| Recycling 20:05 - Oct 17 with 2016 views | Catullus |
Having recently moved from Llansamlet to Skewen I have found that NPT are much better for recycling than Swansea. Black bags are still taken once a fortnight but most of the rest is taken every week and they take more of the things we'd black bag in Swansea.
So why can't all councils operate the same system? If NPT can recycle all the extra stuff (including batteries and milk/food cartons) why can't every council?
Shouldn't there be a national standard for recycling so the whole country can do more of it? The planet could do with the help! |  |
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| Recycling on 20:12 - Oct 17 with 1995 views | jackrmee |
I've always put milk and food cartons in with my recycling anyway. Aren't they meant to be? |  |
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| Recycling on 20:16 - Oct 17 with 1987 views | lifelong |
I don’t see any problem with Swansea recycling, A large pink bag for plastic and black bags every two weeks, green bags for paper, bottles and cans plus large garden waste bags, also every two weeks with food waste bins every week.
Do NPT accept battery waste in separate containers? |  | | |
| Recycling on 20:21 - Oct 17 with 1976 views | Catullus |
| Recycling on 20:12 - Oct 17 by jackrmee |
I've always put milk and food cartons in with my recycling anyway. Aren't they meant to be? |
We had a green bag refused for having a milk carton in it. For food cartons it depends on the material.
The main thing is, in NPT land we have 3 different white reusable sacks, 2 black boxes, a green bag and a wheelie bin. Paper in one box, bottles/glass in the other. Plastics and tins in one white bag, cardboard the other. There's a bag for batteries, one for garden waste. Then, like I said, the recycling is taken every week with the wheelie bin emptied once a fortnight.
It just seems better to me, more efficient. | |
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| Recycling on 20:37 - Oct 17 with 1956 views | dickythorpe |
| Recycling on 20:16 - Oct 17 by lifelong |
I don’t see any problem with Swansea recycling, A large pink bag for plastic and black bags every two weeks, green bags for paper, bottles and cans plus large garden waste bags, also every two weeks with food waste bins every week.
Do NPT accept battery waste in separate containers? |
We only have blue bags in Carmarthenshire which you have to collect! Plus we have to buy our own black bags.
Glass we have to take to bottle bank. [Post edited 17 Oct 2019 20:38]
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| Recycling on 20:40 - Oct 17 with 1949 views | Catullus |
| Recycling on 20:16 - Oct 17 by lifelong |
I don’t see any problem with Swansea recycling, A large pink bag for plastic and black bags every two weeks, green bags for paper, bottles and cans plus large garden waste bags, also every two weeks with food waste bins every week.
Do NPT accept battery waste in separate containers? |
It's not so much that Swansea recycling is a problem, it just seems to me NPT do it better and, looking at the big picture, wouldn't it be better if every council in Wales operated the same system?
Wouldn't it be more cost efective and efficient, possibly more succesful if all councils were on the same page? | |
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| Recycling on 21:04 - Oct 17 with 1917 views | jack_lord |
Our council tax rates (bandwise) are higher in NPT so they should take our bags. NPT recycling plant in Cwmgors has shut so we have to go to Swansea (Llansamlet). |  |
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| Recycling on 21:27 - Oct 17 with 1882 views | Professor |
A consistent approach would be so much easier. We (Cheshire west) have 2 Wheelie bins which alternate weeks (standard and garden waste), a weekly food recycling bin,
And 2 weekly box/bins for plastic, glass, paper etc. Complex. Wirral differs again ( a mile up the road), whereas Liverpool has a purple bin for all recycling apart from food. The | | | |
| Recycling on 09:52 - Oct 18 with 1745 views | 1983 |
Moved to Skewen!!! are you mad? |  |
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| Recycling on 10:08 - Oct 18 with 1732 views | Catullus |
| Recycling on 09:52 - Oct 18 by 1983 |
Moved to Skewen!!! are you mad? |
Have you never read any of my previous posts? You wouldn't need to ask if you had.
