COVID-19: Recycling and related subjects
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cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It's like herding fucking cats.
Steel Icarus
we move
Like you've never detailed a thread ever. You're not my real dad
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That is being discussed in the news, science and policy thread, this is the lockdown and discussion thread.
I just checked...
"Due to reduced staff numbers and to protect the weekly collection of black and clear sacks, we’re stopping food and garden waste collections throughout MK after regular collections on Friday 3 April until the situation improves.
Due to the current covid-19 outbreak, some Parish offices are temporarily closed. If you are ordering sacks for collection, please check that your chosen collection office is still open before ordering."
"Due to reduced staff numbers and to protect the weekly collection of black and clear sacks, we’re stopping food and garden waste collections throughout MK after regular collections on Friday 3 April until the situation improves.
Due to the current covid-19 outbreak, some Parish offices are temporarily closed. If you are ordering sacks for collection, please check that your chosen collection office is still open before ordering."
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Sure - it's a bit annoying having the forum police going around telling people what they can and can't post on threads due to arbitrary boundaries they've made up in their own head. This thread has been discussing the lockdown quite extensively (it's even in the thread title), so I think it's understandable that people have been discussing the effects of stockpiling/panic buying/lockdown on home recycling and food waste.
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Not in flats. At least not here. We have the black and green boxes but don't have to use the caddies for kitchen waste. (Thank fuck.)
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
... and while yer out there, can you put these potato peelings in with the grass cuttings? Ta.
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The fuck is my post doing in the recycling thread?
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
FFS - this is NOT a FUCKING recycling thread.
YES IT FUCKING IS!!!
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
YES IT FUCKING IS!!!
It is now, it;s been recycled.
Steel Icarus
we move
Is this going to happen everytime a thread wanders off topic for a bit? It had already got back onto the topic of the OP.
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to derail this thread.
Oops, sorry, didn't mean to derail this thread.
Plumdaff
joy in people
planetgeli Wales is apparently a world leader in recycling 
Or it was if Cardiff Council is anything to go by. They are stopping food and green waste, and burning the black and green recycling bags during the crisis.
Or it was if Cardiff Council is anything to go by. They are stopping food and green waste, and burning the black and green recycling bags during the crisis.
farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
No food waste recycling here, but we have bins for glass/plastic/tins and also paper. Annoyingly the council is quite restrictive on what types of plastic they'll accept for recycling, so I try to store that separately and take it to M & S as they accept any plastics that can't be recycled normally.
I need to check if Boots still run the recycling service for used asthma inhalers - I've got a bag full of them that I need to get rid of.
I need to check if Boots still run the recycling service for used asthma inhalers - I've got a bag full of them that I need to get rid of.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
Part of that decision (to incinerate) might be because the advice is to double bag used tissues and put in the general waste (72 hours wait).
Mine (tissues) tend to go out into the garden incinerator - currently I have been burning twigs blown down over the winter, so having multiple small fires. The next ones will be spring pruning detritus, so still have plenty of opportunity.
Local Council have closed the "tip" / skips which takes bulk domestic / small business stuff like scrap plastics, metal and wood - which is just going to increase the fly tipping problem (although the police might catch a few at it, with the travel restrictions. Last year someone dumped 100 tyres over the wall into a nearby wood.
They are continuing to do the general waste / general recyclables twin bins "system" - collecting each on alternate weeks, they used to do a brown bin for garden waste, but that was too expensive, so most people who can, have their own heap/bin for composting.
Mine (tissues) tend to go out into the garden incinerator - currently I have been burning twigs blown down over the winter, so having multiple small fires. The next ones will be spring pruning detritus, so still have plenty of opportunity.
Local Council have closed the "tip" / skips which takes bulk domestic / small business stuff like scrap plastics, metal and wood - which is just going to increase the fly tipping problem (although the police might catch a few at it, with the travel restrictions. Last year someone dumped 100 tyres over the wall into a nearby wood.
They are continuing to do the general waste / general recyclables twin bins "system" - collecting each on alternate weeks, they used to do a brown bin for garden waste, but that was too expensive, so most people who can, have their own heap/bin for composting.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
planetgeli Wales is apparently a world leader in recycling
Or it was if Cardiff Council is anything to go by. They are stopping food and green waste, and burning the black and green recycling bags during the crisis.
Nobody has stopped our waste collections yet. Sounds like its coming from what you and others have said.
And yeah, I kinda knew Wales achieves more recycling targets than the rest of the U.K. It is ridiculous there is no national policy though. Everyone has different rules it seems. Even here where I live we don't get glass collected - and if you want garden waste collected its £50 a year extra. But in my place they take plastic in blue bags and I don't know many other recyclers that take plastic.
Shared bin/recycling areas for flats here.
The recycling bins have finally been emptied after a few weeks.
Annoying but fair play to the collection guys today who dealt with overflowing bins and picked up all that was on the floor too
What is a pain is that people have obviously been 'spring cleaning' so we have had a lot of fly-tipping (mattresses/sofas/furniture/crap) and after a couple of reports to managing agents that has been finally cleared!
The recycling bins have finally been emptied after a few weeks.
Annoying but fair play to the collection guys today who dealt with overflowing bins and picked up all that was on the floor too
What is a pain is that people have obviously been 'spring cleaning' so we have had a lot of fly-tipping (mattresses/sofas/furniture/crap) and after a couple of reports to managing agents that has been finally cleared!
