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wellington womble
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N.V.M.
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cab
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 05 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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NVM, it varies according to where you are in the UK.
Here in Cambridge we now have a plastic bottles and containers box (blue box), recyclables box (paper, cans, aerosols and glass, that's the black box), a compostables bin (anything that can rot down, including bones, meat, card, garden waste, food waste, etc.) and a black bin (everything else). Cambridge is quite progressive, but not so far ahead of many other towns. |
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judith
Joined: 16 Dec 2004 Posts: 22789 Location: Montgomeryshire
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Posted: Mon Oct 10, 05 10:46 pm Post subject: |
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N.V.M. wrote: |
bit off topic as i realize many of you do not live in urban areas, but do most cities in the UK have recycling programs where you are given a designated bin and the bin is emptied like your regular trash?
where i live we are given a bin, with colored bags. newsprint goes in the blue bag, recyclabale cardboard in the yellow, and tins go straight into the bin. they are then put into the back lane where they are removed once a week by the district. |
It very much depends on your local council and how seriously they take their recycling obligations. I live in a rural area, and we are officially only allowed one bin bag per week; we are given a roll of bags once a year. If you want to use more than that, then you are supposed to buy them. There is no separate collection of green waste, bottles or whatever - or at least not where I live.
On the other hand, we have excellent recycling depots that have bins for pretty much everything I would want to recycle, including plastic wrap, old wires and cables, textiles, oil, asbestos sheeting, etc, etc. |
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Little Acorn
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