Sheffield moving to fortnightly bin collections

[kcustard]

I've had a fortnightly black bin collection for the last 4 years. The alternate week I get my recycling bin and garden waste bin emptied. Although it was hard at first, it does get easier, you just have to recycle more

[pottedplant]

I've had a fortnightly black bin collection for the last 4 years. The alternate week I get my recycling bin and garden waste bin emptied. Although it was hard at first, it does get easier, you just have to recycle more

 

Back to that argument of how (to recycle more).

[WasThatWise]

Slightly off topic but a Veoila bin lorry has turned up across the road to empty one black bin but the lift on the back wouldn't go above horizontal, the solutions were to keep trying it over and over again, to hit it a few times then keep trying it over and over again, to switch the engine off and back on and keep trying it over and over again, to move the lorry three metres forward and keep trying it over and over again, to scratch their heads then move the lorry up the road and back down so it's now pointing downhill then keep trying over and over again, then to drive off, don't know if the bin actually got emptied.

[adamf]

This is my point. Veolia are a business with shareholders ,and there main aim is to make money, profit, and the use the public as free labour to seperate all the Re-recyclable materials they can sell for profit. There is NO benefit to Joe public what so ever from Re-Cycling.

 

Leaving the world a little cleaner for the next generation isn't a benefit?

[adamf]

Most of which can be flattened down with a good stamping.

 

Yes, but Pottetplant will still have to do a 3-hour, 4-bus, £5 trip to get rid of them --- just less often. There is a problem with the limited range of kerbside recycling in Sheffield; Derby's system takes cartons, punnets, etc.

[adamf]

I'd rather pay the same price and get fortnightly collections rather than pay more council tax, or get a reduced service.

 

Why do people thing that the move to fortnightly means the council is taking the money saving and lining their own pockets with it? Is it that hard to comprehend that it's being used elsewhere?

 

Because it's easier to blame the Big Bad Council than to make an effort to throw less stuff away?

[kcustard]

Back to that argument of how (to recycle more).

 

Everything that can be recycled has to go in the recycling bin otherwise there isnt enough room in the black bin;

 

Plastics (that are stamped with either 1 or 2), it's amazing how much room plastic takes up even when its squashed first, tins, cans, newspapers, magazines, batteries

[rtbcomp]

Slightly off topic but a Veoila bin lorry has turned up across the road to empty one black bin but the lift on the back wouldn't go above horizontal, the solutions were to keep trying it over and over again, to hit it a few times then keep trying it over and over again, to switch the engine off and back on and keep trying it over and over again, to move the lorry three metres forward and keep trying it over and over again, to scratch their heads then move the lorry up the road and back down so it's now pointing downhill then keep trying over and over again, then to drive off, don't know if the bin actually got emptied.

 

I wondered if they tried switching it off and back on again!

[Jeffrey Shaw]

I wondered if they tried switching it off and back on again!

Yes, as in "I wondered if they tried switching I.T. off and back on again!".

[pottedplant]

Everything that can be recycled has to go in the recycling bin otherwise there isnt enough room in the black bin;

 

Plastics (that are stamped with either 1 or 2), it's amazing how much room plastic takes up even when its squashed first, tins, cans, newspapers, magazines, batteries

 

That would be bliss .........to be able to simply put my recyclables into a bin - and it get taken away........