£100 fines - rubbish.

[mattylad]

In Rossendale we have:
Green bin = non recyclable refuse.
Blue bin = Recyclables (tin/glass/plastic)
Grey bin or white sack = paper & cardboard
Brown bin = garden materials

Or if you dont bother recycling we have
Green bin = all refuse.
Blue bin = The kids garden toys
Grey bin = The gardening tools
Brown bin = repository for large deliveries

[glasgow guy]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

Not quite:

Grey bin: household waste
Brown bin: garden waste (for those not in terraced, naturally)
White sack: paper
Blue sack: tins and plastic
Cardboard is to be tied up with string and left by the side of the sacks

A blue wheelie bin for recyclables would be much easier.

Neil, I will look into it.

it might be easier but what about us who dont really have the space for 2 wheelie bins on our back yards?
and I have put my wheelie bin out some nights and come the morning its got backs dumped on top and sitting at the side..
and putting your house number on your bin doesnt work as ours has our house number all over it and more often than not it goes missing for a few weeks and then turns up on a random bin day - now either my neighbours dont care who's bin they take or they just cant read..

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by glasgow guy

it might be easier but what about us who dont really have the space for 2 wheelie bins on our back yards?
and I have put my wheelie bin out some nights and come the morning its got backs dumped on top and sitting at the side..
and putting your house number on your bin doesnt work as ours has our house number all over it and more often than not it goes missing for a few weeks and then turns up on a random bin day - now either my neighbours dont care who's bin they take or they just cant read..

Bear in mind that I live in a terrace as well but the one thing that annoys me more than anything else is dog walkers who let their pets rinse off my blue box on the way past. I have to take it back through my house and it isn't very nice.

I can't be the only one who has had this happen to them either.

[Mick]

The easiest way around this is to lift the smokeless zone and everyone go back to open fires then most of the stuff can be burnt which would save on gas and electric and it would heat the hot water (back boilers)
also make great toast
all that would be left would be plastic and glass so you would only need 1 blue box

[Ken Moss]

Originally Posted by mick

The easiest way around this is to lift the smokeless zone and everyone go back to open fires then most of the stuff can be burnt which would save on gas and electric and it would heat the hot water (back boilers)
also make great toast
all that would be left would be plastic and glass so you would only need 1 blue box

I'm in the process of doing just that at Rishton Towers. Smokeless fuel actually burns much hotter and produces less ash than standard coal in any case.

The toast is marvellous too - 20 seconds and you're ready!

[cashman]

Well they made a balls of the new market hall, now making one of recycling, no real thought gone into either.

[Ken Moss]

I asked about a combined recycling wheelie bin on Tuesday and was told that although the bins themselves are probably too expensive for Hyndburn to buy for everyone at the moment they are looking at ways of using the existing bins and bags for that purpose.

Nothing concrete as yet though.

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Ken Moss

Nothing concrete as yet though.

Do we still have to take that ourselves, to the tip?

[mattylad]

I prefer my bins to be plastic, I could not move a concrete one.