Weekly bin collection

Seabreeze

Hello everyone,

It is too difficult for me to move my large wheelie bin from my front garden onto the pavement. It has to be pulled up 3 stairs and is too heavy so I have phoned the council and they are sending me stickers to put on the bins and they will collect the bins from my front garden and hopefully put them back in the garden. Anyone else use this facility?

Maria.

katknapp

no but then i have a oh who's obsessed with recycling everything so we dont have a lot of rubbish...what makes me laugh is the fact that the recycling in ashford is not very good so he drives it about 8 miles to recycle i dont think hes heard of carbon footprints lol

mellman01

Hmmm recycle is a load of old twoddle isn't it, why not burn the stuff and make some energy out of it, s lot of it gets dumped in the 3rd world anyway it's just one big money making game in my book,better off tackling the packaging side of thing, s a lot of stuff is so well packed up you risk injury trying to get at it, why so much flippin plastic in everything?.

dachshund

Hi Maria.
we have the assistance card where you put in in the window on rubbish and the recycling box day and they come and take them and empty them and bring them back to our door
we have block paving and i cannot take them to the road.
joan xx

prefabkid47

Here in Faversham recycling is very good,although if we had all the various bins available we would have no room in our garden for plants!
Hi katknapp I had heard that recycling was not good in Ashford,yet we are just up the road from you,how Council policies differ.
Ron

lupin15

I am not sure but we don't have any steps to get the bin out. What really annoys me is the recycling...... i am all for it but it should be all collected like it is in Germany. There was your black bin for all rubbish that could not be recycled, green for all veg matter/garden waste, glass and a yellow plastic bag that all your plastic containers went from your house along with tins and cartoons. Card and paper went out and was collected too. Most drinks are sold in glass and you bought a crate, which you paid for but all you did was take it to the shop and just picked up a full crate of drinks... brilliant. Your could also return containers to shops you bought goods from for them to recycle. If they can do .....why can't we???

elnafinn

Hi Maria

My mum is in north london and I contacted her borough council as there was no way she could pull/carry the bins to the pavement. Someone from the council paid my mum a visit and had a chat with her. All her bins are at the front of the bungalow and the binmen collect, empty and return them.

There were a few hiccups to begin with, but soon all went well.

Elna x

bubbadog

I'm very lucky between my OH and my next door neighbour our bins are done with out hastle very othre week!

tonesp

We have dumpsters at the end of our road Emptied 4 times a week grat system YVicve Espana

cthornley

Up here in Newcastle I think its quite sensible
Green Bin for rubbish, collected every week,
Blue bin for recycling with black tub in top - glass and batteries in the top - everything else in the main bin - collected every fortnight
I'd be happy for the reverse tho - Rubbish collected fortnightly/ recycling weekly as ours is always bursting and now we don't have nappies in the house the main bins quite empty.
My hubby puts them out and our cleaner brings them in, if hubby's not here we miss a week no biggy - we are lucky ours go in a back lane down the back of the terrace so its far to take them and no biggy if they don't come straight back in

I couldn't take them out even if they were light enough as I can't open the back gate (bolt is too high, can lift my arms that high :sad: )
Chrissie

frogmorton

We have a long long way to take our bins.....we are at the end of a funny little bit - the last of 4 houses.

I do however have 3 able bodied kids to help.

Our recyc goes fine and a family of five - fortnightly collection....never been able to fill it yet

Love

Toni xx