Blackburn council bin collection website

[royaloakcarpentry]

I put the dog 5hit from our 3 Bullmastiffs in the rubbish. Feck em.

[Wes]

3 Bullmastiffs!! I'm surprised you've not had a complaint from them for overloading

[ayjay]

Black bag for rubbish, clear bag for all recycling (except glass) - both bags collected weekly - no food waste here - any leftovers the garden birds eat.

One day a couple of years back there was some broccoli left over (it was a bit old and bitter), I said to the wife as she put it out - "nothing's going to eat that" - five minutes later a Herring Gull scoffed the lot.

[Inky Pete]

I just pile everything into the black bin. I don't get a discount on my council tax for sorting and separating recyclables - so f**k 'em!

Recycling paper, glass etc. is all just a con anyway. Costs more money and wastes more energy than making new stuff, and putting it all in landfill does absolutely no harm to the environment.

[wine~o]

putting it all in landfill does absolutely no harm to the environment.

I've heard some b*llox on here (I've been known to write some)....but that doesn't just take the biscuit, It takes the whole McVities company.....



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[Inky Pete]

Glass is completely inert and is made out of sand - hardly a scarce resource.

Paper is completely biodegradable and made out of trees which are planted and farmed specifically for paper making - taking millions of tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere as they grow.

Neither cause ANY pollution in landfill.

The ONLY reason that councils try and force us to recycle paper and glass is that they get paid out huge chunks of taxpayers money from central government based on the total TONNAGE of material recycled - without any regard to how polluting or harmful the material is - and both glass and paper are very heavy.

Why do you think that you don't have a bin for recycling polystyrene packaging? Because despite the fact that it breaks down into nasty polluting chemicals, it weighs next to nothing so it wouldn't contribute any tonnage to the payment cheque.

Like I said, it's all a con. Nothing to do with environmentalism and everything to do with shafting the taxpayer again.

[Hitch]

Until about 2 years ago, our recycling collection were happy to collect car type batteries, yet wouldn't collect a cardboard cornflake box

[Pooneil]

I just pile everything into the black bin...

And do you ever need to empty it, Pete? Or do you just keep putting stuff in and there's always mysteriously room for more?

No?

Same principle with landfill.

[wine~o]

I just pile everything into the black bin...

And do you ever need to empty it, Pete? Or do you just keep putting stuff in and there's always mysteriously room for more?

No?

Same principle with landfill.

Exactly, which is Why Hcc are proposing another Huge landfill site, right on the edge of our "village", in an area of Outstanding natural beauty including at least one Sssi, an area which also happens to be a natural "Corridor" for wildlife...

Now, tell me again Inky, how exactly is sending Recyclable items to landfill not harmful???

[Dickie]

Black bag for rubbish, clear bag for all recycling (except glass) - both bags collected weekly - no food waste here - any leftovers the garden birds eat.

You're not alone mate, plenty people are great at using all the food they buy. We are very bad when it comes to food waste, loads of stuff goes in the food waste bin.

Reminds me of my mate that's 68 & still works full time as a Spark. He says; 'The wife wants me to retire, but there's no f.cking way I'm living on tins of Spam & last night's leftovers from a Tupperware box'!! I guess it's the way you're brought up, we were pizz poor, but there was always the best of food on the table...............

[northwales4u]

Its quite easy here, black bin for landfill waste, green bin for garden waste/cardboard/food waste, green box for tins and glass. The green box goes out every week and the bins go out on alternating weeks. Ive never cleaned out jars or tins etc because the council don't pay my water rates. One time the bin man told me not to put soil in the green bin saying soil isn't garden waste

My bins were due out today but didn't bother because I think Father Christmas would struggle let alone the bin men who seem to sh*t themselves on the first sign of snow

[BillyGoat]

Bloody hate glass day!!!

I think there is a family of alcoholics down the road from me. Seriously, it sounds like a branch of Wetherspoons has had it's glass collection after a weekend of 2p pints!!!

Nicely asleep and CRASHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CRASSSSHHHHHH SMASSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.



I've never seen a box out though....they must do it first thing in the morning so nobody sees!!

[wine~o]

it sounds like a branch of Wetherspoons has had it's glass collection after a weekend of 2p pints!!!

I'm guessing that you are the one person on here that has woken up in the car park of wetherspoons after such a weekend...

(Btw I get my wine bottles collected in a skip, once a fortnight...)

[BillyGoat]

it sounds like a branch of Wetherspoons has had it's glass collection after a weekend of 2p pints!!!

I'm guessing that you are the one person on here that has woken up in the car park of wetherspoons after such a weekend...

(Btw I get my wine bottles collected in a skip, once a fortnight...)

Noooooo, I'm a tea total!! I'm assuming that's what it must sound like, a spot of supposition on my part.

At worst, my bin would be like a Costa coffee collection, a gentle thud of empty cups being collected.

[Inky Pete]

I just pile everything into the black bin...

And do you ever need to empty it, Pete? Or do you just keep putting stuff in and there's always mysteriously room for more?

No?

Same principle with landfill.

Given the amount of mining and quarrying which has taken place in this country over hundreds if not thousands of years, one thing we are NOT short of is holes in the ground to shove landfill.

You never know, if we stopped recycling glass we could even put it in the holes we'll make by digging out the sand to make new glass!

If we all obeyed the current dictats of the recycling nazis the inevitable result would be:-

1. that landfill sites would ONLY contain high concentrations of the highly toxic and difficult to recycle materials which - without being diluted with inert and harmless materials - most definitely WILL cause damage to the environment.

2. that substantial areas of forest will NOT be grown to produce new paper, instead we'll have to deal with vast quantities of the chlorine bleach and other chemicals which are used in paper recycling.

3. that huge amounts of diesel will be burned and pumped into the atmosphere by lorries performing all the additional collections, and by yet more lorries ferrying bulky and heavy materials like paper and glass long distances to the relatively few places in the country where they are recycled.

4. that vast quantities of energy will be consumed in smelting recycled glass down into new glass - FAR more than it takes to make new glass from raw materials.

The ONLY reason that it is economic to recycle glass and paper at all is down to the artificial market created by the Landfill Tax and the tax breaks and direct subsidies paid to the big waste management and recycling companies. They are getting very rich at the taxpayers expense by disposing of harmless materials, whilst doing NOTHING about the residue of nasty toxic stuff.

Recycling is also used by both national and local governments as a cover for the fact that they are also doing NOTHING to encourage RE-USE of materials, and NOTHING to REDUCE usage in the first place - both of which would SAVE us taxpayers money.