Houshold Recycling

[Goodbhoy]

I just purchased some garden furniture.
It all came in large cardboard boxes.

These were all broken flat but too large for the bin.
I therefore saved them aside and on the recycling day stacked them behind the bin for collection.

I returned from work to find that all the collections had been taken but the neatly stacked cardboard was still neatly stacked behind the empty bins.
No wonder there is fly tipping.

I then had to put the excess into the car and take it to the tip.
Hardly good for the environment so why bother recycling when the council operatives or the instructions given to them could not be arsed.

[said]

I just purchased some garden furniture.
It all came in large cardboard boxes.

These were all broken flat but too large for the bin.
I therefore saved them aside and on the recycling day stacked them behind the bin for collection.

I returned from work to find that all the collections had been taken but the neatly stacked cardboard was still neatly stacked behind the empty bins.
No wonder there is fly tipping.

I then had to put the excess into the car and take it to the tip.
Hardly good for the environment so why bother recycling when the council operatives or the instructions given to them could not be arsed.

I would have done that in the first place - it would have taken the same time as making a pretty parcel of it. I think you will find that those bin people work on strict limits.

[bigdavesdad]

Stanley knife cut cardboard into strips takes up no space.

[pedoja]

Stanley knife cut cardboard into strips takes up no space.

Would they not have been better stashed into the Brown Bin?

[bambi275]

I just purchased some garden furniture.
It all came in large cardboard boxes.

These were all broken flat but too large for the bin.
I therefore saved them aside and on the recycling day stacked them behind the bin for collection.

I returned from work to find that all the collections had been taken but the neatly stacked cardboard was still neatly stacked behind the empty bins.
No wonder there is fly tipping.

I then had to put the excess into the car and take it to the tip.
Hardly good for the environment so why bother recycling when the council operatives or the instructions given to them could not be arsed.

I take it it was brown bin day?

[bigdavesdad]

Would they not have been better stashed into the Brown Bin?

Did i say put it in the grey/green bin?i was just talking about saving space.

[Goodbhoy]

Stanley knife cut cardboard into strips takes up no space.

Bin was already full of 2 weeks worth of household cardboard.
Normally, I take any waste to the recycling place at Kew but as it was bin collection day, I thought I would do my bit for the environment and save making a journey when the bins were being collected.

[Goodbhoy]

Would they not have been better stashed into the Brown Bin?

Brown, blue, green bins all collected on the same day.
I could have broken it up and put it into the grey bin but thought I was doing my part for recycling by leaving it out to be recycled.