It’s pretty much all they have left to be fair. As a government they are spent. They spend all their time firefighting over actually implementing policies. Those they are pushing tend to be completely in the wild side.
UK political system is just not working.
I was wrong, it’s eight 
(compartmentalised into two wheelie bins)
This is in Lund. Although seems absurd at first. It’s not that difficult. Even children can do it. Makes people think about what they use.
What does the UK do with most solid waste? Landfill? I would have thought landfill sites would be really problematic, but I am not aware of large plasma gasification facilities or similar.
About half goes to landfill.
Most paper is recycled onshore, most plastics sent abroad. They are building a big hydrothermal processing center in the north east.
I agree with this. The French system is much simpler :
All plastic and aluminium cans in yellow lid household bin
No kerbside collection for cardboard.
Must manually be taken to public bin locations
Same for glass bottles. Manually taken to glass bins dotted around town
Green lid household bins really should have very little in them. Pretty much disposable nappies are one of the few things allowed in them
Food waste bin
Green waste bin
We ended up putting some thought into what we were buying and the logistics of dropping out waste off, or finding ways to reuse cardboard (and plastics) at home to cut down on trips to the cardboard bins
Now compare that to Australia where I am now:
Yellow lidded bin collected fortnightly containing hard plastics, cans, glass
Green lidded bin for general waste collected weekly
Garden waste bin collected fortnightly
It doesn’t really encourage recycling to have general waste collected weekly, and they really aren’t asking for things to be separated very well for recycling.
In their defence I guess, in the subtropics here as soon as it gets a bit warmer, flies and maggots become a huge problem with waste bins so it’s probably right to have them collected weekly for health reasons.
But on the flip side of that maybe there wouldn’t be such fly problems if waste was better sorted: I tend to be more methodical with cleaning as well when I need to carefully separate the rubbish.
I really don’t understand how that (8 different compartments) works in practice. Do the collectors have to separate out all the compartments before it’s loaded onto the wagon ? it would take them forever !
I’m in France too. Like Kloppo said , it’s a yellow bin for anything recyclabe. Another for household waste and one for the garden. Bottle banks are everywhere for glass , and anything else you take to the tip.
I’m not sure if it is the same across Germany but we have:
Blue bin - cardboard and paper
Yellow bin - recyclable plastic and metal
Brown bin - organic kitchen/garden waste
Black bin - residual non-recyclable waste
Additionally there are return schemes for bottles and cans and bottle banks for single use bottles and jars. And various places for clothes books etc.
All doorstep collections are one man operations with a robotic arm to empty the bins.
That’s more or less what I have in France, well we have less there’s no organic waste bin, goes with the non-recyclable for land fill.
The town I lived in has an unsed furnace it didn’t pass the last pollution limits so now we have landfill near the largest supermarket. The furnace was great whilst it worked as all the communes in the area sent their waste and made the town a packet of money (lowest local taxes for miles around).
Where I live.
Grey bin for paper & cardboard - Collected once every 4 weeks.
Green bin for plastics & tins - Collected once every 4 weeks.
Blue bin (half the size of the others) for land fill items - Collected fortnightly.
Brown bin for food waste and garden rubbish - Collected fortnightly.
Have to visit the recycling centre on top of that, as the bins usually fill up prior to collection.
When my family car was a pick up, I was only allowed one pre booked visit per week to the recycling centre, yet the bloke with the Range Rover with the seats down could take as many loads per day as he wanted.
Fucked up system - No wonder people fly tip.
Same in Berlin.
I find it disappointing when I go to the UK and Australia 
Just watched the second episode of Kuenssberg’s State Of Chaos. Absolutely jaw-dropping stuff centering on Johnson and Cummings’ misrule. It seems however that the entire Partygate affair has been passed over. Anyone have any idea why this might be ?
Presumably it’ll come up in episode 3 when they deal with BJ’s downfall.
That’s possible I suppose but they way the second episode ended it looked like we would be straight into Johnson’s defeat by Truss next time round. (And obviously there was plenty more that happened inbetween Partygate and the leadership campaign that actually presaged his downfall.) I was just wondering whether they had avoided Partygate altogether due to legal concerns.
Seems it doesn’t matter what people voted for in the end ,as labour and libs seem determined as always to forget what democracy is and will look to get us back into the EU…as we all knew they would try to do anyways.
Democracy is just an illusion so we feel we have choices…we don’t really.
If opinion polls are to be believed then that is what people want. Isn’t that what democracy is about or is it just a case of one man, one vote, once?
We have 4 full size wheelie bins. Blue for paper / card, brown for plastic and metal, green for @Mascot and black for general waste. The greens too far gone for the rabbits get thrown into the green bin. It complains occasionally but what can you do?
I worked for a week in Belgium about 25 years ago. I vividly remember being confronted (at the end of the job) by a wide range of bins and the huge one I’d filled with sandwich boxes, fag packets, drinks cans, cables, packaging etc etc etc. Took about an hour to sort through it all under the watchful gaze of the attendant. First time I couldn’t just skip it and sod off. Was a hell of an eye opener.
Until someone in power raises a legal election/referendum to find out the true democratic will of the people, opinion polls are worthless.
Which the Brexit referendum was and the decision to leave was made.
Now the left wing parties seem to sense the tossers of the Tories have imploded and again they are plotting to return to the EU …despite the results.
It’s a case of keep voting until we get the result we want and then that’s the end of it all.
There was 1 vote 7 years ago which brought you out of it.When were all these other votes you are talking about?