Look out for the new Stockport Recycling calendar
November 25, 2011 Iain Roberts 9 Comments

Look out for your new recycling calendar

The Council will be delivering new waste and recycling collection calendars to homes in the borough from Friday, 18 November. The new calendars will include details about collection days for the next two years and a handy guide on which things should go in which bin.

Of course, you can always check your collection days online, as well as reporting a missed collection and finding out about the assisted collection service.

refuse & recycling

9 Comments

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William Wragg
Saturday 26 November 2011 - 11:35 pm

Are the council really delivering them Councillor Roberts?

Or is it Royal Mail, at a massive cost to council tax payers?

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Iain Roberts
Sunday 27 November 2011 - 10:35 am

Welcome to Councillor Wragg,

Sorry if this is too obvious to be worth mentioning to everyone else, but Royal Mail are able to deliver things rather cheaper, quicker and more efficiently than sending council officers around to put them through 100,000 doors – what with the Royal Mail being set up to do exactly that sort of function.

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Les Leckie
Sunday 27 November 2011 - 11:17 am

A well designed leaflet which clarifies some of the complexities of recycling. Perhaps it should have mentioned that plastic bags can be recycled at Sainsburys. I think there is a need for a metal recycling system. All those lids, caps and fizzy wine cages mount up. I collect mine and take it to the tip from time to time. Landfill is not the place for valuable metal; look what’s happening to our metal grids.

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Estelle Weiner
Sunday 27 November 2011 - 11:37 am

Having found the time to sit down and read it properly, I was horrified that having patted ourselves on the back for our family recycling efforts, we should NOT have been putting the whole plastic milk bottle including lid etc into the brown bins.

If the systems were made to be able to accept for instance, the polybag envelope containing half the junk mail type post, the lids to plastic botttles etc, then surely it would be easier for the less responsible to play their part? Why is a solid lid to a plastic milk bottle as unacceptable as a less rigid yogurt pot for instance?

And why is the black bin, which is not collected weekly, smaller than the green one?

Or am I missing something – again?

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Iain Roberts
Sunday 27 November 2011 - 1:51 pm

Hi Estelle,

The bottle-top issue is annoying, but it’s down to the way Greater Manchester splits up plastic and glass recycling. The glass bottles get broken, and lids from the plastic bottles can fall in with the glass.

The green bin is collected weekly because it includes food waste that we don’t want to leave for a fortnight to get smelly (especially not in summer). The black bin is for non-recyclables and so can be collected fortnightly.

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Robert Taggart
Sunday 27 November 2011 - 2:26 pm

re: bottle tops.
Thought so. Greater Manchester balls-up again. If other authorities can manage all kinds of plastic why not this one ?
Having lived up this way for some years now it never ceases to amaze one just how Innately Incompetent Mancunians are… something in their water ?!

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Iain Roberts
Sunday 27 November 2011 - 2:33 pm

There are different ways of doing all these things, varying in cost etc.

Greater Manchester is well ahead of the game in recycling facilities – with Stockport being one of the top recyclers in the country.

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William Wragg
Sunday 27 November 2011 - 11:35 pm

Oh dear, Councillor Roberts. In previous years the bin men have put them through peoples’ doors while they were out collecting the bins, thus saving council tax payers’ money.

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Iain Roberts
Monday 28 November 2011 - 8:25 pm

I’m afraid you’re mistaken, William. The bin men have never put them through doors on their rounds. If they did, it would slow them down and result in missed collections.

It would be possible to use agency staff to deliver them, but because there are so many differences in collections often from one street to the next or even within the same street, that would result in more mistakes than we would like.

The best option has been to go with Royal Mail to get the right calendar to everyone.



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