My green wheeliebin has arrived

We have a green wheelie bin and find it really useful. I don't think we paid for it though, I'd be shocked to find out that we did, or maybe my husband just hasn't told me about it!? I thought everyone round here was just given one (although I do know that you have to pay for a replacement if it gets lost, even if it's not your fault ) Anyway, we put all sorts of garden stuff in there, grass, cuttings, old plants etc. We also use it for food waste, such as fruit and vegetables. It's reduced the amount of waste that we put in our normal black bin, and is really useful. They collect the green bins once a week when they collect the black ones. Enjoy using it!

Goodness me, Pikey, your area is really behind the times! We have had green wheelies in Cambridge for at least five years and the scheme works very well. Even if you don't have a garden, there is still a great deal of compostable rubbish that you can fill your green bin with. Different authorities have different requirements, depending on the recycling system they use (at least one I found uses brown bins for garden waste and the green bin is used for paper, cardboard, cans and plastics.) Here, we have a blue box for plastics; a black box for glass, cans and newspaper; a green bin for compostable garden waste (no thick branches or treated wood, however) and kitchen waste (which should be wrapped in newspaper) and a black bin for everything else. We have fortnightly collections - one week it's the black and alternate weeks it's the green and blue. As far as I recall, we aren't charged for the bins but I think that if one gets damaged, we have to pay for a new one. I enjoy the idea of recycling and don't find it a problem to sort the various items into their relevant bins. It does take up more space to store all these containers and I can understand that, for some households, space is at a premium. Nevertheless, I think it is a very laudable project to recycle as much as we can. It is appalling to see the amount of packaging and waste that simply gets dumped in a hole in the ground and covered over with God only knows what toxic and dangerous things buried there! I am very concerned about the number of things we now use to 'conserve energy' - particularly low-energy light bulbs and rechargeable batteries - for which there are currently no recycling facilities. Many of these contain mercury and other highly toxic things and, at the moment, they are being poured into landfill because it isn't economic to recycle their components.

I haven't got a Garden any more but the Landlord and his Daughter do have them as they both have a Garden The only thing I need to ask is p1 why are they charging you as far as I am concerned you pay enough Council Tax, so why do they want more money it is stupid

wheeliebin - I like it! nope, don't need a bin for garden waste, no garden! Now, once a week, we can put out leaves, grass clippings in allowed bags or in dumpable bins for the city to pick up. They use it to make "Dillo Dirt" and sell it.

We don't get ours until next year. But living out in the country negates my need for it as I compost everything anyway or feed it to the chickens, or the dog or the barn cats.

We got one of those, too. They come every fortnight to empty it but usually we don't have much by the way of garden waste. However I cut all the hedges and there was a fair bit of stuff to go in this bin, it was almost full. The better half had bought a cabbage and when she cut it it was full of caterpillars. After many 'EEEKS' she dropped the raw cabbage in the garden bin. When the bin police came to empty it, they took the cabage out of the garden bin and put it in our household bin. They said we could not put food in the garden bin. My question is this. When does a raw cabbage stop being a plant and become food? What if I had dug it from the garden plot, seen the mess, and just composted it?

sorry if this post twice but explorer went down. Since you have a garden could you possibly think of using the garden waste as compost to be tilled into the soil after the gardening days is over? this is what my grandfather done when he was alive and had a garden. He says it makes for a better garden the next year. Of course it my stink but lime should help with that maybe. We only have one bin it is only for household garbage to be hauled off once a week for $12.50 a month. We till our garden waste under afterwards to help it be a richer fround for the next year.

We have had a garden waste collection for a couple of years I think. As far as I know, we can put grass and plants and things in it. We don't use it often. Ours is fortinghtly from February to September I think. Because, of course, no one would ever need to cut their grass between October and January. We also had a red box to put glass, cans and paper in. Now they have changed that and given us bags for different things. They charge something ridiculous for doing these things but we do most of the work for them!

