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

We only put it out once in every 6 weeks. There is only the 2 of us and our local recycling is really good. We do try and actively choose plastic free options and take the recycling that can't be taken at the curbside to facilities that do.

We fill or nearly fill a wheelie bin fortnightly but not squashed down.
If the council would accept more varieties of plastic (only accepts bottles not eg microwave meal containers) then it would be less.

Ours is always full. Soft plastics and crisps wrappers, pizza boxes, animal bedding, cat litter, nappies, take away wrappers. There are five of us here though. We need to do a dump run as well to get rid of the animal bedding that didn’t fit on but getting a booking at the dump is very difficult.

We have food, glass and plastic and paper recycling which are also always full.

Really lucky to have a council that sends nothing to landfill.
Whatever cannot be recycled gets incinerated in a modern incinerator where the energy is converted into electricity for a large number of homes.
The waste emissions are condensed and cleaned so are non polluting.

Every council should have easy access to one.
Alas, no one wants one built anywhere near their homes.

Can only recycle paper, card, glass, tins and plastic bottles. No other plastics.

Its usually a bin bag a week, unless we are having a clear out like presently.

Ours is collected every two weeks and is always full. Our food waste is collected weekly and is also always full.

We don't recycle soft plastics which I think would help a fair amount. I really do despise all this bin palaver though. The onus should be on retailers to reduce/improve packaging, not on me to find 100 different ways to dispose of things.

Overflowing since we’ve been given skinny bins that hold one bag- 2 if you squash them but doesn’t get emptied properly.

Two of us and have a small wheelie bin emptied fortnightly, rarely full.
Our council collect cardboard, plastic ( all except soft plastic), tin , glass and food/ garden waste.

I have stopped buying wipes/ cotton wool and sanitary pads and use reusables instead.

Will have to find my nearest soft plastic recycling collection point though.

Just under 2 bags a week, half of that is nappies. Looking forward to youngest being potty trained! My kids are still quite young so make a lot of unnecessary food waste and we don't have food recycling. That would make a massive difference.

I think we need to make more of an effort on our soft plastics because that's the quickest win. I'll try and work out what the simplest place to recycle them is.

Apart from that the big culprits are cat litter, sanpro, soiled pizza boxes and the contents of the vacuum cleaner. I'm not that concerned about the pizza boxes, wood cat litter and vacuum cleaner detritus (mostly hair) going in the black bin to be incinerated for energy though: it seems a reasonably efficient and low carbon thing to do.

Not a lot. We do have a food waste bin, but it’s only once in a blue moon that I bin anything other than veg peelings, eggshells, banana skins, etc.

As for dog poo, when we had a dog I used to pick it up with a piece of kitchen roll and a sandwich bag (or any ‘packaging’ plastic bag e.g. from bread) like a ‘glove’, take it home and flush poo and paper down the loo.

My hyper-squeamish DM was horrified! But as I told her, I couldn’t see why on earth not - it wasn’t so different from human shit and it didn’t touch anything but the water in the loo.

Our bin is collected once every four weeks. Sometimes we forget to put it out, but even then we still manage (just about) to fit everything that’s non-recyclable/ compostable in the bin.

When 4 weekly bin collections were first introduced we were convinced it was going to be impossible. And we also felt a bit put out to be honest, as everyone else at that point still had weekly or at least fortnightly bin collections (what luxury!). But it’s been absolutely fine. The main problem is actually remembering when the collection days are!

What size bin?

Mine is skinny and fortnightly

Everyone’s is overflowing

This thread amuses me ... competitive non dustbin users .

But, genuine question - what do you all do with old, broken toys, useless bits of kitchen equipment, chipped, stained mugs, CDs & DVDs (& even VHS tapes) you no longer want etc etc? I ask because I manage a charity shop and the amount of utter rubbish we are donated is shocking, usually by well meaning people who proudly say 'we don't want this going to landfill' .... at least 70% of what we are given is totally unsaleable, most of it cannot be recycled responsibly - the charity has to pay to get of it - and it probably goes to landfill. And people volunteering to work at charity shops don't want to be recycling sorters.

