Wheelie Bins In The Us

[bainbrig]

A couple of times on Judge Judy (I know, I know) there’s been reference to multiple wheelie bins and in one case twice-a-week collections.

I doubt if the US is a great recycler, so is all this just evidence of their massive overconsumption?

BillB

[Rockrose]

I think it depends what state you’re in, California in particular San Francisco is massive into recycling the hotels are really into it, but in Nevada not so much they only watch the water situation.

[Spicerack]

Nothing wrong with Judge Judy.
Can't remember any cases about wheelie-bins, so I can't help you there. Klav'll know.

[roopower]

Not sure where this was but my friend went to Thanksgiving in the US this year . She said everything was disposable and at the end of the meal the whole lot, plates, cutlery remains of turkey in aluminium trays and leftover food was wrapped up in the tablecloth and binned. She also said a lot of the hotels they stayed in used plastic covered paper plates and plastic cutlery and that was all binned. She was appalled at the waste of food too.

[kvalidir]

No we do recycle quite a lot. Actually Pollard's who do the garbage collections where I live in the south are great they control the recycling and picking up big items and general garbage. They generally rock up once per week in two different trucks one for your recycling and one for general trash,but you can arrange other collections as well, so on a Monday for example you can call them and they'll come out and collect up to two large items. My partner is very recycling friendly though but there are reasons most people recycle. The only thing you can't recycle curbisde in Georgia is glass, cereal liners, foil containers and some lids, that kind of thing, you have to take glass to a site other than that it's very convenient and easy to do. There's obviously a general waste site for other things as well and you buy your garbage bags as you want them at $3 per bag, and recycling at those sites is free, so people do recycle a lot in efforts to keep their garbage disposal bill down.
No idea really how it works in NY in terms of who does it because it's an apartment building we're in so you just deposit your trash and recycling as normal, I've not had to contact them at all, but generally I've seen little difference in the US to the UK in attitude, some people are very diligent and some couldn't give a hoot. x

[bednobs]

my sister is over from florida and i;; ask her when i see her tomorrow.
PS judge judy rocks

[bainbrig]

Thanks kvalidir, interesting. (The Judge Judys weren’t about bins, it was just one of those peripheral things you glean about US life, like the fact that every other dog is a pitbull..)

BillB

[woofgang]

well if the recycling thing is as true as the pitbull thing its a load of tosh. My Sis holidays in the US around twice a year and she says that yes the hotels do have recycling bins for public use but there is little information around to tell you what can be recycled and what cannot.

[bainbrig]

What’s the tosh, woofg? The pitbull thing is certainly the impression you get from JJ, and might be tosh, but not sure what you’re saying on recycling.

[Rockrose]

The most owned dog in America is a Labrador

[Buenchico]

Warmer countries (or, in USA, probably warmer states) tend to have more frequent bin collections than cooler ones, simply to avoid the odours of (and bacteria from) the decomposition of food residues. For example bins are emptied every day of the year in Malta.

On a 'kilogram per capita' basis Germany leads the world in recycling, with the UK 16th and the USA 25th. Note though that the tables those figures are derived from effectively list the UK nations twice, as Wales (3rd), Scotland (14th) and England (18th) are also listed separately within the top 25 recycling nations.

https://resource.co/sites/default/files/World%20Recycling%20League%20-%20Full%20Report%20-%20FINAL.pdf

[Caran]

Our next bin collection January 2nd. Absolutely disgusting.

[tonyav]

4th of Jan here, Caran.

[kvalidir]

Didn't Bruce Springsteen have a hit about 'Bins in the USA'? ;-)

[jno]

our timetable is normal, food waste and recycling waste weekly, other waste fortnightly (which works out fine) but the garden waste goes down to monthly for winter.

[tonyav]

I thought Bins was cockney rhyming slang for glasses, dunno though because I haven't seen TTT use it yet.

[jno]

oh, Springsteen, he needs to leave it to the professionals

[tonyav]

but the garden waste goes down to monthly for winter.

Our garden waste stops the end of Nov and starts again in March.

[jno]

your council obviously wants to deter excessive gardening and encourage you to stay indoors and become obese, tonyav.

[tonyav]

Mmmmmm, maybe I should ask for a council tax rebate.

[Peter Pedant]

// What’s the tosh, woofg? The pitbull thing is certainly the impression you get from JJ,//

it is a selection thing innit? - like there seems to be a helluva lot of black court bailiffs in the US - well no it is Bert the whole time because he is always there

most bites from dogs are labby bites ( because there are so many of them, so they outnumber the bites from the rarer but more aggressive dogs)