Colour of your bins

[costacoffeee]

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

Regular Bin: Green
Recycling Bin: Brown

Regular Bin : Black
Recycling Bin : Blue
Garden Waste : Brown

When we visited Cornwall I was happy to see yellow bins. YELLOW! Bright, cheery containers of trash that made me smile. Everyone needs a yellow bin especially on a grey winter's day.
My own are:
Black (proper black, not trans black) for general waste
Green for garden and food waste plus a green kitchen caddy
Blue for paper and card
Brown for plastic and glass bottles, glass, tins, foil. But not yogurt pots or any kind of plastic trays.

Recyclable - blue
Compostable - green
The rest - black

I could only get it down to two bins if I put the compostable stuff in the black bin.

@OrkneyGirl This is my special identifiable-location name.

Regular bin black
Paper bin blue
Glass bin brown

Regular- Dark green
Glass- Light Green
Paper- Sky blue
Food- Brown

Black - rubbish
Black with blue lid -recycling

black: regular
purple: recycling
green: garden waste

We only get 2.
Blue is recycling- cardboard, tins, plastic bottles only they're so strict
Green everything else Inc food , things like fruit punnets
Black tub for glass.

Regular - Purple
Recycling - Blue
Garden - Green

I think some councils are better at separating recyclables than others. When DD lived in Newcastle she had one bin for all recyclables and one for landfill. No garden waste as she didn't have a garden.

We have 4 bins, but no food waste, not that we make much.

Black - general rubbish
Burgundy - recycling including glass
Green (paid for) - garden waste
The nursery has a lockable yellow wheely bin for nappies which is emptied regularly by a hygiene waste company.

Grey-general waste
Brown-garden/food
Blue-paper card
Green-glass/plastic
one of my mums bins is purple!, she’s a different council area.

Regular recycling :Black
General Waste: Green

Big blue for recycling, black for general. Easy peasy.

This

Why do you ask anyway?

Big black one - landfill, anything that doesn’t go in the others,
Big blue one - paper and card
Green boxes - metal, plastic and glass
Small brown bin - food waste

All collected every 2 weeks, except for food waste, weekly.

We have four:

Black - regular rubbish
Black with a green lid - recycling
Green - garden waste
Brown caddy - food waste

The food waste is emptied weekly, and the others are fortnightly. Ordinary waste one week and recycling/garden the next.

We don't have bins, of any colour- unless you pay extra for a garden waste bin which is brown.
Black bags for general rubbish, green bags for any type of recycled material. Weekly collections.

Grey general waste
Grey with blue lid recycling plus black box for glass
Green Garden waste at an additional cost of £70 per year despite having some of the highest council tax rates in England.
All collected fortnightly

Snap , I wonder if we live in the same area .

They get emptied ;
Blue , black and green one week , then brown the following week .
In the winter the green only gets emptied once a month

@costacoffeee , you seem to think everyone only has one recycling bin bin , what can you put in yours ?

Green - recycling
brown -food/compost
black -general waste

Green - general waste
Blue - recycling tins, plastic and paper/cardboard
Brown - garden and food waste
Purple (and slightly smaller) - glass

Liverpool?

Same as me

Black - regular bin
Grey recycling
Green - garden waste