Perhaps not so much a property topic but was just so exasperated by this I thought I'd check others' experiences.
A relative has just moved into Canterbury City Council's area and found out that while they collect your landfill/black bin bags and your gardening refuse, and paper & plastics for recycling --- they do not collect glass of any sort, bottles jars nothing!!!
People have to take all their glass to bottle banks and the bottle banks are no more numerous than anywhere else.
Is this usual?
I've been living in SE London for years and our glass has always been collected by the council. Perhaps I've just been spoilt.
Canterbury seem to either expect people to walk their bottles to the bottle bank (not so easy if you're old - and/or have lots of glass and the recycling centre is a long way away) or drive there (top marks for the environment) or put the glass in black/landfill bags - bad for the environment and why would you with such a valuable commodity!
I'm really surprised as I've not come across this sort of waste collection policy before.
Can only imagine whoever negotiated this particular contract didn't know much about recycling or was having their palm generously greased.