Large brown wheelie bins

[worldwiser]

Hopefully the council will move to weekly collections as the government has mandated so we can all have smaller wheelie bins. They're such an eyesore and a huge blight on the urban landscape. Did the council actually review the visual impact they have when they instituted them, or was it a decision taken by an accountant? Hardly anyone has decent space to accommodate 3 large wheelie bins sensibly in their front yard.

[Sue]

worldwiser Wrote:

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> Did the council actually review the visual impact

> they have when they instituted them?

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When the hideous bright blue bins were introduced, I put exactly that question to the council manager in, er, question at one of the council meetings. In person.

The answer was no, they hadn't.

Despite the fact that there is a council department responsible for the appearance of streets, apparently bins are not included in said appearance, and there was no liaison whatsoever.

I think that the people taking these decisions live in houses where the bins can be concealed, and just put out on collection days. Therefore they don't give a s**t for people who have nowhere to keep their bins except at the front of their house, with the consequent dreadful effect on the visual environment, or whatever the jargon is :(

James Barber may remember the meeting - he was there too.

[purplebreeze]

I live in a block of flats where we are not fortunate to have lots of different coloured bins in our gardens that we can complain about the colour or even gardens that we can prune/cut and need a bin for - so just be grateful of what you have x

We have to collect our rubbish and our recycling in our tiny flats and then walk it in the correct bags to the bins x one rubbish and one recycling - oh for a brown bin we really want one of those but hey no matter how much we ask we will never get one but someone has started a compost bin in the grounds where we can walk our food waste to or take it to the allotments who are grateful for the contributions x

We all lead busy lives but it doesn't take long to walk to a communal bin (and families with children make it an adventure) that is what we need more of, communal bins not individual ones in everyone's gardens and then the council would spend less time empty them than collecting individual bins weekly/fortnightly there may need to be a rota but it could be worked it is in European countries so why not here... but because people are not trusted/educated to walk their rubbish/recycling to the bins then people will have a multitude of bins in their gardens ...

[L16579]

The new blue bins are a darker shade of blue more like a dusty navy

[worldwiser]

Both our green and blue bins were emptied yesterday which is wonderful. Do I take it Southwark has therefore bent over under the force of Eric Pickles?

[fl0wer]

No, one week they do green + blue, the next week they do green + brown.

This means contents of brown bins have a fortnight in which to get fairly rotten, a problem to solve with the aid of a compost heap if you can.

Fortnightly blue ones become problematic if too many people chuck in their recycling, perhaps from several households.

This can be reduced, for example by shredding cardboard for compost, and please start refusing plastic wrapping wherever possible:

http://www.marinet.org.uk/plastic-pollution-of-the-oceans-a-problem-of-immense-and-increasing-gravity.html

[Ted Max]

Think actually, like a struggling snooker player, their regular pattern is to take brown every week and alternate green and blue.

Although very occasionally you do get a super lottery cash Eurobins rollover week and they empty all the bins.

More bin news as I have it.