tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886189736013458052.post81671465587045969..comments2023-06-29T12:54:27.214+01:00Comments on The Home of The Green Arrow: Bins, barcodes and BrownThe Green Arrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08068638909478130288noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886189736013458052.post-35374216799025466662007-10-31T19:47:00.000+00:002007-10-31T19:47:00.000+00:00modern life eh,dont you just loathe it!.(Shieldwal...modern life eh,dont you just loathe it!.(Shieldwall-Plymouth)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886189736013458052.post-42958052309972404292007-10-31T16:10:00.000+00:002007-10-31T16:10:00.000+00:00We now have 2 large bins and a box where I live. W...We now have 2 large bins and a box where I live. We can save paper glass & tins in the box, household waste in the black bin, and gardening waste and cardboard in the green bin. I also recycle plastic but there is no collection for that so I bag it up and take it to the dumpit along with other recyclable stuff that they don't collect. Before we got the green bin this summer I used to take my gardening waste to the dumpit and my household waste was collected every week, but now we have the green bin I have to forego a weekly collection on the household waste which Is necessary, in exchange for a monthly (in my case)collection of stuff I used to take myself. <BR/><BR/>It seems with every additional bin they extend the collection period, you aren't going to fill all the bins in one week or even 2, but that's not the point, it stands to reason that individual types of waste aren't going to accumulate as quickly as general household waste. My garden only gets a pruning once a month (roughly) My black bin gets filled every week, and the household waste is far more attractive to rodents than is the shrub and lawn clippings, but my black bin has to remain in my drive now for 2 weeks, festering and stinking, especially in warm weather, so luckily this year it hasn't been too bad due to the lack of currant bun. Even disinfectant and bleach can't combat the accumulated stink of a fortnight. These bloody councils are crazy, they haven't an ounce of common sense between them. Just money grubbing tin-pot dictators.<BR/><BR/>The article in the Daily Mail says it all, I had an argument with my neighbour over the microchips in the bins, she said it was so they could tell what you were putting in the bins, which is ridiculous, I told her then it was because they were weighing them and eventually we would end up getting charged separately for the weight of our bins but she wouldn't listen... needless to say I'm going to print the article here... <BR/> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490612&in_page_id=1770 <BR/> and give it to her.<BR/><BR/>RoseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com