Streetlife

I have to agree that black bin bags are far from green and when it is windy and animals and birds have torn them apart the rubbish blows everywhere. Also the shallow green bins which are for tins, bottles etc are no good in windy weather so that the plastic bottles etc blow into hedges etc. The council don't seem to take responsibility for litter blown into hedges. This all adds to make the area ugly and not very green.
I have to add that if people recycled their rubbish responsibly and did not leave rubbish out overnight for the wind, animals and birds to disrupt maybe it would not be so bad. Also when the refuse lorries have done their round it would not hurt people to pick up any items that may have fallen by the wayside.
We only fill a black bag once a fortnight as we recycle as much as possible and if it is windy we put out the rubbish as late as possible.
I know if one is working this is not always possible but we should all do as much as we can to keep this area clean and tidy.

I quite often pick up rubbish if i remember to take a bag, most of it can be recycled. Apparently if rubbish was picked up fortnightly recycling would increase a lot. This happens in eg Canterbury.

I quite often find tin can lids and plastic bottles along our road after the green box has been emptied. I just chuck them back in my box for next time!
We only put our black bag out every 2 or even 3 weeks. This has mostly come about since discovering that plastic can be erecycled at Bideford recycling centre. I have allocated a separate bin for al our plastics and take them up there when its full or if we're heading in that direction. It is out of our way as we live on Churchill way but I bel,I've its worth it to keep it out of landfill-I'm not brave enough to take it all back to the supermarket it comes from in the first place! I know some people who have though!
Maybe there should be a campaign to highlight this additional service in Bideford. Barnstaple doesn't have this facility (not when I last visited their recycling centre anyway).
I also buy biodegradable black bags which are pretty rubbish themselves but as we only have a small bag to go out, it's not such a problem.
I have a workers in the garden so anything that can go in there does! The other food waste goes in the green caddy.
Come to think of I'm not sure what does go in our black bag at all!

Where is this place Torrage?

thnk you david you must be perfect or a sad case with nothing better to do than look for others mistakes.  my suggestion to you is GET A LIFE

David T has a legitimate confusion.
In fact Torrage is a community organisation based at the volunteer centre in
Torrington but contactable also via TTVS. I has a Heritage Lottery grant for
the establishment of fifteen "Neighbourhood Link" groups over a five year
period. Each NL is effectively a self-help group for older people (over 60)
in a variety of local communities across the Torridge District.

Examples so far include Morwenna in Northam, Londonderry in Bideford
and Holsworthy Help. The ground work has started in Hartland and others
may exist as I have not been in contact with them recently. Details are
available from TTVS in Bridgeland Street.

One of their initiatives was "Snow Patrol" to assist people with ensuring
that they got shopping supplies during icy weather - but we do not seem to
have had very much snow in the more urban areas in recent months.