How do you dispose of … RESOLVED

[Zucchini]

Well, I hope ff is joking. Wouldn't it be pathetic to waste the Council's time with such a fatuous email...

[vinteuil]

I carefully placed the remains in a plastic shopping bag this morning and laid them beside my black recycling box, as the council instruct and lo! my green, brown and black boxes were emptied but they left the bag behind . I have emailed the council to enquire what I should do with it

... you shd separate the 'remains' into as many discrete parts as are there; then each separate part shd be deposited in the waste disposal systems of different boroughs, ideally as far removed as possible each from each. If possible, select two of the larger and more 'critical' elements of the remains, and 'lose' them in different river systems either side of a major watershed - eg in to the Kennet and the Avon.

I think that shd do the trick.

We are, of course, intrigued as to what Fr: Fr: has been storing on her system that is so security-sensitive....

[teamsaint]

Well, I hope ff is joking. Wouldn't it be pathetic to waste the Council's time with such a fatuous email...

my council indulges in fatuous nonsense all the time, so sauce for the goose etc...

[french frank]

Well, I hope ff is joking. Wouldn't it be pathetic to waste the Council's time with such a fatuous email...

No, not joking: quoting exactly what they said on their website about the disposal of small electrical appliances including "CD drives/Hard drives". As long as the appliances were small enough to go in a supermarket plastic shopping bag, place them alongside your black recycling box for kerbside collection.

[Deleted on second thoughts - keep powder dry]

[french frank]

And finally … the council replied as to why the refuse collectors had left the bag of stuff behind: because the HDs had been dismantled. They only collect items if in one piece.

So I am now working on putting them together again (now 2 HDs). If unsuccessful, a family member with a car will take them to the recycling centre when convenient.

But I rather fancy trying to mantle them first …

[Nick Armstrong]

I rather fancy trying to mantle

[Anastasius]

And finally … the council replied as to why the refuse collectors had left the bag of stuff behind: because the HDs had been dismantled. They only collect items if in one piece.

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Oh they really are pathetic. Almost as bad as ours who created a trumped up vacuous Risk Assessment so that they didn't have to drive up to our house and collect the rubbish. Ignoring the fact that they used to come and collect the rubbish for ten years.

They do have one saving grace in that they have invested in a magic recycling plant that does not require us to pre-sort and so everything recyclable just goes in the same sack. Brilliant.

[french frank]

they have invested in a magic recycling plant that does not require us to pre-sort and so everything recyclable just goes in the same sack. Brilliant.

Ooh, I have 4 different ones - a black wheelie bin, a black box, a green box and a brown box. I could have a green wheelie bin too on payment of a small annual sum :-)

[Dave2002]

Ooh, I have 4 different ones - a black wheelie bin, a black box, a green box and a brown box. I could have a green wheelie bin too on payment of a small annual sum :-)

I don't think there's any standard colour coding. I noticed that some areas also have purple bins.

[Serial_Apologist]

I don't think there's any standard colour coding. I noticed that some areas also have purple bins.

You'd think those given high salaries to come up with intelligent solutions would take account of clashing colour schemes, ie orange front doors, when deciding such things!

[vinteuil]

You'd think those given high salaries to come up with intelligent solutions would take account of clashing colour schemes, ie orange front doors, when deciding such things!

... but there's no excuse for orange front doors. Ever.

... they have invested in a magic recycling plant that does not require us to pre-sort and so everything recyclable just goes in the same sack. Brilliant.

Hammersmith also has this magic system where all recyclable stuff goes into the same bags. They used to be orange [ ] - they are now translucent/transparent so that passers-by can look at the interesting papers/bottles being chucked out...

[umslopogaas]

Here in east Devon they have just changed the system. We now have a blue caddy for food waste and a black box for recycling glass, some plastics and aluminium cans. Non-recyclable rubbish goes into plastic sacks. Garden waste goes into the old brown wheelie bin that we used to use for both food and garden waste, but we now have to pay to have that collected, so I have elected to have them take it away and to compost all my garden waste (which I already did in any case). Food waste is collected weekly, the others fortnightly.

I also periodically visit our recycling site to get rid of empty plastic bottles; the plastic isnt suitable for roadside collection, but the site is happy to take it.

Most of my non-recyclable waste could be burnt, and I expect that's what happens to it.

[Don Petter]

Everywhere seems different.

In Wealden we have a caddy for glass, within a recycling bin (paper, cardboard, metal and plastic). The other bin (both black) is for anything else, i.e. landfill, which is always nearly empty, given the preponderance of packaging as the main household waste. They are taken on alternate fortnights.

There are brown bins on request, for garden waste on another day, though why anyone would want to use these in the deepest country, I can't fathom. Or at least I couldn't, until I read that the weight of these contributes to the authority's recycling target, so it's in their interest to encourage this!

[jean]

...I noticed that some areas also have purple bins.

Liverpool considers purple their corporate colour, and the bins are so hideous and so unmistakable they reckon nobody would want to steal them.

I once offended the Head of a local primary school whose uniform was purple by observing that her children looked like little wheelie bins.

[Flosshilde]

Everywhere seems different.!

In my area of Glasgow we have blue bins for paper, plastic & metal, purple bins for glass, brown bins for garden waste & food waste, & green bins for anything else.

My parents, living in the Vale of the White Horse District Council area, had to pay for there garden waste bin - my father objected to that & what he didn't compost he loaded into the car & took it to the re-cycling centre. Which probably cost more than paying for the bin