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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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So a second bin Laden was found in 2020...?
 
Around here (Leicestershire) there is
Paper Blue bag
Cardboard Yellow bag
Glass Red box
Metal and Plastic - another red box
Garden waste - Brown wheelie bin.

Looks like we are already doing six types.
 
Dalandius said:
Around here (Leicestershire) there is
Paper Blue bag
Cardboard Yellow bag
Glass Red box
Metal and Plastic - another red box
Garden waste - Brown wheelie bin.

Looks like we are already doing six types.
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Well that's just daft.

We have one wheelie bin with a caddy inside. They may not take batteries like my last council but, still, it's straight forward. Pick up once a fortnight.
 
What the waste charges you guys pay ?

Over here we pay a £100 annual charge, plus £3.07 for each 90ltr black bag we put out

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Furious reaction at bins full of unused food in street

Food is thought to have been left behind by international students in a hurry to leave the city as the Covid-19 crisis escalated
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This is one of the stories I was talking about. There's another one which can't find at the moment with unopened baked bean cans with the supermarket changing its labels on them a couple of months previously
 
chaparral said:
What the waste charges you guys pay ?

Over here we pay a £100 annual charge, plus £3.07 for each 90ltr black bag we put out

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I think it's Jersey where you can't burn anything if it makes visible smoke, is Guernsey similar, or can you burn whatever is combustible, if you so wish?
 
Haggisman said:
Birmingham do it sensibly (IMO).

Black bin for non-recyclables.
Blue bin for recyclable - plastic/glass/metal goes in the main bin, and there's an insert for cardboard.
Green bin for garden waste.
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Same here except if you want garden waste bin you have to pay for it, at least its year round though at my mothers place its no collections nov-march and you still have to pay
 
chaparral said:
What the waste charges you guys pay ?

Over here we pay a £100 annual charge, plus £3.07 for each 90ltr black bag we put out

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It's generally included in our council tax, although more and more councils are charging up to £60-70 a year to collect your garden waste bin as an extra.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Same here except if you want garden waste bin you have to pay for it, at least its year round though at my mothers place its no collections nov-march and you still have to pay
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When our Garden waste got introduced they told us you would only have to pay £20 for the bin and it would be free. A few years down the line and we are paying £45 for around 8ish months of collections!
 
I was talking to my mum about the charging for garden bins the other day as it's starting next week for them and we couldn't work out how it's worth it.

If they're sending out another lorry to deal with garden waste only and it's got to go and visit the odd street where one or two houses have paid for it and it then turns out on that particular day maybe one house actually put their garden bin out I just can't see how it's viable never mind how much extra they charge.
 
tom_e said:
I was talking to my mum about the charging for garden bins the other day as it's starting next week for them and we couldn't work out how it's worth it.

If they're sending out another lorry to deal with garden waste only and it's got to go and visit the odd street where one or two houses have paid for it and it then turns out on that particular day maybe one house actually put their garden bin out I just can't see how it's viable never mind how much extra they charge.
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At least on our street everyone coughs up for it. Council obviously make money from it as even though it is £45 a year it would still cost me more in fuel to do it once every two weeks for a year.
 
adam cool dude said:
At least on our street everyone coughs up for it. Council obviously make money from it as even though it is £45 a year it would still cost me more in fuel to do it once every two weeks for a year.
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I suppose it depends on the area but on their street there's only 6 of them out of 27 with any real garden and out of those 6 there's probably only 2/3 that have enough none paved bits to even consider it and it's a similar setup for a lot of the streets near them. You'd hope someone somewhere has done the sums but then it is the local council :D
 
Our garden waste is £34 a year for fifteen pickups. We do need it in our area, I just wish all our neighbours did it.

One of them last year nearly set fire to a field and hedgerow because he decided to burn stuff after a dry spell when it was windy. Next door neighbour nearly set fire to his shed, similarly.

Some people shouldn't be allowed to play with matched
 
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