| Swansea recycling fines 06:51 - Feb 26 with 12796 views | Lord_Bony |
Residents of Swansea can now be fined £100 as from today for failing to recycle waste. New patrol officers will be checking black bin bags on collection day.
If any recyclable material is found and that includes food,fines will be issued. They have been trying to get this implemented since 2006.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47360778 |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 13:42 - Feb 26 with 2388 views | raynor94 |
| Swansea recycling fines on 10:43 - Feb 26 by controversial_jack |
Three in this household - most of the time, and my plastics container is literally full every week - as most items come in plastic We don't have a compost heap, because we only have a lawn and patio.The food container is full in no time. Do a cooked dinner; with the veg and potato peelings, a chicken carcass and the thing is full, it's totally inadequate |
Just put 2 food bins out, simple! |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 14:04 - Feb 26 with 2366 views | controversial_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 13:42 - Feb 26 by raynor94 |
Just put 2 food bins out, simple! |
That's just for one meal.Do that every day and it soon proves inadequate, and especially if there's a big household |  | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 14:24 - Feb 26 with 2353 views | theloneranger |
| Swansea recycling fines on 11:52 - Feb 26 by controversial_jack |
They don't allow black bags in many places |
They don't allow black bags anywhere other than Llansamlet baling plant. |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 14:34 - Feb 26 with 2346 views | raynor94 |
| Swansea recycling fines on 14:04 - Feb 26 by controversial_jack |
That's just for one meal.Do that every day and it soon proves inadequate, and especially if there's a big household |
Put 3 bins out then! You are saying two bins aren't enough to take 7 days of peelings, as if you have a cooked dinner every day | |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 15:24 - Feb 26 with 2324 views | union_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 11:52 - Feb 26 by controversial_jack |
They don't allow black bags in many places |
Kerbside collection I’m talking about. Where wont they pick up black bags? |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 15:27 - Feb 26 with 2323 views | Lohengrin |
| Swansea recycling fines on 08:48 - Feb 26 by raynor94 |
Take a family of four, if they recycle properly, 3 bags are more than sufficient, what are people actually putting in black bags? |
Dog shit by the hundredweight. |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 15:53 - Feb 26 with 2306 views | controversial_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 14:34 - Feb 26 by raynor94 |
Put 3 bins out then! You are saying two bins aren't enough to take 7 days of peelings, as if you have a cooked dinner every day |
Not just peelings, it's any waste too. A chicken carcass will take up a lot of room.They need to make the food bags much bigger | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 15:55 - Feb 26 with 2302 views | controversial_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 14:24 - Feb 26 by theloneranger |
They don't allow black bags anywhere other than Llansamlet baling plant. |
Neath Port Talbot they do, but the contents have to be searched and separated. It's like shall we check that you haven't been a naughty boy and put something in here that you shouldn't | | | |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 15:57 - Feb 26 with 2302 views | Luther27 |
Been use to this in Neath for a few years now. Thing is where does our recycle go? China now refuse to take it also Turkey where a lot of plastic was incinerated. Apparently incinerators in the UK don’t burn hot enough.... or are the wrong type ??? So.... what happens to it? | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 16:01 - Feb 26 with 2296 views | CountyJim |
We now have smaller wheelie bins in Newport plus plastic tin glass cardboard and food waste bins
Recycled waste is picked up weekly the landfill waste fortnightly which in our case is not even half full
You can see the people that don't make an effort my concern is that they will put waste in others bins |  | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 18:27 - Feb 26 with 2241 views | controversial_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 16:01 - Feb 26 by CountyJim |
We now have smaller wheelie bins in Newport plus plastic tin glass cardboard and food waste bins
Recycled waste is picked up weekly the landfill waste fortnightly which in our case is not even half full
You can see the people that don't make an effort my concern is that they will put waste in others bins |
We have exactly that in NPT, but my bins are usually full near collection time | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 06:21 - Feb 27 with 2123 views | Dr_Winston |
| Swansea recycling fines on 10:57 - Feb 26 by costalotta |
Collections within a few years will most likely be a paid service for those not not on benefits. It’s been heading that way for a few years now and doing slowly no one will notice.
