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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alan_m wrote:

How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?

What's average?

I have a 240l recycling wheelie bin and a 120l rubbish wheelie bin, the
former is generally getting 'fullish' after 3 weeks, the latter is
generally only half full by that point, but I put them both out together
every 3 or 4 weeks.

Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I choose
to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections are due to
alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year ... might bother
larger households.

On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I choose
to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections are due to
alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year ... might bother
larger households.

The alternate week scheme operates here (with a green garden/food waste
bin collected every week). It seems to work for the vast majority. ISTR
the council can supply a larger general waste bin if required[1], but I
see very few of them about.

[1] Although I don't know what hoops need to be jumped through for those
- so it might just be they make the process so onerous that few can be
bothered!

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John Rumm wrote:

the council can supply a larger general waste bin if required[1], but I
see very few of them about.
[1] Although I don't know what hoops need to be jumped through for those

With the announcement of alternating collections, they have introduced a
charge for larger bins.

As soon as they started their consultation on changes, I swapped to a
larger recycling bin as there was no charge at that time ... and it was
fairly obvious the way the "consultation" was going to go

On 23/03/2018 11:39, John Rumm wrote:
ISTR
the council can supply a larger general waste bin if required[1], but I
see very few of them about.

[1] Although I don't know what hoops need to be jumped through for those
- so it might just be they make the process so onerous that few can be
bothered!

We have the larger bins. Initially it was just the general waste bin as
youngest son has special needs and learning difficulties and is still on
nappies at night. When the re-cycling uplift was introduced we were to
use the general waste bin as the recycling one and got a new (still
large) bin for landfill.

Getting the larger bins was easy all we did was write to the council
(can't remember if we did it or one of the 'carer charities') following
that we had a visit from some council employee to ensure we were
eligible . This was an at the door interview which lasted all of 15
secs (perhaps they were just ensuring we did exist). Can't remember but
don't think at anytime we had to provide proof.
IF one of the 'Carer charities' had contacted them perhaps that was
taken as the proof required .


The initial 'bin getting' was a long time ago so memories are a bit hazy
Oh this is for Edinburgh city council, any other council, YMMV

On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I choose
to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections are due to
alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year ... might bother
larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope with
larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra £40
a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins can
also be requested.

SteveW

On 23/03/2018 10:29, 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.


I frequently fill the 240l recycling bin every week.

The smaller landfill bin is about 25% full after a week.

The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like peelings,
etc.

On Friday, March 23, 2018 at 2:48:59 PM UTC, dennis@home wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:29, alan_m wrote:

How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?

Our council used to collect rubbish AND recycling each week.

They recently wrote to tell us that Weekly collections would continue (Hurrah!)

One week they would collect rubbish, the next they would collect recycling!

I suspect we are going to start using the tip more.

On 23/03/2018 15:30, Tim Streater wrote:


All our peelings and bits of veg get composted.

+1

It's only
bones/eggshells etc that go in the food waste bin.

Why not compost egg shells - they just break down into small pieces and
disappear.


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On 23/03/2018 15:30, Tim Streater wrote:


I frequently fill the 240l recycling bin every week.

It's all those cider tinnies Den! :-)

It comes in bottles. 8-)

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

How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?

We (2) have three 240 litre wheelie bins, for landfill, mixed recycling,
and garden waste. They're collected every two weeks. If I forget to
put a bin out we can normally last until the next collection, so that
would be one bin-full per month, although I do occasionally need to
jump on top to pack everything in. It's easy to reduce the recycling
volume just by cutting up plastic bottles, and putting all the
flattened cardboard neatly together, but we've not had to do that
since we got a bin (rather than a crate) for recycling.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:48:57 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

On 23/03/2018 10:29, 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.


I frequently fill the 240l recycling bin every week.

The smaller landfill bin is about 25% full after a week.

The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like peelings,
etc.

Similar here. Household of 5, three of which are in early 20s and a bit
wasteful - I have to nag them about recycling.

360l landfill bin, on average nearly full avery 2 weeks, so about 170l a
week.

150l cardboard/paper bin, about 50l a week I guess.

