How many black bags of rubbish per week?

[Crunchymum]

Inspired by another thread but no a TAAT.

We are a family of 5 (and a cat) and we recycle everything. We still end up with 6 small black bags or 3 large black bags of rubbish per week.

Baby is in nappies, kids are school age. I'm on ML so home full time.

Anyone else feel they create too much rubbish and any tips to reduce?

I live on my own so probably on have a couple of small bags of rubbish a week. Most of that I blame on the cat. I do try to recycle as much as I can but still feel bad about how much I send to landfill.

I think we create a lot, three small bags a week for two adults, but we do have three dogs and some chickens. Our council doesn't recycle any pet bedding etc. Can't recycle shredded paper or food either (so teabags and eggshells all go in the bin too).

Family of 4 (kids are 3 and 6 no nappies), two cats. Our refuse is collected fortnightly and is usually full but lid closed. So whats that? 5 bags?

Our wheelie bin can hold 3 20l bags in and it is usually (not always) full by the time it is collected (once every 2 weeks).

One 20 litre bag a week here - so about half a black bag. Four adults and two cats. Could easily go from fortnightly to monthly collections. It's pretty much just cat food packets, meat packaging and the thin plastic bags that veg comes in. Recycling wheelie bin is rammed though when it's collected fortnightly.

I’m a bit evangelical about rubbish/recycling.

We have 3 140L bins - red for general waste (still collected weekly), green for garden (+white paper sack)/blue for recyclable glass, tins & plastic bottles collected alternate weeks.

Currently 3 adults & 3 cats - red bin generally has 1 20L kitchen binbag per week (cat food pouches make up quite a bit of that!), 1 small bag of contents of wpbs that aren’t recyclable every 3-4 weeks, & the occasional takeaway pizza box from DS2.

Cat litter is the compostable kind so once poo/wee is picked out - that gets flushed - it goes in the green bin.

Council used to take peelings etc in green bin but stopped. We do save non-recyclable plastic separately & take it to the county recycling depot once a month or so. That used to go to China, but they’ve stopped taking it so it’s landfill again now but it fills up the small bin so quickly I’d rather do it this way (& the tip guys reckon there will be an alternative at some point...hope they’re right. It’s annoying that our kerbside collection won’t take things that are the same kind of plastic as bottles - PET & HDPE - but just the wrong shape )

Our bin collection is fortnightly, but it's often only half-full so I don't always bother putting it out.

I think it's easy for us because we're only 2 adults, 1 teenager and no pets- no nappies or animal waste to try and get rid of. We have a garden and we're veggie/vegan so all our food waste can be composted.

One large per week (council don’t take food waste and so meat bones etc have to go in (we have a compost heap for veg waste but the meat attracts rats)). Me, DH, 2 DC and 2 cats but we’re out all day in the week.

6 person household, takes us 4-6 weeks to completely fill the black bin. I suppose mostly using cloth nappies helped a lot in past. Back when the green bit didn't take fabric, cardboard, metal or glass: we still went out of our way to recycle those materials, is my only tip. We compost a huge amount, too, and barely waste any food.

One very full black bin per fortnight and I recycle like crazy, really struggle to fit all the recycling into the black bin per fortnight as well. We have separate foodwaste. Would love to know how to cut back but all my food comes in packets.

Nappies are the one thing I know we could swap to reusable but I just don't need that on top of the laundry I already have (far too much)

3 adults, 2 children = one black bag a week.

Our black bin is emptied every 3 weeks, it fits 7 black bags if you put them in on their sides.
It’s usually got 6 bags every 3 weeks and most of that is none recyclable plastic like yoghurt pots and food trays.
I’ve swapped to tinned cat food and bar soap to save plastic but it’s hard when so much staff comes wrapped in 2 or 3 layers of packaging.
We are a family of 5 plus a cat.

not sure on bags numbers, but we have a standard wheelie bin emptied three weekly, and it's usually full. Maybe 5-6 bags? We recycle everything we can locally, but this still leaves us with lots of plastic trays and pots - only bottles are taken either at the doorstep or at the recycling centre. And cat litter - we have two big trays and over three weeks that's quite a big proportion of our non-recyclable waste. We use wood chip cat litter which I would have thought would be compostable but again have been instructed locally not to add to compostable waste.

I no longer have nappies to deal with and can’t really remember how many bags of those I used to put out (I used to use one of those sangenic things...).

These days I put out one black bag a week but it is rarely full. My non recycling is only collected fortnightly and I actually only put the bin out monthly on average and it is never actually full.

I actually went round the house bins today and I’ve put one bin liner bag (60 litre swing bin liner About half full) in the wheelie bin. This was the small kitchen bin (no food waste - that goes for a different collection), family bathroom bin (mainly used cotton wool and DDs used san pro), DCs bedroom bins (crisp packets and used tissues mainly), my bathroom bin (again cotton wool and sanpro) and living room bin (crisp packets, tissues and some plastic packaging).

There isnt much that we can’t recycle here so there really isn’t much non recyclable waste.

2 adults, 2DC.

One 30 litre bag per month.

Usually half a bin bag at the most. We compost veg waste, farm shop so reduces recycling and only 2 adults.

Pretty much the same as titchy. 5 adults and one tween. We have one large bin bag of non recyclable waste a fortnight and could manage on monthly collection but the recycling bin is always full on bin day.

Three adults, two school age kids. Every week we have two half-full black bags (because our bin is too small for a full back and it has to be changed), a full wheelie bin of recycling, and a full caddy of food waste.

Most of our black bag content is packaging that can't be recycled - I've started writing back to a few companies who use non-recyclable cellophane and asking them to switch or I won't be using their products again.

We get purple bags for nappies from our council which are extra and don't have to go in the bin.

2 adults, baby and dog and we have 2 biggish bags a week. Recycle most things

Half a black bag, 4 adults. We do compost and recycle, the recycling is twice the landfill. Supermarkets need to get their act together.