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ekimj10

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 Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Like a lot of others, our household buys quite a lot of items via the internet, either delivered by courier or pick from nearest store.
What concerns me is the gross waste of packaging material used and the problem we have in getting rid of it by the local council recyclers.
We are allowed one sizeable bag for cardboard every two weeks, this is now totally inadequate and means a trip to the local dump.

Today was a classic example, one short garden spray in a massive box, what a waste.
http://s1283.photobucket.com/user/ekimj10/media/IMGP0298_zpsan9ngcl4.jpg.html
OK rant over and I guess the argument is 'well it's all re-cycled anyway'.
 
You have a limit on recycling? We can request multiple recycle bins here - but no waste bins. So we have a weekly trip to the tip to get rid of the rubbish.
 
pvr said:
You have a limit on recycling? We can request multiple recycle bins here - but no waste bins. So we have a weekly trip to the tip to get rid of the rubbish.
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No waste bins...?

I though councils had a legal obligation to collect household waste... or does yours count as a commercial premises?

According to this article 'Councils have been legally obliged to empty people's bins since the introduction of the Public Health Act in 1875'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2433525/Bin-collections-the-historical-obligation-on-councils.html
 
To clarify - we can't have multiple waste bins, just a single small one.

We can have multiple recycle bins though.
 
How weird as Lichfield DC provide us with full sized black, blue and brown wheelie bins for general waste, recycling and garden waste.

Problem for most folks is storing 3 full sized bins.
 
cj10jeeper said:
How weird as Lichfield DC provide us with full sized black, blue and brown wheelie bins for general waste, recycling and garden waste.

Problem for most folks is storing 3 full sized bins.
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We are the same here in Renfrewshire except they gave us a small food waste bin as well.
 
Same here in Stafford Borough, brown wheelie bin for garden waste, blue for glass, plastic and cardboard with a caddy for paper and a green bin for food waste and non recyclables, collected fortnightly.

Any packageing such as cardboard although appearing wasteful will be recycled at the end of the day.

I'm more concerned with internet shopping killing off local shops/jobs etc to be honest.

Problem now is alot of household recycling centres are starting to introduce charges to your local Joe public to dispose of waste, this is over and above trade waste so Councils can bring in more income. I have loads of old paint tins in the garage which I will now have to pay to get rid of if I take them to the local recycling centre. I've already thrown some wrapped up in the bottom of my wheelie bin which have been taken on collection day as they don't always check whats in the bin. I refuse to pay extra to take stuffs to my recycling centre when I'm already paying for waste collection through my council tax. :x

Tim.
 
TitanTim said:
Same here in Stafford Borough, brown wheelie bin for garden waste, blue for glass, plastic and cardboard with a caddy for paper and a green bin for food waste and non recyclables, collected fortnightly.

Any packageing such as cardboard although appearing wasteful will be recycled at the end of the day.

I'm more concerned with internet shopping killing off local shops/jobs etc to be honest.

Tim.
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I not sure I agree that internet is killing local shops. It may well be the final nail in the coffin for some traders, but many were obsolete or had older owners retiring with nobody willing to follow them. It's certainly changing the dynamic of shops and they have to change.

Our tiny village is thriving and a lot due to the internet. There's a local shop who sells chocolates and does a lot of turnover on the internet. The butcher does online orders. 'Click and collect' has kept the post office alive. I could go on. On a grander scale Amazons centre has put 1200 permeant jobs into the relatively deprived Rugeley area.
 
I believed there was a limit on the number of containers, but reading some replies maybe for recycleable items they will provide additional bags or bins.
I was really moaning about the quantity of packing material I'm disposing of. Every other Wednesday we have to move at least 2 green wheelie bins of garden waste, 2 canvas bags of plastic, 1 box of papers, 1 box of bottles/cans, 1 bag of cardboard from the house to the end of our drive, maybe 50/60 metres.
Another bag of cardboard would probably see me off! Ah well keep smiling :D
 
I get what you are saying about packaging.
We are told that we must recycle and must try to cut down on waste but really it should be manufacturers that are changing how they package things in the first place.
Things are put into massive boxes to make it look like products are bigger than they are, when they could easily be put into smaller boxes.
Recently we bought some sort of washing tablets that came in a plastic container with stickers on it showing the product.
It also had a cardboard sleeve with the same information on it that served no purpose. It was not needed and its that kind of thing that should be stopped.
 
The whole concept of internet shopping has really taken off and we are as active as most, but there is a cost, one is to the smaller high street retailers who don't and lose business (as previously raised), and another is to the retailers that do.
We tend to shop quite a bit with M&S (that gives our age away) and generally use the 'collect in store' option, we pay nothing for packaging/distribution at the warehouse, nothing for transport and nothing for collection in store. If we don't like it, a refund is given and we presume the item is returned to warehouse, all at a cost.
This definitely eats into the CO' margins.
Got to admit that the service one gets from good suppliers and couriers is outstanding, Amazon and Prime are particularly good.
We have a delivery guy who seems to work freelance for a number of couriers, white van, no time etc and he was telling me he gets 47p for delivering to us, I assume he's local.
 
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