die hard doonhamer Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 2 bin days in P&K, for me it's green bin (general) and blue bin (recycling) alternate Thursdays, brown bin (garden, and yes, I pay for the permit) every other Monday. Dundee's schedule seems excessive, to say the least. So many different bins just for them all to get emptied in to the same landfill. Wild. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Dufresne Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 In Falkirk we only get our normal bin emptied every 4 weeks and recycle the same,but don't have to pay for garden waste. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFTD Posted August 28, 2021 Share Posted August 28, 2021 For some reason, the council never got around to implementing recycling pickups on our street, so we still have the one bin that gets emptied weekly, just like The Good Old Days. Obviously, we'll all be contacting the council about this glaring oversight any day now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 1 hour ago, OneBrianIrvine said: Even then it’s a look see fit the neighbours are doing. I still can’t get over the schedule above. Shook. Every street has its Elder of the Bins - out first and always right. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonS Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 On 27/08/2021 at 18:35, velo army said: My own pttgomn is simply when people call initialisms acronyms. It's truly petty. Checks out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theroadlesstravelled Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 I have 2 bins. One small normal bin and one bigger recycling bin. The normal bin fills up quickly so I end up just chucking whatever in whatever. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 Brown bin (garden waste), green bin (general rubbish), blue crates, green crates and food caddy in East lothian. It's being changed from September - plastic bottles, plastic packaging, and cartons will be going in "sealed and weighted" bags, glass bottles and jars in green crates, and cardboard and paper in blue crates. Pain in the fucking arse. At this rate, everything will Just get chucked in the green bin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 8 hours ago, BFTD said: What are all these Dundonian bins for, and where do you keep them? One's for bodies, I assume. Mostly fag ends. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 We're in Bishopbriggs and Friday is bin day for my neighbourhood. We have 5 bins, 4 of them being big bins: - Black / General Waste - Green / Garden Waste = = = - Blue / Paper and Cardboard - Orange / Glass, Plastic and Metal These are collected together, grouped as above, on a fortnightly basis, so every week your only task is to remember / look out the window to establish if it's a week for general waste and garden stuff or a week for the recycling ones. Whichever week it is they also collect the 1 smaller Grey bin for Food Waste. I really can't understand why a council would have people looking at a ridiculous calendar like the one posted earlier. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, milton75 said: I really can't understand why a council would have people looking at a ridiculous calendar like the one posted earlier. Most folk in my street are (or at least seem to be) retired and/or dottled. It keeps them on their toes and gets them out the house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 9 hours ago, tamthebam said: One's for plehnies an the ither for ignin anes. I'm not saying you're wrong, but is it really plehnies? For my whole life I've been saying plen anes so would be more than a little embarrassed to think my pronunciation is off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meldrew Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) On 16/08/2021 at 20:33, Dee Man said: Imagine taking acid and watching a Limmy video? Or indeed not being Scottish and watching a Limmy video. Some boy. i'll just have the acid thanks, because Limmy is fuckin awful, not Gary Tank Commander or Scot Squad awful, but awful nevertheless Edited August 29, 2021 by Meldrew 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 7 minutes ago, hk blues said: I'm not saying you're wrong, but is it really plehnies? For my whole life I've been saying plen anes so would be more than a little embarrassed to think my pronunciation is off. He’s wrang, you’re richt. True Dundonians ken the difference between a plehn bridie or ingin ane https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2013/06/07/true-dundonians-ken-the-difference-between-a-plehn-bridie-or-ingin-ane/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 On bins - In my place we have 2x black bins because that's what I bought whilst some others went for red, or green even. Bin lorry (it is a lorry rather than the sophisticated ones you have) comes twice a week (and i thought we were 3rd world) and takes all bins regardless of colour and contents (although they did reject my attempts to discard our door canopy one time - fair enough and no hard feelings) no questions asked - as it should be surely. 500 pesos in an envelope (supplied by them) as a Christmas gratuity and the odd soft drink for refreshment during the year and we're all happy. Seems you guys have over engineered what is a very mundane task. You're in danger of evolving into the Japanese who fucking love garbage disposal rules and requirements and practices. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 2 minutes ago, Eednud said: He’s wrang, you’re richt. True Dundonians ken the difference between a plehn bridie or ingin ane https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/2013/06/07/true-dundonians-ken-the-difference-between-a-plehn-bridie-or-ingin-ane/ Phew! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 11 minutes ago, hk blues said: Seems you guys have over engineered what is a very mundane task. You're in danger of evolving into the Japanese who fucking love garbage disposal rules and requirements and practices. It would be fine if stuff actually got recycled instead of getting shipped out and dumped on some third world beach. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 4 minutes ago, welshbairn said: It would be fine if stuff actually got recycled instead of getting shipped out and dumped on some third world beach. So that's where all that shite on my local beach came from! Joking apart, I take perverse delight in telling my Japanese students how all their perfectly separated rubbish eventually gets mixed together as they don't have the resources to segregate once it reaches the refuse depots. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 In Spain you have one bin and it gets emptied every night. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 15 hours ago, milton75 said: That's about as stupid as I would expect from a city that refers to "circles". Why on earth do they have them on different days? True. If they do them all on the same day they only have to send one lorry. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted August 29, 2021 Share Posted August 29, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Newbornbairn said: In Spain you have one bin and it gets emptied every night. They have communal recycling bins all over the place too that you're expected to use. Edited August 29, 2021 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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