How Does Your Council Do Recycling?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2034677/new-recycling-rules-every-home-england-set-introduced?int_source=nba

They're about to make us worse by the sound of it. We have 2 bins, big one for all the recyclable stuff and a small one for everything else. They are talking about at least 5 bins.

[DDIL]

garden rubbish bin

paper/cardboard bin

tins/tetra packs etc

plastic

normal household waste

food bin

[-SharonA-]

And where are we supposed to keep the 5 bins?

[naomi24]

You already have six bins, DDIL?

[DDIL]

yup although three of them are half sized wheelie bins

[naomi24]

We have a black bin for general waste and a blue bin for plastic, paper and cardboard.   Glass we take to the recycling centre and garden waste gets burnt on the farm next door.

[barry1010]

Black wheelie bin for non recyclable,emptied weekly. Everything else fortnightly

Blue bag for paper and cardboard 

Green bag for plastic and tin

Black crate for glass

Optional green bin for garden waste - £56 per year.

It's changing next year. Another wheelie bin (instead of the bags and crate)for all recyclables and a food waste caddie.

[Cloverjo]

A blue bag for metal and plastic. A green box for glass, paper and cardboard.

There's a brown box for waste food, but I don't use that. 

[naomi24]

What do people do who don't have space for five or six bins?  

[gingejbee]

Any council that doesn't already have separate food waste collection is way behind the times...we've had it for several years. And we have one of the highest recycling rates in the country because ALL recyclables go into one wheelie bin.

[drmorgans]

 

A grey bin for general waste

A blue bin for glass, metal and plastic with a blue bag for paper and card

A green bin for garden was, for which there's a £50 a year charge

Collected every two weeks

 

[-SharonA-]

We have a lot of flats in my area & each flat have their own quota of bins. Imagine a house with 3 flats that would be 15 bins outside one property!!

[Khandro]

We have 3 bins & a fortnightly collection of 'Yellow bags' the latter, usually two for us, for plastic food wrappings, domestic product containers & tins etc.  A bin for biological stuff, and another for assorted household junk. 

There are regular collections for wood and metal plus a village bottle bank.  

[DDIL]

You can have stacking boxes that go on a trolley but they don't hold much.

Mind if you go 2 miles up the road to a different council they have 2/3 bins depending on if you have garden rubbish or not.

They have all recycling dumped in 1 bin and the food rubbish goes in the garden bin.

[naomi24]

Oh I forgot tin  That goes in our blue bin.

[albaqwerty]

We have

Blue for cardboard and paper

Green for glass, plastic and tins

Brown for food and/or garden waste but only if you've paid to have garden rubbish uplifted.

Grey for everything else.

In the past 10 years a recycling centre has caught fire twice, a different one caught fire a year or so ago and was releasing burning toxins, nice.

[bednobs]

we have 1 wheelie for non-recyclable emptied two weekly

green bag for tins and plastic(Although not soft)

green box for glass

smaller box for food recycling (weekly)

paid-for green bin for compostable items (still have to pay for picking up compost though with no reduction to show you have contributed!)

[davebro3]

3 bins - glass/metal/plastic in one, garden & non-recyclable in the other 2 & a bag for paper/cardboard. A small bin for food waste.

Veolia is the contractor.

Waste disposal site is open daily - free for cars, no booking.

[Hazlinny]

Large white bag for recycling stuff collected weekly. There is a private tipping area to serve the 24 houses and other rubbish/food is put in the appropriate large bins up there.

 

[chelle7272]

 Black wheelie bin for non recyclable, emptie fortnightly.

Recycling every week:

Blue bag for cardboard 

Green crate for plastic and tin

Black crate for glass and paper

Brown bin for food waste

Optional green bin for garden waste

There are 3 flats so the street is a right mess when we all have to put all those bins out. Then the collection is mor foten or not late by a day or so. Dreading summer.

I do think it's good idea to standardise bins and collections, but I'd rather than meant fewer bins!

[davebro3]

I don't really see the logic of mixing glass & paper...

There must be people employed on conveyor belts separating all the different materials (think I saw it on TV years ago). Jobs for the boaters & WSS?