Actually, we bought a bigger house with a much better garden ( we don't have a garage anymore though) and it has walls you can hang stuff on, unlike our old, new build house, and we got it for the same price as we sold. Once we've finished upgrading it will aparently be worth about 40k more (according to the estimates we got) and that's 30k clear profit.
Besides, Skewen is nice, better than Trallwn. Skewen park is close by and our son and dog both love it. It's kept that village feel, much like where I grew up. | |
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| Recycling on 10:22 - Oct 18 with 1714 views | raynor94 |
| Recycling on 20:21 - Oct 17 by Catullus |
We had a green bag refused for having a milk carton in it. For food cartons it depends on the material.
The main thing is, in NPT land we have 3 different white reusable sacks, 2 black boxes, a green bag and a wheelie bin. Paper in one box, bottles/glass in the other. Plastics and tins in one white bag, cardboard the other. There's a bag for batteries, one for garden waste. Then, like I said, the recycling is taken every week with the wheelie bin emptied once a fortnight.
It just seems better to me, more efficient. |
Can't find anything at all wrong with Swansea recycling, simple to use, pink one week green the other.
You can put out as many of those as you like, and food waste is every week, black 2 bags every fortnight.
It's just people abuse it |  |
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| Recycling on 10:33 - Oct 18 with 1705 views | Catullus |
| Recycling on 21:04 - Oct 17 by jack_lord |
Our council tax rates (bandwise) are higher in NPT so they should take our bags. NPT recycling plant in Cwmgors has shut so we have to go to Swansea (Llansamlet). |
Our house is a band higher now and the council tax is nearly double what it was in Llansamlet, it came as a shock! | |
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| Recycling on 10:34 - Oct 18 with 1704 views | 1983 |
| Recycling on 10:08 - Oct 18 by Catullus |
Have you never read any of my previous posts? You wouldn't need to ask if you had.
Actually, we bought a bigger house with a much better garden ( we don't have a garage anymore though) and it has walls you can hang stuff on, unlike our old, new build house, and we got it for the same price as we sold. Once we've finished upgrading it will aparently be worth about 40k more (according to the estimates we got) and that's 30k clear profit.
Besides, Skewen is nice, better than Trallwn. Skewen park is close by and our son and dog both love it. It's kept that village feel, much like where I grew up. |
Feck me have a day off mun I was only trying to have a laugh!
Enjoy your recycling | |
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| Recycling on 10:40 - Oct 18 with 1697 views | Catullus |
| Recycling on 10:22 - Oct 18 by raynor94 |
Can't find anything at all wrong with Swansea recycling, simple to use, pink one week green the other.
You can put out as many of those as you like, and food waste is every week, black 2 bags every fortnight.
It's just people abuse it |
The big issue for me is the widespread one of only 3 black bags. We don't often have 3 but sometimes (like when we moved recently, I threw out a lot of non recyclable stuff, where does it all come from?) and had to drive to the tip. Isn't that counter productive, using more fuel, clogging up the roads only to queue up at the same place as the bin lorries go spewing more fumes out while you wait your turn.
If you sometimes have more than 3 (at Christmas and birthdays maybe) is it not more sensible for the bin lorry to just take them. If you always have more than 3 then the council regularly send people around checking, they can knock on doors and offer advice.
On the recycling itself, wouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient if every council operated the same systems? Then wouldn't that be better for the environment? | |
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| Recycling on 19:21 - Oct 18 with 1618 views | N_T_J |
| Recycling on 10:34 - Oct 18 by 1983 |
Feck me have a day off mun I was only trying to have a laugh!
Enjoy your recycling |
Don't fuk with the Skew Crew butty ðŸ˜ðŸ™Œ |  | | |
| Recycling on 20:50 - Oct 18 with 1589 views | Catullus |
| Recycling on 10:34 - Oct 18 by 1983 |
Feck me have a day off mun I was only trying to have a laugh!
Enjoy your recycling |
And the opening line was being serious? | |
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| Recycling on 20:17 - Oct 21 with 1436 views | cackinthesackjack |
I've lived in NPT and Swansea and NPT does do it better.
Swansea's issues are the plastic and black bag contents spilling on windy days, of which there are many,
I prefer living in Swansea though. | |
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