>>> But it’s great to live here and have nothing more to concern us in the news!
It's just as exciting down here in Suffolk, Maydup ;-)
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>>> Are they the same all over the country?
Nope. Here in Mid Suffolk, we have green bins for recycling and black bins for non-recyclable waste, with an optional service (for a fee) to collect garden waste in brown bins. Down the road in Ipswich, they have blue recyclable bins. In places like Dover, residents have lots of different boxes (rather than bins) to sort their recyclable waste into.