to think this is OK, but need to check first!

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The council provided the whole area with wee boxes with lids and handles to put your food waste in.

This was about 4 months ago.

They were left in gardens with a leaflet.

There are loads still thrown in peoples front gardens, with leaflets attached just untouched.

DH has gone out to collect a few as they ar really good boxes for small bits of toys ike individual lego sets.

AIBU to just agree with him.

Thats not what they are meant for but people aren't using them and people are even buttig them out with the bins for collection by the binmen (who aren't taking them just putting them back in garden)

No, they pick up recycling when people put the bins out, but very few do, so most of the time they end up just driving along with no reason to stop.

I just don't think it seems right to keep the boxes. Instead, I would contact the council and remind them that if they have said that they will pick up the recycling, then they have an obligation to, even if only one person in the street is actually recycling. Therefore your neighbours won't be able to use the excuse that the bin lorry doesn't stop, and will perhaps start doing the decent thing.

Justvto warn you my ds did recycling at school so your eldest might be asking why you don't recycle soon

They DO stop if theres a bin out.

Am still just curious about why people don't recycle if the council provides receptacles and collects them door-to-door. There must be a reason for not doing it - it's hardly more effort to put stuff in a recycling box than in the bin.

I know it's not exactly what the thread was about, but I'd really like to know!

Just never have.

But why not?? Like compo says, you'll probably come under kid-scrutiny when your DCs start 'doing' recycling at school - you'll need a good answer!

OK, I have a tiny council kitchen in which I don't have room for 1 bin, never mind 3 or 4 (i have to hang a carier bag up for rubish) The area near my back door is taken up by 2 dogs so no room there. I can barely remember to put my black bin out, never mind my black bin on a thurs, blue on a wed, brown on a monday or whatever.

I havent got the time or energy to be taking everything out individuall to the bins everytime i use as no room for bins inside, if i did it would mean leaving the babies alone inside.

Plus the fact that I just don't feel the desire to.

I have a tiny kitchen too with no space to store items for recycling. So I send DD1 out to the recycling bins each time - she is a good slave

Putting stuff in the recycling bins means that the main bin takes much longer to fill up - which makes me very happy as I loathe emptying it.

Sounds like your council could be a bit more proactive - having issued everyone with recycling boxes, they should be following up and leaving notes etc reminding people to use them.

if i had these i may give it a go, for on the kitchen side

but if i ever had a spare 15 quid it would prob be the last thing on my list actully buy them.

So you have a bin for recycling but don´t use it?

Sorry but I think that´s awful tbh.

I get through about three times as much recycling stuff & would kill for a bin for it!

Have bags here.
A bin would be so much easier.

They belong to the council not the owners of the houses.

Does your council empty normal rubbish every week?

Ours only do it once a fortnight so we have to recycle as all the rubbish wouldn't fit into one bin every fortnight

yes weekly.

Its a choice and right now I choose not to. I may do in the future but im sorting alot right now.

Same here compo

And my bin for non-recycling is 60l.

And it isn´t full every time it´s emptied!

Re the boxes-if this is a trial thing, the council might ask for them back to be used in a different area-or sold to another council where they might be used.

I´m not especially green but I am stunned that people can´t be bothered when given the "tools for the job"

I wish we had recycling bins
instead we get stupid recycling bags so they look a mess in the garden and when it's windy get blown into the road

I think it will go that way in UK.

Our bin for non recycling stuff is small.

If we want bigger we pay more.

If we didn´t recycle everything possible our bin wouldn´t be big enough.

We were in Uk a while ago.

No recycling facilities.

I found it difficult to throw everything into one bin-seemed unnatural!

The amount of rubbish UK sends to landfill is astronomical!

Lot mutt,

but poeople can always do more, not driving and only using public transport for instance, do you do that? Drivers must be lazy buggers

'm not green becuae I want to be but our carbon footmprint is very low because we don't drive, don't fly, don't use myuch gas & electricity. But we don't recycle, its just not a habit we have gotten into yet.

I tried to recycle, but having no real garden to speak of, and only having a tiny kitchen, it's all I can do to fit ONE small bin in my kitchen, and we get fined if we put our bin bags out the front of the house. SO by bin day, my entire garden is taken up with the 4 bin bags I have, to the point where it's difficult to open the back door without tearing the bags. Where do you suppose I'm meant to put my green box? Superglued to the ceiling?? I would love to recycle, and our council has some green award thingy for it, BUT when faced with extreme space limitations, where would YOU put the darn recycling. AND I can't drive, and to get to the tip to take it myself would involve a journey using 2 buses, and a longer walk than my DC's could manage...If my council made it easier for people in small houses with no transport to recycle, then I would do it!

Loudlass I am in the same position as you and what we do is keep the recycling box (big plastic crate with lid) in the back garden. Luckily we only have to put out that one box and the council collect it weekly and do the sorting.