Simple instructions not followed

[JoM]

We've had blue wheelie bins delivered over the last two weeks, our council is swapping over from small recycling bags and sacks to wheelie bins so that more can be recycled. On the bin lid was a sticker stating not to be put out for collections until the new system begins on April 1st. They also sent someone around with leaflets which were put through the letterboxes. We're to carry on with the box and bag system until then.

So....I've just been around the corner to take the dog over the common and guess what? Out of 12 houses that I walked past, 8 had their blue wheelie bins out for collection - and they all had the sticker on top which I mentioned up there

[debih]

Ours changed a few months ago. Because of access to our houses we are slightly different to most of the area but basically we put out black rubbish sacks and the green food waste bin one week and blue recycling boxes/bags and the green food waste bin the following week. Always on a Tuesday (as opposed to a Friday which it used to be prior to the recycling starting).

We got a lovely colourful bit of paper which told us what goes out when - I stuck it on the side of my fridge.

Even now, at least four months in, people don't seem to have got the hang of it. Some still put it out on a Friday.

[JoM]

Crazy isn't it?

I can't wait to start using the new bin. We had one at the old house and when we moved here it was like going back in time having to separate things again and not being able to recycle other things we'd been used to recycling, and there's also the problem on windy days with the nets on top of the boxes not holding everything in and having to run around picking up cans and bottles. Our white sack when AWOL ages ago so we've used carrier bags for paper and card since.

[saundra]

we are lucky here we have
green /brown /blue bins
and a tiny brown bin for food wast that nobody round here use
i expect we all hid it in our green bin
or give it the dog

[meriad]

Jo, what's the bet - one neighbour didn't read the instructions so put the blue bin out; the others were going to use the sacks, saw that one bin and thought 'Oh we can use them' and put their sacks in the bin and put their bins out as well - lemming effect you know?

We're getting garden recycling bins as of 1st April and I think the waste recycling bins are coming a bit later this year. I cannot wait - I'm sick and tired of lots of the recycling all over the show because it's loose in the boxes and the people just don't bother chasing down their rubbish and putting it back in the bin. My upstairs neighbour unfortunately is one of them

[JoM]

I think you're probably right Ria because it was only on the one road

We have the grey bin for household waste, a green bin for garden waste and then the recycling box and bag. The recycling boxes have a pathetic net rather than a lid, which stretches out of shape so doesn't fit properly so the slightest bit of wind and you're retrieving cans and bottles from the garden. Plus rain catches in the box so when you pick it up to take out you get it pouring out of the holes at the bottom. You can't leave the paper outside because it'll get wet so we've been storing that in the utility room.

[Workingman]

Black bin for rubbish, green bin for recycling. Black bin emptied every week, green bin every fortnight, always on Tuesdays. Simples. The only thing not acceptable in either bin is glass.

Apparently the black bin stuff goes through a 'process' to remove all the organic stuff and that then goes to make fuel for the bin lorries and fertiliser for the parks and gardens.

[debih]

We have had paper and glass recycling in the area for a few years but not along our lane as they can't get their van up so this recent change, which included us, has been amazing.

"Normal" streets have a big blue bin that they put all their glass, paper, plastic, cardboard, tin, etc in, a brown bin for garden waste and a green bin for food waste (along with a small green bin for use indoors).

We have a blue box and two blue bags for all our recycling, a brown bag for garden waste and the food bins. However, the poor men still can't get their lorry up so they have to come in a van, transfer all our recycling to the big bins and drive backwards and forwards until they have finished - they park their small truck (which is supposed to be for narrow areas but is still too wide for us). It must take 3 men about an hour to do our lane of around 20 houses. Poor men. They said that ours is the only place they can't get their small truck and have to use an even smaller one!

[Kaz]

We have a box for recycling which is collected weekly, and a wheelie bin for rubbish fortnightly. We also have a green garden bin which is collected on the weeks the rubbish bin is not, but we have to pay yearly for that privilege

[JoM]

We're on a fortnightly rotation - recycling and garden waste one week and household rubbish the next. Over Christmas though they suspend garden waste collections for a month and take the household waste every week instead. Our garden waste bin hasn't been used since the Autumn though.