Pike here in my home town all we have to do is pile it on the curb and once a week they come by with chipper machines and suck it right up. Of course this is a service we pay for in our trash and sewage portion of the electric bills. Out of the city limits they provide a trash bin at a much higher cost.

Nope, we do not have that option here. It is kind of strange I think as I live in the capital city. Here the options to recycle is far inferiour to most rest of the country.

Here in our town we have three waste bins. One for recycling, one for garbage and one for green waste, like your weeliebin. It can be a hassell at times but on the other hand I like it. I like that our town is trying to do its part for the enviroment. Our weeliebins get dumped every week, most weeks they are not full because it is just my hubby and I. When it was my son and his girlfriend living with us our bins where fuller. At certain times a year our green waste can is fuller. I hope you enjoy filling up your weelingbin.

we have had our green wheeliebin for years now p1ke.we get ours collected every 2 weeks as well and on the alternate week it is our recyclables.i put weeds ,clippings and cardboard boxes all riped up as it will decompose like the weeds etc.cheers sue

I used to just rototill my garden waste right back into the soil in the spring. I had a large bin for it, but sadly, no wheels on it.*pout* The weeds I put in the compost bin or just threw over the fence into the abandoned neighbouring lot! lol In the fall we are responsible for putting our leaves and grasses in plastic bags which we must take to the recycling centre for dumping and what they do with it from there I haven't a clue. Here where I live now, we just bag and dump and burn it allin a bonfire at Halloween in the middle of the unused and now sadly bereft of grass, baseball diamond. I'm hoping to change that next spring and turn the diamond back into a proper playground for the summer folk. We'll see. I'll have to find a new place for the town bonfire in October though..............oh gee thanks P1ke. You just gave me another job to do! LOL

Since I live in the woods, garden waste is not an issue. We either mulch waste, burn some or just toss it into the woods to become a part of nature again!

We've had one of those for quite a while. We were told it only takes garden waste but it mustnn't be too heavy. We thought we may be able to put potato peelings etc. in but that's not garden waste and our council wouldn't take it if they could see it.

We have our own compost pile. We just started it about a month or so ago. We put our garden waste in it, plus coffee grounds and other assortments from the kitchen. We do not put dairy items, cooking oil or meat in it. From whaat I've read, those items will make it smell. I try to remember to stir it once or twice a month. That's supposed to help it break down faster. It should make some very nice soil for our garden for next year.

Woo hoo - fantastic! We have 2 wheeliebins honey, one for normal household waste and one for cardboard, garden waste etc and all would be great if only the household waste bin were still emptied every week as it used to be but no , now we have the wheeliebins emptied on alternate weeks although on the upside we don't have to pay any extra, even if they do up our council tax because of it! We also get a recycle box for glass jars, cans, paper,recyclable plastic etc which is emptied every week! xxx

No not here where I live. Most of the yard waste is burned by my father. Then the straw from the pine trees is use some but there is a man that comes to the house and collects it. My father doesn't mine; it saves him the work of cleaning it up himself. But not like what your talking about. Have a nice one.

Do you actually have to pya or do you just mean out of council tax? we have the bin with the green lid which is for garden waste and cardboard. This has made a huge difference. We didn't get them until quite a few months into the every 2 week normal bin collection. Originally they said that it wasn't suitable for us to have these bins so instead we had the plastic bags (what a waste) This was hopeless as we'd use them and never get any back because of greedy neighbours taking them. They once stole my glas bin though even though it had my address on, next recycling day they put it out with my address still on! the cheek of it. Anyway i've drifted away from my point1 I managed to get a bin of them and it is wonderful, our normal bin is never full after the two weeks. It's amazing how much cardboard you use. We don't have as much garden waste but it helps us out when we do have a big garden clear up.

i am in uk. some places here have a wheely bin for garden waste, where i live we have to put it in special white bags and this gets collected once a fortnight, i don't use it as i compost all mine