Rubbish

We had noticed, late last year, that a large concrete pad was being constructed nearby to our existing glass recycling bin at the end of the village. Then early this year three new bins arrived. We spoke to some locals about it, and they said that it was part of a plan to get rid of the bin men. ‘Crikey’ we thought, was that true?

A few weeks ago, this hanger appeared on our bin, so it was true.

We were then delivered a newsletter explaining all about the changes.

Effectively each village and town has their own collection points, where we have to take our rubbish to. It is our responsibility to not only sort the glass, separate the paper, tins and plastic, we then have to put them loose into the bins, which have size restrictions to prevent you putting bagged up items in. Other household waste must be deposited in bags not exceeding 50 litres, in a separate bin.

I have to say at first we thought this was madness, driving stinky waste to the bins and putting it in one item at a time, but 4 weeks in and it isn’t so bad. We just have to organise ourselves to do it regularly. I think as the warmer weather arrives we will be doing a lot more bin runs.