelie bins

Green - Garden/food waste - weekly
Blue - Paper and cardboard - fortnightly
Brown - Cans, Glass, Plastic - every four weeks
Black - All other - fortnightly

We have a blue... wait, what the fuck? No-one wants to know about my bins, do they? Fuck this shit, I'm off to the 'Daily Mail calls Cavey stupid' thread. Fuck your bins.

I'm drinking wine right now, but can someone nominate this for POTW?

Ta.

I could, but I need more wine. Can we get Mali round to sommelier?

Smellier.

There is a joke about french people in there somewhere.