Bureaucracy gone mad or what?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120787 8/Gardener-stunned-co

I have just looked at my recycling information leaflet that was issued to me by my local council.

Under the Brown Bin instructions it says they want, food waste, card and cardboard also garden waste.

To illustrate it shows a little picture of what they mean, by the side of 'food waste' the picture shows apples, bananas, tomatoes, onions, lettuce etc, etc. with the tip, wrap food waste in paper to keep your bin fresh.

How can the rules change from one council to another, after all it is all turned into compost in the end is it not?

Interesting to see what rules your council imposes.

[Gromit]

Different councils will employ different companies to process their recycled waste.

My council differs from your AOG. My Cardboard should be put in the blue paper bin, not the Brown bin.

I can see why they want to avoid contamination from meats, but in the Mail's story, the Council were being too officious.

[Haggisdj]

Hi AOG,

We have three bins
Orange Bin - recycle bin - collected fortnightly
This is for paper, tin cans, cardboard, plastic bottles, etc.

Green bin - garden waste - collected fortnightly with orange bin
As it states, this is for grass cutting, weeds, pruning small bushes, etc.

Black bin - rubbish - - collected fortnightly alternatively to other two.
General rubbish (preferably wrapped)

We have to recycle glass ourselves.

[ummmm]

We get our household waste collected weekly. Alternative weeks for paper and cans/plastics.

Before I moved here my previous house had a front garden. There the household waste was collected fortnightly from the wheelie bin along with alternative weeks for plastics and paper.

They are doing a trial run round here for glass at the moment. But not in this street.

[sag]

When we first received the 'brown bin' a few years ago,it stated no fruit or bought veggies, only windfalls. The reply from the council, when I phoned to query why was this, 'An apple, or any fruit, can't be placed in the brown bin due to cross contamination from the kitchen. Potatoes bought at a super market can't go in either due to the same reason' I asked how they would know if I'd grown both the apples and the potatoes or bought them at a supermaket. The whole scenario is a stupid farce. Rumour now has it that they are dumping it all together anyway. So much for the green issue!!!

[anotheoldgit]

Haggisdj

Hi, your council seem to have it pretty well stitched up, but I can't see why they have not made provisions for an ideal recyclable item ie Glass.

I also think that provision should be made for that infernal polystyrene packaging, and other items (beside the already recycled plastic bottles), that are made from plastic.

[anotheoldgit]

sag

As Victor Meldrew would say 'I don't believe it, I don't believe it'.

[Kathyan]

I've been saying for years, that if re-cycling is to work, we must have a national scheme. All councils should have to take anything that can be re-cycled to a local depot where it can be sorted and then each material taken to a re-cycling centre that deals with that particular item. The sorting depots would provide jobs. Letting councils decide what the will or won't collect is ridiculous.

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry they seemed to have changed the link,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-120787 8/Gardener-stunned-council-refuses-garden-wast e-bin--APPLES-inside.html

[rov1200]

We have a brown bin to put food waste in. It is collected weekly and is nearly empty each time. If we want to get rid of grass clippings we have to buy a sack for 50p. Failing this we have to visit a civic site miles away and pollute the planet in the process. Joined up thinking does not apply to local councils obviously.

[jake-the-peg]

It does sound like it all needs standardising doesn't it?

A nationwide body to do it all the same and more efficiently and....

Oh sorry that's a Quango isn't it? and we're not meant to like those

[chas2008]

they talk about it being contaminated by meat etc. i have far worse things lurking in the undergrowth that ends up in the garden waste, cats do-do's is not the most healthiest of things and thats without the dogs mess left behind (after its picked up) that ends up in the lawn clippings...then theres the wildlife , foxes,hedgehogs,rats,mice etc...that leave waste around the garden...

[Oneeyedvic]

We don't have Brown bins here in Yarmouth. Just green bins for general recycling (paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, cans etc - But note no glass and no shredded paper!) and a black bin for anything else.

They are very good here (depending on your opinion) and take away pretty much anything in the black bin - from grass cuttings to tvs!

[brucie1996]

In Wigan we have a green bin for garden waste, a brown bin for plastic bottles, food trays, glass bottles & tins these are collected every 2 weeks. The black bin is for everything else that is collected each week. We have a sack to put newspapers etc in.