Recycling changes...

Mudgie said:

Blue and brown look very similar in the dark so the neighbour might have made a mistake.

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No, he got it and filled it up in the morning after the other neighbour went off to work and put it up the drive alongside his own (his own full of allowed garden waste ) brown bin. He had to go and own up and apologise and tip it all back out onto his garden again so that the neighbour could use his bin . He'd put all soil mixed with lumps of concrete in it

(He's the same one who added car parts to the top of my blue bin one time , and then all sort of 'not allowed' stuff another time. Candles , ornaments , crockery etc when they were chucking stuff before their house move. But luckily I'd gone out to add more and noticed it before the bin men came.)
Calm has now restored to our corner as they have now moved.

staffordjas said:

No, he got it and filled it up in the morning after the other neighbour went off to work and put it up the drive alongside his own (his own full of allowed garden waste ) brown bin. He had to go and own up and apologise and tip it all back out onto his garden again so that the neighbour could use his bin . He'd put all soil mixed with lumps of concrete in it

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Okay, but I just like to give people the benefit of the doubt.

2 trips today with 4 and 5 bags and charged £6 both times. I do appear to have found the reason for the undercharging as the big burly staffer asked if I could bring a packet of biscuits in as a reward for the "nudge nudge" activity...

c0tt0nt0p said:

2 trips today with 4 and 5 bags and charged £6 both times. I do appear to have found the reason for the undercharging as the big burly staffer asked if I could bring a packet of biscuits in as a reward for the "nudge nudge" activity...

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Asking for a 'backhander' in return for depriving an employer of their due income is surely quite serious.

At that level it makes the world go round.

It’s Blue Bin Day here in the sticks. I’m still working from home and my office overlooks the road. Each week I watch the walking bin man play with the bin lid or slump across the bin, while he waits for the van.

This morning I set out the bin, together with the loathsome blue bag into which I had laboriously crammed our paper and cardboard. There was also a very large cardboard box, flattened and folded as instructed.

Want to know what happened?

He picked up the box and bunged it into the bin.

I watched, in case he took it out before emptying. He didn’t. The blue bin was up-ended and with it went the great big cardboard box.

I’m pointlessly, futilely, cross.

They ruined a really good recycling system with the stupid blue bags and then they mix up the stuff we dutifully separate!

Did you know a lot of your "garbage" could be put aside and go for recycling with funds raised going to Childhood Cancer Parents Alliance in Stafford?

I recently took a whole bin bag of waxy cartons (milk and fruit juice containers) rather than it going to landfill.
Many other items can go there too. Tranquility and Roots Larder are both eco friendly and based at the old Jens Shoes building off the Newport Road.

Recycling – Aroma by Tranquility (etranquility.co.uk)

flossietoo said:

It’s Blue Bin Day here in the sticks. I’m still working from home and my office overlooks the road. Each week I watch the walking bin man play with the bin lid or slump across the bin, while he waits for the van.

This morning I set out the bin, together with the loathsome blue bag into which I had laboriously crammed our paper and cardboard. There was also a very large cardboard box, flattened and folded as instructed.

Want to know what happened?

He picked up the box and bunged it into the bin.

I watched, in case he took it out before emptying. He didn’t. The blue bin was up-ended and with it went the great big cardboard box.

I’m pointlessly, futilely, cross.

They ruined a really good recycling system with the stupid blue bags and then they mix up the stuff we dutifully separate!

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Push back to the council and see what excuse they give....

flossietoo said:

It’s Blue Bin Day here in the sticks. I’m still working from home and my office overlooks the road. Each week I watch the walking bin man play with the bin lid or slump across the bin, while he waits for the van.

This morning I set out the bin, together with the loathsome blue bag into which I had laboriously crammed our paper and cardboard. There was also a very large cardboard box, flattened and folded as instructed.

Want to know what happened?

He picked up the box and bunged it into the bin.

I watched, in case he took it out before emptying. He didn’t. The blue bin was up-ended and with it went the great big cardboard box.

I’m pointlessly, futilely, cross.

They ruined a really good recycling system with the stupid blue bags and then they mix up the stuff we dutifully separate!

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Yes but Big Sir at the council needed to come up with a new initiative & as you know Big Sir is never wrong.

gilbert grape said:

Did you know a lot of your "garbage" could be put aside and go for recycling with funds raised going to Childhood Cancer Parents Alliance in Stafford?

I recently took a whole bin bag of waxy cartons (milk and fruit juice containers) rather than it going to landfill.
Many other items can go there too. Tranquility and Roots Larder are both eco friendly and based at the old Jens Shoes building off the Newport Road.

Recycling – Aroma by Tranquility (etranquility.co.uk)

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Yes please take your recycling to Tranquility / Roots Larder. Both Well worth a visit if you haven’t been there. (By shoe shed)

If you cannot take your recycling yourself, find someone locally who is collecting. All money raised goes to charities and your waste doesn’t go to land fill.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/324267582233026

The introduction of the blue bag irritated me at the time because of the meaningless claim that the shiny new bag had “a greater capacity than the previous caddy.”

The caddy held paper. Cardboard went in the bin and the bag most certainly doesn’t have the same capacity as the bin. It was an entirely disingenuous argument and because we don’t have any real local reporters any more, the council just laughed behind their hands and treated us like idiots.

It’s my job, now, to wrestle with all the bits of paper and card; folding, pressing, sitting on it to try and force it into the bag. My husband just holds out piles of it, helplessly, or leaves it by the back door when I’m in the garden.

I used to think we had a great recycling scheme. In fact, believe it or not, one of the things I liked about our current home was that it was still in Stafford Borough and thus we’d still have the same sensible recycling, rather than the multiple containers and streets full of billowing paper I’d seen in nearby towns.

I’m sorry. I’m usually quite sunny-tempered. I can only apologise that you’ve all been subjected to my recycling rant. Just remember, you can stop reading. My husband is stuck with me and he hasn’t left the house for weeks.

flossietoo said:

. My husband is stuck with me and he hasn’t left the house for weeks.

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Nobody cares about him.

It's Flossie we're worried about.

My next door neighbours blue bin is always full of card and paper - it is never rejected or one of those stickers stuck to it as a warning.
it just all goes in the same 'hole' in the wagon.

We now compost our cardboard boxes.

I’ve also seen the recycling operatives/bin men/Veolia villains* put excess cardboard in the blue bin. We carefully sort it, they just chuck it in the same bit of the wagon.

*Take your pick.

I’ve been using our office bin for any major cardboard, the only thing the blue bag is good for is card, not actual cardboard. Thin boxes, etc go in the bag and then it’s not unusual for me to drive into the tech park with a back seat full of cardboard to dump into the office bin...

Rip the cardboard up & put it in the bag.

simples.

Tumble weed said:

The new scheme does irritate me, every few years they seem to recycle less and less, and I know it's nothing to do with the council, but that useful clothes and shoe bank has gone from the side of the old shorties now too.

In a time when we're meant to be making the most of reusing , and recycling , there seems to be more emphasis on just throwing more and more into the green bin.

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The council choose the operator of the scheme.