What do you Put in your Black Bin?

johnwest288

So as far as I can see we should be able to recycle 90% of our house hold waste. Only place we are falling down is what goes in the Black Bin. Im doing up a list of what goes into it as each time I look in it there are recyclables in it and it really annoys me that some people cant be bothered recycling.

So far I have the following

Nappies
Vacumn Cleaner contents.
Ash from Fire
Broken Delph
Old Aerosols
Tin Foil

Anything obvious im missing??

Oldtree

johnwest288 wrote: »

So as far as I can see we should be able to recycle 90% of our house hold waste. Only place we are falling down is what goes in the Black Bin. Im doing up a list of what goes into it as each time I look in it there are recyclables in it and it really annoys me that some people cant be bothered recycling.

So far I have the following

Nappies
Vacumn Cleaner contents.
Ash from Fire
Broken Delph
Old Aerosols
Tin Foil

Anything obvious im missing??

Ash from coal fire?

johnwest288

Oldtree wrote: »

Ash from coal fire?

Ash from mainly wood but also from Coal sometimes

evilmonkee

johnwest288 wrote: »

Old Aerosols

Can be recycled at certain BringCenters (http://www.dublinwaste.ie/bring_bank.php?material%5B%5D=has_aerosols&search=Find)

I think one of the biggest things that people dispose of in the black bin is kitchen roll (the paper stuff) which has chemicals on it... really annoys me!

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johnwest288

evilmonkee wrote: »

Can be recycled at certain BringCenters (http://www.dublinwaste.ie/bring_bank.php?material%5B%5D=has_aerosols&search=Find)

I think one of the biggest things that people dispose of in the black bin is kitchen roll (the paper stuff) which has chemicals on it... really annoys me!

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I thought it was perfectly ok to put dirty kitchen roll in the recycle bin no??

evilmonkee

johnwest288 wrote: »

I thought it was perfectly ok to put dirty kitchen roll in the recycle bin no??

AFAIK it is based on your recycle bin provider.

for my green bin from previous company, it would not be allowed based on the below two rules:

*Wet waste
*Contaminated recyclables (contains bleach, paint etc.)

However, my current provider does not have these items on their list. I'm actually going to email them regarding this now!

evilmonkee

So I got a response from my recycling company and they said:

Hello X

Thank you for your e mail. You may put the plastic from the toilet roll in green bin. However all materials needs to be dry for the green, so you may not put kitchen towel if wet in green bin, but you may put this in your brown bin.

Regards,

B
Customer Care Representative

I don't have a brown bin (why would I give away all that lovely compost!!!) but I'm not sure how happy I would be allowing people to put chemical cleaning solutions into the compost... I know it is done at very high temp so possibly it wouldn't matter?