The problem
is not the fact that people fill their bins up too much, it's the fact rotting food is sitting in the bins for two weeks...Not a problem in winter but in Summer walking along our terrace road, you would of thought you were in downtown Bangkok.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 10:56, 2 replies)

*have

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 10:57, closed)

I got told off by my binmen for wrapping up meat scraps and chicken bones etc in newspaper to try and cut down on the smell a bit last summer (when the food waste was only collected once a fortnight) - apparently I should have put the newspaper into the newspaper box provided, they said they'd "take it this time, but try and remember for next collection day.

We had our collections changed recently though, so hopefully it won't be so bad this summer - weekly for the recyclables (including food waste), and fortnightly for the rest of it. And I've had written confirmation from my local authority that I can wrap food waste in newspaper, so I can wave that at the binmen if it happens again.
(Freakmandu, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:23, closed)

How the fuck did they see this?
Don't you put them in black bags? And then put the black bags in the wheelie bin???
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 11:52, closed)

They have cameras that look down into the skip as your wheelie bin gets emptied.
Big Brother or what eh?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 5 Mar 2012, 12:03, closed)

He opened the bin and looked into it, checking for stuff that shouldn't be in there. They do it a lot round here, don't they do it where you are?

We're not allowed to put black bags in our recycling bin. We have many and various hunks of plastic in our garden for chucking stuff away.

We have a brown bin for:

"ALL raw and cooked food scraps / peelings (including bones)
Tea bags and coffee grounds
Envelopes (not with plastic windows)
Shredded paper
Toilet & kitchen roll centres
Egg cartons
Cardboard food packaging (including cereal packets)
Brown cardboard
Grass cuttings
Woody prunings (max diameter 3" / 80mm)
Real Christmas trees
Straw / hay (including the bedding of small animals eg hamsters)"

We also have a separate caddy to go in the kitchen for food waste.


Then we have separate boxes:

"1 box for newspapers, magazines, junk mail, white directories and Yellow Pages
1 box for glass bottles and jars
1 box for food & drinks cans, aerosols, cartons (e.g tetra paks) and all plastics (please rinse any item which has come into contact with raw meat). Please note cling film or expanded foam-like plastics are not accepted."


And a separate green bin for regular household waste.

www.threerivers.gov.uk/Default.aspx/Web/RubbishWasteRecycling

Its all there... I see that they've added now that we're allowed to wrap food waste in newspaper to go into the brown bin, so I guess I won't have to wave my piece of paper at the bin man now.
(Freakmandu, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 13:20, closed)

Fair dos
Sounds like you're fucked.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 14:47, closed)