how is your landfil bin? ours has barely anything in it

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we now have a local op with plastic recycling
we have other usual recycling, cardboard, glass
we pay for garden waste collection
we do not have a food waste recycling so that would help even more
our landfill bin has barely anything in it, dog poo is a large culprit, that and vegetable peelings, tea bags

there are only 2 of us in the house now so we are just getting used to it

Mine is emptier than the recycling. I wish we had better plastic recycling here because that would literally almost empty my landfill bin.

We can put food waste in our garden waste bin here. I’m a bit of a fanatic about not wasting food so that’s mainly peelings etc.

I had no idea middle age would be this fascinating 😀

We started to recycle our soft plastics last summer, in addition to the normal recycling and have notified quite a big drop in our landfill bin.

We are a family of 4 and the children have lots of snacky foods with plastic wrapping and that did amount to quite a lot of our waste.

Our service is a bit behind the times as we have a generic recycling bin but a lot of stuff can't go in there. We also have a green waste bin and we compost our veg peelings. Landfill bin is never more than a quarter full over a fortnight. Recycling is always overflowing.

Full all the time! Drives me mad trying to sort out the bins.

We can put pretty much any recycling in together, have food waste bins and black ordinary bins.
The food waste one’s were suspended for about a year. It did feel very odd putting t into the ordinary bin.
Our non recyclable is mainly dog poo it seems

Get a compost bin for the peelings and tea bags,that gets good use out of them
Yes,2 dogs here, used to have 3. Bought one of those compostable doggy things,you bury in the ground,safe chemical meant to dissolve waste, absolutely useless. don't have food waste. I batch cook,(save the fuel) one to eat 3 for the freezer.

It definitely decreased since we drop soft plastics at a larger Tesco, it actually opened my eyes how much plastic we were throwing away.

I would say we have 2-3 sacks per fortnight, the majority are used tissues due to a person with sinus issues and one with hayfever, we go through tissue boxes like they go out of fashion.

We now also found a way to recycle clothes unsuitable for charity shops like worn out or ripped as our council works with a company who recycles them into insulation materials etc. They have a landfil quote of under 2%.

We have a separate collection for food waste here too. Like you, we take soft plastics to the Co-op so our normal wheelie bin is practically empty these days. We only put it out for collection once a month now to help the refuse collectors.

We have a general recycling bin and a general waste bin. Both are full on collection day. I have an indoor cat and an incontinent child so lots of cat litter, pull ups and bed mats.

We're a house of 6. Our recycling and our foodwaste is collected weekly. Our landfill rubbish is every two weeks, but sometimes we forget and it's not collected for a month. It's not a big deal for us, we rarely fill it.

We average about 45 litres a fortnight (3 tall kitchen bin bags a month). Our council is really good for recycling (they collect steel, aluminium, plastic, paper and card and we can recycle glass and tetrapak cartons in local banks), we compost all our veg peelings etc, food waste is coming. Nothing goes to landfill either, the non recyclable stuff gets burnt and used for energy generation.

Even when the kids were in nappies we've never filled our bin, because we used washables.

We have a week's worth of things in our landfill bin and it's about 10% full. I'm having a couple of weeks where I have a clear out some of it will be those items. Recycling is about 75% full, but a lot of that's papers and notes I'm throwing out. Food recycling has scraps of left over cat food and two slices of brown bread which had gone off. All peelings, tea leaves and coffee grains in compost.

Constantly full with bags to spare. Drives me nuts

tetrapak
we can't recycle that easily - oh i have just seen our tesco recycles those!

good idea not to perhaps put out the bin fortnightly,
and yes - middle age is indeed fascinating @BitOutOfPractice

Ours is always full. Our council is very behind on recycling and only take certain plastics, no yogurt pots, margarine tubs etc no glass either.

Family of 6, dog, cat and Guinea pigs. Always full to bursting. Emptied once every 3 weeks and we recycle religiously including food waste.

@nannybeach you wouldn't recommend the dog waste bin then? I had been thinking of getting one.

I get as much as I can from re-fill shops (pasta, rice, washing up liquid, laundry liquid, soap, herbs and spices, sugar, nuts, dried fruit) it cuts the soft plastics right down, and now we can take what we do have to supermarket collection points, so sometimes it's not even worth putting the landfill wheelie out fortnightly. Other than when we've had a major clear out, like moving house, we could drop down to monthly collection.

We were in a flat with communal bins before and the recycling was always full to overflowing long before the landfill. Really wish the council would have cottoned on and done something about it. I guess they will eventually.

I decided we need a smaller kitchen bin as the current 45l one takes too long to fill. We generally have one not filled bag in our general waste bin every two weeks plus the odd bit of non recyclable packaging or similar. We could easily go 4-6 weeks between collections except for the smell. Recycling bin could be bigger or collected weekly, we could do better on single use plastics

We switched to once fortnightly collection for our general waste but we only ever put it out once a fortnight anyway as it usually just had one bag in it.
They also gave us a food compost kitchen bin at the same time. We have chickens so a lot of peelings and things that might otherwise end up in food waste get eaten by them.
Our council seem quite far behind on what they will take though, so much is non recyclable. We have managed to find alternative options with some things to avoid creating more non recycling waste.

We have 3 ferrets cleaned out daily, a chinchilla with a fungal infection so his substrate is being cleaned out more often and can't go in brown bin, 2 cats, one with stage 1 kidney failure who is weeing for England in the cat litter tray and 2 dogs.

So even with the 3 humans recycling everything we possibly can including soft plastic at Tesco, pill packets at Superdrug and toothpaste tubes and toothbrushes at the dentist, we cannot manage with a fortnightly collection. Made worse one week when our bin which i could move to the kerb was apparently too heavy to be emptied so each week i now worry over whether it will be too heavy and won't be emptied!!

our guineapigs waste could go into the garden waste, which was lucky

Five people, fortnightly collection and it’s always full. But the council only recycles paper/cardboard, glass and tins and plastic bottles (like a PP, no other plastic). Local recycling banks are overflowing and people are constantly on social media threatening to report residents for flu tipping around them. I never go near supermarkets to know what they offer - all the grocery shopping is delivered.

Our local council has just introduced better recycling weekly facilities (not before time ) so landfill collection is now every three weeks. I was dreading it as I thought we already recycled a lot and our bi monthly collection meant our bin was overflowing. However, having ALL plastic and tetra pac recycled has made a HUGE difference. We are only using one bin bag a week now!

There are four of us by the way.