Recycling bin

[goldringers]

I always spilt the stuff in our bins for re cycling, wife got some medical stuff in a wadding like rockwool in plastic.

It clearly says remove plastic the wadding can go in recycling plant vegetation bin bio degradable i.e.

Green bin

I puts it in and spots bin men taking it out on collection day. I explains it to him, he said if I put it back he's not taking it.

So then I noticed packaging on some microwave rice packs, again it says can be re cycled bio degradable put in compost etc 

So I chucked it in the green bin

Bin men came

Lifted the lid 

Saw it and was gonna leave my bin till I explained it. Now I get his point of view which was spot on.

If they open the and see stuff that's not food or garden waste like grass plants and see packages or wadding how are they suppose to know what is what isn't bio degradable?.

 

He said, we don't have the time to read every package and they are under strict orders not to take green bin waste with foreign crap in or they can get bollocked.

So what's the point ?. I know it goes to landfill and will break down but lots of non recyclable goods also get incinerated.

Biodegradable packaging cost more to manufacture and this gets pushed onto the consumer all apart of this green ideology but if it doesn't make it to compost heaps then what's the point ?

 

 

[Diddy]

Just like car park attendants of yesteryear, Bin men are well up for a good bribing lol. My mates a bin man and he confirms. My cousin gives them a beer every now and then say in the summer and at Xmas.....He gets whatever he put's out taken. Special uplifts - done privately off the books. All for a few tins of Aldi beer/cider.

[Hippie on hill]

Our local news said we could put small electricals in a bag on top of the bin 

So I did, only to find it smashed up all over the pavement when I went out to bring the bin in 

So I've learnt my lesson there 

 

It's worse at my Mum's tho, where they do the kerb side sorting.

Anything they don't want to take is just left on top of the bin so 10mins after they've been there's plastic packaging blowing up n down the road unless it's a rare day with zero breeze.

Whoever came up with that isn't living in the real world ffs

[bigbrother]

Shortly after they introduced the charge for green waste bins here my M-I-L disposed of some plastic trellis that also had plastic vine type flowers attached. She broke up the trellis and chucked it all in the waste bin and the plastic vines / flowery bits ended up on top. Luckily i was walking the dog when they were emptying the bins and noticed a tag on her bin (they were still local) that read read "not emptied / no garden waste at all in this bin". Ran back up the road and spoke to the guys, initially it was no we have been there already, but spoke to supervisor and he realised the operator had fcukked up and went back for it. 

Regards, 

bc

[mard]

We pay £50 per year for a Green Bin, and they will only accept Garden items like leaves/twigs/grass cuttings etc.  Nothing else

[goldringers]

On 07/05/2026 at 13:38, mard said:

We pay £50 per year for a Green Bin, and they will only accept Garden items like leaves/twigs/grass cuttings etc.  Nothing else

So you pay council tax then 50 quid on top for a green bin ??

If that's right it fuckin stinks

[daz2905]

Our garden waste bins are 60 quid each a year. I've got 3 of them because we've got a pretty big garden and I got sick of queueing at the tip on Sundays just to get rid of bags of grass and leafs. It is expensive though, it used to be £30 at our old house. Same county, different council.

[kona]

I put everything in one bin if i do not have enough space goes into public bins.

Our council are talking about a food waste bin now which will never be used and will be reported as missing.

If they deliver another one same thing until they give up.

Edited June 8 by kona

[Cyberrat]

I sort all our waste into the correct recycling bins, wash the plastics, flatten the pop bottles to get the air out, go through the bin bags (from the bedrooms) to separate stuff etc.

I'm an avid recycler, I have been for years since I heard that we had no more holes in the ground to fill.

The rest of the household - the younger ones that are supposed to be up in arms because us older farts have trashed the world - well they DGAF and just chuck it all in the general bin.

Having run recycling groups for the past 20+ years I'm kinda fed up with it now, hearing that it all goes into a hole in the ground and make a hill above it is IMHO not good but what are we to do?

I stopped washing stuff in hot water when the bills started rising, once I get put on a water meter I'll stop washing completely.

Re the food waste bin, I'm actually finding that OK to do.

Simply put any food stuff into the little caddy (and weirdly the rest of the family are doing this too) and then decant to a bigger one when full. It's been OK for the past month and none of the cons that people complained about.

Rossendale council seemingly have decided that this year we did not need a calendar  with what bins are put out on what day so since I had to move them from out back during some renovations I have found it easier to have them in front of the house like many of the other terrace houses in Rossendale.

Luckily so far our binmen have not been jobsworths.

 

[utterchaos]

My mate works on the bin lorrys, if they doing one street normal waste, and they finish the round and still have space on the wagon, they drive to another round and start collecting there, does not matter if it's recycling or normal waste they just collect and all goes into same wagon