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General Category => Chesterfield Discussion => Topic started by: poppy on May 01, 2012, 07:50:21 PM

Title: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: poppy on May 01, 2012, 07:50:21 PM
Does anyone know what's happening at the local recycling areas? They seem to be being done away with. Noticed last week that the one on Loundsley Green had gone and today saw that the one at Holme Hall had disappeared too. Is it anything to do with the blue bins?
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: Big Dave on May 01, 2012, 08:25:24 PM
Where our local one used to be is a notice saying that now the Council had made home recycling easier they had removed the bottle and paper banks.
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: Slacker on May 01, 2012, 11:06:26 PM
That's because we have recycling bins now, do Chesterfield's Council Tax payers want to subsidise people coming from elsewhere to shop disposing of their bottles and cans?
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: Pete on May 01, 2012, 11:46:18 PM
Good point - absolutely not.

Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: Big Dave on May 02, 2012, 06:59:43 AM
I don't think the household recycling bins were very well thought out but until there's a local facility for dealing with kitchen waste I suppose it's a case of making the best of a bad job.

I really can't understand why potato peelings etc. can't go in the green bin with garden waste; it's all vegetation, isn't it?
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: Slacker on May 02, 2012, 11:06:27 AM
There's an obscure rule about cross contamination if people have used the same knife as for cutting up meat. If the in-vessel composting facility goes ahead then a lot of food waste will go in green bins
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: simondjuk on May 02, 2012, 12:11:59 PM
I don't think the household recycling bins were very well thought out but until there's a local facility for dealing with kitchen waste I suppose it's a case of making the best of a bad job.

I really can't understand why potato peelings etc. can't go in the green bin with garden waste; it's all vegetation, isn't it?

How about getting a compost bin?
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: Big Dave on May 02, 2012, 01:05:46 PM
How about getting a compost bin?

No point, I've nothing to put the compost on. Back garden is tiny and all lawn, front garden is also all lawn.
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: k4blades on May 02, 2012, 04:07:51 PM
There's an obscure rule about cross contamination if people have used the same knife as for cutting up meat.

You mean its complete boll*cks.

 If the in-vessel composting facility goes ahead then a lot of food waste will go in green bins

Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: k4blades on May 02, 2012, 04:15:32 PM
No point, I've nothing to put the compost on. Back garden is tiny and all lawn, front garden is also all lawn.

Absolutely correct, Dave.

I've said many times on the reclying issues, there wouldn't be any issues if those in power didn't have brains the size of a fleas.
They are constantly pushing people to recycle their food waste, grow their own, etc, etc. Then they introduce planning regulations to try and force or cram as many shoebox houses on the smallest plot as they possibly can, with no gardens.....and then decide while they are at it, to sell off all the allotments for development. Come to think of it, even fleas can see theres no joined up thinking.

As part of our bid to be sustainable we have a few chickens of our own. Try and get someone in authority to give you a difinative answer as to which bin to put the chicken waste in, (which is good for composting BTW,) you've got no chance! Lets all just make it up as we go along.
Title: Re: Where have all the bottle banks gone?
Post by: Slacker on May 02, 2012, 08:56:34 PM
Absolutely correct, Dave.

I've said many times on the reclying issues, there wouldn't be any issues if those in power didn't have brains the size of a fleas.
They are constantly pushing people to recycle their food waste, grow their own, etc, etc. Then they introduce planning regulations to try and force or cram as many shoebox houses on the smallest plot as they possibly can, with no gardens.....and then decide while they are at it, to sell off all the allotments for development. Come to think of it, even fleas can see theres no joined up thinking.

As part of our bid to be sustainable we have a few chickens of our own. Try and get someone in authority to give you a difinative answer as to which bin to put the chicken waste in, (which is good for composting BTW,) you've got no chance! Lets all just make it up as we go along.

There was due to be one built at Grassmoor along with the transfer of my workplace but planners kicked it out