The post box in the village has been wrapped in black plastic with this notice attached. Apparently we will get a super-duper post-box with solar power for an 'automated system', whatever that means! I'm sure most people just want somewhere to post their letters. Have to hope this doesn't mean the end of the village post office - we are lucky to still have one.
This is the future of rubbish and recycling collection for us here in Mid Suffolk. 2 extra bins from next June. It's going to get jolly complicated! Every week, every other week or every three weeks. I shall need a list!
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If it works, carry on with it - why does it need a solar panel for heaven's sake? The automated system sounds dodgy.
ReplyDelete5 bins for recycling? We have 4 here, but I never use the food one - compost what I can and take well-wrapped chicken carcases for a car ride to the daily-changed bins in town.
I've just looked one up - bar codes and proof of posting via an app? NOT what us older folk want is it? Plus I always enjoy a quick natter at the PO - when you live alone, you appreciate even little bits of social interaction.
ReplyDeleteIt will be 'fun' to see what we are getting
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgln72rgrero. It is meant to enable us to post larger things. I'm not convinced it is going to work!
ReplyDeleteI knew someone would look up details!
DeleteHi, I just looked this up. Does this mean the end of knitted post box covers? Will they be banned?
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DeleteOur local councillors on Facebook put up a notice saying changes are coming here, new days will be set to start in November, they did not tell us what the changes would be, we should all get a letter, we have food waste collections starting in March 26, I already compost 99% of our small amount of food waste and I won't change, so our food bin will be almost empty each collection, I only bin onion and pepper waste.
ReplyDeleteI hope we get a list to get us started next June!
DeleteWe have a list to cope with three bins and fortnightly collections! Heaven help us if we go to 5 bins!
ReplyDeleteI hope we get a list with dates at least at first
DeleteWe have
ReplyDeletea brown binbag (either 30l or 60l; €2 each) for General Rubbish, weekly collection
a binbag (60l; €0.15 each) for PMD, fortnightly collection,
a container (120l or 240l; €40 per year) for Green Waste, fortnightly collection
old paper collection, Council container optional, monthly collection
old glass collection, Council container optional, monthly collection
(We are allowed to offer the paper and glass in boxes or crates of our own).
The Council distributes a calendar with the collection dates marked, and there is an app that shows which collections are next.
Very organised - and expensive
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ReplyDeleteit is all change isn't it? Clothes can go separately into recycling here as well which will bring recycling up to 5 outlets.
There are clothes bins for Salvation army in some town car parks and now Pink Bins for small electricals
Deletewelcome to the wonderful world of refuse collection!!! Here's our list
ReplyDeleteRed fabric cube for tin, recyclable plastic, foil, tetra packs weekly
Blue fabric cube for cardboard and all brown paper inc. envelopes weekly
Green Food Waste for all non compostable kitchen scraps weekly
Glass skip weekly
Paper skip weekly
AHP for nappies and feminine products fortnightly
Garden waste {additional fee} fortnightly
Residual waste {ie everything else} in our own black bags every three weeks soon to be monthly
We can now put small electrical appliances, eg kettles, toaster, hair dryer etc out with our weekly collection instead of paying or taking to the tip.
I have a weekly email reminder but put colour coded dots on mu calendar!
The cubes are unwieldy and difficult to handle, then you have to store all of the bags/boxes/bins etc!
Goodness - even more complicated. There are now pink bins in a few places for small electricals which will save booking up to take my old kettle to the tip
DeleteWe have 'phone reminders to tell us which colour bin goes out on which week, or we'd be lost. I expect there will be further changes - there always are.
ReplyDeletePhone reminders is very organised!
DeleteWe are in the midst of a postal strike in Canada, the first ended with a back to work ruling but the issues were unresolved so a second strike. There are rumours that mail delivery to homes may cease and we would have individual mailboxes on the street. Flyers have already been stopped being delivered. I love getting mail, a letter waiting when I get home from work. Posting a carefully chosen birthday card to a friend. I hope your new post box is a friendly as your old one. Jean in Winnipeg.
ReplyDeleteI thought there was a post strike there last Christmas - is this the same one or another for this Christmas?
DeleteYes, there was a postal strike last Christmas in Canada. The issues were not resolved and now there is another one. The service is bleeding money. They will be moving to neighbourhood boxes where we can pick up our mail rather than have daily house delivery. Makes perfect sense to me.
