Recycling survey?

Question

1. Are you happy with the current system of your refuse collection? Yes/No
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2. Are you happy to recycle? Yes/No
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3. Do you know where your local recycling points are? Yes/No

4. Are you able to access your local recycling points? Yes/No
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5. Would you want more bins in your garden for easier recycling? Yes/No
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6. If you had a free composter, would you use this for garden waste rather than the bin you already have? Yes/No
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7. Are you happy to pay for kerbside recycling? Yes/No
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8. Are you happy with the information your local council provides in regards to recycling in your area? Yes/No
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Please tell us if you have any suggestions that would help make recycling easier for you.

Thank you for your time..

Answer 1

WE HAVE a good recycling system here in N. Wales.

Answer 2

1. No. They need to collect a lot more for recycling.
2. Yes.
3. Yes, although not for everything. I was stuck with a spoonful of mercury a couple of months ago, not knowing where to take it! A school kindly helped me in the end.
4. Yes
5. Yes. I would be happy to accommodate a small bin for glass and something for garden waste.
6. Yes. I consider it worth paying for a composter so I got one!
7. Yes through Council Tax. No if it were independent payment. It is the Council's responsibility to help its people help themselves.
8. Yes, but I want to hear more efforts made to recycle more stuff

Suggestions: more recycling points that will take a wider range of items. More r.points within housing estates so folk don't have to carry stuff too far. Advertise Freecycle at every recycle point and on TV! Information at recycle points to help folk dispose of other things properly, ie I have no idea where to take batteries or broken thermometers.

Answer 3

1. No/ the fortnightly collections are not working and bins get maggots in them.
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Yes/ I live in a flat and we only have a dust bin room although there is room for recycling bins but none have been supplied.
6. Yes/ I used to have a compost bin and I would use it, we could have one in the in the flats where I live and the compost could be used in the gardens around the flats.
7. No/ It should be included in the rates we already pay.
8. No/ Although it is better than before and they are paying lip service to the cause, the contractors that collect the bins seem to pick and choose what they will take. More plastics
should be sorted and collected and supermarkets should get their suppliers/manufacturers to cut down on packaging.
Glass could be used locally it could be crusted and used as hard core in roads.

Answer 4

1) NO !
My parents location has some recycling for yard waste ( they compost so they don't need it ) but no other recycling.
As an appartment dweller there is no recycling program for pickup waste.

2) I recycle everything I can whenever I can and encourage others to do the same..
I live in California USA and it has a recycling program for 'beverage containers' that is not difficult to use.
To the my knowledge there is no program for any other type of material, not for other plastics or other metals etcetra (paper, cardboard ?,?,?).
There are some places that will accept metals but they are difficult to use due to hours open and location.

There is suppose to be something by law to reduce the waste by 50% or more (because we have run out of space to dump the waste) but I do not know how that is working , what it is , or where it is. Mount Trashmore is the tallest hill for miles around.

3) yes (some)
I know where many points to recycle beverage containers are and one possible {it may be closed like some of the others in the past} location to recycle metals but no place to recyle anything else. ( other plastics , paper, cardboard, cloth ?, food waste ?, paint ?, chemicals?, oil? , ? ,? )

4) The beverage container recyling points sometimes (Hours 9 am to 3 pm Tuesday through Saturday)

5) ? I don't know what this question means. I compost when I can and encourage others to do the same. Note most people do NOT want a compost bin for yard waste on their property.

6) My parent have a compost bin. I have a verminpost container (a worm compost bin for food waste)

7)No.
Not available for me & my parents only have the yard waste recycle container possibility. (they compost their yard waste)

8) No.
There is no information commonly available.
If a person wants to recycle or reduce there waste they have to go through many channels or agencies to find information.

Where do I start ?
Basically make recycling as common place as throwing your trash away.
Unfortunatly in California it seems as though people use the side of the road to throw trash away. ( I ride a bike and see a whole lot of trash along the roads even though it is picked up regularly ).
This is a question I really want to know the answer to also.
What does it take to make people recycle?
Why do they need a (uninforced) littering law to keep people from throwing trash along the roads?
What will it take for people to think about recycling?
At the local junior college(s) I see clearly marked beverage recycling bins with trash in them next to trash containers and recylcables in the trash bin.

Answer 5

No because they come on alternate days and they only take a certain weight or numbers of bags of garbage each time.

Yes because can earn some extra side income.

Yes

Yes

More bins but not in my garden.

