Wobbles

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6672723.stm

Well this is already in my area & I think its a good idea personally

I have to say we don't have the recycling boxes & we weren't suppose to be here this long but I will be when we move into new place.

It found that some councils believed a bi-weekly collection was the best way to get householders to reduce waste and meet recycling targets by 2010.

Do you think this is a good idea? Should we be forced to recycle?

Layla

we do it here, it was hard to adjust to at first but now its second nature, even the kids do it automaticly. i think its a good idea

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TryingAgain

We've not had weekly collections for a while now, it has worked out not too bad. As long as we recycle our plastic & glass, put cardboard in the blue bin, then it is fine having the black bin emptied fortnightly.

So i think it is a good idea too, lol!!

Tezzy

we have no recycling facilitys at all and it really annoys me... we dont even have the blue boxes or anything.

i rang the counsil to see if we could have one adn they said they had reached their 'quota' for boxes and they dont have to give any more out!!!

beanie

We have had fortnightly collections for ages now. We have a blue box for glass, tins and plastics, a bag for paper, a brown bin ofr garden waste, kitchen waste and cardboard and a little box in the kitchen to put all our scraps into so we can just put them in the box. My council are good for recycling though not so good at encouraging other ways of reducing waste i.e. reusable nappies which pisses me off a tad.

Lauz_1601

Im going to be different here and say Im glad Im not forced to recycle! I have enough stuff to do on a daily basis without having to sort my rubbish. when Im cooking for example everything gets chucked intp the bin, Iv not got time to put the rubbish into different places. Im sure if I was forced it would become routine, but right now Im glad I dont have too! xxx

Tezzy

i think the only reason i would do it is coz i grew up recycling at my parents house and we used to take it to our local recycling site, otherwise i probably wouldnt care!

beanie

See I was like that but it is so simple to do. It is no different to putting the veg scraps in the box then it is to put them in the bin. And as for the timns etc I just put them on the side till I have done the washing up, then rinse them and put them out in the box. It isn't really about sorting rubbish, and it takes no longer. I guess its just getting used to it. I need to be forced as I wouldn't do it otherwise, yet now that I do it is just second nature.

2nd.Time.Daddy

recycling is a good idea , but it takes the piss coz we have to pay here for the recycling bins.

Tezzy

you have to pay!!???? WTF?????