Well We Carried On Seperating All Our Cans,bottles And Paper,cardboard Etc. To Go Out For Recycling..

[RATTER15]

when we enquired as to the collection days for these various things we were told to stick it all in the rubbish bin, no collections for recycling!

I thought this was now a legal requirement to provide collections for recycling, clearly not.

Does your area provide collections to recycle household rubbish/items?

[excelsior-1]

ours does

i thought it was a requirement throughout the whole country?

[sandyRoe]

The local council will take away bulky items but I don't know if they'd be recycled. There are 3 bins for different types of rubbish.

[wendilla]

Here in Leics we have 3 LARGE bins .1 for tins and glass and a section for newspapers and cardboard . another for garden waste and another for household waste. Have to keep them out front side by side which is an eye sore but it is the same with everyone.

[Svejk]

Where I live everything goes in the same bin.
I read a few years ago that a lot of councils got people to seperate their rubbish......then chucked the lot in the same landfill.

[mikey4444]

Which is you local Authority ? In South Wales where I live there is good recycling of most things. I too thought it was the same everywhere.

[pixie373]

Ours has just given us all new bins- paper, other recycling, general rubbish and food bins. Food taken every week and the others fortnightly. I thought everywhere was doing this too.

[Svejk]

I'm not telling you where I live, Mike. You're only a bus ride away and you strike me as a bit of a hothead.;)
I live in a complex of flats etc. & we use very large,communal bins.
The crux of the article I read was that, because of legal requirements, every council insisted that householders seperated their rubbish but they didn't all have the facilities to deal with it. I vaguely remember they were paying fines but as I said, it was a few years ago. I expect most of them have,now, invested in recycling facilities.

[Peter Pedant]

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Ratter: Hi how is your new life - or is that someone else ?

I do Oldham rubbish dump - Reliance St - oop t'North
and we dutifully put our separated rubbish in green, brown and other dumps and I said to another punter - shall I take a photo of this: there is a tractor behind the sreen putting all three together......

[tonyav]

Three bins where I live, Brown = Garden waste, Green = Recyclable stuff and Grey = Non recyclable stuff.

[pastafreak]

The houses here have two big bins plus bags for garden waste. If you live in a flat like I do,there is no provision. All our rubbish goes into three giant bins. Of they are meant to be separate,it would make no difference to some of the slobs here. They just throw stuff on the floor. Its a feast for the bloody seagulls.

[mikey4444]

I take great exception to what you have said svejk, even though it was probably said tongue in cheek. I was only trying to give a reply to ratter that he might have found it useful. The question was not directed at you anyway. I have better things to do with my very-little spare time than hop on a bus to see you.

I find it hard to believe that any Council in Britain isn't doing doorstep collections of different type of waste. I don't have the slightest problem with telling anybody that wants to know that I live in Swansea, and our Council are trying their best to recycle as much waste as possible. But even then, there are some ignorant and stupid householders, some living opposite me, that still put out 10 - 15 blacks bags very other week but don't use the green or pink bags at all. This isn't the way to go if we want to stop using landfill...its only common sense after all.

[viv38]

Like some others on here, I too thought it was a requirement. Our recycling stuff is collected every second Thursday from a blue bin.

[marval]

Ours get collected every Thursday, black sacks for household rubbish, pink sacks for paper cardboard and plastic. We also have green wheelie bins for garden and food waste. There are blue boxes if people want to recycle cans and glass.

[flump1]

It does seem a step backwards Ratter, over the border just as you are, their policies may well be different.

[Eve]

In Manchester we have a blue bin for paper, brown for glass/plastic, green for garden and food waste and grey for everything else and you can order extra smaller bins and boxes and large bags from the council. Green is collected every week, all the others once a fortnight with alternate bins each week.

Just down the road in Moss Side it got ridiculous (especially when bin collections became less frequent) as there are really long terraced streets with a lot of houses and it just became a complete mess including all sorts dumped at the end of the ginnels (even full suites been chucked out) so the council has put large bins down the ginnels (think Coronation Street - passageway between back to back houses) and it has made a big difference from the street ends anyway.

There is still a bit of an issue further down with a lot of the run down houses largely occupied by students.

[Sparkles62]

That really surprises me,
where by in Wales are you Ratter?
Wales is usually so hot on recycling, I'm in Flintshire and they are really here. X

[RATTER15]

Sparkle, Mike. Im just outside Rhayader, Powys.

Peter Pedant, yes it is me, life is amazing thanks, loving the new area :-)

[mikey4444]

Ratter. You live in a beautiful part of the world. I often drive up and see the reservoirs in the Elan Valley. Should be called Eden Valley as far as I am concerned !

[RATTER15]

Mikey, the reservoirs are amazing and also to see all the red kites there, The reservoir are just ten minutes from us, we have been there a few times, we love it there, we are planning to do alpaca and miniature horse walks along the footpaths there.

[WELSHYORKIE]

Ratter - Gigryn Farm is amazing at feeding time for all the red kites, buzzards, rooks and even a heron last time I was there!!
Recycling on Anglesey - normal black wheely bin got general household waste, green wheely bin for garden waste for composting, red bin for cardboard/paper, blue box for cans, glass, and plastics and a brown one for food waste. The green and black bins are emptied on alternate weeks, the rest are done weekly.