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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

SINGLE BIN is the way to go. Stirling in Australia has done it - now so has Barrow in Furness, with immediate improvements in the amount of waste being re-cycled.
http://www.stirling.wa.gov.au/home/services/Recycling+and+Rubbish/Single+Bin+Recycling.htm

Don't these people understand ANYTHING?

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Time to take responsibility for our actions.. and don't be afraid of speaking out!

Once upon a time ( as start all good fairy tales) , we used to have one bin ( which Ii remember was a lot smaller than the one used today-possibly because we got things packaged differently,and possibly sensibly ) and one bin wagon .But then we didn't have gory tales of polar bears having no ice die to global warming - now we have ( in my town ,three different bin wagons -and that's only for household/cardboard/paper /glass /tin).But since then ,we've had the Act on CO2 /Global warming scares with shots of polar bears hunting for ice .
Could

1) - the global warming be related to the increase in the numbers of bin wagons now found .
2) - any proof that our security is not endangered by all the spurious Bin Wagons running around ( After all the Americans haven't found him in Afghanistan)

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

I think that you are confusing Bin Wagon with Bin Liner

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
When I see a youth in a motor car I do d.c.brown

We in have 4 bins here in Ku-ring-gai (which is one of the Council areas in the Northern suburbs of Sydney). One weekly collection is for kitchen waste plus any thing else that does not go in the others, mostly 120 litres but you can have a larger 240 litre bin at a cost. We have a fortnightly collection of a paper/cardboard (240 litres) and bottles/cans (also 240 litres) and a 375 litre bin for garden waste (also fortnightly). We also have an "on demand" clean up for bigger items such as small furniture etc which is monthly. This costs me 250 dollars per year (Used to be 100 pounds at the "normal" exchange rate but thanks to GB it is now 150 pounds). As we have large house blocks, about 900 sq metres, storage is not a problem. The trucks are one man operated (except for the "clean up") so we have to put the bins out to the roadside. A hydralic arm picks up the bin and tips it into the top of the truck. It works very well, recycles what is useful and costs us very little. Your narrow streets and small blocks might make this system difficult for the UK.

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The only thing that should be prohibited is prohibition.

We have one bin collection per week here in Be-d-ford.
General un-recyclable and non-garden recyclable waste taken each week.
General un-recyclable and garden waste taken the next week.
The un-recyclable goes to the tip, the garden goes to a different tip and the recyclable goes to a sorting warehouse where the non-shredded credit card bills and bank statements are recyled to eastern Europe.

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The world runs on oil, period. No other substance can compete when it comes to energy density, flexibility, ease of handling, ease of transportation. If oil didn’t exist we would have to invent it.”

56 years after it was decided it was needed, the Bedford Bypass is nearing completion. The last single carriageway length of it.We have the most photogenic mayor though, always being photographed doing nothing

( Will have to do ,in the absence of splitting my sides laughing .Or perhaps many a true word said in jest ) .Possibly more than bank stuff goes abroad - sad state of affairs nowadays ,but I've got a shredder sited next to my chair , where anything with our name/address goes straight in ( unless it's junk, where the name/address bit gets shredded, the rest gets stuffed in the envelope and sent back-now tempted to add some sand in a plastic envelope -to make it a bit heavier -though perhaps dog poo might make more of an effect -unless breaking PO regulations )

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on