Even if you do mind I'll continue to use my Blue box for cans
 

I got a card through the letterbox today I MUST NOT USE MY BLUE BOX FOR CANS AND BOTTLES.

Here we go again,
recycling I have no problem with the theory of it but can we a least have a little give and take?
The Council expect me to have all cans washed, all plastic containers crushed, all paper sorted, no shiny stuff, no envelopes with windows, no staples.

These irritating things I do reluctantly even though I don't think it should be my job.
The one concession I give myself is that I use my plastic box for cans and glass bottles, is this because I want to be awkward? No, it's because for me it is practical, the house I live in isn't big enough for me to keep cans, bottles etc in the house so the box is in the yard. If I was to use a sack there is a good chance that before it had any real weight in it it would blow away, it also rains a lot in my back yard so carrying a soaking wet sack through the house once a fortnight is another no, no. At least most of the water drains out of the box.

If the council will not allow me this one little compromise there is another solution, I have a big grey wheelie bin in the yard, everything can fit in there easily.:p

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testicles to that, i recycle, i never clean out my tins or bottles, never peel the paper off them, and they still take them, but then again thats HBC for ya...lazy gits

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do you mean your plastic bottles?
i use me blue box for glass only and use me blue bag for cans, plastic and the other:confused:
i dont wash em out, what if you had a water meter, are the council gonna pay for it....are they eck!!
ive started recycling me cardboard, and untill now never realised how much of it i waste!!!:eek:


i take it, it was only you less that got the letter?

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i went to my friends in london they have two wheelie bins one for all recycling stuff and one for general waste the recycable bin gets picked up weekly and non recycling fortnightly it works well because it incurages people to recycle more because that gets picked up most.and you dont have to keep different things in different bags or containers.

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that would be good idea, but try telling hyndburn council that!

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I put glass bottles and cans in the box, which is what we were told to do originally, (the council now want tins and glass bottles in the blue sack),

I don't know if anyone else got a letter perhaps I am the troublemaker around here that an example will shortly be made of because I want to continue using my blue box for cans?:)

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blackburn have been doing exactly that for 4 years lol....i have two wheely bins, a brown one for garden waste, a grey one for household waste, a green box for tins, cans and bottles and plastic stuff and bags for waste paper/cardboard etc..
our grey bin goes out once a fortnight,brown bin the other week and all the recycling stuff goes out weekly :D

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why would they want you to put glass in blue bag????
whats the ruddy box for then??
the bags arnt big enough for everything, the numptys!!
id keep doing the same as before;)

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i live in blackburn we have one bin and thats it. we recycle lots but it all goes in bags they dont give out boxers anymore and they dont collect garden waste. in london were my friend lives they put anything recycable in the same bin which is much more exceptable to people.

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you obviously dont live in the BETTER part of blackburn do ya davo ;) seriously Intack have had all this for 4 years...actually thinking about it, shad and whitebirk dont have the same amount of recycling bins as we have

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I haven't had a card to tell me different, perhaps they are trialing it in certain areas of town ?

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Sorry just read the nice new blue sack they gave me today, (even though I still have my old blue sacK, I just hadn't put it out 'cos one plastic bottle didn't seem worthwhile).

On My old blue sack it is printed that they want plastic containers in it, on my new blue sack it's plastic bottles and tins, so not glass bottles!:)

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i live in whiteberk is this not classed as intack? i have only been here a couple of months.

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davo how dare you....i shall not be classed as living on whitebirk, intack is totally seperate, you live at one side of whitebirk road and i live at the other (the better part) ;)

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you meen there is one ?says intack on postcode search .

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So which sack will you be putting your old blue recycling sack in when you recycle your old blue recycling sack less your blue recycling sack or your white recycling sack or will you just throw it in your recycling box:D

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no no no, you've got it all wrong...YOU live on the ESTATE, i dont live on the ESTATE and i certainly DONT live on whitebirk :D....get kettle on davo lol ya cant be that far from me

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are you sackless now less?

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still intack lol

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It Isnt!!!!!!...whitebirk..intack...two different names, if it was the same they woulda named it the same :D like i said whitebirk is the estate, intack isnt

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ok to stop arguments you both live in blackburn:D

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so you in your posh houses are treated differnt to us .

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seems that way,most people down whitebirk arent interested in recycling, i know my mate kev who lives on surrey road cant be bothered with it

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Do keep up dear,:rolleyes: if you concentrated on the thread instead of going off at a tangent you would have read the post about my blue sack.:D

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i worked on recycling center for two years i lernt how it can make a big difference.the point i was trying to make is if you have one bin for all recycling stuff it would be so much easer for people.

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slack boxers help les;)

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because of sacks and boxes the streets are such a mess we put bags out with are recycling stuff in and they get blown every were when its windy .

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That means they would have to pay more more people to sort it and therefore reduce the budget for the wages of those sat in the ivory towers making stupid decisions, and deciding what colour of bag to use !!

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I used to prefer to put cans in the blue box too, dont know why they had to change it, I do wash out everything, it really irritates me if my other half doesn't, in my defense though I keep the blue bag under the stairs so if the cans aren't washed out you can smell the stuff in them, which isn't nice after a few days.

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Unfortunately Willow my children have grown up and flown the nest so I can't be cruel like you and force them to do the dirty jobs.:D

I am not trying to bring down the government, I just want to use my blue box for cans and bottles, I have to store these things like you, for a fortnight, so my priority is what is the best way for me to do that? The answer is, in my blue box. The council only have to deal with my box for a very brief moment once a fortnight and it is easy enough for them to see what is in it.

I and many more like me I'm sure will continue to do our bit of recycling but why do the Council feel they have to threaten us to do it rather than encourage us to do it by just being a little less strict about which container we put this rubbish out in?:confused:

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Because they can?




















































(I'll get me coat)

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You could have filled that wasted space with a marquee encouraging us to do the right thing and always recycle, (in a reponsible manner, of course).:D

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i got shouted at off mick for doing that :( said it costs roy too much money :(

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Why dont we take it all to the tip for them too? We do everything else for the lazt bast**ds. You pay your council tax for this reason and what do you get back? ****** all!

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Well if he's going to shout at me he'll have to shout at Less too for quoting me.:D

Last time I tried to donate to AccyWeb it bounced back as unclaimed.

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Use the blue box for glass jars and bottles only. Rinse debris from cans and glass containers before putting them in the box. Wash out your box occasionally as this will help keep it clean

Click here to view HBC web site...

I got a note saying the same thing.... but on there web site it tells another story:

all this messing about is crazy and a waste of rate payers money:

how flipping hard can it be to have some workable system:

I also took the chip out of my blue box:

I always wash cans and so on... if not in the summer there will be shed loads of flies.... what with pet food tins and so on: HENCE they are better in a bin with a lid:

MADNESS party and the word Brewery spring to mind at the mention son HBC

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MY SPY CHIPS ARE LONG GONE!!!

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I won't comment on my bins, it only upsets some people.

In the Ribble Valley they are using one wheelie bin for non-recyclable and one wheelie bin for recyclable, its a much better idea.

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For us to change and do that, someone at Hyndburn would have to admit they were wrong,

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Here in Rossendale we have a blue wheelie bin for recycling everything but papers go in there. Green bin for everything else. Sack for paper.