It’s a good job Veronica Bould has a large back garden. Otherwise she would have no hope of storing this staggering array of council-issued recycling receptacles. The 63-year-old grandmother has to accommodate ten different bags, bins and boxes to recycle everything from tea bags to light bulbs – the energy-efficient variety, of course. She must use a traditional grey wheelie bin for household waste and a green bin for garden waste with a black box for mixed glass, tins, aerosols and tin foil, a blue bag for cardboard and a blue box for paper and magazines. A small kitchen slop bucket is supposed to be emptied into a larger outdoor green bin; plastic bottles must be placed in an orange drawstring bag; while old batteries and energy-efficient light bulbs must be separated into small, identical, clear polythene bags also supplied by the council. She and her husband Brian, from Church Aston, Shropshire, also have a second green wheelie bin which they requested to help them keep the back garden tidy. Compulsory doorstep recycling has been heavily promoted by local authorities who face escalating taxes on each ton of waste they send to landfill. The schemes are sometimes enforced by bin police who can impose £100 on-the-spot fines for breaches such as overfilled wheelie bins, extra rubbish left out, or bins put out at the wrong time. But the measures imposed by Telford and Wrekin Council are amongst the most stringent seen so far. ‘I’m all for recycling and fully support the council’s efforts to make it possible for us to recycle so much of our waste,’ said mother-of-three Mrs Bould, a retired public relations executive. I just wish the council could issue us with a single bin for the majority of our dry recycled waste, as many other authorities do.’ The couple store most of the bins and boxes at the rear of their three-bedroom cottage, with the cardboard and plastic bottles kept in the utility room. Mr Bould, 67, a semi-retired photographer, said: ‘The different bins and bags are certainly a lot to get your head around. I can’t imagine how people in flats or small houses could accommodate them all.’ (Daily Mail)Monday, 18 October 2010
More Of The Ridiculous & The Sublime - "TEN bins, boxes and bags for our rubbish: Cottage garden overtaken by recycling containers"
It’s a good job Veronica Bould has a large back garden. Otherwise she would have no hope of storing this staggering array of council-issued recycling receptacles. The 63-year-old grandmother has to accommodate ten different bags, bins and boxes to recycle everything from tea bags to light bulbs – the energy-efficient variety, of course. She must use a traditional grey wheelie bin for household waste and a green bin for garden waste with a black box for mixed glass, tins, aerosols and tin foil, a blue bag for cardboard and a blue box for paper and magazines. A small kitchen slop bucket is supposed to be emptied into a larger outdoor green bin; plastic bottles must be placed in an orange drawstring bag; while old batteries and energy-efficient light bulbs must be separated into small, identical, clear polythene bags also supplied by the council. She and her husband Brian, from Church Aston, Shropshire, also have a second green wheelie bin which they requested to help them keep the back garden tidy. Compulsory doorstep recycling has been heavily promoted by local authorities who face escalating taxes on each ton of waste they send to landfill. The schemes are sometimes enforced by bin police who can impose £100 on-the-spot fines for breaches such as overfilled wheelie bins, extra rubbish left out, or bins put out at the wrong time. But the measures imposed by Telford and Wrekin Council are amongst the most stringent seen so far. ‘I’m all for recycling and fully support the council’s efforts to make it possible for us to recycle so much of our waste,’ said mother-of-three Mrs Bould, a retired public relations executive. I just wish the council could issue us with a single bin for the majority of our dry recycled waste, as many other authorities do.’ The couple store most of the bins and boxes at the rear of their three-bedroom cottage, with the cardboard and plastic bottles kept in the utility room. Mr Bould, 67, a semi-retired photographer, said: ‘The different bins and bags are certainly a lot to get your head around. I can’t imagine how people in flats or small houses could accommodate them all.’ (Daily Mail)