With the greatest of respect. But did we really need this??
Now ours is orange!
you can use it as a boat...keep logs in it the winter nearer the house.....
cage one end and keep bunnys...have wheelie bin races(always opt to be navigator not pilot).....
make compost in it.....
fill it with water and keep fish... ;D
Wheelie bins??  what are those? They have still not arrived in the Borders and still using black plastic bags for our rubbish. Have a seperate collection for newspapers and thats it.  Hope this coming year our area will go into the 21st century.
:( :(
We also have no wheelie bins down here in deep dark dorset.
praps we've got your share in lincolnshire ;D
-we have a black one for general rubbish collected every week.. and a blue one collected every other week with recyclable cans and bottles...soon there is talk of us getting another for mushy compostable waste-if we're good! :D
when we were first allocated them i thought-grr!b****Y wheelie bins...but ...well....now-they are bloomin useful and they keep it pong free in the summer......
or is it only our rubbish that pongs.....
oo-er!praps it is?
c'mon!
own up!
whos rubbish pongs!
Oh Tim! We've had black wheelies in Milton Under Tidddlypush for years!! Hope you're not too horrified that they existed just down the road from you for all that time.
Love CLx
obviously tim has been underprivelidged in the wheelie bin department.. ;)
As it is a greenie, I guess it is for compostables. Surely the local authority is well aware of your gardening prowess and realise you do not need a compostable bin as you compost your own compostables in your compostable bin......... now where did I put that gin bottle...........
We've had a green bin for about a year now. I ran over mine last week! When reversing out of the drive the back of the car remembered it was there but sadly the front end didn't. No damage to car or bin but it has put a large bin shaped hole in the shrub it fell in. I'm going to try a rescue attempt this week but it may have to come out. The problem is I have no idea what it is so I'll have to replace it with something else, which I suppose is no bad thing.
EJ - our wheelie bins for normal rubbish are green
the council obviously think that green blends in better with the front of victorian terraces
that, or they got a good deal on the green bins.
we have a recycling box (same size as the black boxes in tim's picture) which is blue and gets collected once a fortnight - paper, tins, cans. the other fortnight is for green waste fro which we are being handed sturdy bags which the binman empty out and hand back over.
svea
It would happen - wouldn't it?
Another occasion when, in bed, I think better of what I've said & desperately want to change it before it's read!! No luck this time.
I omitted to say that it is for garden waste &, on second thoughts, it will obviously be great for those who, for one reason or another, don't compost or burn. If we didn't have a chap who removes uncompostable stuff to his local tip, we would have to go back to burning (unpopular even here & wasteful of land), or drive it in our lovely clean car to the nearest tip 10 miles away.
The sort of stuff is fruit tree, walnut & rose prunings, broken canes, the tougher stems of brussels & corn, & blighted veg,
I shall certainly do all I can to support the campaign.
;D Tim. We have 2 black bins. (whoever chose that colour?!!) One for regular household rubbish and the other for compostables. Though now they have said you are not to put any kitchen peelings in (We don't anyway cos it go's on our heap) We have a blue box for tins and cans, and we also recycle newspapers. At our tip is also a plastic bottle bank as well as the regular glass bottle bank.
Now I think all this recycling is absolutely wonderful, BUT if you have a house the size of a wendy house, as we do, where on earth are you supposed to keep all this stuff without your whole home and garden looking like Stig of the Dumps place?! We have bins and boxes everywhere! DP
Now pay attention...
Our green bin is brown ;D, the rubbish bin is black, our blue boxes are blue with either red or blue lids (one for plastic bottles, one for tins etc) and you need a degree in recycling to get the hang of it all.
Any sign of a tin in the newspaper box, a leaf in the plastics box or a plastic bottle in the green bin (which is brown) and nothing gets emptied at all...................nurse, I think its time for my medication
Plottie ???
;D ;D ;D Plottie.
Last week because of the snow we had a double pick up, green bin (which is black) and regular rubbish........ and yes, they both went in the back of the same truck! :o
We have 3, grey for household rubbish, green for recyclable plastic, papers, tin cans etc. and a brand spanking new brown one for garden waste, no soil, no kitchen scraps.
Three questions,
1.) Do I have to wash my grass clippings before depositing them in the BROWN bin in case of contamination with soil?
2.) Where exactly do the council expect me to keep three *$^%## great plastic bins, my front garden is only 15 by 15 feet?
3.) Which particular orifice do they think the next bright idea might emerge from?
Yours, Mr. Angry, blah blah etc. >:(
1. Yes
2. That's your problem
3. The a***e?? (which is where most of the current ones seem to have sprung from!!)
Of course, we too have black boxes for paper, tins, green glass. brown glass & white glass (God it's embarassing when those last 3 go in - right in the middle of the village!!). But - as with some others - we have, for ages, diligently put everything in it's right box until, one day, I heard lots of crashing & found that everything was being tipped into one box!! (And that's before all the crashing when it goes into the truck.) Draw curtains!!
Oh, yes, they said - unabashed.
No wheelie bins at all. All our rubbish goes in black bags on the street on collection day - it's disgusting. And the only recycling collection they do is paper, once a fortnight. It's like the dark ages. I wouldn't mind, but this is Birmingham, so there should be some kind of infrastructure to bring about change. No money I guess.
Bins, poor street lighting and nobody here knows how to queue! (grumble, grumble) Folk are generally friendly though. I guess you have to be when you're up to your eyeballs in bin bags on the pavement!
Clare.
Tim, well in that case you're ahead of us!
Non-compo here has to be taken to the dump - AKA Chadlington World of Adventure as my OH christened it!
Know what you mean about sorting...but at least here the drive is so long that I don't hear the Tuesday morning crashing!
Love CLx
I worked on the bins for a while once upon one winter not so long ago. The worst round was for the yellow ones - medical waste. ;D
That must be disgusting!! Sympathies.
Our council delivered brown wheelie bins to each household with a garden yesterday, especially for garden waste but no soil was to be included, which must be difficult to exclude if you have been weeding. Have given ours back, as like everybody on here I expect, ours goes on the compost heap. It is sort of a good idea I suppose but I wondered what happens to the end product, does the council hope to redistribute to gardeners as working compost? It doesn't say on the little leaflet we got. busy_lizzieÂ
Our council turn it into compost, then charge you the earth for a bag! :-\
One odd thought struck just now. I have spent the last week or more cutting down the stuff in the Daisy Lawn, still about a third to do, and I have filled the 3 compost bins so say 12 cu mts, plus about the same amount behind the bins and another couple of cu mts just lying around the place waiting to be collected. The nice brown bin holds about half a cubic metre at most. Quarts in pint pots? Still its a good place for all those roses I am throwing away.
Also want to know how they are going to see if you have put any soil in the bin. Are they going to empty it out on the pavement before shovelling it in to the machine? (Yes I know they do that now!)
No wheelie bins here, and no recycling collection either, just the old black bags. They keep telling us we are going to have wheelie bins (colour unknown!!) for our household waste, collected fortnightly, and green boxes for our recyclables collected alternately. Still waiting!!
Since I live in an area of close, terraced houses, many of which are inhabited by students and the unemployed, (ie full occupancy - LOADS of people) you'd think we would be a priority! Oh, and there's no 'bring' site here either. We diligently lug our 'embarrassment collection' to the nearest bottle bank about once a week, but most people just dump them in the black bags. Even when they collect our recyclables they will not be collecting glass - health and safety they say.
EJ our council's compost is free. Just turn up and help yourself to the mound.