to not do the weekly recycling??

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I have name changed as dont want a ripping in my usual name

We dont have time in our house for the weekly recycling, we have 3 dc,
dc1 is disabled
dc2 just started nursery school
dc3 is under 1.
DH can work over 60 hours a week, so im left by self most of the time and running round after 3 children by myself i dont have the time to farkin sit their and sort out all the recycling in to the appropriate boxs, then wash out tins, take the label of tins or plastic.
I dont have time to pick my own nose let alone all of that.

Anyone else not do it??
Right got my hard hat ready

I was going to say YABU until I read how picky your council are. I have some sympathy now but I still think you could at least recycle the paper - you don't have to do anything, just put it in the bag instead of in the bin.

We have a green wheelie bin for plastics, paper, cardboard and tins. Glass we have to take to bottle bank. We rinse things out but it doesn't take more than 30 seconds. We thankfully don't have to bother with labels but I would have a pick pick - wraparound labels will come off in one piece. Stuck down labels I would leave and wait to be told off. It might never happen.

I am sympathetic to the stupidly fussiness of your council. But are their things you could do that would make it easier? What's your disabled DC like with noise? Would they enjoy a weekly trip to the bottle bank? Most kids I know love getting to drop the glass in and hear it smash If that takes off you can always add more recylable things to the roster.

Stick with the paper (because really, you can just put two bins in each room, and if you're chucking paper put it in that bin instead) but if you're struggling for time maybe don't worry too much about the rest.

I live in a flat which doesn't have recycling bins for the residents so all my recycling goes in a bag which I empty into my parents bins . My parents are quite bad as Mum keeps forgetting that you can recycle tins etc but our council are quite fussy - tins/bottles etc have to be separated from paper. Having said that, throwing out old or ruined clothes gets me a tut as 'it could have gone in the fabric bank' (and what are they going to do, Mum? throw it away!) . I'd imagine that it can get annoying when if you have to micro-manage rubbish.

At work all the recyclables gets slung into one bag and it goes off somewhere (different council). I really think that there should be a standard way of recycling over the UK and then more people might want to join in.

DH and I have recycling for years.. and it is nothing to do with having the time or not it has just became a normal thing to do!
The council collect the papers & tins and I go weekly to the recycling machines to recycle glasses and plastic... I usually take DD (3.4 yrs old),she have her own bag of empty plastic bottles and put them herself in the recycling machine... she takes it as a game!
And our council gave us green dustbin to recycle garden waste (branches, cut grass etc)...

YABU

Just make it part of your routine rather than another job you have to do. When a plastic milk bottle runs out I give it a quick swish under the top and stick it in the recycle bin in the kitchen, same with jars and glass bottles. Cardboard and envelopes get thrown in as well then, until recently, once a week it would get taken to the recycling centre.

However, we have just received our new bins from the council, we now have one small grey one for landfill, one black bin for glass, tins and plastic, a green one for garden waste and a blue one for cardboard/paper which I am happy with as it saves me a trip out but I know in my area there was a bit of a backlash against how many bins we have now.

Look, I'm fairly green. Both kids are in reusables, I recycle, etc

But sorting is a step too far.

I called the council and asked what legislation is it that requires me to sort my recycling.

Apparently there isn't any.

It's just cooperation.

Sure, my Council are charging me for their reduced rubblish collection (every 2 weeks), and I am supposed to help them out?

My local council won't collect the boxes if they are 'contaminated' (ie mixed recycles or refuse in the box) so we have to sort or suffer non-collection. They also write reports on what households on which rounds have complied or not - I had to do that in a temp job once. That's in case someone rings up to complain their recyclables weren't collected.

I thought they had already started fining people for non compliance. They have for putting your bin out too early or not getting it back in fast enough.

Yes, we had the endless stickers.

The point is that by targetting people who are already making an effort/doing their part, is an easy target.

Next door don't recycle. Ever. They just dump everything into the bin for landfill. They don't get annoying stickers.

yabu, its everybodys problem.

you have the time to post on here as a regular - you have the time to recycle

Recycling really seems to vary from council to council.

All our food waste is collected in one box, all cardboard in another, and all other recyclable goods in another. We don't have to sort goods for recycling - certainly haven't been asked to remove labels.

All non-recyclable goods are put in a black wheely bin and that is only collected fortnightly, so if you don't recycle you end up with alot of rubbish hanging around.

I have to say that I am a little bit of recycling sceptic. I do believe that things should be recycled, but there also has to be a demand for recycled goods. I am not sure how much plastic is honestly recycled despite what it says on the bottles. AFAIK, different plastic needs to be recycled in different ways - the fact that some plastic can be recycled into fleeces does not mean that all plastic can be recycled into fleeces or that the demand for fleeces matches the output of plastic rubbish.

I would rather that there were more of an emphasis on reduce (don't buy the bottle of evian in the first place) and reuse (like your good old milkman).

"don't have to sort goods for recycling" beyond cardboard, food and other recyclables. Goods are sorted on the truck apparently.

Madame - where did you find that quote?

From my post - I was just clarifying that we only sort cardboard/food and other.

my ds1 aged 7 would be ashamed of op.hes recycling king!if i dare accidently put something that could be recycled in the bin i get told off.when ds2 was born ds1 questioned why his teacher-who just had a baby didnt use cloth.and although hes bad at chores hes great at sorting recycling.

recycling can be time consuming and awkward depending on where you lived, previosuly even though we only lived a few streets away recyclingwas very easy, you had two wheelie bins by the back door and you put non recyclbale waste in one and recycalables in the toher, so yes then i would ahev said ywbu, but now we moved and the new council we have 3 very small plastic boxes, one for paper, one for plastic and one for tins, but ther is so much you can;t recycel for example yogurt pots!! i ahve three children we get through tonnes of the tings but yet no where near here cna they be recycled. so yes now i do find recycling a tad inconvenient when everythign ahs to be washed out, bottles have to be twisted and no lids, trying to remeber what plastic can go in the box, and also the paper there are even thigns not allowed to put in there, such as cardboard and glossy paper.

so i cna see your point to a degree, but what crokky said if you have kerbside recycling then start with just paper as thast the easiest to do and bulild it up bit by bit. every littel helps apparently.

I do recycle but don't put the bin out every week - prob every 6 weeks or so - why put it out if it's not full? our main bins out every other week (not my choice thou)