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What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« on: September 13, 2011, 07:40:47 PM »
When my bf and I visited London and even in several areas of Nottingham I saw lots of bags and loose rubbish in front of businesses and even homes! What ever happened to garbage/recycling bins? Do they still exist? lol How many times do the garbage trucks pick up said garbage? It just makes cities and residential areas look unappealing! Just my opinion though.. Hoping it won't be like that wherever I choose to live.
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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2011, 08:03:03 PM »
On my street, it's very common for people to put out their rubbish bags on the pavement in front of their houses on collection day morning.

The recycling bins absolutely exist.  We have one for plastic, one for glass and tin, one for paper, one for garden waste, and one for food waste.  And really, with all those bins, I really don't need to have one more to worry about. 

The only time I see people have outdoor rubbish bins is when they don't put out their bags on the morning of collection and prefer to take out the bags the night before and don't want animals to get into everything during the night.

Honestly, doesn't bother me in the slightest.  It's not like the bags sit there all the time; on my street, they are only put out on the morning of rubbish collection.  So you bring out a bag when you're off for work and by the time you come home, everything's been collected.


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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2011, 09:03:47 PM »
What ever happened to garbage/recycling bins? Do they still exist?
They're gradually coming back. In the 1970s and 1980s they largely disappeared because the IRA had a habit of planting bombs in them, and even today some places like railway stations will either not have any or it will be a transparent plastic bag suspended from a metal ring.


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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2011, 09:08:10 PM »
It depends on the council. Some choose to collect just bags, others have wheelie bins. My council has one bin for landfill waste, one for paper, one for plastic and aluminium and one for garden and food waste. We're not allowed to have just bags out, they won't pick them up if we put them out.
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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2011, 09:44:42 PM »
I haven't had a rubbish bin since I moved to the UK.

When I lived in a block of flats, bags of rubbish got put on the steps in front of the building.

Now that I live in a house, my bags of rubbish go in the alley behind my garden.

We aren't allowed to put them out until the night before rubbish collection, so it's not like they're out for days.


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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2011, 10:30:45 PM »
I read the title and thought, "Welcome to Notts"

The main rubbish collection in the city and most of the borough councils is bin. The city centre tends to have rubbish bags, but most residential areas will have 1 - 3 bins depending on your recycling scheme.



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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2011, 10:38:17 PM »
It depends on where you live. We're not allowed to put out bags - everything has to be in wheelie bins and recycling boxes. But then we have seagulls, foxes, badgers, etc. and bags would be a BIG PROBLEM.
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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2011, 11:30:55 PM »
I read the title and thought, "Welcome to Notts"

hahaha!  It has been surprisingly windy the past few days, so maybe that has something to do with it?   We live in the city centre, and as often as I see them cleaning the streets, it doesn't really do any good, because every night, the place gets trashed with people's takeaway, flyers for cheap drinks, people's bodily fluids....I don't understand it.

Our building has about 40 flats in it, and there's like 6 BIG wheelie bins (potentially called a skip?)-- 1 for recycling, and 5 regular trash ones. They never fill up (apart from recycling), but somehow people will still occasionally miss (?) them though, and their trash ends up flying around town.  I still don't get it.
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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2011, 11:19:25 AM »
They're gradually coming back. In the 1970s and 1980s they largely disappeared because the IRA had a habit of planting bombs in them, and even today some places like railway stations will either not have any or it will be a transparent plastic bag suspended from a metal ring.

Mainly this...
Theres trash at the front of ours but we hardly use the front door, so I never see it unless I actually pass the front of the house (which is rare). 


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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2011, 02:26:10 PM »
We have rubbish bins in the streets, the problem is many people just don't bother using them. I've seen people just drop litter on the street when there was a bin nearby. I was once behind a car at traffic lights when the passenger door opened and they just dropped out a McDonalds bag!
It annoys me and DW comments on it as well....it's an eyesore.
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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2011, 04:24:51 PM »
We have rubbish bins in the streets, the problem is many people just don't bother using them. I've seen people just drop litter on the street when there was a bin nearby. I was once behind a car at traffic lights when the passenger door opened and they just dropped out a McDonalds bag!
It annoys me and DW comments on it as well....it's an eyesore.
We have signs here that say you will be fined for littering and its no small fine so I'm wondering if they are subject to a large fine in England could you have reported that car?


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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2011, 04:27:50 PM »
We have rubbish bins in the streets, the problem is many people just don't bother using them. I've seen people just drop litter on the street when there was a bin nearby. I was once behind a car at traffic lights when the passenger door opened and they just dropped out a McDonalds bag!
It annoys me and DW comments on it as well....it's an eyesore.

That's exactly what I'm referring to! In addition to the trash bags that are there, there's a ton of random crap flloating around because people drop it where they feel like it. That's exactly why I said it makes places look unappealing aka gross!
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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2011, 09:08:04 PM »
There's a difference between littering and placing your rubbish by your house as you are supposed to do in order for it be collected.


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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #13 on: September 14, 2011, 09:15:02 PM »
There's a difference between littering and placing your rubbish by your house as you are supposed to do in order for it be collected.

Agreed.

While I wouldn't like people littering and throwing random stuff (soda cans, burger wrappers, etc) on the street and pavement, I don't have a problem with people putting their bags in front of their house for collection.

If you don't like rubbish piling up on the pavement, don't go to Notting Hill Carnival!  ;)


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Re: What's with all the rubbish on the streets?
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2011, 08:09:45 AM »

If you don't like rubbish piling up on the pavement, don't go to Notting Hill Carnival!  ;)

Also, be aware that the council can change the laws about rubbish pickup.

For example, when I first moved to the house where live now, we had weekly rubbish pickup. Now it is fortnightly.


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