Sure why not since it is free. Do I get anything back in return if I compost them?

WTF is a kerbside recycling?

No because they don't really provide any information and they really suck in their work.

The only way to make the recycling better or more efficient in my country is by replacing all the existing idiots into foreign employees. These local bastards are too damn lazy and they are bleady pampered.

Answer 6

NO I live in St. Petersburg FL and there is no recycling program in this city.

Yes I would love to recylce

3. Do you know where your local recycling points are? Yes/No
Yes I do, but there are not many around town, and very inconvinient.
4. Are you able to access your local recycling points? Yes/No
Not so able, they are not well placed around town.

5. Would you want more bins in your garden for easier recycling?YES we need more bins
6. If you had a free composter, would you use this for garden waste rather than the bin you already have?
I would definetly use it. I use one now, I bought it

7. Are you happy to pay for kerbside recycling? Yes/No
Comments
I would pay a little extra to what i allready pay for the city picking up my trash. I feel that what i pay allready is excesively expensive.

8. Are you happy with the information your local council provides in regards to recycling in your area?
No, St. Petersburg Florida is very backwards in respect to recycling.

Answer 7

1 - yes
2, 3, 4, 5 - Our recyclables are picked up at the same time as the trash, no taking them anywhere.
6 - Garden and lawn wastes do not go to a regular recycling center here. Composting is encouraged, but there are municipal pick-up programs in place for those who do not wish to.
7 - Recyclables pick-up is done at no charge here.
8 - I am a member of one of the major groups responsible for recycling education as well as working for an environemntal engineering firm that has written recycling plans and designed recycling centers. There is always more that can be done.

All we have to do to recycle here is put it all in one bin and let it be picked up. The system used is one that handles commingled wastes. How much easier could it be?

The latest thing coming to this area is called recycle banking. I have not seen all the details, but should have them soon. I do know that it involves bar codes on the recycling bins and a credit toward waste disposal costs based on the weight of materials recycled.

If you would like to discuss any of these issues at length, you can contact me at [e-mail].

Answer 8

1. No ... A bi-weekly collection doesn't work.
2. Yes ... Although I feel it particularly daft that different regions have completely different regimes. ie. A friend of ours has 2 types of recycle bin and the council takes away near everything ... we on the other hand have one bin that basically only takes grass cuttings.
3. Yes.
4. Yes ... Although surely this is what a percentage of our council tax is for ?
5. Yes ... See 2.
6. Yes ... Although obviously this would only work for those with access to a garden.
7. Not at all .... Unless of course they remove the costs from my council tax bill.
8. No ... We are never told when they will of wont be taking bins, took me 6 months to get a recycling bin and that was only on threatening non-payment of council tax bill until I received a revised bill.

Answer 9

1. Yes In West Lothian we are on a fortnightly collection. We have wheely bins for general, garden waste and paper/cardboard/tins and plastic
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes. We live in a quarter villa and where there are a lot of flats there are large recycling bins at various points for paper/cardboard/tin/plastic. We have one just outside the front door.
5. NA. We don't have a garden
6. NA. We don't have a garden
7. Not sure depends on how it will be done
8. Yes they are very good with information

I think that recycling should be more uniform across the country. There is such a radical difference between one authority and another.

Answer 10

1. No - recycling company picks up every two weeks - I wish it was every week. The recycle truck picks up from one side of the street at a time. This is for safety on busy streets, but on residential streets like mine, they could pick up from both sides at once. It seems ridiculous for the recycle truck to waste fuel and energy doing every street twice.

2. I'm very happy to recycle.

3. Only for special items - like computers, paint, car oil, etc. Everything else is curbside.

4. Yes - but they only accept twice a year.

5. Yes.

6. Absolutely. Why buy compost if we can make it?

7. Yes - for now. I currently pay $5 per month. My county is bringing up a vote to make it $45 per month - that would make it harder for a lot of people and I'm afraid it will greatly reduce recycling in my county.

8. No - you have to work hard to seek out any info - it is not well published and different refuse/govt. agencies give a big run-around about who to contact and how to setup pickup.

Answer 11

1) No, we should be getting our buckets emptied weekly and we should not have to pay for uplifts
2) Yes very happy to recycle
3) Yes I know were they are.
4) Yes I can access
5) Yes more bins would be welcome
6) Yes definitely compost.
7) No council tax covers this, or its supposed to.
8) My local office is next door to the community centre and none of the receptionist's knew that the nearest point to them was behind the community centre!!!