Rubbish - again!

[Busman747]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

so you fill an entire wheelie bin full of cooked food waste in a fortnight?.
You recycle everything, even plastic, you don't have nappies yet you still fill a wheelie bin in a fortnight!

Oh Madhatter, WHY are you so caustic on the accyweb? or is it just with me? Willow and I have two teenage daughters, Willow is a dedicated recycler - so if she says there is a problem waiting three weeks for our bins to be emptied, you can be sure that there is!!

[Mick]

Telephone directories,yellow pages,mail,order catalogues,envelopes,plastic bags,tupperware,toys,plantpots,paint pots,buckets,wrappings from junk mail,cling film,crisp packets,coat hangers these things can NOT go into our recycling bags or box so must go in rubbish bin

[Madhatter]

Thank you mick, a sensible well thought out reply.
Telephone directories,yellow pages,mail,order catalogues,envelopes
All of these at one time could be recycled, what happened there.
Dunno bout the mail though, I thought that was one of the things they DID want, mail is generally white paper is it not?
Envelopes I do but remove the plastic window, white directories I do. argos books kays catalogues I do. There seems to be less restriction if you go to the paper bank than on the blue bags(cheshire recycling) dunno if thats means I'm doing wrong or you just get more restrictions cos it's road side collected. The sommerfield here actually recycles plastic bags and most can go in the rubbish bin anyway now as they degrade.

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by Busman747

Oh Madhatter, WHY are you so caustic on the accyweb? or is it just with me?

Not you Busman, I think you'll just find that Hatter doesn't like to have his expertise on any subject challenged!

[Madhatter]

To be honnest if you have to wait 3 weeks you should be entitled to put a black bag out too, thats only fair. if the bins aren't collected for two weeks in Atherstone side waste WILL be collected and thats 2 weeks not three.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Telephone directories,yellow pages,mail,order catalogues,envelopes

We are expessly told NOT to recycle these.

[Madhatter]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

Not you Busman, I think you'll just find that Hatter doesn't like to have his expertise on any subject challenged!

There is no expertise, just logic. I asked what would fill a bin if everything was recycled. The reply was that they do recycle everything that they can but the bin is full. Not an answer to my question of what fills it and what can't be recycled. The post is a contradiction.
If you recycle everything you can, what is left must be unrecycleable and you must know what it is.
I find it hard to believe that even a full family with a pet, reycling everything can produce half a wheelie bin full a week.

[Madhatter]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

We are expessly told NOT to recycle these.

Thats my point, if you go to the recycling bin, it doesn't as far as I know. I shall check on our bins when I go down . I know it does on the blue bags though.
I can remember seeing on some bins a while ago we now take all directories including yellow pages, but they seem to have done a u turn on that.

[Tinkerbelle]

Well as your assumption on how much waste a family generates is based on logic and mine is based on knowledge because I am the 'full family with pets' (plural), you'll just have to try to believe me.

Bloody hell even HBC don't give you this much greif regarding the contents of your wheelie bins lol!

[SPUGGIE J]

My mother ends up with others using her bin as she stays on her own so does not have as much for recycling or sending to Whinney Hill.

[chav1]

i used to struggle with one wheelie bin but now the mrs and the kid have gone i manage just fine , i can get all my waste , plastic bottles , tins , cardboard and everything else into 1 wheelie bin

i heard a rumour that you were supposed to wash out food containers and put them in a box of some sort but i have yet to recieve or negotiate my wages from HBC for doing so

besides those blue box's aint half handy for storing stuff in

[Madhatter]

mines based on logic which is based the families (plural) that I listed above as well as my circumstances and the residents in the the other 19 flats. some of which have a black bag a week and some have a wheelie bin. A two adult family creates a about a thirds of a wheelie bin full a weel when recycling nothing.just because I don't have kids don't assume Ive never lived with a family that do have kids.
perhaps chav has the answer it's the women and kids then cos when I'm living on my own I manage just fine.

flats aren't allowed recycling bins boxes and bags here so I have to take all mine to the bin

[Madhatter]

On the blue bag - No cardboard, no enelopes , no yellow pages
On the paper bank - No cardboard, no envelops, no directories, plastic bags. yes magazines, catalogues, brochures, junk mail, newpapers, white office paper.

[chav1]

actualy the biggest offenders of waste are the compsanies that pack a 1 foot object in a 3 foot box for instance , junk mail companies etc but for some reason the resposability has been lumped on the public and sod all done or said to the big companies that create the rubbish in the forst place

you cant blame women and kids the majority of women are tidier than men by nature and more likely to create less mess and particiapte in things like recycling where as most mem will at best hit the bin when throwing a tin away

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by Madhatter

just because I don't have kids don't assume Ive never lived with a family that do have kids.

I haven't made any assumptions, neither have I questioned the contents of your rubbish. The only assumption being made is by you, thinking that I am misleading people about the contents of my rubbish.