Recycling Bins-why?

[verona]

What is the point in having a separate bin for paper/card and one for glass/plastics.When they are collected by the council, they both get mixed together. So what is the point in separating them?

[Bonzo77]

What is the point in having a separate bin for paper/card and one for glass/plastics.When they are collected by the council, they both get mixed together. So what is the point in separating them?

 

In NE Derbyshire, we only have 1 recycling bin, a red bin with a separate, smaller section in the top that lifts out. The main bin is for bottles, glass, plastics and thick card etc. The smaller lift out section is for paper and glossy mags etc. Yet when they collect it, the first thing they do, is tip the small bin into the big bin?!? Don't the point of separating it in the first place?!

[RollingJ]

What is the point in having a separate bin for paper/card and one for glass/plastics.When they are collected by the council, they both get mixed together. So what is the point in separating them?

 

Unless they have changed the vehicles they use to collect recycling, they are 'two-bay' - glass/plastics one bay, card/paper the other.

[dutch]

There are developed countries that charge a temporary fee of 20p on glass containers and bottles and you get that back when you return them to the store to be used again by distributors.

[monkey104]

There are developed countries that charge a temporary fee of 20p on glass containers and bottles and you get that back when you return them to the store to be used again by distributors.

 

We used to do that in the UK many years ago.

You never saw a pop bottle with a deposit on it laying about.

[dutch]

We used to do that in the UK many years ago.

You never saw a pop bottle with a deposit on it laying about.

 

I have just been away and noticed on my return how dirty and messy the streets really are here.

The place I been to don't even have cigarette buts on the road, they keep them for proper disposal later on.

[Minimo]

I live in a block of nine flats. As well as black bins, we have blue bins for paper and tin/glass.

 

But some residents just don't understand and put any sort of rubbish in the blue bins, which means they don't get emptied until I make a complaint.

 

What is the point of having them when they are misused?

[Cyclone]

What is the point in having a separate bin for paper/card and one for glass/plastics.When they are collected by the council, they both get mixed together. So what is the point in separating them?

 

Are they both mixed together? At which point?

[andyofborg]

I live in a block of nine flats. As well as black bins, we have blue bins for paper and tin/glass.

 

But some residents just don't understand and put any sort of rubbish in the blue bins, which means they don't get emptied until I make a complaint.

 

What is the point of having them when they are misused?

 

Separating waste into paper, tins&glass and everything else isn't really that difficult.

 

If people really are incapable of doing this then maybe they should be humanely put down.

[spider1]

Separating waste into paper, tins&glass and everything else isn't really that difficult.

 

If people really are incapable of doing this then maybe they should be humanely put down.

 

Why not just give them a good kicking instead. :hihi::hihi: