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We had our new blue bins delivered a couple of hours ago, but I declined in favour

of another blue box, as I have cobbles in the front garden.

I am also going to get a Wormery - can anybody, who has one already, tell me

more about them - where to put in the garden, what sort of worms etc.


G 65

Everything that doesn't go in either your blue recycling box or brown garden/food waste bin. We generally end up with about one small bag of waste a week to go in our green bin - non recyclable parts of food packaging (the cling film), cat food packets etc. as well as nappies if applicable in your household.

I didn't get a leaflet but I got a shiny new blue wheelie bin to got with my existing green one and brown one.


Could someone give me a brief summary of what I am meant put in the new blue bin,is it like cans/bottles/cardboard/newspapers ?


Thanks, KK.

Aren't we going to end up with more bins (green or brown particularly) that are very lightly loaded, say quarter full or less? Has this been so in the food waste pilot scheme? If so, has there been any sharing of bins, to make the collection process a bit more efficient?
Uh....I guess I could get arrested for even thinking this .... But am I the only one who finds all this sorting of the non organic cling film from the biodegradable baked bean tin etc a giant ball ache? Just asking, like .....

Marmora Man Wrote:

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> Do they take away the blue boxes and blue bag for

> papers - or are these the first thing we put in

> the blue bins?


Or the green bin - depends what kind of plastic they're made of.

The idea I offered the council was: Brown Bins for food and garden waste and Green Bins for everything else. They can dump the green bins on a conveyor belt and rapid sort what's there. No third bin. More sorted. Less waste/ more recycling. The council said NO

Brown bins- garden waste and food waste

blue bins- all recyclables mixed together, now including tetrapacks and envelopes with windows (ie paper, most plastic (eg shampoo bottles, plastic boxes from food, glass, cans, foil).

green bin, everything else eg nappies, cling film, polystyrene etc


I shall find out if blue boxes are being removed.


Due to the increase in what can be recycled, the amount left to be put in the green bins is greatly reduced, so a typical household should not have a problem with the green bins being emptied once a fortnight rather than once a week. In areas where food recycling has been piloted, recycling %s have doubled!

Renata

We had our recycling collected yesterday. We've always had (and always put out) two blue boxes, but they only left us with one of these and no new big blue bin was delivered.


We were also left with a brown kitchen caddy, but we already have one of these as we've been part of the pilot for the last year.


So, we've got too many caddies, less blue boxes and no blue bin.


Renata - is this a cock-up or are the big blue bins being delivered separately?

I have an extra box instead of a blue wheely bin, but why oh why are the new blue bins not a less obtrusive colour? Why could they not be a darker blue,eg the blue the existing boxes are, which would have blended in a little better with the surroundings?


My road is now a hideous mass of bright blue bins, all clearly visible as there is nowhere else to put them except our miniscule front gardens.


I'm all in favour of recycling, but not the vile effect it is having on the visual environment.

Renata Hamvas Wrote:

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> green bin, everything else eg nappies, cling film,

> polystyrene etc


> Renata



Thanks. I don't have babies in my household and rarely have polystyrene to throw away, so is the green bin just for cling film? Not sure what goes under "etc."...

IF you want to keep your blue boxes and bags you can. All the blue wheelie mixed up recycling and blue boxes and bag contents will all go in the truck and get mixed up and then be sorted at the new Old Kent Road waste centre.


Segregated recyclnig is worth more but allowing mixed up recycling achieves a higher participation rate.


If anyone find the standard 240 litre green wheelie bin oversized they can ask for a smaller 180 litre one (called 020 7525 2000 or email me) OR suggest to neighbours to share a bin and have the spare one removed.

Same about sharing goes for any of your wheelie bins. Council don't do smaller sized brown wheelie bins (I've asked repeatedly).


Hope that helps.

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