The regulations have prompted fierce criticism, with people complaining that the scheme is too confusing and their homes do not have space for the various different bins and bags. The new bin system by Newcastle-under-Lyme Council, north Staffordshire, includes a silver slop bucket for food waste, which is then emptied into a larger, green outdoor bin.
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There is a pink bag for plastic bottles, a blue box for glass, foil, tins and aerosols, a green bag for cardboard and blue bags for paper and magazines. Clothing and textiles go in a white bag, garden waste in a wheelie bin with a brown lid and non-recyclable waste in a separate grey wheelie bin.
If successful, the scheme – which is more rigorous than any previous recycling standards expected of households – is likely to be adopted by councils up and down the country.
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In principle I approve of this, if you have the room for it all.
Here they wont pick up card or plastic, I can take it to a recycling point though, a quarter mile away.
Yet in the next town served by the same council they will collect card and plastic from the kerbside.
At present we have 1 bin, 2 food caddies and a box for paper, glass and tin each for the 2 flats in my house.
Our road is often photographed as its a pretty row of victorian terraces, single lane with a pavement too narrow for a pushchair so all the bins go into the small gardens opposite, thats going to look a bit messy with loads of new bins and bags though.
Yes in principle it's fine, but as you say not everyone has the space.
Maybe it's time to start talking about REDUCING the amount of packaging used by producers. I think you have less there but here in the US, the layers of plastic and cardboard packaging around everthing are getting out of control.
Or...they could just go the way that we have here in our town in Connecticut -- in one Transfer Station location, we have single-stream recycling (i.e., paper, cardboard, plastic and glass in the same bin), a place for soda cans (or anything else that has a deposit) which are turned in by town workers (money given to the town), there's a Goodwill (Charity) dropoff trailer for clothes, toys, housewares, etc., plus there's a shed onsite where people drop off unwanted books (volunteers or anyone who feels like it shelve them) and other people browse and get books for free.
Now, granted, Southbury's a small town but my parents live in Stamford, which is a city, and their single stream recycling essentially is even easier -- everything but food goes in one bin and is picked up by the city.
I think it's similar here. We've got a blue bin, and pretty much everything goes in it, aside from food (paper goes in a bag within the bin, I think). Yard waste can also be picked up, but not everyone needs that every week; I don't think there's an actual bin for it.
If we're talking about space, though, if you have all those recyling bins and bags, there's no way you should need a wheelie bin that size for your non-recyclables. If you do, you're making way too much garbage.
We have technology to sort and isolate parts of nano-metre sized biological cells, but no technology to sort junk based on its components.
Why is it not possible to grind all (and any) packaging into pellets (say using something like a blender) and then centrifuge the grains into different bins for recycling? Garbage centrifuges, anyone?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_centrifugation
Checking in from California - we have a giant blue bin that everything goes in and it's picked up the same day the trash is.
Wasn't this an episode of Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t?
You can't judge recycling programs all over the world based on one episode of a show by magicians.
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