| When you have bulk rubbish, you want to get rid of | | | | Enter the specific name of your council/municipality |
| it. But what do you do? Most municipalities provide a | | | | between the speech marks and don't add the |
| special pickup of bulk rubbish including, but not limited | | | | speech marks when you type it in. If that is not |
| to boxes, furniture, bedding, and appliances. There | | | | successful try the word bulky, instead of bulk. |
| are often rules which apply. Most commonly items | | | | Bulk rubbish once collected is still taken to a landfill by |
| must be placed at the street or adjacent to a | | | | many waste disposal authorities, but the more |
| driveway that is accessible by collection equipment. | | | | enlightened cities will recycle as much as possible. |
| And some require that refrigerators and freezers shall | | | | Also, in Europe all Waste Electrical and Electronic |
| have doors removed or secured, and shall have all | | | | goods are the responsibility of the manufacturer to |
| contents removed. | | | | dispose of, and in fact they are expected to collect |
| Others require that for example, all bulky cardboard | | | | and recycle much of their returned materials. |
| boxes, cartons, and crates shall be completely | | | | Having said that though, don't you think that we live |
| collapsed prior to being deposited for collection. If at | | | | in a strange age. Never before has there been the |
| all possible they do encourage residents to recycle | | | | need for so many 'extra' rubbish collections, for bulk |
| their cardboard boxes, but sometime they are too | | | | or bulky waste and now also for different types of |
| large. | | | | recyclable things. I remember growing up with just |
| Some waste disposal authorities will make a charge, | | | | one of those small round tin bins. |
| and you may be referred by your local municipal | | | | The rubbish men would run from house to house, |
| waste disposal officers to a waste collection | | | | and would courteously collect from inside your back |
| contractor who will provide the service. In this case it | | | | yard. That was replaced by a suddenly much bigger |
| is usually when a specific journey is made for you, | | | | plastic version of that which is comically called a |
| there may be a charge. | | | | "wheely bin" and we had to put it on the verge for |
| A bulk pick up where a skip is left in a communal | | | | collection. They would throw two, maybe three, |
| area and is filled over a period of a few days, is | | | | maybe even four bins worth of rubbish into the bin |
| another method adopted by many burroughs. This | | | | they carried on their back before manually dumping it |
| may take place place every three or six months or | | | | into the back of the truck. Did you also notice that |
| sometimes only annually. Items are often required to | | | | nine times out of ten the dustcart was driven by a |
| be placed on the verge, out of the way of trees, | | | | really fat bloke who looked like he couldn't run! |
| power poles or their support wires. Common sense | | | | Where was all the rubbish we have now, in those |
| dictates that the objects you put out are not to | | | | days? Can you picture a rubbish collection operative |
| obstruct the road or footpath and some will ask that | | | | running with 2 or 3 wheely bins worth of rubbish on |
| you do not put out excessive amounts of garden | | | | his shoulder! Now we have two large wheely bins for |
| waste. | | | | all our rubbish, an occasional trip to the tip as well as |
| There may be two types of pick ups, one | | | | our yearly bulk rubbish collection! |
| greenwaste only and one general waste pick up. So, | | | | However, we so believe it is worth it to avoid |
| it is essential that you contact your local council | | | | dumping, and so that the long-term quality of life we |
| municipality to find out more. May people enter the | | | | enjoy is preserved as it depends so much on the |
| following keywords or similar into their favorite | | | | cleanness of the environment we live in. We, |
| search engine to find the page for your municipal | | | | therefore all have a responsibility to act in a manner |
| council's waste disposal section and follow the | | | | that conserves resources, minimises waste, recycles |
| instructions they find there. | | | | and prevents pollution while safeguarding the |
| - "name of your local council" bulk waste collection | | | | environment for future generations. |