Next Thursday (October 11th) will be the last week of bin collections under the old regime.
Next Wednesday (October 10th), households in Parwich should be receiving their new containers. We will be keeping our existing grey and green bins, but we will also be welcoming three exciting new pieces of kit into our homes. Let’s meet them, shall we?
1) A full-sized blue bin, which replaces the old blue box and blue bag. The main part of the bin is for glass and plastic bottles, cans, and beverage cartons. An additional removable “basket insert” will sit inside the bin, to hold paper recycling.
For some households, i.e. those that don’t have room for an extra full-size bin, existing blue boxes and bags will be retained.
Larger amounts of cardboard, i.e. those that won’t fit inside the “bin within the bin”, should be flattened and left on the street, next to the bin. Don’t just put them in the main part of the bin, though! This would be a hideous mistake!
2) A small plastic “caddy”, to hold food waste (including tea bags). This will be kept indoors, probably in your kitchen. Special liner bags will be provided, or you can just scrape your food waste straight into the caddy. Warning: don’t use any other plastic bags as caddy liners! You will get into terrible trouble if you do!
3) A larger kerbside caddy, that gets put out for weekly collection. When your indoor caddy fills up, just tip it into the larger caddy. You don’t have to empty the special liner bags; you can just tie them up and plonk them in.
The new collection regime starts on Wednesday October 17th. All Parwich bin collections will be on Wednesdays from that point on – unless it’s a Bank Holiday week, which will mean a Thursday collection instead.
For Alsop and Ballidon, it looks as if Wednesday will be your new collection day as well. For Pikehall, it’s probably going to be Thursdays instead. To check, follow this link and enter your post code. This will give you the first few collection dates, plus your own calendar to download. Note that the new regime doesn’t start until you’ve received your new bins, which does contradict some of the earliest dates on the main results page. (I’ve pointed this out to Derbyshire Dales, so they might correct this.)
Kerbside food caddies will be emptied every week. All the other bins will be emptied every fortnight. Yes, that includes your regular grey bin – but the theory is that you’ll be recycling so much stuff in your other bins, that there will hardly be anything left to put in your grey bin.
The fortnightly cycle will be: regular grey bins one week, green and blue bins together on the other week.
Please click here to download your new collection calendar.
We will also mark each collection day on our DIARY page, and on the weekly “what’s on this week” posts. We will also keep a link to the collection calendar on our INFO page.
For more information, go to www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk/waste, or ring the waste hotline: 01629 761122.
Derbyshire Dales are holding a number of roadshows, where you can get further advice from actual human beings, rather than websites and leaflets. However, none of them are coming anywhere near Parwich! But for those of you who are as “passionate about waste” as the council hopes you’ll be, here’s a link to the roadshow timetable, just in case you fancy making a special journey.
Still confused? (Or still not confused enough?) Then how about watching this special instruction film, put together by the good people at Derbyshire Dales District Counci?
(Sadly, it’s only eight and half minutes long, so some of the finer points of “best practice” may be somewhat glossed over.)
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Interesting… a friend in Nottingham tells me that they also were issued with small plastic caddies for food waste, but these were abandoned after just 12 months. Perhaps they just weren’t sufficiently “passionate about waste management”….?!
I am hoping the blue bin, the mesh “basket” and the plastic “caddy’s” all fit inside my black bin, and that eventually, one day, it might get emptied if I remember which blue moon to put it out (that’s blue moon, not green or grey/black). That will solve the problem of having disgusting smelly food waste all over the village and trying to make sense of what goes where and when!
Are these people serious? – this isn’t going to work, and I cannot imagine how much of your and my money is being wasted – I’m pretty passionate about that waste!
Hilarious if it wasn’t so serious.
It makes you want to spit that the glorious Peak Park quango won’t let you have solar panels etc but we are expected to have these hideous monstosities on view and cluttering up our gardens. I have very limited space to put such things and the rate we are going, there’s going to be room for nothing else.
I really do not know what all the fuss is about ,surely as a result of the D.D.D.C recent ground breaking initiative for creating mouthwatering repasts for all the family from morsels of mouldy cheese, sprouts left over from Christmas, that half empty yoghurt pot forgotten at the back of the fridge which is now a thriving penicillin factory, remnants of a Chinese take-away and some dodgy gravy we will not be creating any food waste to speak of anyway.
Wot no bin!!! Just a rather large caddy and nothing else – such fun.
Sorry you don’t have a blue bin Cheryl, I am quite excited about the blue bins, especially as it means I get the boot of my car back. This was where I kept the things that can now go in the blue bin before dropping them in Ashbourne.
No bins for us either- but then I’m not surprised – lots of money spent on advertising, videos but not on any foolproof method of telling contractors who requires a bin! So more phone calls and time spent chasing the relevant department….
Another blinding flash of insight into the social engineering subtly being practiced by our local leaders………..it’s obvious now……this is QE4!!
The local council, flushed (!) with success of the previous money printing escapades of the national government debasing our currency, and storing up inflation, have decided to try a bit of it themsleves (or is it just flushed with our money which is pretty easy for them to get their mits on?).
The cunning plan to invest public money in pretty coloured bins, effectively buying up useless assets and pumping money into the waste disposal enconomy is really their brilliant attempt to reflate our wrecked economy.
Well, it makes about as much sense as QE1,2 and 3………..
…..and how many ‘ta’s’ in quantatatatative are there because every news reader seems to have their own version?! ;O)
Please note that D.D.D.C will shortly be issuing each household with direct debit mandates to facilitate the distribution of seasonal gratuities to waste management operatives. This will replace the antiquated system of physically handing out cash to personnel prior to the festive season.These amounts will automatically be increased annually in line with inflation . Of course if you feel that you have received exceptional service the odd backhander will ensure that your waste disposal is courteously and efficiently handled at all times. In addition you will soon receive an orange bin with a scary face this is specifically for discarded pumpkins. Thankyou.
We didn’t get new bins either – to save me time trying to find it, does anyone know what the telephone number is for the DDDC ‘waste services’ dept?
You can phone the District Council on their waste hotline tel 01629 761122, which seems to go through to the Waste Dept general office.
Well, they almost got it right with us, but not quite: we got the new bin, both caddies, an instruction leaflet and even a recycling bag for batteries… but alas, no caddy liner bags! As we are banned from using any other bin liners, this means scraping food waste directly into the kitchen caddy, and then scraping it again into the kerbside caddy… UGH. I shall be throwing myself upon the mercy of the Waste Hotline on Monday!
On our menu tonight – a large slice of humble pie!
After a late night boozy debate with enlightened friends involving our (my) wider responsibilities to the planet and the next generations, I felt I should try to embrace the new waste management regime – or at least try it out………..
My “Road to Damscus” moment with the coloured bins and caddies has been more like a slow revelation that this is really actually quite easy! Our green caddy sits neatly under the sink, and is perfectly placed to empty food waste and peelings. The added advantage of the pretty blue bin is that the neighbours can’t see we (I) have a drink problem, or that we read dubious journals without being pretty obvious about it.
I have even got the recycling details and the schedule for collection pinned to the wall in case I forget.
The only downside I can see is we have to buy the little food waste bags from one source (they say the supermarket one’s aren’t really recyclable – do we believe that?)
– I do hope I like humble pie :o)