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DeleteAt this rate I wonder if there will be any mail for the postal service when the strike is over. So many small businesses having to use alternative services. It is rather sad. Jean in Winnipeg
It seems a bit crazy that each county has different systems and they seem to be getting more complicated. Where we live our neighbour is on the border of 2 councils so gets recycling/rubbish picked up on a different day and with different rules. They live about 100 yards from us!
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
I wonder how much this is all costing!
DeleteIt's good that they are trying to save the planet by sorting waste and recycling. Hope it works.
ReplyDeleteWe've been trying for years - hasn't worked yet
DeleteYou're going to need a spreadsheet to get those bin days organized. Where I live, every block has an enclosure with containers marked for purpose. It's still beyond some people's ability to get stuff in the right recycle.
ReplyDeleteI'll be making lots of notes in my diary I think!
DeleteThat's a lot of bins. Even here in London we have only a single bin for all recycling (except food, which goes in a little caddy). I hope they don't ask us to separate the dry stuff by type.
ReplyDeleteGoing from one bin for recycling and one for rubbish to 4 is going to be fun!
DeleteI was going to ask what will you do to store all those bins? But then realized that we have three bins inside for paper, tin & glass, and plastic. One outside for trash. And a compost bucket by the sink that I take to my composter. When we go to recycle center (no pick up here) we take all but the compost. If we have cardboard that doesn't fit in the bin because it goes into its own dumpster separtate from other paper. I have no problem doing all since it's our part to save our planet.
ReplyDeleteLuckily I have room outside for all the bins, people without room won't have to have them
DeleteYour new recycling system seems quite complex.
ReplyDeleteWith all the effort to allocate each item to a bin, I'm always interested to know where it all goes. What exactly is produced by recycling?
We have recycle dumpsters and homeowners place items in the correct dumpster: Cardboard (no tape allowed), clear glass, colored glass, plastic, tin and aluminum, and compost (food). One large dumpster for trash (when in doubt, put it in the trash).
We also have a "swap shop" where townspeople can put useable things inside for anyone to take for free. This can be furniture, dishes, garden tools, toys, bicycles, books, lawnmowers, art...just about anything as long as it is still useable. This works quite well.
I love the swap shop idea. Some of the big recycling centres have shops selling the best of the things people have put in for recycling and the money goes to the council
DeleteWe have the multiple trash bins in my area as well. Taking out the trash is much more complicated than it used to be. They should be paying us - we seem to be doing all their work! Our collection trucks have cameras in them so if they catch something in the wrong bin, you get fined. After three notices they cancel your service. That new rule goes into affect sometime this month. 😬 There will be a grace period till the end of the year.
ReplyDeleteGoodness , fining people sounds a bit harsh.
DeleteOh gosh hi-tech post boxes, whatever next!!
ReplyDeleteWe currently have all those bins, they are just different colours to yours. It's no wonder that we have to study the leaflets every time we move house, it's all change in every county. We don't put out a garden compost bin or the food waste bin though so we just stick to the three main ones.
They all alternate each week though so we have to occasionally watch out for the 'Binfluencer' to see which one is due to be put out.
Our recycling bin at the moment is grey but with a green lid - I wonder if they are going to waste money and swap them for completely green . We'll find out next year
DeleteWe have a garbage bin and a recycling bin for paper, cardboard, glass, tin and rags. Our youngest has a garbage bin, a recycling bin like ours and then another for food waste (not meat) and weeds/garden rubbish.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
When our council changed the lids to bring us in line with new state guidelines I passed all bin day responsibilities to The Golfer😊
ReplyDeleteThree bins - different coloured lids. He’s downloaded the ‘what goes out each week’ list to his phone and if in doubt- look up the street and see what Mr XXX has put out.
We have a black bin for general waste, then the next week it´s the brown bin for all organic waste, the next week it´s the green bin for paper and cardbord, then the brown bin again, together with the yellow bin or big yellow bags for all kinds of packaging. As it has been like this for at least ten years, I now know quite well which bin to put out.
ReplyDeleteHilde in Germany
Not sure why they would change the post box. It's worked for a long time lol.
ReplyDeleteThe bin thing would drive me nuts! I only have two and forget when the recycle has to go out! Any more than that and I'd just give up lol