http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Collection Dissection en Thu, 21 May 2026 11:53:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300497 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 08:16:31 +0000 gembo 300497@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson, not sorted kerbside just chucked in is my feeling but maybe the recyclers do look in the box? Mrs Garto is big on the idea of recycling small electrical goods in the blue bin. She does not do bins tho, she just quotes the regulations. I will ask, may be that they are supposed to be placed in the blue bin in some way thT makes them separate? In a poly bag or such. As you ask I will also enquire of the manager of the clennie whom I ken for data on small electricala via blue bin. I prefer a run to the dump with these small electricals. The new dump at sighthill is coming along nicely. There looks like a roof for an indoor dump. What larks we Stigs will be having soon down the back of Napier Uni, Sighthill Campus. If that is what is being built. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300490 Fri, 01 Feb 2019 01:15:03 +0000 acsimpson 300490@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Are blue bins not sorted kerbside. They contain glass, batteries and small electricals. Not a great mix for sorting later. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300481 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:57:39 +0000 ARobComp 300481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I add the tiny contents of our blue bin to a neighbours to reduce the labour load on the council. It's all about efficiency afterall. Imagine if everyone did that. We'd half the cost of glass collection and potentially make it an actual viable recycling method rather than just a way to stop landfill addition. </p> <p>As a student we once gassed a mouse into being easily caught by accident when our kitchen in marchmont decided it would deposit gas at a high rate from all the rings. Not sure what was going on. A flatmate had an existential panic about the value of all life (re: Bax above) so put the mouse in a bin with food and a coffee container lid full of water. Unfortunately the mouse fell into the water and somehow drowned. </p> <p>Lifes a *rule 2*, then you die. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300479 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 22:02:59 +0000 acsimpson 300479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>When I have found unfortunate wildlife in the garden I have erred on the side of Garden waste. They should compost fine and they were in the garden.</p> <p>I hope my blue bin is not being judged. In my defence (your honour) my neighbours don't feel they need to maintain a blue box as "they only have a few bottles a fortnight" and then proceed to fill ours up. I don't begrudge them the space and happily put the shared box out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300478 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 21:16:01 +0000 gembo 300478@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@iwrats, my old dad once killed a mouse with a stick he took out of the fire. Quickest I ever saw him move apart from the time the wee malkies stole his golf ball. He was six foot three and could build up a head of steam, the wee malkies lightened their load by dropping all the golf balls they had acquired and scarpered petrified.</p> <p>@bax San, always good to know which bin to put the rodents in. They are not listed in the bin instruction lists which seems an oversight given their prevalence. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300469 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:35:00 +0000 minus six 300469@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Had Rattie already been detained or does Bax San have very quick reflexes with the bricks?</em></p> <p>long story but i just happened to be in the garden with a full brick in my hand, and suddenly there he was loitering in a corner, having been ousted from his under roof nest earlier in the day, by the roofer who also removed £600 from my wallet for various works</p> <p>still feel bad about it all, but it felt like him or me at the time</p> <p>rattie was then duly dispatched to the blue bin</p> <p>(the general waste coloured bin in the kingdom) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300459 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:59:01 +0000 unhurt 300459@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@jonty thanks for reminding me that I meant to send them a few quid in the spirit of "supporting hyper-local journalism in 2019". </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300456 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:43:27 +0000 jonty 300456@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Communal bin-related stirring was rarely out of the pages of the Broughton Spurtle when I lived within earshot of it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300454 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:39:37 +0000 Frenchy 300454@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Several parts of Stockbridgia &amp; the New Town are communally binned. </em></p> <p>Great idea ;) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300451 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 16:36:28 +0000 unhurt 300451@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>i was reliably informed last week (by twitter) that i'm posh because i don't live in an area with communal bins.</em></p> <p>Several parts of Stockbridgia &amp; the New Town are communally binned. Twitter is definitely over-reaching there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300433 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:16:39 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300433@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to play hockey fairly seriously. Couple of confirmed mouse kills with the stick in open play in Marchmont flats. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300427 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:31:07 +0000 gembo 300427@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had Rattie already been detained or does Bax San have very quick reflexes with the bricks? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300415 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 09:18:41 +0000 I were right about that saddle 300415@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I love when a thread matures under my radar. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300405 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 22:39:56 +0000 minus six 300405@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Does no-one have compost heaps any more?</em></p> <p>i did, until rattie moved in</p> <p>one day i cornered and killed rattie with a brick</p> <p>he had just cost me £600 in roof repair</p> <p>our lives and deaths are now entwined..</p> <p>his face will be the last i see on my death bed, for sure </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300395 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:44:31 +0000 the canuck 300395@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>thank you for the laughs, i finally managed to burp and shift the indigestion.</p> <p>i was reliably informed last week (by twitter) that i'm posh because i don't live in an area with communal bins. which is funny, because i moved from an area with communal bins--the houses were unaffordable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300391 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 21:21:01 +0000 minus six 300391@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>vintage kurosawa, that one.. right up there with dersu </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300387 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 19:48:26 +0000 gembo 300387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@bax San, excellent update.