Even if you do mind I'll continue to use my Blue box for cans - Page 3

Less · 13-04-2007, 09:53

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I keep the blue sack in the yard at the side of the blue box and yes it does get full of water and no I don't trail it through the house - I get the kids to take it out the back and bring it round the corner to the front. Same with the box. Good job we don't live in the middle of our long row or they'd probably object to having to walk that far. I've been putting cans in the sack for ages - we got a leaflet about it yonks ago.

Unfortunately Willow my children have grown up and flown the nest so I can't be cruel like you and force them to do the dirty jobs.

I am not trying to bring down the government, I just want to use my blue box for cans and bottles, I have to store these things like you, for a fortnight, so my priority is what is the best way for me to do that? The answer is, in my blue box. The council only have to deal with my box for a very brief moment once a fortnight and it is easy enough for them to see what is in it.

I and many more like me I'm sure will continue to do our bit of recycling but why do the Council feel they have to threaten us to do it rather than encourage us to do it by just being a little less strict about which container we put this rubbish out in?

WillowTheWhisp · 13-04-2007, 10:05

Because they can?

(I'll get me coat)

Less · 13-04-2007, 10:23

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Because they can?

(I'll get me coat)

You could have filled that wasted space with a marquee encouraging us to do the right thing and always recycle, (in a reponsible manner, of course).

flashy · 13-04-2007, 10:28

i got shouted at off mick for doing that

said it costs roy too much money

tadah · 13-04-2007, 11:07

Why dont we take it all to the tip for them too? We do everything else for the lazt bast**ds. You pay your council tax for this reason and what do you get back? ****** all!

WillowTheWhisp · 13-04-2007, 12:01

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Originally Posted by flashytart

i got shouted at off mick for doing that

said it costs roy too much money

Well if he's going to shout at me he'll have to shout at Less too for quoting me.

Last time I tried to donate to AccyWeb it bounced back as unclaimed.

pipinfort · 13-04-2007, 13:06

i have had the same problem, the blue bags are an absoloute joke so i have got 2 blue boxes, one for plastic and cans and one for glass, i go through a load of plastic for some reason so i fill up a box every 2 weeks (sometimes quicker) one day a stray can had accidentaly fallen into the glass box when i put them out so i to received a note through the door and the box was`nt emptied because te dimwit just assumed the box was mixed, glass an tins he refused to empty it!!!!! i was fuming i have recycled for years even before hbc jump on the right on band wagon so i let rip on the phone,eventually i got a call back from someone of authority in the councils recycling dept and i told him that the bags were just no good for me so i will continue to use my blue boxes but will put the correct items in together, he said this was fine and would just put a note on my address details for the bin men to expect my stuff in blue boxes and not a box and a bag. not had a problem since!!!! although i do tink that one recycle bin for all items would encourage recycling because people just can`t be bothered paying council tax AND separating they`re waste. phewwwww!!!

magpie · 13-04-2007, 14:27

Use the blue box for glass jars and bottles only. Rinse debris from cans and glass containers before putting them in the box. Wash out your box occasionally as this will help keep it clean

Click here to view HBC web site...

I got a note saying the same thing.... but on there web site it tells another story:

all this messing about is crazy and a waste of rate payers money:

how flipping hard can it be to have some workable system:

I also took the chip out of my blue box:

I always wash cans and so on... if not in the summer there will be shed loads of flies.... what with pet food tins and so on: HENCE they are better in a bin with a lid:

MADNESS party and the word Brewery spring to mind at the mention son HBC

pipinfort · 13-04-2007, 15:19

MY SPY CHIPS ARE LONG GONE!!!

Neil · 13-04-2007, 15:34

I won't comment on my bins, it only upsets some people.

In the Ribble Valley they are using one wheelie bin for non-recyclable and one wheelie bin for recyclable, its a much better idea.

WillowTheWhisp · 13-04-2007, 15:35

I don't see why we can't do that here instead of all this palaver.

Less · 13-04-2007, 15:39

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Originally Posted by Neil

I won't comment on my bins, it only upsets some people.

In the Ribble Valley they are using one wheelie bin for non-recyclable and one wheelie bin for recyclable, its a much better idea.

For us to change and do that, someone at Hyndburn would have to admit they were wrong,

Can you see that happening?

No, neither can I.

shillelagh · 13-04-2007, 17:08

Here in Rossendale we have a blue wheelie bin for recycling everything but papers go in there. Green bin for everything else. Sack for paper.