7 bags....
how many litres is your bin 
That would cost £17.50 to empty soon over here (£2.50 charge per black bag)
https://guernseypress.com/news/2018/04/20/waste-charge-set-at-250-per-black-bag/
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how many litres is your bin That would cost £17.50 to empty soon over here (£2.50 charge per black bag)
https://guernseypress.com/news/2018/04/20/waste-charge-set-at-250-per-black-bag/
That'll depend on your council. Green is waste and blue is recycling here. Though most stuff ends up in waste because they can pretty much only recycle cardboard and plastic bottles.
7 bags....
That would cost £17.50 to empty soon over here (£2.50 charge per black bag)
https://guernseypress.com/news/2018/04/20/waste-charge-set-at-250-per-black-bag/
Lot of bonfires in Guernsey?
Probably gonna see a rise in fly tipping which then costs more to clean up. Councils, run by retards.
We had it up Here, started charging at the bulk refuse place and then fly tipping went through the roof.
What has annoyed me recently is that on recycle day I've left a couple of broken up boxes next to the recycle bin on recycle day (every 2 weeks) and they left them behind. This never used to happen, they would just chuck them in the back of the bin lorry before.
I just burnt everything in a garden incinerator instead.
I just burnt everything in a garden incinerator instead.
Burning some my rubbish was what I plus many others where thinking of doing
So they made a new law to stop us
https://guernseypress.com/news/2018/04/29/avoiding-waste-charges-by-burning-rubbish-is-against-law/
Green is garden/vegetable waste, black is general rubbish and blue is recycling around here, my green bin can weigh a ton when I've dug some stuff up in the garden and they've never refused to take, sometimes I really struggle with taking it out and it's always emptied.
You know they recycle garden waste. Hence it's a recyclable.
You'd probably get fined for putting garden waste in your recycling bin rather than garden waste bin here
You'd probably get fined for putting garden waste in your recycling bin rather than garden waste bin here
Exactly, the bins have it written on them what they are for and what you can/can't put in them, our blue bin is recyclable's, green bin is garden/vegetable waste which is sent for composting (and why you can't put dog **** in it) and black bin for rubbish which is sent for landfill.
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Yes they did but my Uncle Jimmy's bin round was 2 streets a day with 100s of binmen/wagons being employed in the City where now 1 team is expected to do around 50 streets in a day.
Yes, true, but what is it that has changed??
(Yes really, there is a hell of a lot that has changed over the last 50 years and actually it is not that clear exactly what that is...)
Local authorities seemed perfectly capable of providing an affordable high level of service from everything ranging from road maintenance to bin emptying back in the 60/70's that today they seem no longer capable of providing.
Why is this? What has changed over the last 50 years?
Why???
A couple of the things that have changed over the last 50 years (at least in regards to waste), is that we're potentially creating a lot more of it per person (think about the packaging alone), and the councils don't just dump it all in an old sand pit or mine anymore.
I think a lot of people have a bit of a rose tinted view of waste collection from days gone by, they forget that you used to get a lot of rubbish spilt over the place, that the collectors used to strike, and that it was a lot more labour intensive.
These days most people get their rubbish collected in a manner that reduces the rubbish lying around on the pavement (and thus vermin*), that it's done far faster than it used to be, at if not a lower cost, at least not a massively increased cost and that it's normally done in a way that encourages people to try to at least do a bit of recycling.
*I remember having to clean up after the neighbours cats would rip bags to shreds to get a bit of chicken etc, not to mention rats.
I think a lot of people have a bit of a rose tinted view of waste collection from days gone by, they forget that you used to get a lot of rubbish spilt over the place, that the collectors used to strike, and that it was a lot more labour intensive.
These days most people get their rubbish collected in a manner that reduces the rubbish lying around on the pavement (and thus vermin*), that it's done far faster than it used to be, at if not a lower cost, at least not a massively increased cost and that it's normally done in a way that encourages people to try to at least do a bit of recycling.
*I remember having to clean up after the neighbours cats would rip bags to shreds to get a bit of chicken etc, not to mention rats.
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They aren't even allowed to stick a teddy bear on the wagons these days either.
I could barely move my green bin the other week after scarifying the lawn and ripping up some beds. I had to jump in it to get the lid to close and it was an effort to drag it to the road. I thought the bin was going to snap when they hooked it onto the truck but the guys didn't even bat an eyelid at it!
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Aye we have to borrow a neighbours bin when we cut our lawn for the first time after winter, and if we scarify it as one bin does not do (same if we trim the hedges), never had the bin men bat an eye at the green bin being so heavy it's hard to move.
I suspect there is an element of them knowing that green/garden waste is heavy whilst normal day to day black bin waste shouldn't be so solid/dense under normal conditions.