Topic ID 760
Does anyone know where i can get a second one??
Reply ID 8121
call east herts council and they will drop one off at your house, I had to do this as when I moved in the previous owners took theirs with them.
Reply ID 8125
Ringing them would be a good idea, if they sound like they are not keen tell them your one was stolen.
Reply ID 8149
Gill, ask Dave. He doesn't use his.
Reply ID 8236
I didnt think these had been issued across Hertford yet? I dont have one! Just the garden waste bins. Shed any light anyone?
Reply ID 8239
Gill, you need a second one!? How many papers do you buy a day?!
Reply ID 8248
quote:They've been in Hertford for at least two years, now. Check the WasteAware website.
Originally posted by 01-mike
I didnt think these had been issued across Hertford yet? I dont have one! Just the garden waste bins. Shed any light anyone?
Reply ID 8257
Thanks Skanky, will check it out.
Reply ID 8258
I need a second one too - I get a broadsheet delivered everyday, including weekends, and I recycle all my junk mail, envelopes etc. so one box really isn't enough. I usually top up my neighbours boxes for them! I wish we could have boxes for plastic, glass etc. too. My backyard looks like a mini tip until it's worthwhile me visiting the recycling depot. I've almost given up recycling because of it.
Reply ID 8266
I'd have thought they wouldn't be too far down the line. Stevenage has them already.
Reply ID 8274
Most of Welwyn has the bottle and paper ones now, though they dont have the garden waste bins.
Reply ID 8281
With the green bins being emptied every two weeks (rather than weekly), I invariably forget to put mine out and consequently have to visit the communual waste areas such as Hartham Lane. Perhaps the first sign of impending senility :-)
Reply ID 8286
Stevenage has provided red bins to each house for recycling glass as well. If this happens in Hertford it would be a good idea but I will run ou of space for all my recycling containers.
Reply ID 8290
quote:We only buy 2 papers a week! and then the rest is junk mail. I want a second one to put cardboard recycling in.
Originally posted by Dude
Gill, you need a second one!? How many papers do you buy a day?!
Reply ID 8293
Are you meant to put cardboard in? I thought it was just paper. And when are they emptied?
Reply ID 8297
quote:They don't accept cardboard, though. BTW 01-mike, I was wrong on where to get info. about getting a green bin. This site has all the details, not WasteAware. http://www.eastherts.gov.uk/recycling/paper_kerbside_collection.htm Sorry about that.
Originally posted by GillPquote:We only buy 2 papers a week! and then the rest is junk mail. I want a second one to put cardboard recycling in.
Originally posted by Dude
Gill, you need a second one!? How many papers do you buy a day?!
Reply ID 8302
quote:There is no cardboard collection [:(] But at the moment it is in a box in my kitchen, which itself is in a box. So having a second green box would be ideal to join my other recycling cartons which are kept outside. I take cardbaord to the tip near ware.
Originally posted by Ewoowar
Are you meant to put cardboard in? I thought it was just paper. And when are they emptied?
Reply ID 8303
We did a house swap with a family from Gothenberg last summer. The Swedes have a much more developed approach to recycling.
Reply ID 8304
quote:I went to Geremany 10 yrs ago and stayed with a family. They had 4 recycling bins for differnt things provided by the local council! Why are we so behind!
Originally posted by Ewoowar
We did a house swap with a family from Gothenberg last summer. The Swedes have a much more developed approach to recycling.
Reply ID 8308
Yep, bottom of the recycling league in Europe apparently. To be fair, we do seem to be getting better - still a long way to go, though.
Reply ID 8309
quote:Over the past 2 yrs that i have lived in Hertford it has got much better. In my home town they have only just introduced green boxes, but they can put paper, cans, glass and plastic in them. Ho hum we will get there!
Originally posted by Joby
Yep, bottom of the recycling league in Europe apparently. To be fair, we do seem to be getting better - still a long way to go, though.
Reply ID 8315
Some recycling however, isn't very logical. When I was a child, you received a deposit on bottles, which you got back when you returned them. These bottles were then washed off and reused. Surely in these days of us driving to the supermarkets in our cars, and internet deliveries, it is possible to have a similar system, the bottles to then be returned to the companies, washed and reused. It is greener than smashing the bottles, melting and reforming the glass. Bottles could be standard sizes and shapes for different things, differentiated by their labels. Also whilst on the subject of recycling and greeness, McDonalds and the like, should serve 'eat in' meals on plates, and not have every meal generating piles of rubbish! Both of these issues are examples of where we have gone backwards. In Wimpey bars they did serve eat in meals on plates.... so it is not that revolutionary!
Reply ID 8337
quote:You can get a plastic box with lid from Fore St., for a couple of quid, that'll take the cardboard, if you can't get a second bin. I also agree that re-using bottles is better than recycling them. Once oil prices reach at $80 a barrel, you might see that being brought in. [;)]
Originally posted by GillPquote:There is no cardboard collection [:(] But at the moment it is in a box in my kitchen, which itself is in a box. So having a second green box would be ideal to join my other recycling cartons which are kept outside. I take cardbaord to the tip near ware.
Originally posted by Ewoowar
Are you meant to put cardboard in? I thought it was just paper. And when are they emptied?