| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Reduced bin collections? | |
| Posted by: | Philippa Bond | |
| Date/Time: | 01/06/19 16:20:00 |
| Well unless the wheelie bin is okayed by the Council then it is just as I said - people do their own thing and then wonder why all of a sudden their waste is not collected. I think the problem with the wheelie bins is their height and the fact that people put heavy stuff in there - much heavier than they would in an ordinary dustbin and bags have to be raised higher to get them out. Personally I've used an ordinary metal dustbin for years. It isn't tapered at the bottom so stands up better. It is tied to a wall and the lid is tied to it so it can't go far. When a bag is full (every several months) then I put the bag out on top of the lid for collection. We can put so much in our recycling green box that there is no need for a weekly collection. It would be an unsupportable waste of money. We also put out one caddy of food waste each week or fortnight - mostly tea bags and banana skins. Both of which we tend to be too lazy to compost although some goes into a wormery when I feel that they need feeding. I had the wormery before the food waste collection started. We don't need the amount of space in the big FWB but because we are required to use empty the caddyful into that for collection. Hillingdon are likely to have a bigger garden waste collection because I'm sure that this went down in Ealing as soon as it was announced that it would be charged for. And of course composting went down and the recycling rate went up as soon as the free reusable bags were introduced. |