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| lachlanandmarcus |
Blue Bin collections
Our blue lid bin is only collected once a month? which is about right......how come you are fortnightly (sorry a bit off topic!) message from wg I split this post because I thought it would make more sense to have it in the recycling section 
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| IainC |
Ours is emptied every fortnight as well. Never normally full (or anywhere close to it unless it's xmas time). | ||||||
| beardies |
Ours is only emptied once a month also and that's when they remember to stop! It's the only "pavement" recycling facility we get here, we have to do a 15 mile round trip to recycle everything else. | ||||||
| Smooth Hound |
to be honest, im not sure, as i still havent filled it from when i had it put here, in fact im not sure about the other one either, i do know that when i put it out on thursday it wasnt emptied, so im presuming that one is fortnightly but i had the wrong week. | ||||||
| lachlanandmarcus |
hee hee! Just to confuse me too, when we moved in we carefully noted when the bin collection was, big sticker on bin saying Friday and which of the fortnightly cycles, so that was OK.......except our collection happens on a Weds!!it took me weeks to find out why....apparently council cant get the automated type big lorry up the lane, so have to send the little manual one (once theyd stopped trying to wash their hands of the handful of houses up here altogether) and that lorry is a Weds job.
Not that coming up the lane gets them closer than about a mile away, theres still a mile of track or so up to ours! so we have to strap it to the Landie and ferry it down.  
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| Sassinak |
A friend used to fasten his wheely bin to the back of his car to take it to the top of the drive.
On one occasion he was about 3 miles from home before he stopped to see what the strange thudding noise was 
He has always manged to stop and unhitch it since then lol |
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| wildgarlic |
Ahhh - we can now recycle MORE stuff in our blue bins.....
Extension to councils' recycling service 9th September 2008 Aberdeenshire residents can now recycle even more types of paper thanks to an agreement with UPM-Kymmene's Shotton Paper Mill. Continued development of recycling processes and requests from Aberdeenshire Council have made it possible to accept types of paper that were previously excluded from recycling collections. Householders in Aberdeenshire may now add greeting cards without glitter, telephone directories and Yellow Pages, white envelopes, travel tickets and receipts to their paper recycling. This is in addition to the previously accepted brochures, catalogues, leaflets, newspapers, magazines, office/printer paper, and white or grey card. White envelopes are acceptable even with plastic windows, but plastic wrappers and other non-paper materials still need to be kept out of the paper recycling collections. Brown cardboard and brown envelopes are still not accepted. This is because the brown fibres make it impossible to achieve the necessary levels of whiteness in the newsprint that the paper mill produces without the use of environmentally damaging bleaches and brighteners. Brown cardboard can be recycled separately at cardboard recycling points and recycling centres. The new list of acceptable materials is being publicised as one of 11 ‘Handy Hints’ mailed to all Aberdeenshire households this week. The ‘Handy Hints’ cover a number of waste reduction, reuse and recycling topics and are designed to fit the Waste Aware Grampian guide previously issued to homes in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City and Moray. Waste management officer Pam Walker said: “While the largest weight of paper recycled is probably likely to remain newspapers and magazines, this agreement will help to remove even more waste from landfill. It also makes it easier to get into the habit of recycling paper as there’s less need to stop and think about what is or isn’t suitable. “Paper recycling information has already been updated on our website and is included in the Handy Hints mailshot to all households. Signage at recycling points will be gradually replaced as appropriate.” Aberdeenshire Council collected 11,923.2 tonnes of paper for recycling during the financial year 2007 to 2008 as part of 45,878.51 tonnes of recycling generally during the same period. It also met the 2008 national recycling rate target of 30%, which is to be raised to 40% for 2010. According to statistics posted on Waste Aware Scotland’s website (www.wasteawarescotland.org.uk): · For every tonne of recycled newspaper, we save 17 trees. · Recycling paper saves almost 80% of the energy needed to make paper from new raw materials. · The average person living in the UK uses around 200kg of paper every year. For more information on recycling services in Aberdeenshire, visit www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/waste or call the Wasteline on 0845 600 3 900. |
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| Sassinak |
So I wonder how many recycling bins their mail shot would fill ?? lol | ||||||
| beardies |
I wondered just this yesterday when we received this mailshot TWICE!!!! |
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| lachlanandmarcus |
Good news about the envelopes tho esp the window type, I hate putting them in the black bin it seemed such a waste.
I will have to tell my pals to go easy on the glitter tho  
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| wildgarlic |
Yeah.. and how much does it cost to produce it and mail it out. |
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| Sassinak |
And how many people actually read it when they get it ?? |
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| Ina |
Now why couldn't they give me that information in the thick letter they sent me? I read everything twice because it was just that I wanted to know. And what they did write on that A4 sheet could easily have fitted on an A5... But this will make a lot of difference to our waste in the office. Better tell the bosses; knowing them, neither of them has read it. 
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