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Wheelie Bins.
Our local paper has informed us that we will be getting wheelie bins instead of just bin liners and that the collection will be every other week, rather than weekly. Can any of you ABers who already have this system let me know how it works, and does it work well? One question that I really want to ask is; how many bin liners can you fit in one of these bins?
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we have had whelie bins for the past 12 months in stoke and you should be offered 2 sizes a medium and a large.we have a medium 1 and there only 3 of us in the house and have weekly collections her and believe me we struggle to get all our rubbish in.i would say you could fit 3 full bin liners in so a fortnightly collection would not be adequate for us.i suggest you have a large wheelie bin but as usual there is a charge for a larger 1.well there is in stoke.good luck.
I'm surprised cos I thought everyone had wheelie bins by now.
We've got three - a grey one for normal waste a brown one for compostable stuff and a (smaller) blue one for glass and plastic.
They're all collected every 2 weeks. We're a family of 4 and the only one that tends to get filled up is the blue one.
You'd be surprised how much crap you can pack into one. You can buy devices to compress the waste once it fills the bin, or failing that stand on the top and jump up and down like I do.
We've got three - a grey one for normal waste a brown one for compostable stuff and a (smaller) blue one for glass and plastic.
They're all collected every 2 weeks. We're a family of 4 and the only one that tends to get filled up is the blue one.
You'd be surprised how much crap you can pack into one. You can buy devices to compress the waste once it fills the bin, or failing that stand on the top and jump up and down like I do.
round here you have 2 bins, black for normal, green for compostable (garden waste, etc), and blue boxes for recycled paper, plastic, glass and paper. the bins are collected every 2 weeks, but the boxes are emptied weekly.
the rules for what you can/can't put in a blue box don't make a lot of sense (different types of plastic, for instance) and the collectors are quite good at scattering the contents up the street (they don't clear up after themselves, if it drops, it stays dropped) -
otherwise the system works well enough.
the rules for what you can/can't put in a blue box don't make a lot of sense (different types of plastic, for instance) and the collectors are quite good at scattering the contents up the street (they don't clear up after themselves, if it drops, it stays dropped) -
otherwise the system works well enough.
I work as the landlord of an estate that has wheelie bins. While I was doing my estate officer's rounds I noticed that a lot of our/general properties had more than one wheelie bin anyway so it was basically a good thing in that it keeps cats out of the bin bags. Therefore just request an extra one from your council if you need more, maybe your first one has gone missing?
We have had wheelie bins for ages, but have only just gone on to two-weekly collections. I suppose if you are 'up to date' with your rubbish, then two-weekly collections are OK. The problem starts if you forget to put out the bin! Then the next collection you have four or five bags over and they wont take them. So they empty your bin and straight away it's full up again! It seems to be working OK at the moment, but I dread the summer! Our council only re-cycle certain items too, so although I do re-cycle the things they do it could be better.
It is interesting to note how many different methods of re-cycling take place in various parts of the country, why can't it be universally implimented throughout?
We have a Brown Bin for Garden Waste, Plate Scrapings,Cardboard and Shredded Paper, which is emptied every 2 weeks, a Black Bin for general rubbish, emptied every alternative 2 weeks, and a smaller Blue Bin for Tins, Glass Bottles and Plastic Bottles that is emptied every 2 weeks.
Before some areas where issued with a Blue Bin they had to use plastic boxes, but now they no longer need these boxes, the council don't know what to do with them, why? because they cannot be RECYCLED.
We have a Brown Bin for Garden Waste, Plate Scrapings,Cardboard and Shredded Paper, which is emptied every 2 weeks, a Black Bin for general rubbish, emptied every alternative 2 weeks, and a smaller Blue Bin for Tins, Glass Bottles and Plastic Bottles that is emptied every 2 weeks.
Before some areas where issued with a Blue Bin they had to use plastic boxes, but now they no longer need these boxes, the council don't know what to do with them, why? because they cannot be RECYCLED.
We've had wheelie-bins for years, and now we have green boxes. Neighbouring borough has green bins and red bags as well.
Glass and paper go in the green box, everything else (including plastic) in the wheelie bin. We have to leave both out "at the point on [your] property nearest to the road". Then the crew just comes along, slots them onto the truck and empties them. The green boxes are emptied by a seperate crew who sort the rubbish at the side of the truck.
Mind you, nine times out of ten your bin ends up three doors down. All that, "here's your bin, can we have ours back, please?" is very good for neighbourly relations.
Glass and paper go in the green box, everything else (including plastic) in the wheelie bin. We have to leave both out "at the point on [your] property nearest to the road". Then the crew just comes along, slots them onto the truck and empties them. The green boxes are emptied by a seperate crew who sort the rubbish at the side of the truck.
Mind you, nine times out of ten your bin ends up three doors down. All that, "here's your bin, can we have ours back, please?" is very good for neighbourly relations.
We're still on black bags here and so I read all your comments with great interest. I heartlily agree with the idea that there should be a countrywide ideal for all rubbish collection, but that might be a tad too simple for the councils to deal with!
We're able to put out any number of black bags each week. Recycling takes place once a fortnight and consists of a green box for bottles/glass/cans and green bags (longlife ones, and they are pretty good) for paper and cardboard. My main gripe is that they don't take the plastic bottles and I think most people round here feel the same. fortunately for me the local dump is on my way into town, so a trip there is not particularly inconvenient.
We're able to put out any number of black bags each week. Recycling takes place once a fortnight and consists of a green box for bottles/glass/cans and green bags (longlife ones, and they are pretty good) for paper and cardboard. My main gripe is that they don't take the plastic bottles and I think most people round here feel the same. fortunately for me the local dump is on my way into town, so a trip there is not particularly inconvenient.
We have a bin which is collected every fortnight and a black box for paper, cans, tins etc every fortnight also (on the week that the bin isn't collected). They won't take cardboard or plastic (we have to go the the recycling centre ourselves) and we are not allowed an additional bin. If the lid isn't properly closed, they leave the bin unemptied. They will, however, take additional items that can be recycled as long as they're grouped together, i.e, cans in one bag, bottles in another etc. It;'s dreadful in the summer. We have to put food waste in the bin. They tell us to wrap in paper (but that's recycleable isn't it?) but even so, the maggots are everywhere!! Some of the food waste is two weeks old by the time they take it. Personally, I'd rather have a reduction in my council tax and take all my rubbish to the recycling centre but, of course, that's not an option say the council........there's a surprise.
This is real bug bear of mine: we have a green bin for the usual household rubbish and a brown one for garden rubbish (just garden rubbish). Our council advised us our green bin collection was going down to every other week so that the brown bin could be collected in the 'missed' week.
That's all fine - except for one thing - how many people have garden waste in the Winter? If my road is anything to go by, not many! On rubbish collection day you can look up and down the road and not one brown bin will be out and the binmen just sail merrilly by.
In the meantime, by the second week, I'm having to decant black bin liners from the green bin and drive them to the dump: how the hell is that right when I'm paying in excess of �2k a year in council tax?
This is just a cynical excuse by our council to save money.
That's all fine - except for one thing - how many people have garden waste in the Winter? If my road is anything to go by, not many! On rubbish collection day you can look up and down the road and not one brown bin will be out and the binmen just sail merrilly by.
In the meantime, by the second week, I'm having to decant black bin liners from the green bin and drive them to the dump: how the hell is that right when I'm paying in excess of �2k a year in council tax?
This is just a cynical excuse by our council to save money.
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