Recycling changes...

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
With no brown bin collection can you just dump your grass clippings on the Chase - after all it is organic ? No ? Thought not, not officially anyway - but what about using The Great Escape ‘trouser’ method for defeating the goons (ie Chase Wardens) ?

The answer to Question11 - https://www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk/all-services/recycling-and-waste/garden-waste-subscription-service-–-questions-and-answers - says you can just chuck it in the green bin, as people were doing twenty years ago...

Not sure if that applies to Stafford, but I imagine that it might.
 

Mikinton

Well-Known Forumite
We noticed a collection point for clothes and shoes in the Weeping Cross shops car park, on the wall next to St Anne's church. Not sure if this is for decent stuff that can be sold on or for material that can be recycled, but will check it out as I've a few bags that would have gone to the tip but were destined for the green bin instead.
 

The Hawk

Well-Known Forumite
The answer to Question11 - https://www.newcastle-staffs.gov.uk/all-services/recycling-and-waste/garden-waste-subscription-service-–-questions-and-answers - says you can just chuck it in the green bin, as people were doing twenty years ago...

Not sure if that applies to Stafford, but I imagine that it might.
Yes, council's have a responsibility to collect household waste which, by definition, includes garden waste.

Many councils are trying this smoke and mirrors approach into making you think that you have to pay to have your garden waste collected; you do not. However, councils do not have to provide a separate bin for garden waste and it is this additional service they are withdrawing, unless you pay.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Yes, council's have a responsibility to collect household waste which, by definition, includes garden waste.

Many councils are trying this smoke and mirrors approach into making you think that you have to pay to have your garden waste collected; you do not. However, councils do not have to provide a separate bin for garden waste and it is this additional service they are withdrawing, unless you pay.
Even calling it the 'residual bin', possibly in the hope that some people don't understand which one that might be..?
 

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
With no brown bin collection can you just dump your grass clippings on the Chase - after all it is organic ? No ? Thought not, not officially anyway - but what about using The Great Escape ‘trouser’ method for defeating the goons (ie Chase Wardens) ?

Oooh David McCallum, he was quite a dish in his day, wasn't he?
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
Oooh David McCallum, he was quite a dish in his day, wasn't he?
He was a work colleague of mine for a while. I still have my identity card.

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Obviously, for security reasons, this is not my actual card.
 

Mikinton

Well-Known Forumite
When they emptied them and put them back around here on wednesday, luckily it was a calm day as they didn't collapse them down at all. Just put them back stood upright and fully opened up.
For those worried that their blue bag might blow away after it's been empitied, our bin men put the bag over the top of the emptied blue bin and put the lid down on it. As they're round about 8:00am, it means I can roll over and go back to sleep rather than worry about putting my dressing gown on and chasing my blue bag as it gets blown up the street.
 

Jonah

Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Post on Facebook by Baswich Community Group about lack of blue bag delivery. Over 80 replies naming streets which haven’t received a bag yet.

It appears to be a balls up of the highest magnitude by SBC/Veolia.
 

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
At least those who have availed of the 'monthly' direct debit can sleep well tonight, knowing that it will be removed from their possession tomorrow and, I'm sure, Veolia will get their usual cut from it, too.
 

staffordjas

Well-Known Forumite
For those worried that their blue bag might blow away after it's been empitied, our bin men put the bag over the top of the emptied blue bin and put the lid down on it. As they're round about 8:00am, it means I can roll over and go back to sleep rather than worry about putting my dressing gown on and chasing my blue bag as it gets blown up the street.
You must have a concientious team doing your round. We've just had our daily walk around Knowle Rd area. Empty blue bags down there have just been slung back down open, and either standing up or on their sides next to the blue bins. One had ended up in the middle of a lawn....
 

Mikinton

Well-Known Forumite
Post on Facebook by Baswich Community Group about lack of blue bag delivery. Over 80 replies naming streets which haven’t received a bag yet.

It appears to be a balls up of the highest magnitude by SBC/Veolia.
We've just walked around the estate and it's obvious which streets haven't received theirs. Maybe the delivery service got coronavirused before they could make their delivery.

There were quite a few brown bins out as well.
 

Alee

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I regularly see a van delivering the blue bags . Derrington has theirs delivered a couple of weeks ago but they missed a few so keep having to come back to drop off more / extras .
I last saw them yesterday morning
 
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