General Chat

A little CCTV sign by your gate might work Wend. Ebay sell them.

I have one wheelie bin for general rubbish, collected weekly and 2 black boxes - 1 for newspapers/cardboard, 1 for plastic, collected fortnightly. I'd love to catch the person who, when we move them to our gate on collection days, decides it's very convenient to put their bags of dog poo in any one of them and which are discarded on our driveway by the bin men if we don't find them first - grrr!

We've had 3 bins for a couple of years. The main one is emptied weekly, the paper bin and grass bins fortnightly. Although we were on the news last Christmas because the bins weren't emptied for 8 weeks!

In the town where my son is they still use bags which are blue and CANT be brought in the supermarkets !!!!! they get less than one bag per week and therefore there is often fly tipping of just general food rubbish in the only available bags which are black

We have two wheelie bins
Green for garden waste and waste food,eg veg pealings and all food scraps.
Black for general rubbish.
Plastic sacks for paper, cardboard, tins and recyclable youghurt pots and plastics.

Collects are one week black bin and the following green bin and plastic sacks.

We keep our plastic sacks in the garage and bins at back of house.
I think it is a good system but think it would be difficult for people who live in flats and houses who have no access round the back of their houses.

Teresa

we have 3 bins
blue for almost anything
Green for gardening
Black for plastic bags etc ..
then we have an
Orange box with a little grey box inside of it
we use the grey box to put any used food in it, then on bin day
put the bag into the Orange box ready for the bin men .
But now the welsh assembly are trying to get us to go back to blue bags for newspapers , Little blue boxs for bottles cardboard tins etc..
I find the the system that we have at the moment works ..so why change
to something that doesnt ..
oh and we keep our bins in the back garden and take them out the night before collection .
Hazelx

I have FOUR bins, one for general rubbish, one for glass, one for garden waste and one for food scraps....I get so confused remembering which ones gets collected on which weeks!!!!!!!

When they first started to recycle things, we only had a plastic sack for paper and card. One person told me they didn't bother and used them for their garden waste. Everything else went in the household landfill bin. Some people, eh?

We have a green wheelie bin for household rubbish.
1 green wheelie bin with brown lid for garden rubbish ( this is an optional service and costs £35 a year)
They are emptied alternate weeks.

We have a black box for glass, cans, tins and some plastic.
A blue plastic large bag holds cardboard and paper.
The recycling is collected each week.

I wish we could recycle more plastics, eg yoghurt pots or margarine containers. I often wash them and take them to the local primary school for art or craft lessons, so at least they get re used.

Gwyn

No bins here in this part of Essex.
Black bags for every day rubbish
Pink bags for recyclables
Green for garden stuff
Yellow box for glass

Feeling a bit left out that we dont even have ONE bin
jax

Susian,The Bin Mans Cat is Named "Rainbow" **M**.pmsl.

Well if I have learnt one thing out of this thread it is the colour combinations around the country, think it could be an 'Open University' course, also seems that the vast majority of you don't like them.
Carol

we have
a green wheelie bin for household waste
a black box for tins
a green bag for garden rubbish
and a white plastic bag for plastics
and blue bag for paper

id much rather have 3 whellie bins, to much of a faff on sorting boxes and bags that fill with rain, and smell,

i hardly have any rubbish so some weeks only put my bin out fortnightly,

when i have to much rubbish like this week, being the kids party i borrow my neighbours bin lol, x

When we first had our bins (years ago) we were able to contact the council and say we didn't want a bin for garden waste. That helped a bit if you haven't got much of a garden.

I wonder how we managed with just one small dustbin emptied weekly. We get weekly collections but brown and blue (garden and recycled) one week and black (everything else) the alternate weeks.

We did have microchips put in our bins but most people found them and took them out.

I agree they look an eyesore especially if there are a lot of bins outside a block of flats.

The idea of a number of wheelie bins in a small front garden, or on the pavement doesn't appeal. We're fortunate to be able to have them down the side near the back door.

We have a black one collected fortnightly for paper/plastic/cans. A black box for bottles collected at the same time, and a green coloured one for land fill collected weekly.

The local council did a survey last year and bowed to pressure to retain the weekly landfill collection. As most of our rubbish goes into the recycling, the landfill one is only about 1/4 filled so doesn't bother us. However, when next door's child was still in nappies (+4 adults) theirs was overflowing each week. (and smelly in the summer!)

I'd like a garden one. As it stands, we let the bags mount up and eventually take them to the tip. I suspect those who aren't able to do this, use the landfill bin.

I live in Essex, and we have had our bins for some months now.

One large bin with a blue lid for all recyclables
One all black bin for landfill rubbish which is slightly smaller than the other bin
Both are emptied on alternative weeks

One small green handle lockable box for all food waste, and a caddy to decant it for the kitchen - this is emptied once a week.

We didn't want those bins as they look unsightly. We have only a small open plan front garden, and no access to the back from the front.

However, we are used to seeing them there now, and TBH its better than having plastic sacks ripping, stinking, and having to walk it all through the house from the back.

Bins on WHEELS? Bit posh for round our way lol

we have
brown blue yellow red grey green and two boxes and two green bags !!!!

Yellow is plastic which they gave out then stop collecting ...!!
The others are paper ,card, general ,grass, glass ,plastic bottles without lids,
the bins are not longer used for tins card and paper as we now have to use the boxes for paper and tins and the bags for plastic bottles !!!!
BUT we still have the bins which they dont want back!!!!!!!!!!!

What happened to the day's when we had a small metal bin that was emptied once a week.
The lid of the bin was useful for all sorts of things e.g. dad used it to carry weeds on to the compost pile ,put mixed cement on,not bad for sledging too.

On the odd occasions when we had to much rubbish or something bulky we had a trip out to the local incinerator ,oh the high life.

You are so right Suzian. We don't really have time to go to work - its almost a full time job managing the bin diary - throw in a bank holiday and chaos reigns.

Tina x