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

[MrsLargeEmbodied]

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 have an incontinent teen and no food waste collection so our landfill bin goes out full (and stinking) every 2 weeks.

Family of five and our landfill bin is never full, usually about a fifth full. We have a compost bin which really helps and are very conscientious about recycling. I wish the recycling was collected weekly tbh, there always too much by the end of the fortnight.

@Natsku - agree. We also have glass bottle deposit here. No one throws glass bottles away as that’s basically just binning money. A glass water bottle/ milk is 0.23 cents back when you return. You have already paid that when you purchased milk. So the 1.23 milk is only €1 really if you return. An empty crate is €4.50. Beer bottle 0.09 I think. So a returned full crate of empty beer bottles, and several empty milk/ juice/ water bottles could easily be €10 a time.
There’s never any glass rubbish lying about as someone will pick up and return themselves

@hedgehogger1

Mine is always full of Guinea pig cleaning outs. I wish they'd not wee on the hay they're meant to eat

I'm sure you can get little hay racks for them? I may be making that up though 🙈

Generally has 4-5 bags full after two weeks, occasionally more if it’s been an event such as Christmas. We have no food waste bin here and only one mixed recycling bin which is always busting with bags of more recycling at the side. We’re a large family so I don’t think that’s too bad.

Although me and my dc's only produce 1-2 bags of refuse a week, we share communal refuse bins, usually they are overflowing on day three post collection. Mainly because my some of neighbours bin stuff that should have gone to the tip or in recycling.

My dc's and I produce about 2-3 large recycling bags a week.

No gardening bin as not relevant.

Landfill: 1 carrier bag a week

Recycling: 1 wheelie bin a week

Flexible plastics we take to supermarket for recycling: 1 bin bag's worth a month

Home compost (including cooked food scraps, tissues, some paper): 3 caddies a week (loads, I know)

Garden waste: 1 wheelie bin a year, I cut-up and sprinkle nearly everything on the soil as mulch, and make stick/log piles

I think we could do better cutting down waste all round, but a lot of it would need some housewifery type time consuming labour (inevitably from me), and I have other things to do. But I have been trying to improve and will continue to do so at a manageable pace.

We are really fastidious about recycling. General waste is collected fortnightly and generally will be about half full.

We paid for an extra recycling wheelie bin (everything can just go in together and doesn't need sorting in our area) and we fill both and then use up next door neighbours bin too I'm so horrified he doesn't recycle anything!

I have two very global warming aware and environmentally conscious teens who are really good at recycling too

Our landfill bin is usually half full every two weeks, we’re a household of four adults and a dog.

I take all soft plastics to either a Tesco or the Co-Op, and our recycling bin is usually just about half full when the fortnightly collection day comes around.

Local councils in my area seem to be making it harder to recycle though. Two neighbouring councils have reintroduced bags for paper and cardboard, leaving the bins for just glass and hard plastics. A lot of people have questioned storage of the bags so the councils have suggested that it’s stored inside the recycling bin and lifted out whenever you need to put something either in it or in the bin, something which will be a struggle for many people to do. The other suggestion was to keep it in the kitchen but not everyone wants a council recycling bag on show or would indeed have space for it without it being in the way.

We've just started soft plastic recycling, it's amazing! Made a huge difference to the amount of waste we have

That was kind of the point I was making. All these people boasting about how their recycling is full but not thinking about how to reduce recycling waste as well as land fill

We are a family of four, 2 adults, and two older teens. We put out about half a small wheelie bin of non-recyclable waste every other week.
We have weekly collections for cardboard/paper/plastic/tins/batteries and food waste and a collection for garden waste every other week.

We fill it up every week. We only get a small plastic box for our paper/card recycling so a lot ends up in the bin.

I dry the tea bags and put the dried -dust- leaves on to the garden. Yes, it's a very fidgetty operation and I am loopy for doing it, but tea and coffee come from the earth and can go back there. I picked up several cans from the verge but this time I rebelled against washing them all, and I've put them together in one recycling bag, away from the washed things. The collectors can decide whether to keep them or not.

@Ohshitiveturnedintomymother

That was kind of the point I was making. All these people boasting about how their recycling is full but not thinking about how to reduce recycling waste as well as land fill

Can't fucking win can we.

We are 4 adults who eat most of our meals at home (mainly wfh) and our small sized wheelie is usually half full every fortnight.

We have a compost bin in the garden. Our council collects the other food waste weekly which does help a lot. Our recycling bin is usually full - there's a lot of cardboard in there as our young adult dc tend to shop online for things that I would go out to the shops for.

I love the new soft plastics recycling bins in some supermarkets and gather up every bit of clean soft plastic I can - it's alarming how much there is actually.

We put out one bag per fortnight. We have plastic and food recycling bins as well as the usual recycling. Dog poo and chewed up dog toys feature in the bin.

Cardboard glass and plastic is collected weekly along with food waste. We put our veggie peels to the sheep.

household waster is every 3 weeks. Sometimes its full, sometimes its not. Depends if I have a clearout

And if i have a lot of cardboard i burn it. Too far to take it to the recycling depot.

Always full, sometimes I have to take a bag to the tip when we’re out of space before collection day.

after i started this thread, almost immediately afterwards, we had a bin men strike, for a month!
ended up taking it all to the tip, sorting all the recycling.
what a grim job.
they deserved the pay rise!

We have food waste recycling too so mine hardly has anything in it. About all that goes in is tea bags (don’t put them in the food waste as they dissolve the bags), any soft plastics that aren’t clean enough for recycling e.g. the film off meat and fish, and bathroom bin waste (cotton wool cleansing pads and sanitary waste). We only have a slimline landfill bin and it goes out every 4-6 weeks rather than the fortnightly collection.

Standard size landfill bin collected every two weeks....it's full in a week, mainly cat litter as I have quite a few cats. Drives me crazy, always have three or more bin bags waiting to go in the bin as soon as it's emptied.

We recycle everything possible in the mixed recycling bin, which is also collected every two weeks, and usually fill that completely with a carrier bag or two waiting to go in once it's emptied.

Fortnightly collection here and barely half full. 3 adults. We have a compost bin and put out 3 full recycling bins each week. Our council doesn't take soft plastics so that is the majority of it.

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