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Colour of your bins

134 replies

costacoffeee · 04/08/2024 21:54

Let’s discuss an extremely boring topic, just regular and recycle.

Regular Bin: Green
Recycling Bin: Brown

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TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 04/08/2024 21:56

Regular: Black (but the council call them grey, even though they’re black).
Recycling: Black with a blue lid.
Garden: Green

RhinestoneCowgirl · 04/08/2024 21:57

Regular bin: black
Recycling boxes: one green, one black
Cardboard: blue bag
Food waste: small brown bin
Garden waste: green bin

Hadalifeonce · 04/08/2024 21:58

Regular - black
Recycling -grey
Garden - green

dementedpixie · 04/08/2024 21:59

4 bins

Black - general waste
Brown - food and garden waste
Blue - Paper/card/cardboard
Blue bin with green lid - mixed recycling

3 bins emptied on a 3 week cycle. Brown bin every 2 weeks.

LadySailorr · 04/08/2024 21:59

Recycling - blue
General waste - green
Garden waste - brown
Food waste - small black bin.

I always thought the general waste should be brown and the garden waste green but clearly not!

Plutofablestwo · 04/08/2024 21:59

Black (but the council call them grey) for general waste.
Blue paper.
Green garden waste.
Brown glass, metal and plastic.

longdistanceclaraclara · 04/08/2024 22:01

Buns green
Recycling plastic / glass black boxes
Recycling paper green boxes
Food waste green box with black lid
Garden waste brown bin - you have to pay extra for this

Keepingittogetherstepbystep · 04/08/2024 22:02

Green- general waste
Blue-can and plastics
Grey- cardboard

Emptied general waste of everyone's week recycling the following week

SabrinaThwaite · 04/08/2024 22:02

General rubbish - black
Recycling - maroon
Garden waste - green

GoldenPombear · 04/08/2024 22:03

Food waste - black
General - black
Green - green
Paper/card - orange tub with black lid
Tins/plastic - blue weighted bag
Clothing - carrier bag tied and labelled

whyamonthis · 04/08/2024 22:04

Black- general rubbish
blue- cardboard/paper
grey-glass/plastic
brown-garden/food
No idea of the cycle, I just watch for my neighbours but never get that full (except the glass bin 🙄)

BeaRF75 · 04/08/2024 22:06

Regular bin is a colour not yet mentioned on this thread (& pretty famous.... it's how I know I'm home 😂)
Recycling is blue.
Garden stuff is green.

SonicTheHodgeheg · 04/08/2024 22:06

Green garden waste weekly
Black non-recyclable weekly
Red Cardboard fortnightly
Blue Plastic fortnightly

FadedRed · 04/08/2024 22:06

General waste - black
Recycling (paper, tins, glass and some plastic) - blue
Garden - brown
No composing food waste bins.
Fortnightly alternating black waste first week then blue second week with brown garden bins from March to October but no brown bins over the winter.

EzioAuditore · 04/08/2024 22:06

General - black
Paper/cardboard - blue
Glass/plastic - green
No garden bin - we're rural so are expected to compost, use nearby grassland etc

coffeeandteav · 04/08/2024 22:08

Both black but the glass little bin is green.

troppibambini6 · 04/08/2024 22:08

Regular bin- grey
Garden- green
Paper-blue
Glass and plastic-black

SedentaryCat · 04/08/2024 22:09

Black (council call it grey) for general waste.
Green for mixed recycling.
Brown for garden waste - pay extra for this.
Green food waste bin.

Food waste collected every week. Black and green alternate weeks. Brown bin with green bin.

NigelHarmansNewWife · 04/08/2024 22:10

Black/grey - general waste
Brown - recycling
Green lid - garden waste

coffeeandteav · 04/08/2024 22:10

I am jealous people have food wstw bins. We only have two bins really.

Chasingsquirrels · 04/08/2024 22:11

Green lid (black wheelie bin) - compostable waste, food & garden.
Fortnightly.

Blue lid (back wheelie bin) - mixed recycling, glass, metal, paper, cardboard, hard plastics.
Fortnightly (in rotation with green lid bin).

Black plastic bin bags - other waste.
I have very little, other than dog poo, so rarely use the black bags and just use a smaller plastic bag from the kitchen bin (usually one of the many charity bags left for clothes).
Weekly.

ISeriouslyDoubtIt · 04/08/2024 22:14

General-dark grey wheelie
Garden- green wheelie
Food waste- small brown
All recycling- green plastic bags at the moment. New recycling system being implemented in stages throughout the city, will be blue bin for glass and red and blue sacks for various other materials, not looking forward to that.

Snozzlemaid · 04/08/2024 22:14

Garden - brown (paid for subscription)
General - black/grey
Food waste - green

Recycling:
Glass - black box
Cardboard - orange sack
Plastic/tins - red sack
Paper - blue sack

Wish we could shove our recycling all in together as some of you seem to be able to.

soundsys · 04/08/2024 22:15

Black - general waste
Brown - garden waste and food waste
Green - recycling

Have just come back from my mums who confusing has:

Green - general waste
Blue - paper and card
Purple
Black
I think another one

SquigglePigs · 04/08/2024 22:17

Black - general waste
Black with green lid - recycling
Black with brown lid - garden waste
Black with red lid - glass recycling

The council refer to them by their lid colours on the timetable.

Some neighbours have a yellow bag for glass instead of the red lidded bin.

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