Family of 4 here and we managed fine to be honest but the first recycling under the new system we’d filled the plastics sack within a week. To make things better / easier we’ve now got a system here at home where we compress soft plastics and put inside a plastic container or similar. Its surprising how much soft plastic you can get inside a tied plastic bread bag for example. |
Collections are already a paid service for those not on benefits. It's called council tax. |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 06:54 - Feb 27 with 2112 views | Andy1300 |
One of the things that baffles me is incontinence pads, We have a disabled daughter who has to use them.
They used to be collected every week by a guy in a pick-up, taken to Morriston hospital and incinerated.
They are now collected on the same day as black bags and thrown in with the black bags.
Not very good for landfill.
The following is from the council website-
https://www.swansea.gov.uk/keepitto3exemptions
Nappies. This waste can be recycled and should be disposed of in our special purple bags. They are collected every two weeks as part of our hygiene waste service.
It makes a mockery of the councils rules.
I emailed them about the issue with them going in with black bags but never had a reply.
Why should residents follow the rules if they don't? |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 07:23 - Feb 27 with 2091 views | waynekerr55 |
Serious question; how are they allowed to fine people? Won't there be a challenge in the courts |  |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 08:01 - Feb 27 with 2070 views | Lord_Bony |
| Swansea recycling fines on 07:23 - Feb 27 by waynekerr55 |
Serious question; how are they allowed to fine people? Won't there be a challenge in the courts |
I would imagine the courts will be sympathetic to the council.
If a warden finds for example cardboard or food waste in your black bag it will be photographed and used as evidence.
Or the shitty nappy presented in court possibly. | |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 08:06 - Feb 27 with 2059 views | Muteswan |
| Swansea recycling fines on 10:43 - Feb 26 by controversial_jack |
Three in this household - most of the time, and my plastics container is literally full every week - as most items come in plastic We don't have a compost heap, because we only have a lawn and patio.The food container is full in no time. Do a cooked dinner; with the veg and potato peelings, a chicken carcass and the thing is full, it's totally inadequate |
You can get more containers from the council.
https://www.swansea.gov.uk/requestmorebags |  | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 08:43 - Feb 27 with 2033 views | CountyJim |
I always put our peelings into Garden waste bin they say you shouldn't but people can put rotten veg from their gardens so why not peelings
Just cover it with cuttings  | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 10:47 - Feb 27 with 1975 views | controversial_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 15:24 - Feb 26 by union_jack |
Kerbside collection I’m talking about. Where wont they pick up black bags? |
NPT don't, but don't quote me | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 10:50 - Feb 27 with 1972 views | controversial_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 07:23 - Feb 27 by waynekerr55 |
Serious question; how are they allowed to fine people? Won't there be a challenge in the courts |
I didn't put it there, maybe one of the neighbours did or a passer by. Does the council have proof that i put it there? | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 11:44 - Feb 27 with 1967 views | CountyJim |
I can remember the days before wheelie bins we had to put bleach on black bags it was the only way to stop animals ripping them open | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 05:07 - Mar 4 with 1744 views | satrdayboy |
Quite right. Most of what goes in our black bags is plastic packaging that can’t be recycled. | | | |
| Swansea recycling fines on 13:11 - Mar 5 with 1598 views | Swansea93 |
How can they issue fines being certain they are your black bags? I've seen people put black bags outside someome else's household many of times. | |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 13:15 - Mar 5 with 1594 views | union_jack |
| Swansea recycling fines on 13:11 - Mar 5 by Swansea93 |
How can they issue fines being certain they are your black bags? I've seen people put black bags outside someome else's household many of times. |
And this is likely to happen more now! | |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 13:30 - Mar 5 with 1582 views | waynekerr55 |
| Swansea recycling fines on 13:11 - Mar 5 by Swansea93 |
How can they issue fines being certain they are your black bags? I've seen people put black bags outside someome else's household many of times. |
Methinks this is a cynical ploy to plug gaps in central government funding...
Surely the technology exists for waste to be incinerated to power housing estates? | |
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| Swansea recycling fines on 13:30 - Mar 5 with 1582 views | Banosswan |
| Swansea recycling fines on 10:47 - Feb 27 by controversial_jack |
NPT don't, but don't quote me |
No they don't. The last but one collection (I think) was the last one where you could have one bag next to the bin. |  |
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