What's the point - council & bins

[skairdykat]

We've just been given a green bin. What's wrong with that you may ask...........well we live in a terraced house with no back or front garden. All that can go in it is garden waste and brown cardboard. No food boxes, food waste or carboard that has been printed on.

What's the piont of givng a full sized green bin to houses who obviously don't have anything to put in them? Just another waste (excuse the pun) of coucil tax money.

Plonkers

 

[fran_23]

oh where i live the green bin is for all normal household waste that is not for recycling- a blue bin for papre/any cardboard/old electrical items and jars/cans/tins then we have a brown bin for garden waste and organic waste like food leftovers..i don't have a garden either so that bin is a waste of space!!

 

[skairdykat]

Glad we only have two then lol, one of our friends who lives in Bolton has about 5 different ones

 

[jayla's mummy]

som1 stole our bin from our garden. and da council says we cnt get another1 till july!!

 

[mum2A&L]

bins... you have bins!!!!

We get bags - 3 different types, and even then it is never enough!!!!

 

[daftscotslass]

That's stupid that you can't put any cardboard in it. We have brown bins for that and every kind of cardboard including printed stuff can go in it. It's then taken off to the recycling centre/landfill locally and made into compost. We even have the bags of compost that you can pick up to prove that it doesn't matter what kind of cardboard!

 

[Nicola]

Oh can we have it then? They charge £30 a year for those here plus an initial fee to get the bin in the first place....cheeky sods when I know others get them for free and don't even need them, councils are so stupid sometimes.