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

Less · 13-04-2007, 07:11

I got a card through the letterbox today I MUST NOT USE MY BLUE BOX FOR CANS AND BOTTLES.

Here we go again,
recycling I have no problem with the theory of it but can we a least have a little give and take?
The Council expect me to have all cans washed, all plastic containers crushed, all paper sorted, no shiny stuff, no envelopes with windows, no staples.

These irritating things I do reluctantly even though I don't think it should be my job.
The one concession I give myself is that I use my plastic box for cans and glass bottles, is this because I want to be awkward? No, it's because for me it is practical, the house I live in isn't big enough for me to keep cans, bottles etc in the house so the box is in the yard. If I was to use a sack there is a good chance that before it had any real weight in it it would blow away, it also rains a lot in my back yard so carrying a soaking wet sack through the house once a fortnight is another no, no. At least most of the water drains out of the box.

If the council will not allow me this one little compromise there is another solution, I have a big grey wheelie bin in the yard, everything can fit in there easily.

flashy · 13-04-2007, 07:13

testicles to that, i recycle, i never clean out my tins or bottles, never peel the paper off them, and they still take them, but then again thats HBC for ya...lazy gits

panther · 13-04-2007, 07:44

do you mean your plastic bottles?
i use me blue box for glass only and use me blue bag for cans, plastic and the other

i dont wash em out, what if you had a water meter, are the council gonna pay for it....are they eck!!
ive started recycling me cardboard, and untill now never realised how much of it i waste!!!

i take it, it was only you less that got the letter?

davo69 · 13-04-2007, 07:44

i went to my friends in london they have two wheelie bins one for all recycling stuff and one for general waste the recycable bin gets picked up weekly and non recycling fortnightly it works well because it incurages people to recycle more because that gets picked up most.and you dont have to keep different things in different bags or containers.

panther · 13-04-2007, 07:48

that would be good idea, but try telling hyndburn council that!

Less · 13-04-2007, 07:53

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Originally Posted by panther

do you mean your plastic bottles?
i use me blue box for glass only and use me blue bag for cans, plastic and the other

i take it, it was only you less that got the letter?

I put glass bottles and cans in the box, which is what we were told to do originally, (the council now want tins and glass bottles in the blue sack),

I don't know if anyone else got a letter perhaps I am the troublemaker around here that an example will shortly be made of because I want to continue using my blue box for cans?

flashy · 13-04-2007, 07:58

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Originally Posted by davo69

i went to my friends in london they have two wheelie bins one for all recycling stuff and one for general waste the recycable bin gets picked up weekly and non recycling fortnightly it works well because it incurages people to recycle more because that gets picked up most.and you dont have to keep different things in different bags or containers.

blackburn have been doing exactly that for 4 years lol....i have two wheely bins, a brown one for garden waste, a grey one for household waste, a green box for tins, cans and bottles and plastic stuff and bags for waste paper/cardboard etc..
our grey bin goes out once a fortnight,brown bin the other week and all the recycling stuff goes out weekly

panther · 13-04-2007, 08:00

why would they want you to put glass in blue bag????
whats the ruddy box for then??
the bags arnt big enough for everything, the numptys!!
id keep doing the same as before

davo69 · 13-04-2007, 08:05

i live in blackburn we have one bin and thats it. we recycle lots but it all goes in bags they dont give out boxers anymore and they dont collect garden waste. in london were my friend lives they put anything recycable in the same bin which is much more exceptable to people.

flashy · 13-04-2007, 08:07

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Originally Posted by davo69

i live in blackburn we have one bin and thats it. we recycle lots but it all goes in bags they dont give out boxers anymore and they dont collect garden waste. in london were my friend lives they put anything recycable in the same bin which is much more exceptable to people.

you obviously dont live in the BETTER part of blackburn do ya davo

seriously Intack have had all this for 4 years...actually thinking about it, shad and whitebirk dont have the same amount of recycling bins as we have

lancsdave · 13-04-2007, 08:08

I haven't had a card to tell me different, perhaps they are trialing it in certain areas of town ?

Less · 13-04-2007, 08:08

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Originally Posted by panther

why would they want you to put glass in blue bag????
whats the ruddy box for then??
the bags arnt big enough for everything, the numptys!!
id keep doing the same as before

Sorry just read the nice new blue sack they gave me today, (even though I still have my old blue sacK, I just hadn't put it out 'cos one plastic bottle didn't seem worthwhile).

On My old blue sack it is printed that they want plastic containers in it, on my new blue sack it's plastic bottles and tins, so not glass bottles!

davo69 · 13-04-2007, 08:09

i live in whiteberk is this not classed as intack? i have only been here a couple of months.

flashy · 13-04-2007, 08:11

davo how dare you....i shall not be classed as living on whitebirk, intack is totally seperate, you live at one side of whitebirk road and i live at the other (the better part)

davo69 · 13-04-2007, 08:13

you meen there is one ?says intack on postcode search .