Where have all the bottle banks gone?

[poppy]

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?

[Big Dave]

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.

[Slacker]

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?

[Pete]

Good point - absolutely not.

[Big Dave]

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?

[Slacker]

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

[simondjuk]

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?

[Big Dave]

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.

[k4blades]

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

[k4blades]

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.

[Slacker]

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