Accip74 7,112 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 We have specific bin bags for our area, with the commune name on them........€40 for a roll of 20! There's no escape...... Be warned, It's coming your way......haha Seeing as we paid for green bin, if it's full and we want more stuff than fits in bin disposed of, the local library sells green bin bags for garden waste, £2.10 for roll of 10 lol and as far as black bin bags go, if your bin lid ain't closed properly they don't take it, leave a bin bag next to black bin and they refuse to take em lol can pay for a bigger bin tho if you need more waste disposed of lol It does make us recycle more, the recycling bags are peanuts.......we still put out 2 of rubbish a week though, now with the tip charges I'm trying to get everything in those bin bags haha..... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,503 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Same here we get our buckets emptied every two week I now need the household one as a fortnight worth of dog and ferret crap fills it so I've now got to take the house waste to the dump . The council will do three pickups a year at £25 each for twenty itemised items , but it also amazes me when your out in the middle of nowhere and there's a couch and chairs dumped there they must have driven past a dump to put them there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
forest of dean redneck 11,694 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Our rubbish was grey bags,once a week free roll every year,now it's back to black bags you provide yourself,and every fortnight ,recycling is every Monday pinkish bags for paper/cardboard and purple for tins an plastic.food waste is green bags in a blue bucket/caddy with lid, if you put food in loose or in its orginal wrapper they won't empty it. Tips on edge of town,I run up there couple of times a week ,with extra bags of rabbit/cat /ferret litter. Next door says it's costing £17 for council to collect a small homemade shed he's took down. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J Darcy 5,871 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Shepp by just giving folk a free facility to take rubbish should in theory save money. Less fly tipping equals less clean up costs which costs vast amounts. Not to mention everything getting put in the right containers and recycled at tipping facilities . I fully agree Max, but the guy who was tipping probably would have still tipped. We need more tips for sure. With all these people out of work and claiming i think they should be employed at a recycling centre so we can really boost recycling. IMO all rubbish should be sorted by hand, no matter which bin it goes into. The worlds filling up with rubbish and it's about time we did something about it. A few thousand people sorting this out on conveyers would make a hell of a difference IMO. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 20,684 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Interesting fact on the radio today ....90% of all sea birds have plastics in there gutt ..probably because most the fecking sea rats are inland raiding the landfills though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
abarrett 462 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Pile the rubbish up in your own garden leave it till the rats move in have a good bit of shooting then the beginning of November buy a tenners worth of bangers on the 5th set fire to it light the bangers and use the 410 to finish the fleeing rats Just an idea Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 20,684 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 You could have a point there Kanny to be fair there's a real problem with plastics going into the sea and it's only going to get worse...I don't know what solution is but I do know we are all part of the problem. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,176 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Without a doubt JD I'm sure it's 90% of all materials that can be recycled Dangle them a carrot. The philippines has started importing shipping containers of rubbish from canada to recycle,there used to be a huge rubbish mountain called Tondo near north harbour in manila,notorious sort of place (i walked past once and saw a team of guys snatch someones hand-bag and dissapear into the maze of tin shacks that formed the village)known because it always smoked like a volcano due to decomposition,and entire families worked the dump for recyclable rubbish,plastic,paper,cardboard,soft-drinks cans and suchlike.I once saw an advert the americans made there,small kid combing through the rubbish and found something which they stuck in their mouth and swallowed,the caption came up "Dont let your kids each junk food". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
s.e.s.k.u 1,893 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Some councils are better than others..plenty of tips local to me easy to use etc all free of charge most stuff gets recycled. .The price of landfill has gone through the roof past 15 years..The tips won't allow vans and tippers on for good reason..people charge folk to clear gardens etc and then the council has to pay to take it to landfill? Thats not good business.. The majority of fly tipping in my area is rubble an garden waste dumped by cowboys in pick ups who don't pay tax anyway.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 13,199 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 One thing they have right on the continent is communal bins that are emptied daily. These serve a street say and they are everywhere general, recycled (glass/metal etc), organic etc and as a bonus you can set fire to them on riot days You can get big stuff taken free also Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 27,176 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Mackem I think India is another country that operates a similar system or recycling other countries waste. ? They def break ships up with not a hint of Health and Safety in sight . India is exactly the same,always used to see people recycling,even the thali plates made from pressed coconut leaves were eaten by the cows that wander the street,alang in gujarat is the ship-breaking capita of the world,your right no HSE for miles around,remember the book of eli,theres a conversation in the movie the end line of which was something like "We had a surfeit of everything,and threw things away that people would kill each other for now" Resources can only last for so long with emerging economies and people clamouring for consumer goods. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shepp 2,285 Posted September 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Shepp by just giving folk a free facility to take rubbish should in theory save money. Less fly tipping equals less clean up costs which costs vast amounts. Not to mention everything getting put in the right containers and recycled at tipping facilities . You do have a point there Max. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J Darcy 5,871 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 And one other thing that winds me up....we're not allowed to put glass in the recycle bin. Where's the sense in that I wonder? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 47,396 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) Rubbish sorting is automated already, private licenses waste facilities have these machines because they earn more money sorting it. Commercial waste will cost around £100 a ton to dump plus or minus 25%.........minimum charge is a ton mostly!! Put a days wages on top for most blokes and some diesel you will be Into £400 for a van load........most of the locals that complain about fly tipping will be the same people looking to get some clearance done for £50 !! Even proper firms don't really want to pay the real cost but they have to ! Nobody wants to stop the relentless consumerism but they are happy to pull your pants down for getting rid of it !! Councils and governments have to ask themselves, is it cheaper to let people tip in a licensed facility or is it cheaper to send out workmen to clean it up? Edited September 1, 2015 by WILF 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bosun11 537 Posted September 1, 2015 Report Share Posted September 1, 2015 Fly tipping is the bain of our lives in this village. It's an almost daily occurence in the lanes that surround us. Not a week goes by without me in the ditches pulling out the shite. Everything from house clearances to crops of green. The council will, if forced, take only whats on the tarmac, so the ditches and verges get left by them, so my job is to get everything on the road so its not left. What causes the problem... The tip is less than a mile away but it is so strict in its policys on tipping there, most either aint got a permit or would not pay the charges and so we get the aftermath! Back in the day, the same people would have waited till after dark and sneeked back to dump outside the tip gates. With the workers clearing before opening the following day (I know this because my old man worked there). These days them gates are cctv'd up to the max, with huge p.i.r. lighting too, you'd think it was Fort Knox in there. So they do the only thing open to em and dump it down our dark, quiet lovely lanes... Sickener! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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