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Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 12:49 pm Post subject: What does your Council do regards recycling?

Surrey Heath Council is so flippin' s**t concerning their recycling policy, I'm about to write to my MP, and I was hoping people could let me know what types of recycling collection service your council offers for comparison?

I know Hampshire are particularly good, which is really annoying seen as the Surrey/Hants border is about 3 miles from us

We do have a recycling collection service, but they don't take glass or plastic, the rest has to be left out in plastic bags, basically paper and aluminium.

Ok, I'm sure that's better than some, at least we have some, but it's when they have the cheak of saying they're doing really well as far as recyling goes in their area.

Oh yeah, and they've started a garden waste scheme, which is to be run by Verdant and costs £50 a year and we have to buy a green bin. I know that the same deal costs £19 a year in Hants!

sean
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Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 12:54 pm Post subject:
Ours take: Paper, textiles and shoes which go in a bag together. Tins, glass and plastics (some, not all), these go in a box. Both the above are sorted by the special van which collects them once/week. We were given a green bin which is collected fortnightly from about Easter to October and monthly the rest of the year.

Nick J

Joined: 19 May 2006
Posts: 94

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:01 pm Post subject:

I feel guilty responding to this. My council is Bexley. We have a big brown wheelie bin, provided at the councils expense for garden and food waste which is compostable. We have three boxes, also provided by the council one black for glass, on red for plastic bottles and aluminium, but not other types of plastic and the local recycle centre which levies a charge for nor borough residents take garden waste, wood, glass, stone and rubble, glasses, wellington boots/shoes, material, paper, metal, engine oil, books in specifically marked containers for recycling and bins for non recyclables. I reckon they are pretty good all in all.

Northern_Lad

Joined: 13 Dec 2004
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:01 pm Post subject:

Living the former foreign (war) secretary's constituancy we're not too bad (even got a new hospital and moterway) as he had to be seen to be doing his bit.

We've got one bag for paper and carboard, a box for glass, plastic and metal, and (those with gardens) get a green bin alongside the normal one. You can also phone up and get furniture collected. The last time my bin went out was when my neighbours had a busy week of decorating and entertaining.

Chick-pea

Joined: 02 Aug 2006
Posts: 148
Location: Cheshire, England

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:01 pm Post subject:
Paper Card Glass Tins Garden waste for composting (but not kitchen waste) Textiles This is all kerbside collection. You can also recycle plastic bottles at the waste rception centre, but the hopper there is always full so actually you can't. My bin now contains nothing but plastic, and there's not even very much of that.

Penny Outskirts

Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:02 pm Post subject:
Ours are really good if you live in a town or village, crap if you live out of the way They take bottles, paper, plastic, garden waste with free wheelie bins. I take all our stuff the the local recycling bank. The local tip is brilliant though.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45421
Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:06 pm Post subject:

Chick-pea wrote:

My bin now contains nothing but plastic, and there's not even very much of that.

What about kitchen waste?

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:08 pm Post subject:

Nick J wrote:

That's excellent! Which county are you in?

Fee

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Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:09 pm Post subject:
Sorry, missed the Bexley bit, was too busy going at the rest!

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Location: 91ï¿½ N

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:09 pm Post subject:
Our council collects most recyclables until you get to the end of your road. At that point they tease us by letting us see the the recycling collected for everybosdy 200m down the road and then stop. OTOH they are quite good at providing recycling points. Possibly the only flaw in that is that it is sometimes difficult to be sure which types of plastic one can recycle.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:11 pm Post subject:
nothing at all kerbside! Still waiting for them to get round to my area. I take all recyclable stuff to nearest community recycle skips.

Miff

Joined: 24 Nov 2005
Posts: 22
Location: Somerset

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:20 pm Post subject:

Our council, Eastleigh BC in Hampshire are really good, we have two main bins which are collected alternate weeks, one is for recycling, the other for non-recyleable waste, in the recycle bin we can put:

* Paper
* Card
* Tins
* Certain Plastics (milk bottles etc)

Then we also have a glass collection service which comes once month, we have a big plastic box for that. These are all included in the council tax, but for an extra £19/year they will also collect your garden waste on a weekly basis. Nearly everyone on our street also use the garden waste service. You can then buy back this waste ready composted for £20 for 6*60 litre bags including delivery. All in all I'm really pleased with our council.

bagpuss

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Location: cambridge

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 1:44 pm Post subject:
We are very lucky in cambridge one week they take the normal bin plus a black box with newspapers/magazines, glass bottles and cans the the next week the green bin which can be food waste and garden waste and cardboard (not shiny)

Nick J

Joined: 19 May 2006
Posts: 94

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 2:33 pm Post subject:

Fee wrote:

Nick J wrote:

That's excellent! Which county are you in?

Bexley is a London Borough but I like to think of it as Kent as it was until for some reason it got caught in the London Catchment.

I forgot to say the third box is green and that is paper and card. The normal non recyclebles are collected weekly as is the compost bin. The paper is collected every other week as are the bottles/plastic on the weeks the paper is not collected, if you see what I mean.

moongoddess

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 673

Posted: Wed Sep 27, 06 3:05 pm Post subject:

I'm in GLoucestershire and I think they're pretty good.

We have fortnightly collections of paper, tins and glass - you chuck it all in a box that they provide (free of charge), but the binmen have broken mine and the ouncil are reluctant to send me a new one

We have fortnightly collection of green waste - the council provide the green bin free of charge

And if you have any redundant 'white goods', furniture, etc you can 'phone them and within a week it will be collected free of charge.

you can take anything except large quantities of builders waste to our local tip, also free of charge - they are very helpful there and you can recycle virtually anything from shoes to batteries to cooking oil........

The thing I would most like to have collected from the kerbside is cardboard, but they won't be doing that so I'm told as they are concentrating on the green waste.

mg x

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