</p> <p>Watched Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress with no 1 son recently (the one that George Lucas copied for Star Wars). It is mental. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-300384 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 18:26:57 +0000 minus six 300384@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>BARNTON BLUE CRATE BOOZE WATCH</p> <p><em>Last week of dry January</em></p> <p>Those crates of blue are still full to the brim with fine wines.. yet in a magnanimous gesture we will chalk this up to Burns Night exuberance. Och aye !</p> <p><em>Next week's forecast</em></p> <p>While the spoon burners of Muirhouse remain condemned to endless reruns of <em>Dougal and the Blue Cat</em>, the Barnton gravy train will party on </p> <p>5 % chance of Magnum Brut reduction due to soaring annual golf club fees</p> <p><em>Long Term Forecast</em></p> <p>The market thrives on sentiment.. will Brexit Uncertainty culminate in significant wine cellar hoarding ? Only time will tell ! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-299598 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:16:52 +0000 crowriver 299598@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Xmas trees also collected some time ago from our street - not on schedule, but they did go. Our family owns a re-usable tree made from artificial stuff which is disassembled and folded neatly into a box after use to be stored until the next Yuletide season.</p> <p>"Brown the one you pay for takes garden waste (leaves mainly)"</p> <p>Does no-one have compost heaps any more? Darn sight cheaper and less faff than brown bins.</p> <p>"You must have the secret codeword."</p> <p>Dunno about codeword, but my watchword is quiet persistence. I just report stuff when it becomes a problem, and I try to do so consistently. Waste services folk must be so sick of me by now that they're probably thinking "Oh no, it's him again! Better get a squad round to that street sharpish!" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-299597 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 14:14:31 +0000 gembo 299597@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If xmas tree is six feet or more then is supposed to be cut in half.</p> <p>They do appear to be going on time with the brown bin collection in Edinburgh</p> <p>On line the earliest date for pick up was 22/12/18</p> <p>I thought this quite early for xmas? maybe if you love run up to xmas get your tree out and happily smelling the pine and admiring the bushiness etc but then you are going to Dubai on holiday for a fortnight on 21/12/18 and don't want to miss the brown bin pick up?</p> <p>The wonderful clenny women and men have done a great and thorough job. thanks to them for their stakanovite labours. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-299588 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:24:09 +0000 Cyclingmollie 299588@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We're in East Lothian. We do most things differently. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-299585 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:59:40 +0000 chrisfl 299585@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also on the glass bottle collection, we moved to communal glass bins; but I think their must have been noise complaints so the system reverted back to collection. I sometimes sneak glass bottles into neighbors bins but usually walk them 300m to the nearest communal point.</p> <p>Which works well, as our food waste bin was destroyed by getting thrown on the ground after collections and several requests for a replacements have not seen any results. But walking food waste 300m a couple of times a week is better than having it fester outside the house, especially in the summer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-299584 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:54:51 +0000 chrisfl 299584@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In our case they do seem be aligned with Brown bin dates. Last year the chopping up of the tree and placing in my Brown Bin worked really well. However we're sharing brown bins with our neighbor now that it's a pay for and we mostly share lawn mowing of our tiny gardens. </p> <p>Rather unexpectedly, the massive piles of Christmas trees were cleared on the appointed day as well! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-299579 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:36:57 +0000 Frenchy 299579@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson - you can check Christmas tree collection days for your street here: <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory/176/christmas_tree_collections" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory/176/christmas_tree_collections</a></p> <p>I don't think they are necessarily the same as brown bin days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400&page=2#post-299574 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:09:36 +0000 Cyclingmollie 299574@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Christmas trees have been taken away. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400#post-299573 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 11:03:09 +0000 acsimpson 299573@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kingdom and Edinburgh brown bins only have colour in common. The kingdom ones appear to be slightly superior with airholes down the side to allow the garden matter to breath while festering in the bin.</p> <p>Our Christmas Tree sits by a window which is large enough to accommodate throwing the tree directly out. I shall put it out with this weeks brown bin collection and hope it is taken whole. Failing that I will cut it up and put it into the next set of brown bins. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400#post-299567 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:37:30 +0000 Cyclingmollie 299567@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo, I usually put the bins out at Mrs M's behest. We're not the only ones caught out. The street has many Christmas trees stuck behind railings. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400#post-299548 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 09:10:03 +0000 paulmilne 299548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo "Red was ford cardboard" - I know car manufacuters are all jumping on the green bandwagon but I didn't know it had gone this far. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400#post-299547 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:56:59 +0000 I were right about that saddle 299547@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>chopped up with secateurs and the pieces passed through the lounge window directly into the brown bin</em></p> <p>Good scene for a tartan noir novel there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19400#post-299546 Fri, 18 Jan 2019 08:49:13 +0000 cb 299546@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Both our Christmas and New year collections were rescheduled but the info we got through the door had the rescheduled times - no need to look anything up online.</p> <p>As for the tree. It got chopped up with secateurs and the pieces passed through the lounge window directly into the brown bin.</p> <p>This of course is The Most Sensible way and everyone should be doing it. </p>