Bins, Waste Management & Recycling Reviews

Recycling in most boroughs is compulsory. The government has told us that we must be recycling a minimum of 40 percent of our waste by 2011. If a borough does not reach its targets on recycling there will be heavy fines imposed on the borough which will reflect on the council tax. Fines of up to £1000 will be imposed on residents who persistently ...  Read the complete review

I am somebody who has decided that there are things that I can do to help the environment with the simplest one being to recycle when I can and so when I moved into my flat I got 3 bins for my kitchen with one for recycling of general items (plastics, paper, cardboard, etc), one for rubbish and one for glass recycling as I live beside a large ...  Read the complete review

Well they've finally arrived. Our new recycling bins, one blue and one brown, which means I can now recycle cardboard, plastic and cartons without having to drag them to the supermarket. This is great for me, I do try and be good and recycle as much as possible, but I have found trying to recycle some materials quite annoying. Cardboard is ...  Read the complete review

Having watched documentaries about China, and been to the USA and experienced their recycling policies (or lack of), I'm virtually convinced that cleaning out my old marmite jars is utterly pointless, and that the world is more or less doomed unless the biggest industrial nations in the world actually decide to embrace the concept of finding new ...  Read the complete review

Don't get me wrong, I'm 100% for recycling, but have to admit I despaired when I saw yet another colour of wheelie bin being delivered on our driveway yesterday. We come under Stockport Council (Cheshire) but I don't have any experience of another borough so maybe our experience isn' the norm in the UK? I think we've probably been of ...  Read the complete review

Recycling.....we've all seen the adverts teaching us to recycle.....informing us that our empty baked bean cans can be made into car parts, or other baked bean cans...but are these ads teaching us anything we didn't already know? Or are they just giving us a gentle reminder to do the things that we have been doing for ever...... **once ...  Read the complete review

I think its really important for people to recycle as much as they can. Our recycling bin is for 2 large houses, and its always full to the brim with bags around it, Im quite impressed with this as both houses are student houses. In our green bin we can put some plastics, paper, cardboard, tin cans, milk cartons. I recycle all of these ...  Read the complete review

I have to admit, I do not subscribe to the opinion that recycling is going to save the world from global warming, but I do believe that everyone needs to do their bit to stop the country becoming one huge landfill site. Having lived in a couple of areas around the country in the last fews years, I have seen the difference between the ...  Read the complete review

I work for Belfast city council. I worked in the recycling yards. So I know that recycling is a pain in the butt. Although it is good to do and it is very positive for the environment. Well it helps the environment by waste being recycled and reused rather that keep on using the source for example trees are cut down to make paper. If everyone ...  Read the complete review

I must admit that until the local council started to provide a recycling collection service, we were very lazy and just shoved everything in the bin. Naughty, I know, but looking back I just didn't feel we had enough education about what can be recycled, where it can be recycled and just how much stuff could be re-used around the home and ...  Read the complete review

Recycling. I've always liked to think of myself as an avid recycler. I started out as a youngster, collecting fizzy drink bottles to return to the shop for a 10p refund. Then I moved on to can collecting (thanks Blue Peter), whereby I would spend hours searching the streets for discarded cans that I would then have to spend ...  Read the complete review

I've been meaning to write something on this topic for a while, mainly as I'm employed in waste management so it's something I deal with on an everyday basis! My role in waste management covers a lot of things but my primary role is to raise awareness of the recycling facilities provided by the council and to promote the three R's - ...  Read the complete review

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The following critique is largely a commentary on domestic recycling and waste management. The bulk of recycling is produced by businesses and industry, but as all those involved in business and industry live somewhere, starting to think about the need to recycle at home would seem to be a good idea. The need to recycle: The ...  Read the complete review

I recently gave an advice on saving and it turned out very popular with the audience (probably because sex was mentioned). This time I'll try to tackle another topic which concerns us all. I am not going to mention sex (or war, as I might be expected to). Why do we call this Waste Management and Recycling? Who are waste managers? Are ...  Read the complete review

We soon got into the habit of recycling when our Local council presented all homes and businesses with colour coded containers to store any waste product that could be used reused. A yellow container holds any glass bottles and jars and an orange container is for any `dry` recyclables. Our recycling collection is every other ...  Read the complete review

Recycling is very much part of our daily routine. As well as the black wheelie bin supplied by our local council for household waste, we also have a blue bin for paper and cardboard with a collection once a month. When we have too much paper/cardboard we recycle it ourselves by taking it to the local recycling centre. For ...  Read the complete review

Although I've always considered myself to be a bit of an eco warrier (albeit usually just an armchair one), my relationship with recycling has been a bit sporadic. That is, as I have moved around Britain I have found that provision of facilities has been very different from area to area. I now live in Devon and we have a great recent record for ...  Read the complete review

I am incredibly luck in the area I live with regards torecycing and bins. When I first moved here, the waste management was awful. We had weekly collections of black bags and every fortnight we could dispose of paper if it fitted in a tiny black box supplied by the council. Then came word fro up high that councils would be ...  Read the complete review

I must admit i was a little unsure when the council first told us we were having 3 bins instead of the one, as i find the wheelie bins very ugly, having said that im used to it now and find it quite usefull to be able to dispose of different types of rubbish, it doesnt load your bins up quite so much. The one thing i do have a problem ...  Read the complete review