On 23/08/2013 11:12, Tim Streater wrote:
In article ,
Huge wrote:

On 2013-08-23, Steve wrote:
On 23/08/2013 08:54, The Medway Handyman wrote:
We have three bins in our kitchen, one for food scraps, one for
recycling (don't have to sort it, everything goes in one bag), and a
third for 'general waste'.

It occurs to me, that we throw out either food waste or recycling
stuff.
What would you throw away that doesn't fall into either of those
categories?

I'd like to get rid of the 'general waste' bin.


You are lucky to have just three bins...

we have a brown wheelie for garden waste
Green box for cardboard and paper
Blue box for cans and plastic
Black box for glass
brown box with lid for food waste
lilac plastic bag for textiles
clear plastic bag for batteries
black wheelie bin for general waste
Another box for light bulbs

I'd send a bill to your council for the time you spend sorting your
rubbish,
a task you already pay them for.

Rubbish. If you want them to do it, they'll have to charge more.

Not necessarily. Mixed recycling results in a significantly larger
volume of materials being recycled. Many councils argue that the
resulting higher income more than covers the additional cost of sorting it.

If I
have an empty bottle or plastic drinks bottle in my mitt, how hard is it
to put it in the right container?

If I had that many different containers, I would have to walk outside to
the bin area in my garden to use them. With mixed recycling I can simply
have one extra bin indoors.

Colin Bignell