How do you store all your recycling before it goes out on bin day?

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I live in a small two bed terrace with no storage space apart from the kitchen cupboards. I have a small outside terrace at the back of the house.

We seem to generate lots of rubbish and recycling (not sure how, it’s only me and a teenager) and I have it in piles in the kitchen at the moment. If I put it out the back, it gets wet and I have to bring it through the house to put it out the front on bin day once a week.

Also my area are trialling the seven different colour bags and all the recycling has to be separated. The refuse collectors are really strict and if you put one wrong thing in the wrong bag, they refuse to take the whole bag (happened to me twice, so now I’ve got even more building up!)

Where and how do you store all your recycling? Any tips as it’s driving me mad?!

We have wheelie bins for recycling now so easier to just put out everyday. When we had the uncovered tub, I would put tins/bottles out daily but flat pack boxes/cardboard until the day. Guess it’s more difficult moving it through the house? Couldn’t the tub live out the front?

I suppose it depends partly on how much you have, and this may not work for you with your cupboard arrangement. I have a kitchen trolley/block thing, and the recycling goes in a plastic basket below, mixed up, then is sorted into the bags/bins just before collection.

A bag for life hanging on the cupboard door 😂

Guessing you're straight onto the street? Can you put some hooks up and hang the bags on the hooks?

I have my paper/card bag hanging on a hook and a giant sectioned kitchen bin for the other bits

7 different bags 😱
No wonder so many people don't bother to recycle and take stuff to tip instead (or fly tip it).
Sorry... that's not helpful really.
I have 2 kitchen bins. Supposedly one for recycling, one for everything else (although I live in a flat with shared dumpster bins and people are always putting non recycling in the recycling bin so it ends up in landfill anyway 🙄) so would you have space for 2 kitchen bins and as someone said just sort it out the night before collection day?
Might be worth taking photos of your piles of recycling and sending them to the council to show that the trial of 7 fricking different bags is crazy.

We have hooks on the fence and the recycling bags hang there. We have to bring them in if it’s ridiculously windy but that’s only half a dozen times a year.

7 bags?? We have 1 green wheelie bin that it all goes in so I just put it straight in there.

sorry to jump on this but we have the same issue. piles of recycling mounting up on the kitchen table.

does anyone have one of those joseph joseph totem recycling bins? are they worth the money?

We have boxes in my area - one for paper/card recycling and one for plastic and glass. I have a shed and keep them in there. They have to come through the house on collection day so at least they're dry! It's just me, though, and I don't create much rubbish/recycling.

I do have a big bag hanging on the back door for plastics. Then I’ve got a pile of cardboard building up which is not allowed to get wet even though the seven bags are rubbish and don’t even close so you can’t leave them outside.

I think you’re right that I will have to collect it in a big mound and then sort it the night before collection day as it creates more mess if I store It separately.

Also pp is right that I will definitely be putting more in the black refuse sacks because sometimes I’m not sure which of the seven bags to use and can’t risk a bag not being collected at all.

One of these from IKEA (trouser). You can buy variations with different numbers of trays,

Hmm. Not trouser (damn autocorrect). TROFAST

7?! Bloody hell, I thought our 4 was bad! I have recycling storage boxes from Amazon. We only have 3 but they stack on top of each other so I can separate for the main part then take them out when they're full. They take up a pretty small footprint and look better than the pile I used to have

I saw something like those ikea baskets in Wilco. I don’t really have room for anything like that as I have a tiny kitchen but I could put it behind a curtain maybe!

Behind the sofa in one or two of those enormous Sports Direct bags? In a bedroom?

Before we had a wheelie bin we bought a large plastic box with a lid, put the recycling bag inside that and kept it outside. We also spent a lot of time crushing, breaking down all the recycling down to as flat as possible so it fit.

Why can't the cardboard get wet? I like it when it does as it's easier to squash down

Outside in the receptacles provided by the council. I hate storing rubbish inside, I'd get rid of the kitchen bin if DH agreed.

Massive box in the car boot? Sounds like a nightmare to be honest - we just have one green wheelie bin for recycling and it is so easy!

Two hessian bags that hang on the back of a door, one for paper etc, one for cans etc.

a plastic bag hanging up on the door for soft plastics, which we deposit when we go to the coop.
otherwise we have bins provided by the council