150l tin/plastic/etc bin, about 70l a week.

Small food waste bin, probably 10l a week.



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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:13:54 +0000, Bob Eager wrote:

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 14:48:57 +0000, dennis@home wrote:

On 23/03/2018 10:29, 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.


I frequently fill the 240l recycling bin every week.

The smaller landfill bin is about 25% full after a week.

The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like
peelings,
etc.

Similar here. Household of 5, three of which are in early 20s and a bit
wasteful - I have to nag them about recycling.

360l landfill bin, on average nearly full avery 2 weeks, so about 170l a
week.

150l cardboard/paper bin, about 50l a week I guess.

150l tin/plastic/etc bin, about 70l a week.

Small food waste bin, probably 10l a week.

Just looked; the 150l ones aren't; they are 240l.

So 100l cardboard/week, 110l tin/plastic/etc a week.



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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:44:53 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article 20180323171952.28dbae82@Mars, Rob Morley
wrote:

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

How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?

We (2) have three 240 litre wheelie bins, for landfill, mixed recycling,
and garden waste. They're collected every two weeks. If I forget to
put a bin out we can normally last until the next collection, so that
would be one bin-full per month, although I do occasionally need to jump
on top to pack everything in. It's easy to reduce the recycling volume
just by cutting up plastic bottles ...

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 flatten the bottles so that I can get more into the wheelie bin! The
young 'uns generate a lot of those.

I've just ordered an aluminium bottle for carrying water. Or, as it says
on it, a "DHMO containment unit".



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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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alan_m wrote:

On 23/03/2018 15:30, Tim Streater wrote:


All our peelings and bits of veg get composted.

+1

It's only
bones/eggshells etc that go in the food waste bin.

Why not compost egg shells - they just break down into small pieces and
disappear.

In the mean time (unless washed - which is unlikely) they provide a nice
snack for rats. This is a direct observation using an infra red camera.
Avocado skins are also popular. I have no evidence, only suspicion, re
potato peelings.

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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

On 23/03/2018 14:48, dennis@home wrote:

I frequently fill the 240l recycling bin every week.

The smaller landfill bin is about 25% full after a week.

The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like peelings,
etc.



Every one has different recycling bins depending on where they live.

I have 4 wheelie bins and supposedly one bag (due to be phased out as
they blow away).

I have no food recycle bin.



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On 24/03/18 06:15, ARW wrote:
On 23/03/2018 14:48, dennis@home wrote:

I frequently fill the 240l recycling bin every week.

The smaller landfill bin is about 25% full after a week.

The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like
peelings, etc.



Every one has different recycling bins depending on where they live.

I have 4 wheelie bins and supposedly one bag (due to be phased out as
they blow away).

I have no food recycle bin.



Dennis is as usual socially oppressive.

I have two bins, plastics and metal, and everything else.

I dont even bother putting them out every other week, so in fact each
one gets emptied once a month.




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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.
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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.

Tim Streater wrote:

In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:

alan_m wrote:

On 23/03/2018 15:30, Tim Streater wrote:

All our peelings and bits of veg get composted.

+1

It's only
bones/eggshells etc that go in the food waste bin.

Why not compost egg shells - they just break down into small pieces and
disappear.

In the mean time (unless washed - which is unlikely) they provide a nice
snack for rats. This is a direct observation using an infra red camera.
Avocado skins are also popular. I have no evidence, only suspicion, re
potato peelings.

The bones and eggshells are wrapped in newspaper as requested and are
in a small bin with a locked lid.
Quite so. But someone suggested composting them.


And rats can't get into the compost bins.

That's what I thought!


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On 23/03/2018 13:46, Steve Walker wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I choose
to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections are due
to alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year ... might
bother larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope with
larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra £40
a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins can
also be requested.

SteveW

What sort of people discard 240 litres of food waste every week ?.

On 23/03/2018 14:48, dennis@home wrote:
The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like peelings,
etc.

Bonkers !. Are you running a business and putting trade waste
in domestic bins ?.

Most food waste is not food waste. Uncooked vegetable peelings
and trimmings are compostable, if not actually edible if a bit
of thought was used.

