Does the council make any money out of all our re cycling
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Probably not although they're trying their hardest to recoup as much money as poss hence the recent ban on cardboard in the brown bin (colours vary), it seems this waste goes to the farmers, i believe this was free up until recently but now they have to pay hence the ban on putting cardboard in
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According to SMBC, the main reason is to reduce landfill & incinerator waste.
http://www.stockport.gov.uk/service...ling/rightthingrightbin/importanceofrecycling
http://www.stockport.gov.uk/service...ling/rightthingrightbin/importanceofrecycling
I don't understand the context of the question exactly.
If any other company took money off you to take away your rubbish, would you think they are making money, of course you would?
Why is the council any different, where do you think all those council "CEO's" get the money to pay for their 100k+ wages.
If any other company took money off you to take away your rubbish, would you think they are making money, of course you would?
Why is the council any different, where do you think all those council "CEO's" get the money to pay for their 100k+ wages.
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calorific
Maybe I'm being naive here, but I thought it was to do with reaching targets agreed for political reasons with our EU brethren. Failure to do so will mean "fines", which presumably will be passed onto the council in the form of reduced central government grants and subsidies. This will presumably lead to a loss of services (at the front line and almost certainly not at the top - pigs don't give up their swill for anybody to share 
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joinerjohn
Hit the nail on the head there calorific. The UK bow to the omnipresent EU right down to what rubbish you can put in your bin.
Probably just another increase in the UK's contribution to the EU, rather than a "fine" (keeping the fat cats, in the style they've now become accustomed to)
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calorific
Christopher Booker of the Sunday Telegraph used to write articles which pointed out that all too frequently this recycled material was simply dumped alongside landfill into container vessels sent to China, who don't seem to care so much about such things. Doing this was cheaper that the fine incurred by not meeting the target, and (at least up to a few years ago) we didn;t have the infrastructure to recycle the vast majority of the materials anyway. So it was all wasted effort 
However, I'm not sure that this is still the case and am happy to be corrected if in error.
However, I'm not sure that this is still the case and am happy to be corrected if in error.
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joinerjohn
Either last Christmas/New year, or the one before, our local council, couldn't manage to collect the rubbish for about 3 weeks because of the weather. As they practise these fortnightly collections, some people didn't get their rubbish collected for over a month. Result?? The council organised extra collections for "One Week "only,,,, Where everything collected (black, blue and green bins), all went to the same landfill site. (and still had the cheek to leave bins which had the "wrong sort" of rubbish in.
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calorific
Aye. And don't forget that they won't empty a wheelie bin if it's a bit too heavy for them to pull (bear in mind that I've already pulled it most of the way to the kerb and I don't do a manual job anymore so am not the most physically strong/fit fella in the world)
I simply wondered if there was any profit in the recycling and if there was where is it
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longdogs
All I know is, they don't pay me anything. I'm the one in my house who has to sort out the recycling, non-recycling, glass, food waste/ garden waste and then put it out at 7.30 in the morning. I feel like I spend half my life sorting rubbish. The flats up the road however, have several large bins and everything goes in together.
They must make money from it, or surely they would be charging us?
Andy
Andy
What's all the fuss?
You lot have been recycling threads here for years.......
You lot have been recycling threads here for years.......