I am honestly grateful for the good donations we receive which we can sell and raise money for our charity but please think before dumping stuff at your local charity shop.

It’s great that so much landfill is now being recycled, but I think people overlook the fact that plastic recycling is still not great and that the next goal should be cutting back on single use plastics. Is it ok that recycling bins are full of plastic? Surely the aim should be to cut down the amount we use so that it isn’t produced in the first place?
Eg bread wrappers etc, yes it’s good that coop etc now recycle these but should bread need to be in plastic full stop? Same with veg bags for fresh fruit and veg. In an ideal world the majority of fruit and veg would be sold loose and we would take our own bags to the supermarket to put these in.
Something to think about in terms of waste and recycling etc. We had a period where our council suspended recycling collections and green bins were overflowing with drinks bottles etc that ok were in the recycling but shouldn’t need to be made in the first place! It’s all oil and chemicals being used to make them even if they are being recycled afterwards.

Sadly most Uk water authorities tell you not to flush pet poo because their treatment plants can't kill toxoplasmosis.

We don't have a food waste bin, and can't put food in the garden bin (which seems mental) but like a PP we don't waste a huge amount of food so it's just peelings and eggshells that go in there. There's two of us and we have one, maybe two black bags in the bin between each collection (every two weeks). We do put it out for collection as we often have to dispose of our cat's catches

Family of 4, I put maybe two carrier bag size bin bags in the bin a week. Don't have recycling bin, have to take it all to the big bins at the supermarket but soft plastic goes in with all other plastic in my country so that reduces a lot of waste.

Our bin isn't a landfill bin though, it goes to a waste-to-energy plant so it ends up providing distract heating somewhere rather than rotting in the ground so really my family produces no waste.

Not very.

It’s collected once a month here.
Paper and plastic once every 6 weeks.
Glass and metal we take to a communal bin near supermarket

We don’t have much rubbish nowadays unless a big online order in big cardboard boxes. We try not to buy single serve sized wrapped up, so things like yogurt are large pot in glass. Sparkling water we now use tap water and carbonate at home in ‘Aarke machine’. I try and buy in glass and metal over plastic where possible. And loose fruit and veg.
We compost at home any peelings/ coffee/tea/ egg shells. And have very little other food ‘waste’
Reusable nappies. So just wash. A used nappy in bin a month wasn’t appealing

Our kitchen rubbish bin never even gets half full these days, we probably put out one half full black bag a fortnight. Our council is one of the best for recycling in the country, we have separate garden and food waste bins, and we take our soft plastics to the supermarket. The only stuff that goes in the rubbish are things like wet kitchen roll or cotton wool (and dog poop bags which go straight in the outside bin). We need a new kitchen bin and I will definitely get a smaller one.

[quote M0rT]@nannybeach you wouldn't recommend the dog waste bin then? I had been thinking of getting one.[/quote]
Like anything, some are better than others. Try asking on the dog board for recommendations!!

Hardly anything goes in the landfill bin any more. We're even better at recycling now since we moved. We have a food waste bin that's collected weekly. We can recycle all paper, cardboard, plastic containers and glass with the rubbish collection. There's a local collection point for crisp packets, bread bags etc, tetra pak and foil, rag bank. The kitchen bin rarely gets used.

Our is always full and it's a struggle to keep control. We are a family of 6. We used to do better as we could recycle as much as possible but recycling has not been picked up since December and is chukka. Garden waster bins haven't been done since then either and actual general water has only recently been restarted. The rubbish here is a very hot topic!!

Ours has reduced since the supermarket started doing soft plastic recycling, although like pps I wish we brought less plastic into the house. We compost and use reusable nappies.

Landfill waste is mainly yucky cheese wrappers, ice cream sticks, tissues, pill packs, the odd breakage from the kitchen.

I keep buying proper handkerchiefs but just can't get on with them even though we use cloth wipes for the dc.

Overflowing.
The waste from changing the pet cages will fill it on its own.