Anyone else embarrassed by the fullness of their recycling bins?

[slinkycat]

Guess it depends on your local authority's collection method but where I am we have three bins. The one for cans, bottles, card, paper and plastic is emptied every 2 weeks. Its always full to bursting by collection day and I always imagine the binmen thinking "bloody hell, how many drinks?"!

[RATTER15]

our bins very rarely see any alcohol bottles, maybe a an empty whiskey bottle a few times a year after the Irish Coffees that we so love, possibly a Baileys bottle one a year. Possibly a wine bottle around Xmas.

[starone]

I had a little grin at Eddie's post. Unbelievable!! P.S. Eddie, that doesn't mean I don't believe you, just that people are unbelievable.

[ummmm]

My bottle bin is okay....that's mainly down to me. It's the cans....especially now the footie's back on.

[anneasquith]

we rarely have bottles or cans to recycle !

[rowanwitch]

Mostly recycle soft drinks cans the odd wine bottle...the odd rum or whiskey maybe one of each a year... but we have a communal recycling bin so know one knows who's dumping what now ....

[tigwig]

Yes I am! We only have a small ish tub for cans/glass,plastics and that is always full plus a further 2 bin bags which are mostly beer cans with a few bottles of wine. It takes ages to put it all out (every fortnight) and I always look at it compared to everyone elses and think we have the most! Worse still next doors are full of water bottles ha ha.

[fliptheswitch]

Lol tigwig. The people next door to me, fill theirs up with water bottles too.
Last Christmas/new year, I had two boxes filled with beer cans, perching on the wall for collection. Some little oik decided to knock the box down, and I had to go out 9in the snow) and pick them all up from the road. I was so embarrassed!

[joeluke]

Why the need for embarrassment over the amount we recycle?

Surely the embarrassment should come when our general rubbish bins are overflowing?