Will anyone be joining the DM campaign?

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I have two los, one in disposables (sorry ) and we only fill half a grey bin every two weeks. I try not to buy things in excessive packaging, and recycle whatever I can. Not difficult really.

Ours won't take glass in the bin. They'd rather we all made individual and environmentally friendly (not) trips to bottle banks.

They can't recycle plastic pots and trays - even ones that have the re-cycle symbol on them.

So we recycle what we can, but our other bin is very very full after a fortnight.

Maggots and rats and omg the flies in the house last summer were beyond belief. Apparantly not a health hazard though.

Excellent excellent post expat!

It's a con, TG, it's a con to get more money for nothing.

And the most insulting thing about it is that they think the public is too stupid not to see that.

that's what I said!

Actually I would like to kick the shit out of the manufacturers who use such low grade plastic that it can't be recycled - and you don't know about it until the recycling men don't take it, so it all has to go in my bloody wheely bin! grr.

I'm with Colditz, kicking is good.

Sorry, NB, didn't read the thread properly.

WHY do people put up with this?

Do they really buy that whole 'this is for your own good, we need to 'save' the planet' line?

Honestly, can anyone answer this?

Because I spent about an hour talking to two visiting students from Europe yesterday, and they couldn't get out of here fast enough.

They were appalled by the filth, for one.

I still think a better solution is less waste, not more collections.

Amen, Fio!

Excellent points, especially given that nearly ALL new builds are flats or tiny houses.

In the East Lothian, they went to fortnightly collections and so now the local nature reserve is a now a fly-tip which will cost the council about £30,00 to clean up.

I think a better solution is better recycling facilities - which cost money - before you decrease collections.

I think this "the council are con merchants out to get our money" line of thinking is a very negative one. It's pure Daily Mail and it just breeds anger rather than an attempt to solve the problem (which is soon-to-overflow landfill).

Well in our area they went from fortnightly recycling collections / weekly landfill collections to the reverse. So in my area they are have done this. They've paid for the recycling with the reduced trash collections.

Believe me, the council here don't need the Daily Mail to demonstrate to the public here that they are con merchants.

Their actions over the past years speak louder than any words printed on a page.

Our council keep pushing us all to have a composter.

I don't grow things though, so what they really mean is I should be processing the rubbish in my own garden.

Maybe I should start burning the rubbish? (hypothetical question - I wouldn't) but some people will. That's not environmentally friendly either is it?

A fine Fio? Or you have to pay to park in your own street?

FioFio I got a ticket for a similar reason but I appealed it and got let off.

They fined you twice for putting your badge upsidedown and for appealing about the fine???!! I wonder which depraved meeting that piece of barmy bureaucracy was hatched at.

I'd feel the old red mist descending

Of course, Fio, what they really want is for you not to have a car at all.

It's 'greener'.

And it's okay for the councillors all to drive their own cars into work or take a taxi at our expense.

Not having a car each would certainly be greener.