The best part of thr potato is in the peel, why discard it ?.

On 23/03/18 13:46, Steve Walker wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I choose
to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections are due
to alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year ... might
bother larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope with
larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra £40
a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins can
also be requested.

That makes our black bag for general waste and clear recycle bag seem
overly complicated.

On 23/03/2018 18:18, Bob Eager wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:44:53 +0000, Tim Streater wrote:

In article 20180323171952.28dbae82@Mars, Rob Morley
wrote:

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

How much rubbish for collection does the average household generate?

We (2) have three 240 litre wheelie bins, for landfill, mixed recycling,
and garden waste. They're collected every two weeks. If I forget to
put a bin out we can normally last until the next collection, so that
would be one bin-full per month, although I do occasionally need to jump
on top to pack everything in. It's easy to reduce the recycling volume
just by cutting up plastic bottles ...

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 flatten the bottles so that I can get more into the wheelie bin! The
young 'uns generate a lot of those.

I've just ordered an aluminium bottle for carrying water. Or, as it says
on it, a "DHMO containment unit".



They also double up as hot water bottles in winter. Fill with almost
boiling water and put inside a thick hiking sock.

On 24/03/2018 10:59, Andrew wrote:
On 23/03/2018 13:46, Steve Walker wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I
choose to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections
are due to alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year
... might bother larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope
with larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra
£40 a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins can
also be requested.

What sort of people discard 240 litres of food waste every week ?.

No idea, but SteveW was talking about a 240l grey bin,I.E
non recyclable (landfill)

Grey NOT green

On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:10:16 +0000, soup wrote:

On 24/03/2018 10:59, Andrew wrote:
On 23/03/2018 13:46, Steve Walker wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I
choose to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections
are due to alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year
... might bother larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope
with larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra
£40 a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins can
also be requested.

What sort of people discard 240 litres of food waste every week ?.

No idea, but SteveW was talking about a 240l grey bin,I.E non recyclable
(landfill)

Grey NOT green

He also mentions a 240l green bin for food waste, but if he'd read it
properly, he'd have seen it was optionally for garden waste as well.

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On 24/03/2018 11:05, Richard wrote:

That makes our black bag for general waste and clear recycle bag seem
overly complicated.

See....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkj7gZmuuhU


Around my way
Black bag for general waste (landfill) - buy your own bags

Pink bag for mixed recycled waste - bags supplied by council

Small container for food waste - container and small biodegradable
lining bags supplied by council

Large container for paper - council supplied
Broken down card also collected.

White bags for recycled clothing which are often never collected so the
next week they get stuffed into the black bags. I see very few white
bags being put out these days.


A generalised observation:
Around 1 in 20 put out a food waste container. If the wind is blowing
many of these emptied containers will end up elsewhere!
Many people seem to leave their paper waste until the containers are
full so perhaps 1 in 6 have these containers are put out for any one
collection.

Garden waste is an optional, additional, paid for service at around £50
a year and buy your own wheelie bin from the contractor (£30) or
alternatively put your garden waste into a pre-paid branded bag at
around 65p a time.

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On 24/03/18 11:57, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Richard
wrote:

On 23/03/18 13:46, Steve Walker wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I
choose to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections
are due to alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year
... might bother larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope
with larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra
£40 a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins can
also be requested.

That makes our black bag for general waste and clear recycle bag seem
overly complicated.

I'm glad we have bins and no longer bags. That was a major improvement
(foxes have already been mentioned).

Put the bags out in the morning. Only takes one week for any newcomer to
realise that after their garbage has been dragged out of the bag for all
to see.

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.

On 24/03/2018 13:10, Richard wrote:

Put the bags out in the morning. Only takes one week for any newcomer to
realise that after their garbage has been dragged out of the bag for all
to see.

Unfortunately you also get the a******e who will put food in the general
rubbish bag and then put it out 5 days before collection!


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On 24/03/18 14:23, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Richard
wrote:

On 24/03/18 11:57, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Richard
wrote:

On 23/03/18 13:46, Steve Walker wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I
choose to put them out less frequently) but I gather the
collections are due to alternate between recycling and rubbish
later this year ... might bother larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope
with larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra
£40 a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins
can also be requested.

