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Originally Posted by Madhatter
are you sure? cardboard usually goes in green bins with garden waste. paper goes in bags, everything else in boxes. Why do they tell you to put cans in a box but plastic bottles in a bag, strange ppl.
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Every council has a different scheme, doh.
Lambeth, Wandsworth, Glasgow and Hyndburn all have had different colour coding, I know because I've lived there. The common denominator being that most councils only collect once a fortnight, once they supply a supposed larger wheelie bin. So make the most of your weekly service whilst you have it.
If the blue boxes are now obsolete, do we have to try and ram it in the blue bag to recycle it?
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Yes every council is different, but I'm not on about the colour scheme, I'm on about that it's unusual to put cans and bottles in a bag. Bags fall over, and cans and bottles are round, round things roll away, down hills, into gutters. Thats just not logical. Round cans and bottles should be in a box not a bag. All the the other points I'm correct on as harwood red confirmed. We've had both a fortnightly greens collection and a weekly bin collection for quite a few years now, and no talk of changing it yet, other councils went straight to flip flop fortnightly collections when then green bin was introduced(ours is green in colour but by green I also mean green waste, food grass hedge) we've got two boxes one for cans one for bottles, although when they collect they tip them together then seperate them again on the lorry for some reason, a bag for paper, and the two wheelie bins.