council recycling - Page 3

mallard · 13-11-2007, 18:03

They was a bottle bank a a paper bank at the back of mill street in oswaldtwistle,but they moved it and i dont nowe were it is but can you see any one takeing there cans and bottle,s to it,i dont think so.

LYNX1 · 13-11-2007, 18:04

It's crazy when you think how many councils, government offices and banks have been in the media having lost or ditched confidential paperwork, you'd think something would be done to redress the situation.

garinda · 13-11-2007, 19:35

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Originally Posted by mallard

They was a bottle bank a a paper bank at the back of mill street in oswaldtwistle,but they moved it and i dont nowe were it is but can you see any one takeing there cans and bottle,s to it,i dont think so.

That's perfectly true. Since the introduction of residential recycling collections in Hyndburn, there is nowhere busineses can take their waste, which could be recycled, even if they wanted to. All of it goes to straight to landfill.

Gayle · 13-11-2007, 19:52

Are the ones at Asda still there?

MargaretR · 13-11-2007, 19:58

Since I dont go often I don't know that, but there were some behind the Golden Cross in Ossy last time I passed. There used to be a few on Henry St Church ouside the Pioneer Club- they may still be there.

cashman · 13-11-2007, 22:56

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Are the ones at Asda still there?

they were on sat gayle, we had just got back, so had the misfortune to visit asda.

blazey · 13-11-2007, 23:08

In Lancaster, the recycling scheme is really good. We have 3 boxes: 1 for paper and tins, 1 for cardboard and glass (not broken/smashed) and 1 for plastics (not all plastics though).

If you want a compost bin then you can also request one, and pretty much everything you use can be recycled. The only thing we have to throw away in our household is the plastic trays from meat and such, because I think that the type of plastic is hard to distinguish so its hard for them to seperate.

They come and collect it all one a fortnight like they do in hyndburn, except I think its much more efficient with the box scheme rather than the sacks. The boxes are colour coded: 2 yellows and 1 red. The red is for plastic and the yellows for the 2 groups of other stuff.

I think the only problem some people may have with this scheme is if they live in small houses or flats with no garden or yard to put the boxes in, and it gets a bit of a pain keeping 3 large boxes in your house full of rubbish.