r/Glasgow Tools

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Author	cardno85
Comment	>The council should really publish every route that's contaminated and the reason it went to landfill. I would LOVE this, really useful data to improve education in areas that are really poor for contamination. That being said, given the state of all comms from GCC they would likely make an arse of that too. Their "easy" instructions for dry recycling is a limited list of examples but you have to actually go digging for what Glasgow actually recycle (cartons are listed as an example of general waste and not to be recycled, but a lot of supermarkets have upped their game and moved to plastics 1 & 2 for cartons so they can be recycled). I don't know why they wouldn't just have it in big letters in the guide that you can recycle plastics 1 & 2, those numbers are also on all the packaging! It was the same with the GW changing to 3 weekly, shite comms saying that most bins aren't full and those that are, are actually full of recyclables. Having non-full bins is surely better since they aren't going to be too heavy so they get broken on the truck or make life difficult for the cleansing teams. Not to mention that people generally don't do all their binning the same way, if I'm doing a big spring clean I'll likley have more bulky items going in so would like a bit of space. I severly doubt their 60% figure of recyclable material in the GW bins, the raw data behind this figure was never published. Did they actually check every piece of plastic that came out, checked that every piece of cardboard or paper was uncontaminated, that all organic waste was acceptable in the brown bins (no soil, animal waste, etc.). Sorry, went on a bit of a rant there, but I would love the contaminated waste data to be shared and used to really help people understand what's preventing their bins from being recycled, because I'm sure most people want to do the right thing. Like an overall view of the most common contaminated items that ruin truck loads so that's something for people to look out for in general, then some more in depth advice for areas that have a large portion of contaminated loads.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/16q3k5p/garden_wastebrown_bin_permit_starting_1st_october/k25b7vm/
Created	Mon 25th Sep 2023 4:24pm
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>The council should really publish every route that's contaminated and the reason it went to landfill.

I would LOVE this, really useful data to improve education in areas that are really poor for contamination.

That being said, given the state of all comms from GCC they would likely make an arse of that too. Their "easy" instructions for dry recycling is a limited list of examples but you have to actually go digging for what Glasgow actually recycle (cartons are listed as an example of general waste and not to be recycled, but a lot of supermarkets have upped their game and moved to plastics 1 & 2 for cartons so they can be recycled). I don't know why they wouldn't just have it in big letters in the guide that you can recycle plastics 1 & 2, those numbers are also on all the packaging!

It was the same with the GW changing to 3 weekly, shite comms saying that most bins aren't full and those that are, are actually full of recyclables. Having non-full bins is surely better since they aren't going to be too heavy so they get broken on the truck or make life difficult for the cleansing teams. Not to mention that people generally don't do all their binning the same way, if I'm doing a big spring clean I'll likley have more bulky items going in so would like a bit of space. I severly doubt their 60% figure of recyclable material in the GW bins, the raw data behind this figure was never published. Did they actually check every piece of plastic that came out, checked that every piece of cardboard or paper was uncontaminated, that all organic waste was acceptable in the brown bins (no soil, animal waste, etc.).

Sorry, went on a bit of a rant there, but I would love the contaminated waste data to be shared and used to really help people understand what's preventing their bins from being recycled, because I'm sure most people want to do the right thing. Like an overall view of the most common contaminated items that ruin truck loads so that's something for people to look out for in general, then some more in depth advice for areas that have a large portion of contaminated loads.