HAVE you had the plastic disc from the council, detailing what you can put in each of the four rubbish bins?
What bothers me is the amount of stuff we cannot put in any of the bins.
Electrical equipment, glass, Pyrex, light bulbs, fluorescent tubes,household/garden chemicals/detergents, paint cans, plastic toys, scrap metal, building rubble/plasterboard, batteries, cooking oil/engine oil, wallpaper, mixed textiles/clothes/bedding, wood/timber-etc.
These we are told we can take to our local recycling centre. The council will pick up any larger items such as furniture, beds, white goods, carpets,etc, at a price.
What concerns me, is how the elderly, infirm, or those without transport, are supposed to hump this rubbish to their "local" recycling centre?
One solution might be to have a fifth bin to put all the stuff we cannot put in the other four bins. This need not cost much, because the council could use the grey bins they are replacing with smaller grey bins.
What the council need to remember is the harder they make it to recycle, the less likely people will be to recycle, and the more likely some will be to flytip.
Brian Derbyshire
Ribchester Grove
Bolton
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