UK government's recycling plans risks chaos

We only have 3 bins, Landfill, Recycling and Garden(which we have to pay for). Used to have small separate boxes for glass and paper/card but now everything gets put in the one recycling bin.

It should be as simple possible to encourage people to actually bother, all gets sorted at the other end.
 
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Haggisman said:
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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Heat networks deliver about 2% of the UK's heat, with the goal being to expand that to 20% by 2050. it's a complete no brainer.
 
Remind me what we pay council tax for again?

We already have 4 bins. General every fortnight, Glass/plastic once a month. Cardboard paper one a month. Garden waste, twice a month.
 
Chris Wilson said:
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 should have lots of questions but all I can think of is wtf?
 
adidan said:
I should have lots of questions but all I can think of is wtf?
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Some people use the green bin for other purposes, in this case a tuning coil and an impedance matching transformer live in it as it's watertight but not so air tight as to not "breathe". The coil and transformer allow what is an electrically short aerial (albeit 380 feet long) look like a resonant antenna to my 136 kHz transmitter. The second photo shows a remote, automatic tuning, Russian variometer on top of the main coil, its small but variable inductance tweaks the main coil's inductance as weather and foliage change, for a perfect match at all times.

It's not something Greta probably imagined as a use for a green wheelie bin, nor would approve of, but frankly I don't give a damn :)

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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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Yuk to monthly collections.

The council I used to live under did trial food waste in about 7 villages of various sizes and the council hq town, about 15 years ago. The take up was only 25%. My parents and I hardly bin any food. Only things we bin are the inedible bits of food - peelings (bananas and satsumas), bones, shells and tea bags. Then the odd piece of fruit that has gone off such as satsumas with white mould.

We need stop wasting food. Remember a few years ago at Christmas, someone down my road binned a turkey which had been cooked and had meat carved off it for Christmas Day meal. Then binned the rest unwrapped in anything into their bin. Foxes smelt the cooked turkey and knocked over the bin and took it leaving the carcass on the street. People are binning perfectly good food. They forget that they paid money for this. My mum makes a mince mixture for spaghetti bolognese. Anything left over gets frozen down and used another time with a tin of mixed pulses, a savoury bake topping and some grated cheese.
 
My council charge £45 a year (collections just for 8.5 months) for garden waste. My parents don't bother with this as their garden is paved with a few bedding plants and bushes. Probably go to the tip 3 times a year to get rid of dead stuff - the tip is only a mile down the road.
 
cheesefest said:
We need stop wasting food. Remember a few years ago at Christmas, someone down my road binned a turkey which had been cooked and had meat carved off it for Christmas Day meal. Then binned the rest unwrapped in anything into their bin. Foxes smelt the cooked turkey and knocked over the bin and took it leaving the carcass on the street.
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Do you go around checking your neighbours bins :confused:
 
tom_e said:
Do you go around checking your neighbours bins :confused:
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I don't. I remember during March 2020, there was a photo of an overflowing wheelie bin full of unopened cans of food. One of the cans shown was a supermarket own label beans and they only changed their label in Nov 2019. Baked beans have a 2 year shelf life on them.

But two tenants in the flats about 8 doors from me, order a takeaway, eat about 6 mouthfuls then chuck the rest in the bag the takeaway came in, without tying up the bag. Again foxes pulled the bag to bits. They weren't the ones that did the turkey.
 
cheesefest said:
But two tenants in the flats about 8 doors from me, order a takeaway, eat about 6 mouthfuls then chuck the rest in the bag the takeaway came in, without tying up the bag. Again foxes pulled the bag to bits. They weren't the ones that did the turkey.
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How could you possibly know this?
 
cheesefest said:
Yuk to monthly collections.

The council I used to live under did trial food waste in about 7 villages of various sizes and the council hq town, about 15 years ago. The take up was only 25%. My parents and I hardly bin any food. Only things we bin are the inedible bits of food - peelings (bananas and satsumas), bones, shells and tea bags. Then the odd piece of fruit that has gone off such as satsumas with white mould.

We need stop wasting food. Remember a few years ago at Christmas, someone down my road binned a turkey which had been cooked and had meat carved off it for Christmas Day meal. Then binned the rest unwrapped in anything into their bin. Foxes smelt the cooked turkey and knocked over the bin and took it leaving the carcass on the street. People are binning perfectly good food. They forget that they paid money for this. My mum makes a mince mixture for spaghetti bolognese. Anything left over gets frozen down and used another time with a tin of mixed pulses, a savoury bake topping and some grated cheese.
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Why yuck? You've just said the only things you bin are fully compostable. My council runs a compostable collection (garden/food waste) whether you choose to use it or not. So it sounds like that would reduce your general waste significantly!

The only thing that goes in our bin is non-recyclables, and that's getting less these days with more packaging being recyclable. I even save recyclable plastic packaging and drop them back off at the supermarket.
 
Rroff said:
I hope if they expect people to be going to that effort 100% is actually being recycled - too many times it has come out how only 50% actually makes it to a recycling facility or even the whole lot going to landfill, etc.
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There was a chart for Kent recently and it was appalling what is not recycled.
 
cheesefest said:
I don't. I remember during March 2020, there was a photo of an overflowing wheelie bin full of unopened cans of food. One of the cans shown was a supermarket own label beans and they only changed their label in Nov 2019. Baked beans have a 2 year shelf life on them.

But two tenants in the flats about 8 doors from me, order a takeaway, eat about 6 mouthfuls then chuck the rest in the bag the takeaway came in, without tying up the bag. Again foxes pulled the bag to bits. They weren't the ones that did the turkey.
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ok bin raider
 
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