Recycling

We used to buy garden waste bags for £1 each until last year when they changed the system to supplying bags and charging for emptying them. Each bag cost £8 per annum, supplied and emptied once a week. This year it has gone up to £10 p.a. per bag, so have cut back from 3 to 2. They then cart it all off miles away to be recycled into compost as there are no longer any facilities locally!

We pay £45 a year for our green waste bin.

It's good fun this recycling! Glad we don't have to pay at least.

No - that would really be adding insult to injury!

I wish everywhere had the same scheme. My DS only lives 10 miles away in the same county but a different council and his bins and what he can put in them are different it ours. It's soooo confusing. What I'd like to know is where it ends up. I've got a feeling that much of it ends up in the same place and needs sorting anyway!

Why can't there be the same scheme across the country? My son is only 10 miles away but he has to follow different rules to us even though he's in the same county - it's just a different local council.

Durham has just been highly commended for its recycling, waste management and rubbish collection. It's been named the best council in the country.

goldengirl I do so agree. DD and I are in the same town, in Devon, but my DSs live in Hampshire and Gloucestershire, and in each place the system is different. As it was when we joined one of the sons at a holiday let in the Gower.

It took me weeks, once we moved here from Kent, to understand the differences in the recycling rules.

We have a green wheelie bin for garden rubbish and food waste (only collected once a fortnight so not pleasant in the summer!); a blue bag for paper; a brown bag for cardboard; a green box for glass and plastic. I still haven't worked out where tins go, but hardly use any, so it's not a problem.

And yes, I wash or rinse everything.

Whoops I didn't mean to post twice on the same issue!
If in doubt I'm afraid I bung it in the landfill bin. Our council has an A to Z of recycling but some things just aren't on there and I can't be a....ed to ring up in my time and at my expense!

Landfill is just so awful (:

I agree that landfill is awful but at least some of the things I put in the landfill bin will rot down. Also if there was a reduction in packaging etc that couldn't be recycled that would go some way to solving the problem. I get irritated that we, the householders, get blamed and even fined if we make a mistake!