To be fed up with the Bins grrrr

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For atleast 5 years we have recieved fortightly collection of just 2 wheelie bins, one blue for recycling and one black for refuse. Although in the summer unconvient, it was much better than the new system we have been landed with this week

We now have the blue bin (as before), the black bin (as before) but with a whole new set of rules. Added to that a red bag for paper, that is not large enough for my family of 6 and neither does it withstand windy weather, or stay closed! Then a brown food waste bin, again not big enough and a kitchen caddy to collect food waste in compostable bags eeeurgghh.

I'm all for recycling, but the size of the new bins are insuffienent and in the new roll out , will not be collected for up to 3 weeks

Every morning, noon and night have to make 5 trips to all these different bins and i'm already losing my patience with the padantic new rules. For example food caddy can only contain compostable bags which the council provided me just 6 off and i'm now expected to go off and pay for them.
Only foodwaste of particular size can go in it, dog biscuits not allowed.

Red bin, only allowed for it to weigh a certain amount or they won't take it. Fgs its for paper & cardboard what do they expect?

Black bin, only unrecyclables to be put in it, but no food, so where are the dog biscuits supposed to fucking go?

I am in the midst of de-cluttering my home but any electricals are disallowed from any of the bins. So where do i throw broken toasters, toys and the like?

So they expect me to dilly dally and flaff about with every meal time, not to mention wash out the fuckers too. And things such as cleaning up in the morning have became a nightmare juggling rubbish to each of it's designated areas so they can ship it out to god knows where for some poor other person to sort through

"I wonder if the council will accept old duvets for fabric recycling. "

You may have a local animal charity that would be glad of old duvets, blankets etc.

We have just gone to fortnightly collections, I live in a rough area.

Two of our local parks that have just been redeveloped will become dumping grounds.

We used to have skips put about the area for electrical etc items, but that stopped. If you don't have transport and little income, I don't understand how people are supposed to get rid if rubbish.

The packaging that manufacturers use still needs addressing.

5 m chasing omg, what a lot of money to put on this, i'm guessing the trucks were not cheap and neither was giving out millions of plastic containers, maybe thats what happened re-the hessian red paper bag- They must have ran out of money by that point hence why i'm landed with a flimsy blow away piece of shit that doesn't even close properly that requires me to purchase an expensive storage device to get the ugly sight out of my house!
If i left it outside it would just blow away, and i'm guessing collection day will be fun, searching the street for it amongst all the others

Whats more we are required to pay for a green bin if we want one and also pay a yearly fee!

Could you get a wormery to deal with food waste? Makes great compost.

I looked, but can't find, whether you had a garden or not.

I do have a garden, but i'm not into garderning iyswim, i basically cut the grass and that's it for the kids to play on

Oh, ok.
Open fire? You could make logs out of your paper recycling.

The blue box is for bottles? But I only drink gin occasionally and buy my wine in a box (sheer class, me!). Don't have milk bottles or drinks bottles.

Where do I put cardboard?

have a look on Gumtree, there are always people/companies who will uplift heavy goods/scrap/electricals etc for free. i don't drive and refuse to dump my stuff on wasteland/end of street etc so am using this service. Or find some local traveller communities, mine like to take stuff like broken electricals and strip them for either spare parts or to add to their collection of things they can get weighed in at the scrap yard. i call it community recycling!

How about a keyhole garden? You make a hole in the centre of the garden and build a cylinder with wire mesh to put in the centre. Or you build a cylinder with mesh and then build up the flower bed around the centre. Then you just pop in anything to compost and when it decomposes it goes straight into the garden and you don't have to lift a finger!

different areas will have different guidelines for what can go in different bins - check your council website for your own guidelines.

My blue bin is for mixed recyclables e.g. cardboard, plastics, textiles, etc - doesnt take glass though. My big brown bin is for garden waste, black bin for general waste and the smaller brown bin is for food waste. Blue/black bins are emptied in alternate weeks, brown bin fortnightly from march to november and food bin weekly.

p.s. out local council also offers a special uplift service for heavy/big items and we get 3 free uplifts per year. We have used it to get rid of fridge-freezers, 3 piece suite, shed, slide, etc

That's just mad!

We have a blue bin for recycling, a brown bin for compostable and a black bin for everything else. The only things we can't do are put glass or paper or plastic carrier bags in the recycling, but as I take those to the dump at the supermarket and burn the paper, that sorts that out.

What a bloody faff. I wouldn't be best pleased either.

I meant shredded paper, not actual ordinary paper.

We have this system though collection is every week for recycling and food waste and alternate weeks for landfill/green waste

You can line the caddy with newspaper of Co-Op do individual compostable bags for 6p each (they are green colour)

Our library sells the compostable bags, about £2.50 a roll. maybe 50 on the roll? We compost our food (not meat - collected weekly). Paper in black box - weekly, recyclables in green box, every 2 weeks, other waste in normal bin - every 2 weeks. Quite a good system here.