Garden waste collection ... you couldn't make it up

[flying haggis]

quick tip re garden waste

when you cut hedges etc if you have a rotary mower use it to suck up the clippings as it will shred them as it collects and it means you can get a lot more in the bin.

 

[ToeKnee]

Rubbish thread

(Who else can imagine Killerherz reading this drivel on a CAR FORUM and shaking his head in despair? )

Would he waste his time??

 

[SpikyMikey]

Rubbish thread

(Who else can imagine Killerherz reading this drivel on a CAR FORUM and shaking his head in despair? )

I don't suppose for one minute that Karl is surprised we can fill 2 pages collectively talking rubbish

 

[poormansporsche]

Win Win for Karl if it keeps us away from Cyclists, Politics and COVID .........









Although.....

 

[Chrishazle]

quick tip re garden waste

when you cut hedges etc if you have a rotary mower use it to suck up the clippings as it will shred them as it collects and it means you can get a lot more in the bin.

Saw this tip from Monty Don on Gardeners World last year for shredding leaves before composting. Use a leaf blower or rake to collect the leaves into a long line, run the mower over them without the collection box on and the mower set quite high, shreds them down nicely. We have a large oak in our small back garden so get a lot of leaves each late autumn, without shredding they very swiftly fill our brown bin, shredding them means we get a lot more into the bin, and it's much easier than using the blower/shredder I have as the bag on that fills quickly and is a pig to empty!

 

[TC350]

quick tip re garden waste

when you cut hedges etc if you have a rotary mower use it to suck up the clippings as it will shred them as it collects and it means you can get a lot more in the bin.

Not the greatest idea for all hedges. I have several for which it wouldn't work. For instance, this box hedge at the front needs a large sheet covering the shrubs and Scottish pebbles when I cut it.

 

[Chrishazle]

We have a large Leylandi hedge in our front garden between us and our neighbours (officially his not ours), don't think putting a mower over the cuttings would be good for that.

 

[BTB 500]

Some of the hedging round our house grows at a crazy rate (not Leylandii) and yields 'branches' 6 plus feet long when trimmed. Only way to get rid of that is to stack it up, dry it and burn it. Other parts are OK and give smaller stuff that can go in the bins.

I have a chipper that goes on the back of the tractor and use that to get rid of tree branches that are too small for firewood - we use the chips on paths/gateways/flower beds. But smaller stuff (or anything with thorns) just gets burned.

 

[Scott_F]

I wonder how much of our recycling ends up like this.

Texas woman uses AirTags to see where her recyclable plastics end up

An environmentalist was curious about where recycled plastics actually end up and decided to track her trash using Apple AirTags. She watched the devices move through Texas.

www.dailymail.co.uk

There was a program on TV a few months ago where the presenter did something similar. She put a tracker in a couple of 500ml pop bottles and put one in a household recycling bin and one in a litter bin in a London street. The one from the household bin was transported to the Midlands before then being moved to a recycling plant in Sunderland - a total trip of at least 250 miles. What happened after that couldn't be ascertained but may have involved being exported to facilities abroad. No attempt was made to recycle the other bottle and it was taken to an incinerator with the local council stating that it wasn't cost effective to sort material collected from street bins. And that's a LOT of material.

China used to take vast amounts of plastic from developed countries and reprocess it. This was often done in very environmentally unfriendly ways but as long as we could all offshore our waste mountains then we didn't care. However, in 2017 they implemented their "Prohibition Of Foreign Garbage Imports" policy which has made disposal of our plastic waste very difficult. A lot is now sent to poorer countries who are paid to take it but can't deal with the sheer volume so it's burned on open fires with massive environmental reprocussions:

Plastic from the UK being dumped in Turkey according to Greenpeace

Plastic waste from the UK is being dumped in other countries like Turkey and burnt, according to research by the charity Greenpeace.

www.bbc.co.uk

They also get rid of huge quantities of the waste by dumping it in inland waterways and it's then swept out to sea leading to this:

