Plymouth council thinking of charging

For overfilling your rubbish bin and if you put out extra bags good idea or another mad cap scheme ?
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Our food waste goes in with our garden rubbish not that we ever have very much.
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Our food waste (which is very little) goes first in the dogs, then in the chickens and then on the compost!

 

We always have plenty of room in the bins, just being the two of us.  We don't get glass collected, we take that to a bottle bank.  Everything else goes, no trouble.


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We put fruit and veg peelings in the green bin along with all the gardening rubbish.  What ever food waste there is goes in with the general rubbish.

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It amazes me how different rubbish collection is in different parts of the country. Here we have pink bags for recycling, in which we can put paper, cardboard, glass, plastics and foil, all in together. Textiles go in a clear bag. There are food caddies provided for food waste (mainly bones and teabags in ours. ) Anything non-recyclable goes in a black bag, which we have to provide ourselves. A surprising amount of packaging is labelled as non-recyclable yet looks the same as other brands' packaging labelled otherwise (e.g. crisp packets) . If too much is going to landfill, which is most councils' reason for apparently being awkward, surely more pressure should be put on manufacturers to make their packaging recyclable?
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Apparently Dorset is one of the top counties for recycling.:)

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and Wales I believe....

 

I wonder if each council should have a way of burning rubbish and creating some kind of heat from it, they could use the heat for their offices?

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That's a good idea CB.  Where I live, we've been recycling for about 10 years now.  They altered the recycling and bin collection at the end of September last year and I'm just about getting used to what goes where now.

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We've got a kitchen top food caddy that you empty into a larger outdoor food caddy when full. No health risk there as the handle locks the bins shut & vacumn tight. Ours are emptied every week along with our green box (paper, tins, cardboard, glass) & our white 'plastics ' bag. We have a big garden rubbish wheelie bin which is emptied fortnightly & costs an extra £40 per year on top of council tax (which is much fairer as people who live in flats don't have to contribute to garden rubbish collection). My main landfill rubbish bag never has more than a small carrier bag full of rubbish in it.
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i can easily fill a bin a week - as i have 9 cats altogether i go through a lot of cat litter and newspapers and i am sure the council does not want the newspaper recycled ?

 

when we had pet rabbits too, just cleaning out the hutch of used newspaper, stray and hay could almost fill a bin weekly and in summer they were cleaned out more than once a week.

 

 

on the subject of pets and cleaning up after them, how do others deal with dog poo if the dog has gone in the garden ?

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Mine goes in poop bags in the general waste bin but it's only a small bag a day. She poops when we are out for walks & I bin it in the council bins.

 

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Not mine........Damsons! lol

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Our local hospital and others were incinerating abortions and bits cut off in operations (like my hip bone) and using the heat to heat the hospital but they were stopped by someone in a suit. What difference does it make where the heat is used?  Better than going up into the sky, surely!


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I agree. It makes sense which is probably why they stopped it!

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There was talk of crematoriums doing the same but I don't think the idea got very far. 


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It makes sense to me but some people are over sensitive about that sort of thing I guess.

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@shonafp wrote:

i can easily fill a bin a week - as i have 9 cats altogether i go through a lot of cat litter and newspapers and i am sure the council does not want the newspaper recycled ?



I had five cats (all gone now) when our council went to fortnightly collections.  I had to change from clay litter (which belongs back in a hole in the ground) to flushable.  Total nightmare - I flushed one week and stored the next.  The cats didn't like it either. I kept one cat (diabetic) on the clay litter so I could test her wee for sugar, and when she died, I used up her litter in one of the other trays - the other cats were queuing up for it, poor things. 

 

I agree that most of the stuff that goes in landfill is packaging - and I also think that we should burn everything burnable for electricity.

 

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i never thought of using flushable litter !  but with my quantity of litter trays i can see a plumber visiting soon to fix the loos !!!

 

i do what ilovetopatch does re my doggie's waste, but...currently having 5 dogs (  i'm now fostering for many tears based in south wales ) that's possibly 5 little poo bags every day, maybe twice a day.  i do so appreciate it when the dogs ' go ' on their walks 🙂

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When our dogs are outside on walkies we put their mess in the council pooh bins, but at home it goes in the general rubbish bin.

 

This sort of thing is seen in the village quite often

 

Poo bags

 

 

People pick it up in a bag and then throw it in the nearest tree,  what the h**l.  Some trees look like they are ready for Christmas.

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Sorry, said the C word again.
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