In Hereford we still have a black sack for normal rubbish, which is collected every week, we also have a blue sack for card, paper and cloth one week and a clear bag for tins and plastic the next. I could be wrong with what goes in what colour, but you get the point.
Our waste of space council is saying about Wheelie bins and fortnightly collection, it is not set in stone yet, but I can see it happening, but a lot of housing in the city have no gardens, so where on earth are people expected to keep two bins? I have a fair bit of space at the front, but I would not want bins stuck out there looking an eyes sore.
I have to admit I don't recycle, I did at one point, but noticed that other people in the street did not bother, so thought why the hell should I bother?
One of my neighbours only recycles paper, pop bottles and plastic milk bottle,, she don't even wash them out, her tins still go in land fill.
I am not going to have any slop bucket or container in my house, so they can forget about that idea. We have plenty of people not working, they can get then to sort out the rubbish to be recycled.
Recycling is all well and good if there is a market for i, but recycled paper have no market in the UK, because most people don't by recycled goods and why don't they buy it? because most of it is more expensive than non-recycled products.
I was good this week and got some loo rolls made from recycled paper, but only because they was on offer, normally they are over a quid more expensive than the non-recycled ones, that is why people don't buy them
When I hear about paper going over to China to be recycled, then I am glad I don't recycle, after all, we do this to save the planet and then they use jet planes to send the paper over to another country.
The only thing I do that is any where near green is to make compost, but that is only to get my garden looking nice.
There is suppose to be some sort of stand set up by our council in town on the 7th of June about recycling, I am on holiday from work then, so I may pop up to see what they are saying and to ask them some things.
The earth have had it's day anyway and with all the fighting that is going on, is it really worth saving?
Doretta
Your views on recycling are becoming increasingly common - people are being alienated by threats of fines and the loss of weekly collections of general waste. This Campaign supports kerbside recycling and urges everyone to take advantage of the facilities available. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee that what we place in our recycling bins is actually recycled - contamination with ordinary waste is still a major problem especially in areas with 2 wheeled bins per household.
Terraced housing with no space for wheeled bins will not prevent your Council from introducing alternate weekly collections - in Oxford 4,500 homes are expected to cope with just bags and residents often have to carry 2 week old waste through their homes to present for collection.
If your neighbours are not recycling there is a real risk of losing weekly collections - they will not appreciate how important these are until they have lost them!
ad47uk
You are correct, I have been chatting a to a lot of people and they have the same views as me and most of them are saying stick it and don't bother to recycle anymore and yet at some point they did.
When I did recycle, I found a lot of stuff that I thought could be recycled could not be, it is difficult to know what can be recycled and I think most people will play it safe, by just putting in stuff like pop bottles, tins and milk bottles, as can be recycled.
The only thing I do recycle now is my garden waste and that is in the compost bins, the only reason I do that is because it is good for my garden.
I have got space, but why should I have to look at wheelie bins though my windows? Things need to change a lot if they want every one to recycle. What I don't understand is when some of these councils that give out fines for no recycling say they have 40-60% recycling rate, if they have made in compulsory to recycle then surly they should be getting 90% or more of the people recycling
We will lose weekly collections, that will certainly happen, and it don't matter if people recycle or not, fortnightly collections will save money so I expect by this time next year our weekly collection will be gone.
I think my next door neighbours and the person across the road would find it hard as they throw a lot of rubbish out, it is nothing to see 6-7 black bags outside their gate on the Wednesday, one of my netx door neighbours don't even take their bags out and them round the back, their view is that they pay council so why should they have to cart then around the front. at the moment that is fine as the rubbish is collected from around the back and to be honest I agree with what they say, but if/when we have the wheely bins things will be different.
To be honest it don't really worry me, I live on my own, so a week worth of rubbish for me is not even a black plastic bag worth and that even with out recycling, I just don't like wheely bins.
I don't fancy the slop bucket idea, I will certainly not use one of them.
rubbishmonster
Re: my thoughts
ad47uk - you state "but recycled paper have no market in the UK" - how do you work that out? Over 70% of pulp in newspapers comes from recycled paper, most of the pulp in loo roll comes from recycled fibres as you mention. Councils are paid sums for their recycled paper - there are active and profitable paper mills in the UK - North Wales, Ellesmere Port and Aylesford to name three. I'm sorry but your statement is wrong.
"I am not going to have any slop bucket or container in my house" - for kitchen waste presumably. Well that is what the guidance a lot of anti-alternate weekly collection supporters are clinging is recommending. If you want a weekly collection you may have to live with it.
"We have plenty of people not working, they can get then to sort out the rubbish to be recycled." That is the kind of attitude that as got us into the waste crisis we are in. Will you be first in the queue to apply for such a job? No thought not - if you want your council to limit the financial impact of the obligation (financial, environmental and moral) to recycle then sorting at home is the best way to produce high quality, high value commodoties.
"When I hear about paper going over to China to be recycled, then I am glad I don't recycle, after all, we do this to save the planet and then they use jet planes to send the paper over to another country." Plenty of paper capacity in the UK and any stuff that does go overseas does not go by plane - it is generally return loads from Asia. We buy our white goods from Asia shiped across in crates. We then ship some stuff back in what would have been empty crates.
"The only thing I do that is any where near green is to make compost, but that is only to get my garden looking nice." You do that becasue you see the sense in it - same sense applies to recycling.
"The earth have had it's day anyway and with all the fighting that is going on, is it really worth saving" Why are you stil here then?!
