What does your local council have collected from your kerbside in way of household waste that can be recycled?
Our local council only adopted the scheme in the past year or so. Most other councils have been helping people recycle their household waste for years now. We get a small box and in it we can put in paper,tins/cans and glass for recycling.Most of the time my box is full depending what we have used in the past fortnight,as they collect every two weeks.I'm one of the very few in my area who keep their box outside to fill it and on collection morning my box is 1 of the very few waiting to be emtied on the kerbside. I am hoping in the future the local council will recycle more,plastic bottles would be a start in my oirtnightly collection. In past when I've lived near recycle bins in carparks such as bottle banks,and newspaper bins,I have taken what can be recycled there. I think a lot more people should be recycling and using the box/boxes provided for recycling rather than their own household usage such as boxes for tools for their shed,toy storage for their children.
We only have bins for our building and I would prefer to individual small bins for each apartment as certain people in the building fill them with the wrong products and it means that the rest of us don't get to use them. They are only for plastics and cardboard too so would appreciate being able to recycle glass. When I had a bin in my house in Aussie I always recycled tins, glass, plastics and cardboard on a weekly basis and actually miss not being able to do so.
The council collect paper and cardboard in one box and plastic, glass and tins in another box. The boxes are quite small and are very full by the time the collection every fortnight comes around. We have only been doing it for about 12 months aand although I found it quite hard at first, now its natural and doesnt require any extra effort other than rinsing the tins and bottles out. In our street there is 12 houses and there is only me and my nextdoor neighbour that recycles and makes sure that the boxes are out in time for the collection.
Our local council have got a green box kerbside recycling scheme and has done for a few years now so most people in my local area use it fairly well. In the green box we can put in newspaper, junkmail, glass jars and bottles, plastic bottles too. Most weeks my box is full and it is collected every week on the same day as the bins. I tend to take clothes that are in ok condition and handbags and shoes to local charity shops so that they can be reused. I take cardboard to a recycling place near a supermarket and make sure that i recycle as much as i can.
Our council has brown bins for food waste and then normal bin bags for normal rubbish, we have the little black box's for tins etc, I usually recycle paper, tin, glass, milk bottles, food waste and cardboard, we are allowed to put garden waste, food and paper/cardboard in our brown food bin as it all recycles down, we do get charities come round with bags for clothes etc but most of the time i just see these on the doorstep, sometimes three or four at a time which is just plain lazy, we don't have a b ig balck bin for normal rubbish as you have to buy them yourself and at £30 odd quid a bin it is expensive.I recylce eveything that can be, taking clothes/shoes/books etc to charity shops or have them collect them when they post through the bags, i don't think that we need them more than once a fortnight, if i have more than will go in the small boxes i just use carrier bags and then they take they away and re-use them theirselves so they don't just get put into the bins, a lot of people don't know yoou can put paper/cardboard in your food bin, i have told my neighbour so many times she can but she still doesn't understand what i am telling her, she is lovely if a bit deaf . As i use a lot of juices and squashes (sugar free) i wish they would recycle them as they can take up a lot of room and also they should be able to have the knowledge to do that, also they take tetra where we are which is orange juice cartons etc but plastic bottles is a big thing i would like to see recycle, Also if you have a Turntable charity near you for the people on little income, they will take crockery, pictures, hi-fi's t.v.s etc, as long as they work they will take them to pass onto people on the lowest income, they pay a small amount to get those good but it is a good idea to give unwanted beds/ furniture a home.
our local council are very good we have 1 wheelie bin for all recycling apart from glass and for that we have a large box both are collected fortnightly. our borough council let us vote on household waste collection and we have weekly collections for that. my husband and i have always recycled 26 years ago even before it became trendy we used to take our newspapers and glass to the banks at the local supermarket, we make our own compost with garden and kitchen waste.
We too have a box from the council (ours are black, and our garden waste wheelie bins are green). We recycle paper, tins and glass, and nearly everybody in our road puts the black box out each fortnight. The wheelie bins get collected fortnightly too. With normal usage we don't fill a wheelie bin in a fortnight, but every now and then somebody does a big gardening job (In a couple of weeks I'll cut down all the summer fruiting raspberry canes - that would more than fill a bin.) Nearly always when somebody has a lot of garden waste to put out, somebody else will have room in their bin so we help one another. The council also sold us compost bins very cheaply so I make my own compost too. I can take plastic bottles to school - but not during the holiday, and I've found a place about a mile away that will take cardboard.
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