That makes our black bag for general waste and clear recycle bag
seem overly complicated.

I'm glad we have bins and no longer bags. That was a major improvement
(foxes have already been mentioned).

Put the bags out in the morning.

**** that.

OK. Get the missus to do it then.

On 24/03/18 14:30, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Richard
wrote:

On 24/03/18 14:23, Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Richard
wrote:

Put the bags out in the morning.

**** that.

OK. Get the missus to do it then.

Unlikely. The pussy-cat, however, is up and about at that time of day.

Ah. So the collection is somewhat earlier than mine. No problem dumping
my bags on the pavement when setting off for work.

On 24/03/2018 13:10, Richard wrote:

Put the bags out in the morning. Only takes one week for any newcomer to
realise that after their garbage has been dragged out of the bag for all
to see.


No way am I getting up before 7:00 to put the bins out for them to
collect at 7:05.
Just as well they have hybrid collection trucks and they are running on
electric at that time, they might wake me up if they are running engines.

On 24/03/2018 06:30, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 24/03/18 06:15, ARW wrote:
On 23/03/2018 14:48, dennis@home wrote:

I frequently fill the 240l recycling bin every week.

The smaller landfill bin is about 25% full after a week.

The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like
peelings, etc.



Every one has different recycling bins depending on where they live.

I have 4 wheelie bins and supposedly one bag (due to be phased out as
they blow away).

I have no food recycle bin.



Dennis is as usual socially oppressive.

More cr@p from TNP.
I now think everything TNP says is cr@p and probably lies apart from his
insults. A total arsehole in every way.

All I said is what I do and made no mention of others.
We all know that different councils do different things, even my council
does different things in some areas of the borough.

On 24/03/2018 11:03, Andrew wrote:
On 23/03/2018 14:48, dennis@home wrote:
The food waste bin is full most weeks. It really is waste like
peelings, etc.

Bonkers !. Are you running a business and putting trade waste
in domestic bins ?.

Most food waste is not food waste. Uncooked vegetable peelings
and trimmings are compostable, if not actually edible if a bit
of thought was used.

The best part of thr potato is in the peel, why discard it ?.

I don't eat cauliflower stalks, the greens of the carrots, chicken
bones, etc. even if you do.

I have three compost bins but I usually fill them with leaves from the
trees and they take months to compost so the food waste gets composted
by the council.

On 24/03/2018 12:21, Bob Eager wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 12:10:16 +0000, soup wrote:

On 24/03/2018 10:59, Andrew wrote:
On 23/03/2018 13:46, Steve Walker wrote:
On 23/03/2018 10:45, Andy Burns wrote:
Tim Streater wrote:

The recycling bin goes out every two weeks

At the moment we get weekly collections of both wheelie bins (I
choose to put them out less frequently) but I gather the collections
are due to alternate between recycling and rubbish later this year
... might bother larger households.

If it is anything like where we are, they'll have a system to cope
with larger housholds.

Our normal system is:

Green bin, 240l - food waste (plus garden waste if you pay an extra
£40 a year) - collected weekly.

Grey bin, 120l - non-recyclable waste - collected fortnightly.

Blue bin, 240l - carboard and paper - collected monthly.

Black bin, 240l - plastic bottles, tins, cans and glass bottles -
collected monthly.

Leading to the green bin, plus one other, being collected every week.

For households with 5 or more residents, a 240l grey bin can be
requested instead of the 120l one. Additional blue and black bins can
also be requested.

What sort of people discard 240 litres of food waste every week ?.

No idea, but SteveW was talking about a 240l grey bin,I.E non recyclable
(landfill)

Grey NOT green

He also mentions a 240l green bin for food waste, but if he'd read it
properly, he'd have seen it was optionally for garden waste as well.

Our green bin is food and garden (by default, they no longer charge
extra for garden waste collection). The only snag is, I could probably
fill it half a dozen times just with grass clippings!

(although its a good height to direct the output of the chipper into -
and it will take a few branches worth)


--
Cheers,

John.

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