We have had delivered another wheelie bin, its for plastic and cardboard, so we now have a landfill bin, a compost bin, plastic and carboard bin, a box for papers and a box for glass and tins all collected fortnightly cept the latest one which I think is monthly...................now I reckon thats thats quite good going

But watch out for the local 'I object to recycling my waste' posse in Scunthorpe who will no doubt make it onto the national news just as they did last year

Oh well it's for the poor to save the planet for the rich and can't be arsed brigade. My niece is so well off she dumps all her stuff in the dustbin cos she's too lazy to Freecycle or take stuff to the charity shop, or even to pick up the phone to ask them to collect. Makes my effing blood boil. My husband checked her bin the other day and got out four perfectly good, new light fittings and a brass spotlight so bought them home for me to Freecycle - which I have done. My three piece is being collected on Tuesday as well

no need for stuff to go in landfill when there's so much we can recycle these days. We don't have plastics recycling here cos our council are shite so I save mine (shampoo bottles, washing up liquid all that sorta thing) and take it in me car to recycle it. Not ideal having to drive 7 miles but I just can't bin it. Seems criminal to me

I say "poor" cos folks on low incomes seem to be the ones recylcing and Freecycling and using charity shops, growing their own veg etc

Not the teacher niece Teachers should be rampant recyclers and reusers and drill it into their pupils at every opportunity.

No not that niece My other one - the rich un My teacher niece is well brung up and recycles everything. She too lives in Lincs and has more council recyc bins cos they're civilised over there - far more so than here.

We had WRAP folks at our open day and she was on about the disparity between councils and what's on offer to householders. But just cos your council doesn't give you a bin say for plastic doesn't mean that folks can't make the effort to get rid of it properly. If they can't get to the recyc place they should avoid buying it in the first place

I seriously think every supermarket car park in the country ought to have recycling bins for every major packaging type they sell.

Then what excuse will folk come up with? Can't be bothered to carry them back again?

Perhaps they should charge 10p or 20p per carrier bag, THEN refund it if someone brings back the packaging and bottles! Course nobody'd do that as it would require a person to do refunds and a little shack... ooh I forgot, they already have those for letting cars in and out...

Or 1hr free parking with each bagful of recycling, else 50p? I quite like that one!

moonbells

Some Tescos have got systems whereby you take your recycling, eg bottles and cans and some gizmo on the receptacle calculates what you've put in and you get clubcard points. I've not seen this equipment but my son tells me it's been in use at Tesco in Southampton for some time

I've not seen that at Tescos round here Wards, but I'll look and ask, now! Asda at Scunny do a "recycle your used carrier bags here" bin-type thing where you put them in for reuse/recycling. Mind you, I'm amazed at the number of carriers they use if you get your shopping delivered from them, as I have done a few times when I get the 'delivery free' vouchers

Shops round here seem to make a point of asking if you want a carrier and very often I say no thanks. Even when I got the boys shoes at Clarks on Saturday, they asked, and since the shoes boxes are made with handles on, I said no. I liked the "nothing to declare" sticky tape they put round them!!

Like Del says, we have 3 bins and 2 crates now, which is fine by me as we put them at the side of the house, but do I wonder how folks in flats or who have tiny gardens and no garages manage! Where there's a will there's a way though. I've filled my new plastic/card bin already, so will carry on recycling in town when I go til the collections start in September.

our council has just announced that only kitchen waste can be put into our wheelie bin.

we already have a 'recycle' wheelie bin (no glass, no polystyrene, no yoghurt pots, no tetra packs)
we could, if we had room, also have a compostables wheelie bin for 'clean' garden waste.....but I make my own compost with mine.

but now, into a huge wheelie bin (to be collected fortnightly) we are to put our 'non recyclable kitchen waste' not in bags but tipped straight into the bin.
compostable bags are not allowed and will result in hefty fines as will any other items that shouldn't be in there.

it's gonna stink. It's gonna be almost impossible for old ladies and so on to clean and people walking by (who, quite rightly, can be fined for throwing litter) will be chucking stuff in that I will get fined for

why can't we just have a little bin for kitchen scraps? one that fits in the kitchen? that is easy to clean? and that is still picked up weekly?
and what the bloody hell should I do with tetra packs and polystyrene??
rant over

I was talking with parents last w/e on bins. We can't have wheelies as all the houses on my road bar about three have 20+ steps up or down to the doors (yes it's that steep a hill!), so we'd have to keep them literally on the street. We have black bags instead (have to be the council ones - won't let us buy them from anywhere else) and a weekly collection. No compostables as yet, but obviously I do my own!

Parents' council (Chesterfield Borough) has an every other week collection of stuff, alternating green and general rubbish and two wheelies. Mum was moaning about the stink, as they're not allowed bags.
They get charged a FIVER for having them cleaned!!!! Meanwhile, she's got a pair of stinking bins getting worse week by week, and what kind of health risk must that be? Only solution I can see is hosing it down and tipping the residue onto the garden. But how good is that?

She was also grumbling slightly about tripping over the large plastic bag I put plastic bottles and cans in, and the large paper bag I put the paper in! I look at it as either messing up the kitchen temporarily or messing up the planet permanently... but what am I going to do when I've a toddler?

moonbells

I find I don't need my bin emptying every week cos there's usually nowt in it cos I try and recycle everything. Giving food scraps to the birds now we no longer have Russ. I had a run to the plastic bottle place yesterday and my son had to get in it cos he lost his phone

I agree with MB that the supermarkets should have to provide recycling facilities for the stuff they sell!

Tara the Tetrapacks make good plant pots if you cut them to size or they can be recycled but you have to post them off. What a faff but if you're keen to recycle them you can do so

Tetra packs as in cardboard or plassy milk bottles ? You could burn the cardboard ones and use the ash ?