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This didn't fit into any of the "W" threads..
Our refuse was collected yesterday .Last week it was just the small food bin so, like everyone else we had full recycle boxes. Most would have full wheelie bins,too.
We have new neighbours. They'd put out a wheelie bin that was emptied but they'd also put out a recycle box (plastics/tins) that was well over-filled and, in addition, a large clear plastic bag full of cans and plastics that sat on the grass verge by the wheeli bin. I didn't see any of this until I looked out of the front bedroom window about 1.00am so too late to knock on their door. I saw the chap bringing it all back off the verge at 9.30 am looking dejected so I went to him and had a chat about it. Our council will not empty any wheelie bin if the lid won't close ,any recycle box or paper/cardboard bag that overflows and nothing that isn't in one of their recycle boxes, food bins or the blue paper/cardboard waste bag. There's a recycle box, too for glass.
The neighbours are from Liverpool where,he tells me, they just have different coloured wheelie bins for general household waste, another for plastics /cans/glass/paper and another for garden waste.
He was happy for me to go through it with him. We removed drink cartons from the plastic/metal box (mainly drink cans and food cans) and bottles. He doesn't have a recycle box for glass so I gave him the council phone number to order one. They'll deliver it. I'll give him a couple of house bricks to put on top of the plastic lids for when it's windy. It's also good to remove the cap from plastic milk cartons and tread on them to flatten them,same with other cartons. You can get a lot more in the recycle box that way. That cheered him up...lol. Last week, I had to go to his food bin at 9.00pm as I put ours out the night before collection and take the top food bag off so that the lid closed and locked (re foxes) and push it down into our food box. They're quite small. That's all they collected last week. I did mention it to him for next time. I've asked our neighbour on the other side, who doesn't have a lot of waste cans/plastics if we could top up her box next week and she was fine with that. We'll have spare space in our, too.It will take a few collections to get him sorted but he was visibly relieved.
Is they way our council deal with collection the same all over ? I think they will take large cardboard flattened boxes not in the paper/cardboard bag on the collection day immediately after Christmas but anything after that left propped up against the boxes/wheelie bin will stay there. I use a serrated knife to cut up cardboard boxes , it's easier than trying to tear them with my hands, to fit in the blue bag.
The bin men must have had a dizzy spell when they saw my neighbour's waste yesterday morning
Our refuse was collected yesterday .Last week it was just the small food bin so, like everyone else we had full recycle boxes. Most would have full wheelie bins,too.
We have new neighbours. They'd put out a wheelie bin that was emptied but they'd also put out a recycle box (plastics/tins) that was well over-filled and, in addition, a large clear plastic bag full of cans and plastics that sat on the grass verge by the wheeli bin. I didn't see any of this until I looked out of the front bedroom window about 1.00am so too late to knock on their door. I saw the chap bringing it all back off the verge at 9.30 am looking dejected so I went to him and had a chat about it. Our council will not empty any wheelie bin if the lid won't close ,any recycle box or paper/cardboard bag that overflows and nothing that isn't in one of their recycle boxes, food bins or the blue paper/cardboard waste bag. There's a recycle box, too for glass.
The neighbours are from Liverpool where,he tells me, they just have different coloured wheelie bins for general household waste, another for plastics /cans/glass/paper and another for garden waste.
He was happy for me to go through it with him. We removed drink cartons from the plastic/metal box (mainly drink cans and food cans) and bottles. He doesn't have a recycle box for glass so I gave him the council phone number to order one. They'll deliver it. I'll give him a couple of house bricks to put on top of the plastic lids for when it's windy. It's also good to remove the cap from plastic milk cartons and tread on them to flatten them,same with other cartons. You can get a lot more in the recycle box that way. That cheered him up...lol. Last week, I had to go to his food bin at 9.00pm as I put ours out the night before collection and take the top food bag off so that the lid closed and locked (re foxes) and push it down into our food box. They're quite small. That's all they collected last week. I did mention it to him for next time. I've asked our neighbour on the other side, who doesn't have a lot of waste cans/plastics if we could top up her box next week and she was fine with that. We'll have spare space in our, too.It will take a few collections to get him sorted but he was visibly relieved.
Is they way our council deal with collection the same all over ? I think they will take large cardboard flattened boxes not in the paper/cardboard bag on the collection day immediately after Christmas but anything after that left propped up against the boxes/wheelie bin will stay there. I use a serrated knife to cut up cardboard boxes , it's easier than trying to tear them with my hands, to fit in the blue bag.
The bin men must have had a dizzy spell when they saw my neighbour's waste yesterday morning