mum in court for not recycling !

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thsi MUST be pure idleness dont oyu think?
mind you our bin men here say it all ends up in a landfill recyling aand nromal waste so mmaybe she has the right idea!

are you sussex too?
hmm they are fascists in recyling
orus onece a forthignt too and is pita
WHY do poepel have to put heir bins out at 4pm on MONDAY for a tuesday linchtime collection>

In Brum we are lucky they take paper separately
a few years ago I went to an environmental forum run by the council at which the head of environmental sevices stated that it was all awaste of time given the huge mountain of recycled materials going nowhere
I would jump at the chance to seperate plastic

Don't know if she's just being annoying but sympathise if it's a mad council.

We used to live in a borough that introduced a really simple scheme - bag up all recyclable waste in one bag, taken weekly. Fab. Used to recycle everything we could. (And it did really go to a centre where it was all separated out, I checked).

The council where we are now has a completely stupid recylcing regime that only dh (and one obsessional elderly neighbour) understand, taking different kind of stuff alternate weeks. I can never remember if it's plastic this week or cardboard. Mad. And it gives dh an excuse to keep our bin cupboard full of plastic bags full of rubbish - how on earth does that help the environment?

Some councils get so arsey about this it's ridiculous. My mother's refuse to empty your bin if it is 1mm over the line on the side. They seem to have forgotten that refuse left lying around is a bloody health hazard.

I love the idea of one bin for everything that can be recycled. Thats fantastic ! We have a plastic box for paper and another for glass. They sort through the paper one and if you've put the wrong sort of paper in (e.g. the paper dd paints on at nursery), they throw it on the pavement. We have a brown bin for "garden waste" (no food allowed). They collect the brown bin one week and the boxes the other week. Usually after lunch when ds is asleep, so he gets woken by the bottle noise.

They don't collect plastic or tins - I have to take those to the stupid recycling thing at Tescos. They made a big hoo-ha when they installed it, it's got some kind of computer thing - when you push the bottle / tin through the hole, it tells you what it was. Wahey. Takes forever cos you have to put one thing in at a time and wait for it to sort it. And its a computer. Its going to break, isn't it? What was wrong with a big metal box? And it does plastic bottles but not plastic bags. They go in a big metal box on the other side^ of the car park.

Recycling in Britain just makes me want to be Dutch...

Where I live we have a green bin for normal waste, a brown lidded bin for garden waste and a blue lidded bin for paper.

Green bin every week
Brown week every fortnight
Blu bin every fortnight

I can never remember which week it is for blue or brown but now have printed off the list of dates as our brown bin is always full of grass cuttings, large communal garden area that gets cut every week and then fills up the bin and as it's right next to my house they fill up my bin, but I don't mind. Just have to remember when to put it out.

Bournemouth are crap at recycling and I am one of few who bother. It really pisses me off, I might be a Tory but Im a bloody green one.

You have to ask our local council for the recycle bins. (Had to ring to get more when ours got stolen )

We have 4 bins in total - cant see what the big deal is - kitchen scraps are just that. Other stuff is pretty self explanatory and most packaging has a recycle sign on it now if its recyclable.

No excuse for it.

we get a blue plastic bag and we can only put cans and paper in it! Bottles/plastic etc has to go to a recycling centre which is a drive away!

But later in the year or next year we will be getting a new, smaller bin for general waste and then use our current wheelie for the recycling bin. Not sure how it's all going to work though - think they are going to collect recycling stuff weekly and other fortnightly.

In theory when our recycling collection goes weekly, the rubbish collecction will be fortnightly. Kitchen scraps will be put in a sealed box for collection once a week to be heat-sterilised and then added to compost. And then we will be restricted to the amount of rubbish they will collect.

Bring it on! I get so mad when I leave for work on recycling day and outside at leat 50% of the houses there are great piles of recyclable stuff sitting out for the bin men and NO GREEN BOX outside at all !!! When the councils get fined for not recycling enough we'll all get hammered with the increased council tax.

I thought they just threw all the recycling stuff in the landfill anyway, so it's all a complete waste of time?

So some woman on Question Time said last week, and no-one contradicted her.

but hwere are you supposed to stre all this stuff?

She should be hung drawn and quartered (or her rubbish should be)

I'm on first name terms with our Head of Recycling at the council and he even delivers my bags personally.

Califonifrau, they are so crap at recycilng out there. whenever we visit we are shocked by how little is done. MIL does hers but only because she gets cashback for doing it. When they stayed with us they couldn't believe how much we recycle.

