Saturday, October 22, 2011

Mess

The bin men had an extra task to perform this week – making sure that every bin was adorned with a 6”x 8” sticker, in bound-to-be-noticed yellow & black.

IMPORTANT NOTICE
Do not put cardboard in this bin

We are now collecting cardboard in your blue bag, along with paper. If your blue bag gets full, please put your paper & cardboard in carrier bags & put them out with your blue bag on recycling collection day.

We will not collect this bin if you put cardboard in it

We have had to make this change because of new national regulations preventing the collection of cardboard mixed in with other types of organic waste
This leaves quite a mess to be sorted out. Each household has two large wheelie bins, one of which can now be used only for what one hopes will be mostly small amounts of waste food & garden clippings. There is talk of providing us with a third bin to replace the recycling boxes & blue plastic bags we use for other recyclables, but a very large proportion of houses simply do not have space for three bins in the yard.

Let us hope that at least the carrier bags we are to use as a stopgap will continue to come free from the supermarket for the duration of these difficulties.

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