Old Kent Road Recycling centre is now accepting cardboard!

[Ginnie]

I was so pleased to go to the Old Kent Road Recycling centre and find that they now have a big section for cardboard. Thank you to the clever person/people who made this happen!

[kford]

Ginnie Wrote:

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> Does anyone know why the Southwark recycling

> centre on the Old Kent Road is not accepting any

> of the regular materials that go in your blue

> recycling bins? I took a car full of cardboard

> there and was told that it had to go in the

> household waste section. I don?t understand the

> logic of this when there is so much extra

> cardboard around to be recycled due to all the

> home deliveries being made.

The recycling truck has always taken our oversize cardboard waste, if left next to the blue bin

[rjsmall]

We have had them take large cardboard that was placed next to the blue bin in the past. This week I had placed some cardboard (folded and flat) against the blue bin and it was just left so it may depend upon the mood of the bin men.

[KidKruger]

my bin men collect nothing not inside the bin. They will discard anything stacked against/on top of the bin, however neatly and obvious for collection, into my front garden. Not a given !

[DulwichFox]

It does seem to depend on the individual collector.

I have seen waste collectors put separate large cardboard pieces in the truck with no problem

Foxy

[monkeyspanner]

We have the same experience as RJ and KidK - I wondered if it's some covid rule?

[Sue]

monkeyspanner Wrote:

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> We have the same experience as RJ and KidK - I

> wondered if it's some covid rule?

That would make sense, though surely they have to handle the bins which will have been touched by others?

[worldwiser]

I've been going to the OKR Recycling centre for 10 years and there's always been a cardboard section there. In fact it's the first one you come to!

[Rockets]

I think the cardboard section at the OKR site had been removed during Covid to allow for social distancing between the bays. The first time I went there during Covid (incidentally because the council stopped collecting recycling that was not in the blue bin - they had done previously) I was surprised there was no longer a cardboard section but glad to read it is back.

[Clutterqueen]

rjsmall Wrote:

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> We have had them take large cardboard that was

> placed next to the blue bin in the past. This week

> I had placed some cardboard (folded and flat)

> against the blue bin and it was just left so it

> may depend upon the mood of the bin men.

Or the mood of the bin women! A few weeks ago we had a new bin woman collecting on the street.

For the first time in ages I left out a small cardboard box against my recycling bin and watched as she just looked at it and left it.

[alex_b]

monkeyspanner Wrote:

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> We have the same experience as RJ and KidK - I

> wondered if it's some covid rule?

We?ve had cardboard by the side of the bin collected during COVID. It?s not 100% though. They also never seem to take it if it is/has been damp.

[J27]

Does anyone know where we can recycle plastic carrier bags now? We had to use them for our online supermarket deliveries during lockdown, so accumulated quite a backlog :-(

Thanks! J

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

The supermarket delivery drivers will often take them back. I don't know if there are still in-store bins...

[J27]

Thanks DKHB - The problem is that we've got a huge backlog now, and I think it would overwhelm the driver!

Yes, I'll have a look in the store - maybe they have got them again now...

J

[alex_b]

J27 Wrote:

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> Thanks DKHB - The problem is that we've got a huge

> backlog now, and I think it would overwhelm the

> driver!

> Yes, I'll have a look in the store - maybe they

> have got them again now...

> J

We gave hundreds to the Ocado driver when they started accepting them again. He didn?t seem surprised or mind at all.

[Sue]

If you're stuck, I can use them.

I use them for bin bags and also for my kitchen compost bin.

I wash and re-use them till they fall to bits 🙂