To tell you this about recycling..it doesn't always go where you think it does.

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So my step dad just got a job on the bin lorries.
He does the general Waste. He was telling us how if they get a call from the recycling round saying their truck is full and due to finishing times they don't have time to go to depot to off load and go out again then the general waste collects the recycling and it all. Goes in landfill.
He said its due to cuts on overtime, meaning they don't have time to back and forth to offload, so their management team has told them to do this and the message comes from higher up.
He said it happens daily to about 9/10 of the recycling

Today 10:44 Asta19

"My rubbish and recycling is collected on the same day weekly, generally about an hour apart, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if this happened in my area.

I'm amazed a pp only gets their general rubbish taken once every 3 weeks. Isn't that a health hazard? Especially in this heat."

I was that poster, but as others have said, food waste is collected weekly, along with glass, paper and plastics, but in it's own wee caddy, with biodegradable bag. General rubbish is then collected every third week.

Glad we're not using disposable nappies/sanitary wear though. That would get a bit bogging.

This doesn't surprise me at all. The government etc are always creating rules for us that we all have to follow, but then its not consistent higher up. And from a new article I read today about some local recycling centre's now charging to take any item, people will just stop bothering. It will all be just chucked into whichever bin and forgotten about

My DM’s rubbish gets emptied every 4 weeks but that’s up in scotland