I have 4 wheelie bins. The plot on which my house stands is nearly 1/3 acre. The footprint of 4 wheelie bins is under 2 square metres. Ergo I don't have too much of a problem accommodating the bins. What happens, though, if you live in a top floor flat with no garden which was never designed to have a bin never mind four of them? Or consider the situation if you have no access to the back of your house and have to keep 4 wheelie bins in the front garden? And what happens if you don't have a front garden because your house fronts directly onto the street and you have no rear access to the road either?
France has a very simple situation. You take all your recycling to the déchèterie (called in the UK a civic amenity site). The penalties for not doing so are severe and enforced. More than that, however, is the mentality which, so far as I can see, accepts that one's recycling and waste that isn't part of the household collection goes to the déchèterie and that is that. In the UK, even with community skips and civic amenity sites and wheelie bins, fly tipping and litter dropping is a scourge and a disgrace. It's all a question of mentality and unfortunately many in the UK are not considerate either of others nor of the environment when it comes to this subject.
I know that this is a very superficial attempt at saying anything about this subject but when we were on the Fife Coast recently lots of places just weren't worth photographing because a the myriad of bins sitting in front of houses. I could have moved the ones in this picture but at least here I had another option.
I know that this is a very superficial attempt at saying anything about this subject but when we were on the Fife Coast recently lots of places just weren't worth photographing because a the myriad of bins sitting in front of houses. I could have moved the ones in this picture but at least here I had another option.
