We provided all homes with a 240-litre green wheeled bin (the same size as your black wheeled bin). The capacity gives enough room for your garden waste and thin cardboard. The approximate size is h: 1100 mm (43.5 inches), w: 600 mm (24 inches) and d: 750 mm (30 inches).
Smaller 140 litre wheeled bins are available for those who cannot accommodate the standard bin. However, they are not advised generally because they provide less capacity for when it might be needed.
We would encourage people to have the standard 240 litre bin that will give them some spare capacity and also provide enough room for cardboard. If you still think it is too large we will consider providing a smaller 140 litre bin. This is the same height as the 240 litre bin but its width is only 475 mm (19 inches) and depth (front to back) is 555 mm (22 inches).
Any green garden waste including:
· Grass cuttings
· Plants and weeds
· Prunings and twigs (no thicker than 2 inches or 5 cm across)
· Leaves
· Hedge clippings
· Old or dead houseplants
· Thin cardboard (see further question below - what sort of cardboard can I put in my green bin)
Please do not use plastic carrier bags to wrap items in the green wheeled bin.
· Cooked or non-cooked food
· Anything that has been in contact with food (i.e. pizza boxes)
· Plastic, glass, metal
· Plastic bags (even biodegradable ones)
· Compost bags
· Treated wood
· Stones and gravel
· Soil and turf (a little soil on the roots of plants is acceptable)
· Polystyrene trays and containers
· Frozen food cartons with a waxy inner coating (the ‘wax’ is a plastic lining)
· Cardboard cartons that are foil or plastic lined, e.g. fruit juice cartons, Tetra Paks, some frozen food packets and fast food outlet drink cartons.
· Corrugated cardboard
These items do not compost down and/or could cause harm to farm animals if there remains are left in the final compost. Many of these items can, however, be recycled through local recycling sites or Household Waste Recycling Centres.
If you put items which we are not able to compost in your green wheeled bin then unfortunately we will not be able to empty it. It would contaminate the whole load of green waste we have collected and the composting facility would reject it and send it to be buried in a landfill. This is why it is very important that you put the correct types of rubbish in each of the containers.
We will attach a sticker to your green wheeled bin explaining why it was not emptied and asking you to sort out the contents before presenting it for your next green collection.
If the contamination has been removed the green wheeled bin will be emptied on the next green collection week. If the contamination cannot be removed the bin can be emptied on the black collection week but the black wheeled bin will not be emptied as well.
As plastic sacks will contaminate the green collection vehicle only green wheeled bins will be emptied - any other rubbish put out will be left behind. This may seem a bit harsh but it is vital if we are to reduce the amount of rubbish we collect, and to retain the benefits to the environment by reducing litter. A part open bin can create a litter problem.
Our research tells us that the vast majority of homes will be able to get all their rubbish in the wheeled bins we provide, but larger households will be considered for a larger bin following a visit from a rubbish advisor.
· Cereal packets and other similar boxes
· Inner tubes from kitchen paper and toilet rolls
· Recycled cardboard e.g. from some fruit and vegetable trays etc.
· Card sleeves from things like food tins, beer bottles etc.
· Frozen food cartons that DO NOT have a waxy inner coating (the ‘wax’ is a plastic lining)
· We cannot take cardboard cartons that are foil or plastic lined, for example fruit juice cartons, Tetra Paks, some frozen food packets, drink cartons from fast food outlets, or corrugated cardboard of any type due to the glue content.
We are not allowed to collect any food or kitchen rubbish from the green wheeled bins at present. This includes fruit and vegetable peelings. After the recent Foot and Mouth outbreak, laws were introduced stating that any food or kitchen rubbish must be disposed of in a way that prevents it coming into contact with livestock and birds.
Collections from the green wheeled bins are taken to an open air composting facility. From here your green waste breaks down to become compost and it is then taken to be spread on local farms to improve soil quality.
If food or kitchen rubbish (including peelings) could have been in contact with any animal produce, then this could contaminate farmland, leading to diseases such as Foot and Mouth.
As we cannot guarantee that any food or kitchen rubbish we collect has not come into contact with animal produce (for example by using a chopping board on which meat or cheese has been cut) we are not allowed to collect this as the composting site is accessible to animals. A general rule is that anything which could have been in the kitchen is to be treated as contaminated and should not be placed in the green wheeled bin.
Vegetable peelings can be placed in a composter. Reduced rate composters are available through Straight Recycling. Please call 01302 736000 for further information.
The best place for your vegetable waste is in a home composter, which can take most of your kitchen peelings and things like tea bags and coffee grounds. If you do not have a home composter you can get one from a number of retail outlets or Doncaster Residents can ring Straight Recycling on 0845 130 60 90 for reduced rate composters.
Other kitchen rubbish, including meat, fish, dairy products and cooked foods, can be placed in kitchen waste composters or food digesters including Bokashi bins, green cones/Johanna. A limited number of Bokashi Kitchen composters are available free to residents in the pilot area. Please call 01302 736000 for further information.
Any additional garden waste can either be composted, saved for the following green waste collection or taken to the nearest Household Waste Recycling Centre. There will be special arrangements made for Christmas trees.
There will be little or no decomposition because a sealed bin limits contact with the elements needed to rot the rubbish down, such as air, water, bacteria and fungi.
Simple steps like putting newspaper in the bottom of your wheeled bin will minimise the need for cleaning, but please do not put anything in plastic bags of any sort, even degradable ones, as they will not rot down.
This will be where you currently place your black bin. A wheeled bin is easy to move even when full, and once in place sits on its base, not on its wheels, so it will not run away, even on a slope.
Unfortunately not at the present time due to animal by-product legislation. The best way to dispose of this is to compost it at home. If you cannot do this then it is advised to place it into your black wheeled bin.
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