A Pain In The Bum

[Jordyboy9]

I am finding things rather frustrating in regards to re- cycling,in my day you threw everything in the bin it was taken away,job done, now i have bin for this bin for that and having to clean my dogs tins before binning them, i spoke to someone who had worked with refuse disposal for 13 years, and he told me our council does not have the facilitys and everything still gets dumped together,anyone got any thoughts on this?

[BlackadderV]

Previously we had 4 bins for glass, plastic, tins and paper. Now only glass has to go into a separate bin; the rest go into the same bin, which gives credence to the theory that it is all lumped together at the depot.

[DaisyNonna]

Refuse once a week, Recycling once a fortnight. One vehicle. Does it have separate compartments? Having talked to a few people we are agreed that we have far more recycling stuff than refuse. Logic?

[lardhelmet]

The council I work for is passionate about recycling and the targets they have to meet. I have been on a walkabout at our local recycling facility and seen it all being picked and sorted manually as it comes along the conveyor belts. Stinks to high heaven and not helped by residents who put non recyclable stuff in there, thereby contaminating the loads. These end up in landfill which costs the taxpayer much more.

[Dizmo]

Every Council is different as to how they want you to recycle and how you do it. I've done electrical work at running sites and most stuff is piled together but it gets sorted. Generally glass and cans are thrown together (and sorted at a recycling site) unless of course the council specifies that they are to be collected separately and kept separately. Times have changed though since I last worked on a council site so I can't be 100% sure. Fortnightly bin collections are starting to grind my gears though.

[DaisyNonna]

Why should recycling stuff stink? Paper (unshredded), glass , tins and plastic washed out.

[lardhelmet]

Where I live now Dizmo they collect my residual waste on a weekly basis and alternate my garden waste and my recycling. That seems to be a sensible option but I'm not sure how long they will get away with a weekly domestic refuse collection.

[lardhelmet]

Some residents don't wash out their food trays etc. Daisy before they recycle them.