[Closed] Rubbish Thread - Recycling Content

Glass, paper and card go into a big green box, collected fortnightly.

Everything else goes into black bags, which are collected weekly. These are passed through various clever machines that separate out the recyclables and everything else then goes into a composting tunnel, where it turns to an inert material that can be used for landfill in construction/landscape reclamation projects.

is the little mini bin green with a handle that can be folded over to "lock" the lid? and are you with south oxfordshire council?

little mini-bin that looks a bit like the wheelie bins but without wheels.

likely for food waste collection...

you must have a crap council as they should inform you before they roll out new collection systems.

These are passed through various clever machines that separate out the recyclables and everything else then goes into a composting tunnel, where it turns to an inert material that can be used for landfill in construction/landscape reclamation projects.

Sounds like MBT plant - 'Mechanical Biological Treatment'

what comes out of the tunnel (assuming aerobic in-vessel composting) is either compost or a 'compost like' material depending on the feedstock...

It is not inert. But is useful for soil conditioning, soil manufacture, agricultural soil improvement.

That's the badger. I'm West Ox, but I have seen the little guys at the end of people's drives in Sth Ox too...

rootes - I have 6 months of post to go through. Pretty sure there was a glossy brochure about it all at some point. Why read it when I can ask on here?

yeah the mini-bin is food waste... keep it inside your kitchen and use it for anything you'd put on a compost heap.

i was never one for recycling as no matter how much you sit at home splitting it all up and washing out tins of beans etc... the council thows it all together and sends it off to space or something anyway.

but then i bought a cheap plastic bin from tescos to keep next to the kitchen bin, its surprising how quickly it fills with carboard, drinks bottles, cans, tins etc. and as our bins are only emptied once every 2 weeks it helps in keeping our bins from overflowing.

sorry, all a bit serious.... yes, that little green bin is called marcus and needs to be fed vegetables or he sneaks around your house at night rearranging your photos and dvd collection.

One wheely bin for glass and cans, another wheely bin for paper cardboard etc, green bags for green garden waste plus another wheely bin for general rubbish. These are all collected by the council.

In addition the Mrs recycles plastic bottles but these have to be taken to the tip.

http://www.westoxon.gov.uk/environment/CollectionService.cfm

Starting week of 22 November 2010 collections include:

*weekly food waste recycling (NEW)
*weekly black box recycling
*fortnightly garden waste recycling (optional)
*fortnightly rubbish

With the new service you can recycle more and we expect to almost double our current 34% recycling rate. The new service will save West Oxfordshire council tax payers over £500,000 a year. By recycling more over £2million will also be saved on landfill costs over the next seven years.

New waste and recycling containers
You should have now received:

A small outside food waste bin and a kitchen caddy. (If you use a communal bin you'll only receive a kitchen caddy).
A light grey wheelie bin for your household rubbish.

The outside food bin make great car washing / bike washing buckets...

Three bins here.

One for general waste, one for garden waste and one for dry recyclables like paper, cans, cardboard, etc. We have to take glass to a recycling centre by ourselves though.

rootes - you're a legend! Do you live in West Ox or are you just uber clued up on waste disposal?

waste disposal?

I'm Chartered Wastes Manager (MCIWM)..

sad I know.. 🙄

funny thing is municipal (mostly from households) waste only accounts for about 9% of the waste dealt with each year in the UK.. but it attracts the most fuss...

about time there was more co-ordination of collection systems between collection authorities.

Si

Well it looks as if within Oxfordshire at least there is going to be greater co-ordination judging by that link.

Also that info shows that I didn't forget to put my bin out this morning as my collection day is changing 😀

we're lucky we've got an almost perfect system in Malvern Hills.

Red bags - any* recyclable packaging. No sorting required.
Black Bags - anything else - mainly cellophane, bottle caps, nappies and meat and bread waste in our house.

* except glass. the only think we have to keep separate and drop off at a local bank.

Even with a poomonster in the household of 4 we weekly put out less than a full black bag a and upto 2 or 3 red bags.

Compostable waste is obviously composted in the garden.

is some fun in the waste world...

the potential Ardley EfW looks very much in plan form, like a giant cock n balls!

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Hi Stoner

meat and bread waste in our house.

how about getting a green cone to supplement your composting for your food and bread waste? or perhaps a johanna to take all wastes in one?

or perhaps a wormery? you can get a subsidised one from Hereford and Worcesetershire

http://www.hw.getcomposting.com/

If youn live in the Hereford today, you may experience some delay in your refuse /recycling colections as somebody has nicked all the batteries for the bin lorries from the depot.

Let us hope they know which skip to recycle them in.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-11809467

somebody has nicked all the batteries for the bin lorries from the depot.

recycling?
🙂

rootes - may look into that. Its just we use big compost bays to throw all the compostable stuff into and if we had a second composting system wed have to have a second compost bin but also remember to feed it with mixed waste.