Plastics are the worst to store, spec milk bottles. Do any councils ffer recycling for these?

I'm with Cod on the storage -outside and in. They are trying to bring in more recycling here, which I'm all for, but have no idea how it will work.

We used to live in converted flats and had 2 bins for 4 flats - there was a teeny bit of space by the front door that fitted those bins (stank in the summer) - add in another 2 recycling bins like they are proposing, and they would be on the pavement pushing pedestrians onto a busy main road. How can they get somewhere like that to work???

Also need some sort of facility for a second bin for large families - my friend has 7 in her house and their bin is always full to the brim, normally with an extra bag having to wait til the next week, but they aren't allowed another bin (and yes, they do recycle).

With the woman in question - if that is the system where you live, you do it. Simple as that - if you know you'll get a fine, you split your rubbish. She knew the penalties - tis the same as saying "Oh I needed to park in that ambulance bay, I have 3 children to walk to that shop next door"

Plastic milk bottles are recycled in this part of Essex.

Householders were given a leaflet detailing what could and could not go in the pink bags and as a result the council are strict. Such sacks are collected fortnightly by a separate dustcart crew to those who collect the black sacks (no wheelie bins have been provided by this council).

Infact this part of town only had their first pink sack collection at the beginning of this week. One pink bag has been left behind where I live - it has a blue contaminated sticker on it saying that there are items in there that should not be there!.

Plastic milk bottles (no lids please) are recycled here.

Personally I think we should get cash back for doing our own recycling. After all, we have to pay via tax to have rubbish collected. We are the customers and I think the damn council forget that! We are paying them to collect our rubbish... so they should shut up and collect it... sort the recycling themselves or pay us to do it.

I don't pay for my food shopping in Morrisons and then have to put the ingredients together at home to construct the blood food after all.

Grrr - sorry - rant over

Bloody Food i mean. Sorry - was ranting so hard and fast i missed the keys!

We have 2 black bins for normal household waste, a green one for garden waste and we are given orange sacks for recyclable waste. We have a box in the shed for glass jars, bottles etc which we take down to the bottle bank every few weeks.

Pretty good round here for recycling imo.
Glad that woman is being fined - hope it is a warning for others not to be such lazy sods.

we have to take all our plastic to a recycling centre half a mile away. Not too bad for us, but it is the only one in about a five mile radius. Have tins/glass bins closer. Can't believe people can't be arsed to recycle. Yes i can actually, just like people still drive around in f*ing 4x4s. But am concerned that recycled rubbish might just end up in landfills. Wouldn't surprise me.

Think being fined is a good idea. Our recycling is collected every fortnight. We have a green box to put it in - you have to separate it out into plastic, glass, tins etc.

Out of 11 houses in our close, only 4 regularly put out their recycling bin - think that's pretty appalling really.

We are 1 of the 4 [proud emoticon]

We have a green wheelie bin for the main rubbish, collected weekly, and then four black boxes for recycling fortnightly. We did only have two black boxes which were always full up after one week but I only had to email the council and the next day two more appeared so that was great service. Now I can have one for newspapers, one for cardboard, one for plastic bottles and the last for cans and glass (put the glass in a carrier bag so it's separate). Now that they are not over-flowing they stack up quite neatly outside so I don't have to have the kitchen full of rubbish. The council were also very good about supplying us with a bigger than normal wheelie bin because ours filled up too quickly and a friend told me we were entitled to a bigger bin if we were a family of four. Not sure though if we got it so easily because I mentioned that Ds's nappies are supplied by the NHS and therefore not reusable. They might have taken pity!

Anyway, no complaints about the service here. At least we get the stuff collected. When we lived in a pub we still had to pay council tax for the living quarters (on top of business tax) yet because we were above a business they wouldn't collect our household rubbish or recycling. It used to make me livid as they wanted it both ways.

"We are paying them to collect our rubbish... so they should shut up and collect it... sort the recycling themselves or pay us to do it. "

Is it really a them and us situation? We're all in the same boat with regard to pollution and degradation of our environment. It's not such a terrible chore surely. And they could pay us to do it or course...and then just charge us more for our council tax

We have a black wheelie for normal rubbish.

A blue wheelie for paper waste.

A compost bin in the garden, provided at reduced cost by the council.

A black box for recycling plastic (bottles only), glass, textiles, cans, aerosols.

Until we got all the extra bins we would fill the black wheelie and have overflow in a week. Now we only put it out for collection fortnightly and it is still unlikely to be full.