Which bin does polystyrene go into, please ? Brown, Green or Grey ?

The bin men have not taken it from the green bin, this is why I ask .

Thanks

Its the green bin Granny.

Items allowed in your green bin
aerosol cans (empty)
biscuit or sweet tins
blankets, duvets, pillows
bread wrappers
carrier bags
CDs or DVDs
Christmas trees (fake)
clinical waste (no sharps or hazardous)
clothes
coat hangers
corks
cornstarch packaging or film
crisp packets
crockery
foil
food waste
glasses (drinking)
handbags or belts
ice cream tubs
light bulbs
margarine or butter tubs
metal
microwave meal trays
nappies
ornaments
pet litter
pizza boxes (dirty or greasy)
plant pots
plastic film or packaging
plastic food trays
polystyrene
shoes
shredded paper
sports equipment
sweet wrappers
textiles
tissues
towels
toys
vacuum cleaner bags
wallpaper (used)
yogurt pots
zipper food bags
Items not allowed in your green bin
hazardous waste
asbestos
plasterboard
electrical items
paint

Cheers Snowy. I'll be out to greet them next week !

Goes in any bin if hidden! I concur defo the green one. Despite trying to educate the kids I am still doing waste transfer every day at home.....Plastics seem to confuse.. looks like even the bin men don't know.
Last collection was the grey bin so did you put wrong bin out?

No, it was my sons bin. I've been given the blame......always my fault.

He can do his own clearing up in future .

OOPS Granny ,I hope you sticking to your new year resolution,

No shouting back .

The volume is likely to be turned up to 'max'.
Wirral will quake!

warning.Tell them off .council tax is not cheap.

I’m a dustbin - really I am,
I come in black, green and brown.
I take your rubbish - and don't complain,
It’s smelly and disgusting - but it's all the same.
You'll never clean me or mend my nicks,
You'll dump me, thump me and store me in skips.
The dustbin blues...

Only on Wirral would the recycling bins be grey and the normal ones be green!

You're right. When my mother used to stay, my head was constantly in the bin picking out the wrong rubbish and replacing it in the correct one, due to the fact the coded coloured usage for bins were different to where she lived.

As a slightly different point. I went up Harrowby Road, Birkenhead a couple of weeks ago. It once used to be a tidy road with rows of terraced houses, and at least looking neat. Now it looks like the slums, (and that is no reflection on the people who live there), with all the different coloured bins standing on the pavement all the way along the road, the weeds are growing along the pathways and front garden walls of the properties . It looked dreadful and discouraging for anyone who might live there. There is probably more than one road the same as. Take the decency away from the people and the people loose their pride and the property price. In fact, it looked worse than many roads in a foreign country.

ASK: Why don't they have the bins at the back of the property, or is that too much trouble for the bin men to deal with ?

Now you mention it, its backwards isn't it.

Green bin, black bag takes all

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Food for thought : Does leaving a bag next to a bin constitute Littering ?

The green 'all' bins were issued before WBC startd recycling.
(I only remember as this was just after I moved up here and it's always confused me that green is for 'green'!!)

Snowhite - that was a great list - can I copy it from somewhere, and one for the grey bin?

All available via http://www.wirral.gov.uk/bins-recycling/green-bin

Just as a matter of interest "how do you get shut of or reuse your cooking oil"

Put it in a glass or plastic bottle when cool enough then put it into the non recycle bin?
Years ago my father in law used to save it and mix it with creosote for use on fences and sheds

Don't put it down your drains

Like cooking oil from a chip pan ? That's why I have never cooked chips in 40 yrs. Cant stand the oil or the smell and not easy to get rid of the oil. Put it in a bottle or jar. The green bin takes anything near enough.

Bidston Tip has a facility for used cooking oil, take your container full of it there and pour it into the designated tank ( on the right just as you go in) the oil is recycled into Bio Diesel, they also have a facility for used engine oil.

Dave