We've got 3 plastic bags (one for plastic one for cardboard and one for paper) and 1 red box for glass and cans.

Can't keep it in the house because we don't really have the space/ worried about dc's cutting themselves on the cans/ pulling it out of the bags etc (we have had it all in the house for 2 days and it also looks such a mess (we put it in the corner of the dining room)
Can't keep it outside because it will get soaked and be too heavy to move to the front for collection
We've put it all in the kids playhouse at the moment but now the dc's can't play in there because of the same reason we can't keep it all in the house.

So what is everyone else doing?

We have 2 of these. One for cardboard, the other for everything else (that's how it's sorted round here).

Various other similar ones here.

We are semi detached and keep all our recycling in what we call the lean to, which runs along the side of our house. OUr lean to is also used as a utility space, and to store tools, and some of DS's garden toys.

SO if you have utility room, I'd put it in there. Or a shed?

DOn't keep it inside - trust me it will get very smelly indeed

ours is in back porch.we try to buy things that dont have alot of packaging though or reuse-as in yoghurt pots etc to local nursery and paper shredded for rabbit.

We keep ours outside in those stacking boxes with lids you can buy anywhere - like this

We have a fantastic system.

1 big wheelie bin for landfil waste
1 Green wheelie bin for recycling (all types we don't have to separate stuff out)
1 Brown wheelie bin for compostables.

Stuff goes directly out. Idiot proof

I have a slight alcove thing behind the kitchen door, put shelves up and store there, paper cardboard outside and council collect.

We keep ours on the balcony. I wish it was picked up more often than once a week, but I guess that would be environmentally-unfriendly.

OH DOES ANYONE LIVE NEAR recycling centre? Im just wondering if they dont horse it into landfill after all our sorting...theres none round here that i know of.

I have cleared a smallish place in a kitchen cupboard and we have 2 small plastic boxes (think large shoebox size) that we store glass and paper in. Saves going out all the time.

The large main boxes are out in the garden. We don't have door to door glass and can collections so take them fairly often to the recycling bins while we are out and about.

The paper does get soaked, but has never been too heavy to lift. dd1 often does an audit of the contents and complains bitterly that her important paperwork has been chucked. "oh silly daddy" we usually say!

In the larder in an old enamel breadbin til it gets full then outside

box in kitchen for glass, which isn't collected. i take it in mornings on way to station.

large bin in kitchen for paper and plastic which is bagged separately but put into main wheely bin and collected at same time.

metal pot thing with filter for veg waste and confidential bits of paper, goes into compost.

lmg get a box with a lid for cans and glass and complain to your council. three bags is silly, if they want it sorted to that extent then they need a better way of managing it.

The recycling boxes look like a good idea we just don't have the money spare.
I pay £130 council tax per month and think that is enough to provide us with adequate recycling storage that can be kept outside with lids on. Plastic bags which can blow about is not adequate imo.

I'm all for recycling but not when it requires me paying out to buy something to keep the stuff in fgs.

We have it all in the garage. We have a green box for cans/aerosols and clean foil as well as paper and I bought 3 big green recycling bags from Tesco for £5 and I use them for plastics and glass which I take to the recycling skips.

They gave us the red box but no lid so up until now I haven't bothered filling it because everytime i did it got filled with water and was too heavy to move to the front so stayed there until eventually i nagged dp enough to empty it and I didn't refill it

Now we have to recycle (not sure what happens if we don't bother?) I'm really trying but without anywhere to keep it all I'm getting fustrated with it and thinking about not bothering!

We have a three dooe storage thinkg, one for glass, one for plastic and one for cardboard.

Bag in utility room for paper.

In the kitchen in these

Then I transfer it into the council black boxes outside

Cans/glass/bottles go outside the back door in a lidded box (all rinsed out first)

Paper goes in a pile by the shoe rack next to the front door, then gets put out in a bag the night before collection.

Cardboard is flattened down and kept on a shelf in our larder and put out the night before collection.

Garden waste goes in the big green wheelie bin or on our compost heap.

Oh we have no garage, utility room, lean to etc

I assume you have to separate it which is a pain. We have one green wheelie bin for everything except glass, so I collect in a smallish box in the kitchen and empty into outside bin every 2-3 days.

What about something like this?

Sorry x-posts

LMG, those tall bins that JackieNo linked to can be kept outside, although they are not watertight so need a small tarp over the top.

I'd love one of those frayedknot, I've been wanting one of those for ages unfortunately I'm already really overdrawn and spending £90 on somewhere to keep my recycling isn't going to help me

Same as FrayedKnot. You can get really cheap lidded plastic boxes, eg from Wilko's or Focus. Around a fiver. Then the stuff can stay outside - tuck it behind a few plant pots/kids toys if necessary!

Yes, no, sorry I saw your post afterwards.

It's really ridiculous that you have to separate it yourself. have lived in two different counties and both did wheelie bin for everything except glass.

I agree you should not have to be out of pocket to recycle.

What do you collect most of?

I don't mind seperating/ washing them its just the fact the council expect me to pay out for somewhere to keep it when I'm broke. Seriously considering going in to complain but seems OTT.

Ours is in the kitchen as it would not make sense IMO to put them in one bin outside to then transfer to another bin outside.

So far plastic (bottles, tubs) then cardboard, then tins, then paper.

Our (London) council provide free lidded boxes for paper/card, glass/plastic, food waste and special bags for garden waste (plus the wheelie bin)

Petition your local council/Councillor!!!!

Doesn't make sense to me either T&P but we don't have the space indoors.

I don't understand, do you not have seperate wheelie bins?

We've got black and green ones but green is for garden rubbish only, we've got 3 plastic bags for recycling (2 small ones which are re-usable and 1 orange bin bag) 1 red box without a lid.

Looks like I'm goign to have to pay out aren't I really, the chances of me making a difference to the council before the next millenium are slim so wilkinsons it will have to be or refuse to let dc's play in their playhouse because it is now the recycling's new home

That is crap, we have a green bin for garden waste, blue for bottles and cans and a black non recycle

i dont get a recylcing collection at all ( live in a flat)
so i have a cardbpard box in my kitchen which i keep on the freezer to pput recycling in then at least once a week i put it all into my shopping bags and walk it up to the recycling banks, get the children involved in sorting it into the right bins they love it.
not ideal and doesnt look v.pretty in my kitchen but i do beleive recycling is important and is only way i can do it.
it is a pain that you have to pay out yourself but i would go and get the cheap wilko boxes with lids to sort it all into