UK government's recycling plans risks chaos

We already have 5, right pain keeping them looking tidy outside. Not only that remembering what to put out when is not easy

Glass
Garden
Plastic/cardboard/paper
Food
Anything else
 
We have 5 and I have no problems with that. It’s currently:

Blue - paper/cardboard
Brown - plastics and tins
Green - garden
Black - waste
And the food caddy

Blue & brown are collected every 2 weeks and are always completely full so that’s a decent amount of sorted recycling.
 
I hope this forces councils to have to recycle more plastics. Lot's of plastics these days can be recycled but my council barely takes half of it.

Should eventually get to a point where general waste isn't required, or stretching to things like monthly collections.
 
Malevolence said:
I don't recycle anything. We only have the one wheely bin, so everything goes into the one wheely bin and is put out on a Tuesday night.
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Worse than Hitler. /s

They should just bung everything in a waste to energy incinerator and stop the faffing around.
 
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Semple said:
I hope this forces councils to have to recycle more plastics. Lot's of plastics these days can be recycled but my council barely takes half of it.

Should eventually get to a point where general waste isn't required, or stretching to things like monthly collections.
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With a bit of focus on our recycling we rarely fill our general waste bin in the 2 weeks anymore and keeping food waste out of it means it's not stinking in the summer as a bonus.

We've got a general waste bin/garden bin/glass plastics metal bin/cardboard bag and a little food waste bin. Which feels reasonable.
 
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tom_e said:
With a bit of focus on our recycling we rarely fill our general waste bin in the 2 weeks anymore and keeping food waste out of it means it's not stinking in the summer as a bonus.

We've got a general waste bin/garden bin/glass plastics metal bin/cardboard bag and a little food waste bin. Which feels reasonable.
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We're the same, it gets 1/2 - 2/3rds full by collection time. Unless we're having a bit of a spring clean/clear out of old stuff that can't be recycled/donated etc. Normally I keep those sorts of things to the side to put in the bin when there's space.

But yeah 3 weeks wouldn't phase me, and could even push to 4 weeks (have had to do this in the past when collections were missed).
 
darkgen said:
It should be managed and sorted at "recycling centres", not by the households.
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I agree, it's the councils in general just skimping on costs by getting the household to be the labour.

We have the technology for the waste to be detected, sorted and recycled but these huge plants cost a lot of money initially and nobody wants them in their backyard. The more difficult and inconvenient they make recycling for the public the less they'll abide by it and guilt-tripping will only go so far.

They'll start to use the RFID tags that are already on some wheelie bins to bill you for how much you do or don't recycle. Huge fines for those that don't comply.
 
The green bin here has been the outside home to my low frequency transmitter antenna loading coil for the past eight or more years. (The thing sat atop it in the photo).

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I got sick and tired of my bin not being taken because they do not take this or take that. I just generally stick everything in my general waste bin now. IIRC they wouldn't take polystyrene, plastic wrap, those waxy cardboard cartons etc. Got sick and tired of constantly being left a tag on my bin.

We just about last the two weeks between collections of general waste. We have a garden waste bin as well but have to pay for it.

If they expect me to sort out my own rubbish then give me a benefit to doing so. Like leaving street lighting on at night or a discount on my bill. Not take away more and more services and expect me to pay more for it.
 
A decade or so back my uncle just used to drive to the local scrap heap and throw all their rubbish into general household waste. He'd do it every week or so.
 
If do sort out my rubbish, any metals for example, get saved and go to the scrap yard every couple of months where I get paid for it.... What happens to the money the councils receive for the vast amount of various "waste" they have delivered to their premises? Is it all properly accounted for?
 
Stu999 said:
They should just bung everything in a waste to energy incinerator and stop the faffing around.
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That sounds like far too sensible an idea...

I was always impressed - even as a kid - with the huge incinerator near my gran's house in Duiven which burned all the local waste and used it to provide community hot water. Such a common sense idea, which is why it would never happen in the UK.
 
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