I am just watching the garbage and recycling trucks go by. What is your recycling and garbage p/u like where you live?



In Canada we are allowed 2 bags of garbage. If you want to put out more you must buy special tags to put on the extra bags. The long weekends they will have unlimited garbage. If you have something like a fridge or appliance, you have to pay 15.00 and arrange a pick up.

Recyling we have something called blue bins (also grey) We put all our recycling stuff in there. (paper, glass bottles, pop cans, cardboard, plastic bottles etc. the list is quite long)
They pick that up the same day as the garbage.

Also how good are you at recycling? Sometimes I can't be bothered rinsing something out and I throw it in the garbage :spank:

Hey shorty

we have red topped bins for cardboard and paper and platic bootles these get picked up by an orange truck i think, all the rest we put in normal bis which get picked up by a red truck..

to be hinest they bshoudl sned all the rubbish to pruisons for them to sort into the different types of amterials, then everything possible can be recyled!!!

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cheers
zak

Hey shorty

we have red topped bins for cardboard and paper and platic bootles these get picked up by an orange truck i think, all the rest we put in normal bis which get picked up by a red truck..

to be hinest they bshoudl sned all the rubbish to pruisons for them to sort into the different types of amterials, then everything possible can be recyled!!!

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cheers
zak

So they only pick up paper stuff and plastic? what about pop cans? or glass jars?

How do you recycle shredded paper?

How do you recycle shredded paper?

what do you mean? :confused: you mean from a shredder?

yeah, one that shreds paper:)

it all goes in the recycling bin.

it all goes in the recycling bin.

you just throw it in there?

Yes, or you can throw it out in a clear plastic bag. What do you do with it?

We don't have to sort anything just throw everything in the recycle bin...plastic, paper, cans etc.

So they only pick up paper stuff and plastic? what about pop cans? or glass jars?

I'm not sure i will ahve to check with the wife shorty!!!

I'm not sure i will ahve to check with the wife shorty!!!

A HA!!!! so she takes out the trash :bugeye: lol

Yes, or you can throw it out in a clear plastic bag. What do you do with it?

i throw it in regular garbage. i cant see just throwing it into a recycle bin. It is nice that you can get good paper that is 30% recycled paper - post consumer they call it. That is the highest i have seen, maybe there is higher.

A HA!!!! so she takes out the trash :bugeye: lol

Err no she leaves it in the bags by the side door for me too put in the Bins and to wheel out...every friday ready for colelction!!!

We have 2 small bins here. One is for paper and the other for all other stuff. They are collected once a week. We also have a special place where you can

drop off batteries, paints and other liquids that need to be disposed of properly twice a year.

We have 2 yellow bins here. One is for cardboard and the other for plastic. They are collected once a week. We also have a special place where you can drop off batteries, paints and other liquids that need to be disposed of properly twice a year.
Boy Scouts collect newspaper.
We go to the store and turn in bottles/cans. 10 cent refund on each.

we have one recycling bin for everything, they just sort it themselves when theyre driving to the next house.

last month they also started up an agrichemical recycling program, but im not sure when or where it does the rounds yet.

Mine is pretty typical, but I only generate enough garbage to put it out every third week.

Boy Scouts collect newspaper.
We go to the store and turn in bottles/cans. 10 cent refund on each.

I think you only get refunds on beer bottles here. Boy Scouts collect newspaper?

I think you only get refunds on beer bottles here. Boy Scouts collect newspaper?

yep. They have a semi trailer in town and every sat. you drop off the newspaper and they bundle it up and take it away for recycling. environmental badge maybe?

I am vehemently against any surcharge for rubbish collection. I pay through the nose for bloody council tax, and it goes up every bloody year and yet services dwindle. I cannot recall ever seeing a road sweeper round my way for example. If the start charging us for what we already pay for, I shall burn it out back.

??? you PAY to get your stuff picked up???

They collect once a week. There is a red box for paper/cardboard, and a blue box for plastic containers, metal tins and glass bottles. Theres a green bag for garden waste eg branches, leaves etc. And a black bag for unwanted enriched uranium

??? you PAY to get your stuff picked up???
Itys all part of the Labour government's indirect taxation. They are going to "pilot" schemes in which people have to pay extra over a certain number of bags. The fact is we are already paying for it in our council taxation.

I think the manufacturers should be charged every time they use surplus or non recylclable wrapping. Or better still, which is what I do sometimes and leave the surplus wrapping (if you HAVE to buy overwrapped stuff!) at the till. I think some folks did this as a protest in Germany and forced manufacturers and retailers to take action on wrapping.

what is surplus wrapping? Like plastic around the lettuce or cauliflower?

Yes, for example a box within a box within a load of useless wrapping. Or sweetcorn on a plastic tray wrapped in plastic. I mean, why? Generally plastic because it hangs around for years and is so hard to recycle. The sea is full of the damned stuff.

hmmm, come to think of it, my grocery has stopped wrapping lettuce.

The wrapping I detest is that hard plastic, welded back and front, all round, which you cannot remove without a surgical operation. Its also highly dangerous and the plastic can make very short work of skin thats too close, very sharp and very jagged.

A lot of stuff seems overpackaged for the store, but they go through more than just sitting on shelves. They have to be protected for transport, and have to take some battering on thier journey from the factory to the shelf.

What is your recycling and garbage p/u like where you live?
Out here in the Western Extents of the Soviet Socialist Republik of New York, it seems every little hamlet, town and village has its own set of rules regarding what trash &tc they will pick up.

For example, I used to live in one where so help me you could put a can labeled 'nuclear waste' out at the curb, and damned if they wouldn't sent a lead-lined truck along to gather it up... you could even rake your leaves out to the curb for the 'humungo-vac' truck to suck up and do God only knows what with...
You could put any amount of anything from trash to appliances, furniture, tires, waste oil, or whatnot out on any given week. You also got a plastic bin to put cans, plastics, paper, &tc in for recycling, and they sent a truck around with separate compartments into which some devoted civil servant would toss the appropriate stuff.

Now I'm about 40-ish miles South of there, on the edge of what I like to call "corn country" because of the small feed corn farms all over the place.
In this town they will only pick up trash and paper on a weekly basis. Any other recyclables are supposed to be taken to a sort of central dump, which I have never so much as set eyes on because I am too damned lazy to get up at some ungodly hour on weekends when it's open just to drive some unknown distance to wait in line (or so I'm told ) solely for the purpose of making some piddling contribution to "saving the world" by depositing maybe a can or 4 and a plastic jug into their ex-tree special bins - so it's inna the landfill with them babies !

I have also made it my personal mission to attempt to sneak whatever else I know of which isn't supposed to be in one's trash in with mine, just 'cos their dippy hick-town rules bug me...
Mostly this consists of hedge clippings, fallen tree branches, leaves, and other assorted vegetable material which it seems to me doesn't really constitute anything too different from potato peelings, old lettuce, or whatever, but occasionally a bit of waste oil or something more toxic gets in there, which makes me chuckle merrily for some undoubtedly unhealthy reason.
Twice a year this town does it's bi-annual "big trash" pick up, where they will gather any old furniture, appliances, misc wood/metal bits or whatever.

I suppose I shouldn't complain - about a mile away is the neighboring town, where they don' pick up nothin', and the townsfolk must trundle all their garbage to a dump. Must be why I hear a lot of people there have fire pits & burn whatever they can...