Local Authority Recycling Centres (used to be tips)

[MikeyH]

You are too old anyway, they don't work over 55

Cheeky

[Nanu]

Put green waste in a bin liner and put it in the general waste bin. Its free that way

But that gets my goat though as I pay a fee for the privelage.

This was picked up on one of the my local community website group chats where someone had seen their neighbour bag their green waste up and put it in with normal household waste and it was duly collected by the bin men, no questions asked. The person then called the Council to question this and they said yes if you put green/garden waste in with household it will get taken away.

So the point of me paying a fee is?

I will contacting my local Borough Councillor to raise it with the Council as it's plainly a farce if no checking is carried out. The only checks that are carried out is with the Green Waste bins that are put out that the homeowner has paid the yearly subscription fee which is confirmed by a sticker on the bin.

Tim.

We have a container inside our recycle bin for newspapers. I have seen our bin men on more than one occasion when taking the recycle bin away, if there is room, just tip the newspapers into the rest of the recycle stuff, so what is the point?

A lot of the stuff that's put into the recycle bin ends up being rejected and sent to landfill in some foreign country anyway.

[Nanu]

And in their spare time they can collect the £69k by "working" for the train companies

Train drivers work very hard four days a week, sitting looking out of a window for their £65k basic. I think they deserve a huge pay increase!

Agreed. All that training as well, green button to go, red button to stop. But if you forget the red button, don't worry, we will stop it for you.

Don't forget that they wave at the train driver going in the opposite direction, optional of course and depending if they are on overtime or not

[N4LLY]

Pondrew, You been to the Tip yet with the new 320 work horse ?

[Pondrew]

Pondrew, You been to the Tip yet with the new 320 work horse ?

No mate, I'm a bit worried they might keep it and crush it.

[N4LLY]

No mate, I'm a bit worried they might keep it and crush it.
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[Mr Tidy]

We have a container inside our recycle bin for newspapers. I have seen our bin men on more than one occasion when taking the recycle bin away, if there is room, just tip the newspapers into the rest of the recycle stuff, so what is the point?

A lot of the stuff that's put into the recycle bin ends up being rejected and sent to landfill in some foreign country anyway.

That seems to sum up how random recycling is in different places.

Where I lived before it all went in the same bin, paper, cans, plastic containers, foil, etc. but they wouldn't take glass so I had to take it to the Tesco containers when I was buying the replacements!

But where I live now even the glass goes in with everything else which is much easier.