New bins delivered whats the green bin exactly for

[Dodo1]

Hi

we have 2 green bins but prob need to get rid of one- how do we do this (legally)?

Also do we have to use the green bags for the foodwaste or can we use ordinary black bin liners?

[Pickle]

You need to use the green ones - black bin liners aren't biodegradable. You should have received a leaflet through your door explaining the ins and outs of the new system.

[damzel]

I wish they'd listed what you CAN'T recycle. They only mentioned cling film and crisp packets

[Renata Hamvas]

I don't know if anyone saw this last night on the TV, Southwark's recycling was on the news. So you could see the conveyor belt sorting system at work, mixed stuff going in and separated recyclables coming out!

Renata

[Sue]

Renata Hamvas Wrote:

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> I don't know if anyone saw this last night on the

> TV, Southwark's recycling was on the news. So you

> could see the conveyor belt sorting system at

> work, mixed stuff going in and separated

> recyclables coming out!

> Renata

xxxxxx

I bet they didn't show an East Dulwich street full of hideous bright blue bins :))

[ianr]

> oh quinnie don't ask ,I've also abandoned the window tearing out with great shouts of glee .

> Have no interest in delving into this and running the risk of someone telling us we have to go back to the dark days !

I think I'll join you both in not rechecking.

Meanwhile, to turn brown for a moment - I put out my single tiny recyclable bag of a week's organic waste, neatly tied with a piece of decomposable string, on top of my brown bin a couple of hours before collection. It duly disappeared. I noticed that a similar bag, the sole content of a brown bin across the road, had also been collected. I failed, however, to watch what had happened. Do you think they wheeled that bin to the lorry, for the bag to be tipped into it, or do they perhaps retrieve them by hand or picker from the bottom of the bins?

[damzel]

A couple of weeks ago I watched a refuse collector pick up a big brown bin and turn it upside-down on top of another big brown bin to empty its measly content of 2 bags of food waste. He did this all down the street and I realised why the bins are now returned in such a careless way, they must be exhausted! When I got home I ordered one of the smaller brown bins and put my big brown bin in my back garden.

Oh and regarding the window envelopes, when I checked the southwark website a few weeks ago they had a lot of conflicting info on there about various items including window envelopes where one page suggests you can recycle them and another page states you can't. So do what you want I say!

[ianr]

How many of the standard food waste bags do the small brown bins hold?

[The Minkey]

The kitchen caddy only contains one, but the larger one I reckon would take 3 or 4. They are much more convenient to put out than the large brown bin if like me you have to struggle past things with it.

As for what plastics can be recycled, I make a decision based on how flimsy the plastic is, so the pull off covers on things like packs of ham I stick in the regular rubbish but the base part which has some stiffness I put in for recycling.

[Loz]

If anyone finds the answer to the envelope window question, please post it. I used to diligently rip the windows out, but have stopped since the new regime came in. Is this right?

As for plastics - I base my plastics decision on if it has the triangle mark on it or not. No mark -> bin.

http://www.recyclelogos.org/images/recycle-logos-1.jpg

[damzel]

deleting my post as I have just checked my "facts" regarding triangle symbols and they were totally wrong!

although this page is useful... http://www.recyclenow.com/why_recycling_matters/recycling_symbols.html