On 23/03/2018 17:44, Tim Streater wrote:


I'm sure I saw an article in the Times asking us not to do that,
because it confuses the separation machine at the recyclers. I was
flattening the bottles until I saw that, so I could get more into the
kitchen recycle bins (before emptying those into the wheelie bins).


I'll bet the first thing that happens to the plastic waste when
collected from your property is that it gets well and truly compacted in
the back of the dustcart. A lot of recycling is transported perhaps a
hundred miles to central locations and it makes no sense to transport
light weight material un-compacted.

It's much the same as being allowed to put glass into our recycling
sacks BUT it cannot be broken glass. This also gets compacted on collection.

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On 23/03/2018 10:29, alan_m wrote:

How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?


Where I am at the moment in Anglesey the black landfill wheelie bin now
only gets collected every 3 weeks. Previously it was every two weeks.
The change was made in order to reduce the amount collected. Would
anyone expect that to actually happen?

We have 4 bins for other recyclable rubbish and a bag for old batteries
which are collected weekly. A green garden waste bin which is collected
every two weeks is the only one that is full.

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:29:51 +0000, alan_m
wrote:


How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?

It's rubbish collection day today and I note that my household and my 4
nearest houses on my side of the street put out a total of 6 general
rubbish sacks and 7 recycling sacks.

The 5 houses opposite put out 24 general rubbish sacks and 10 recycling
sacks (one household seems never to split rubbish for recycling).

The number of people on each side of this portion of the street is
nominally the same and the ratio of rubbish between the two sides of the
street is about the same every week and it's not just one household
making up the large difference in waste.

You need a hobby.

AB

This is a problem everywhere. There seems to be no standard, I have four
wheelie bins but there is only me here. Ideally, I'd like mini wheelies, but
it seems the vehicles can only cope with one design so the effect is that
there are several trucks for the different sorted stuff, and on alternate
weeks, leaving a slalom trail of bins on the footway every Tuesday. I don't
go out on Tuesdays, for obvious reasons.
Bags outside of bins are banned as foxes and other creatures open them and
spread the contents around the street.
Brian

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How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?

It's rubbish collection day today and I note that my household and my 4
nearest houses on my side of the street put out a total of 6 general
rubbish sacks and 7 recycling sacks.

The 5 houses opposite put out 24 general rubbish sacks and 10 recycling
sacks (one household seems never to split rubbish for recycling).

The number of people on each side of this portion of the street is
nominally the same and the ratio of rubbish between the two sides of the
street is about the same every week and it's not just one household making
up the large difference in waste.

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Brian Gaff wrote:

This is a problem everywhere. There seems to be no standard I have four
wheelie bins

It makes you wonder who did the initial studies on what proportion of
rubbish could be recycled, and what bins to provide?

When recycling was introduced here, we got one wheelie bin for rubbish,
a crate for paper another for tins and plastic bottles, and a mini-bin
for glass designed to hang off the side of the main wheelie bin - along
with a big list of what was banned from recycling.

The total size of the recycling bins/crates was about half the volume of
a 120l wheelie bin, yet from my experience, and it seems many people in
this thread, actual recycling volume is 3x to 4x their rubbish volume.

On 24/03/18 09:24, Andy Burns wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:

This is a problem everywhere. There seems to be no standard I have four
wheelie bins

It makes you wonder who did the initial studies on what proportion of
rubbish could be recycled, and what bins to provide?

Perhaps they didn't comprehend the brief, and did a rubbish study?


When recycling was introduced here, we got one wheelie bin for rubbish,
a crate for paper another for tins and plastic bottles, and a mini-bin
for glass designed to hang off the side of the main wheelie bin - along
with a big list of what was banned from recycling.

The total size of the recycling bins/crates was about half the volume of
a 120l wheelie bin, yet from my experience, and it seems many people in
this thread, actual recycling volume is 3x to 4x their rubbish volume.