[Closed] Recycling - A moan

But what encouragement exists to make people put the right things in the right bin? I have several council issued and self bought bins for all manner of rubbish. My general waste bin is nowhere near 1/4 full when it is emptied on a weekly basis. My neighbour on the other hand has an overflowing bin every week, despite being a welfare scrounger, with little to do all day and never having worked a full day in her life. Do I get a reduced Council Tax bill for this? Do I get a warm feeling of "doing the right thing" in my belly? I admit I used to but not anymore. I frequently find myself throwing recyclable stuff in the general bin now as I can't be ar$ed.

Refundable deposit on glass and tins. Refunded when recycled or returned. Simple. Should reduce litter too.

All over the local paper... Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority are closing recycling centres despite having their budget increased.

GMWDA outsourced their obligations to dispose of waste to a joint venture of Viridor and John Laing under the largest ever waste PFI scheme in 2009 (I know, I worked on it for 3 years).

There is a big plan on how waste disposal (or which recycling is a part) is to be restructured as part of this project.

It doesn't therefore surprse me that recycling centres may be closing, as funcitons are to change and loads of the sites are to be updated (see Longley Lane in south Manchester).

BUT....

...what all the people involved in waste fail to understand is that as much as they get excitied about gate fees and the like, individuals and businesses just want their waste to be dealt with.

I frequently find myself throwing recyclable stuff in the general bin now as I can't be ar$ed.

I use the recycling centre regularly but that may change if it involves a 90 minute round trip, a few quid worth of fuel and the loss of a precious free afternoon.

Prepares to get flamed.

Actually flames are an excellent response to this situation.

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One of these will vastly reduce the volume of waste in your bin in no time.

thankfully mine is only 1/2 mile away but yes it wont help and you wont be alone in stopping. I bet it leads to flytipping [ not you] as well.
my locao authority bigs up how good it is but completely ignores business premises who I assume generate more recyclable waste such as cardboard and aper than homes.

I wonder how much they actually recycle anyway. I'm supposed to have 2 bins, one for cardboard/plastic etc. and one for glass, which are collected separately. My glass box blew away before I moved into my house and the council (Durham) won't give me a new one, so I normally just put the glass into a recycle bin when I'm passing one.

Last week I happened to have around 20+ glass jars/bottles waiting on collection day, so I placed them neatly in a cardboard box beside my recycling bin only to see them lobbed straight into the back of the truck along with my cardboard and plastic!!

I've got all the bins too. But card, large garden waste, broken appliances etc all went off to the centre. May as well just stick it in the bloody bin and let the people who I'm paying to sort it via council tax deal with it.

These places operate on the good will of those who can be arsed. I fail to see how shutting them down is going to improve anything.

we have nothing at all, we have to take all ours to a council car park think yourself lucky!

Same as Mikewsmith here. the nearest recycling bins to me are a drive away.

What household waste are you planning on burning in that m f ?