Oceans littered with 171 trillion plastic pieces

New estimates suggest that plastic pollution in the oceans has risen dramatically since 2005.

www.bbc.co.uk

But we can't just blame them - we're are all guilty of producing far too much waste from single use plastics even though most won't be recycled or disposed of safely. And there's a growing body of scientific evidence which strongly suggests that bottles and food packaging made from recycled plastic may be carciogenic due to chemical changes caused by the recycling process:

New Greenpeace Report Calls Out Toxic Hazards of Recycled Plastic as Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations Resume in Paris

A new report from Greenpeace USA provides a catalog of peer-reviewed research and international studies concluding that recycling actually increases the toxicity of plastics. It highlights the threat that recycled plastics pose to the health of consumers, frontline communities, and workers in...

www.greenpeace.org

Basically, we're all using waaaaay too much of some very damaging materials.

 

[BTB 500]

And the latest development ... having sent out large stickers to all residents to put on each bin (these actually arrived late, after the 1st October start date) the Council has now discovered that they all need to be replaced. I spotted that the printing on mine wasn't lined up (the licence number was almost unreadable as it had missed the white box it was meant to go in), but it seems the problem is that they're not waterproof

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[chic0821]

And the latest development ... having sent out large stickers to all residents to put on each bin (these actually arrived late, after the 1st October start date) the Council has now discovered that they all need to be replaced. I spotted that the printing on mine wasn't lined up (the licence number was almost unreadable as it had missed the white box it was meant to go in), but it seems the problem is that they're not waterproof

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What bin do you put the old stickers in??????????????

 

[Big Janner]

Well, I'm not complaining . . . .yet . . . .our council has charging for brown(garden waste) bin collection under consideration.

Let me run you through our bin situation;
(1) weekly collection
(2) alternating fortnightly collection

Black wheelie bin; normal waste; landfill (2)
Brown wheelie bin; garden waste (2)
Green box; cans and glass (2)
Large reusable sack; card (2)
Large reusable sack; paper (2)
Small bin (indoor) food waste used with rice paper bags
Larger bin (outdoor) for bags from the small bin (1)
Plastic bags; plastic waste (2)

Plastic bags and rice paper bags supplied annually foc

This is customer recycling on a grand scale, done we were told, so as to reduce the work needed for sorting, sifting etc, thus keeping our council tax bills down

That went well

 

[Scott_F]

This is customer recycling on a grand scale, done we were told, so as to reduce the work needed for sorting, sifting etc, thus keeping our council tax bills down

It's the "what we're told" bit that's the problem.

Local authorities have recycling targets to meet and constantly fudge the figures in order to be seen to be meeting them.

And big companies like to greenwash as part of their CSR blurb but they hoodwink us too:

Sainsbury’s and Tesco accused of 'misleading shoppers' after trackers left in soft plastic recycling

Of the tracked plastic which was collected from the supermarkets and reached a known destination, 70% was burnt, not recycled, according to the campaigners

www.thegrocer.co.uk

And in reality most of us are happy to be hoodwinked because we want to believe that we're doing "our bit" for the environment and that our Himalayan piles of waste are being recycled even when they aren't.

 

[ALFAitalia]

There was a TV program I watched about recycling. Huge bales of plastic were exported to the far East to be used again......but in reality they just sorted out the plastic they wanted and dumped to rest....there was an island covered in plastic.....lots of which was easy to determine had come from the UK. Im trying to find it online....no joy
I bet in reality its tiny portion thats ever used again.

found this one....

Southeast Asia flooded with imported plastic waste meant for recycling

Last year, the U.S. exported more than 950 million tons of plastic waste meant for recycling and a significant portion of that ended up in Southeast Asia. The region has been inundated with plastic scrap after China blocked all but the cleanest plastic waste imports in 2018. Special...

www.pbs.org

and this.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/dirty-truth-about-your-rubbish-dispatches