Colour of your bins

[costacoffeee]

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

Regular Bin: Green
Recycling Bin: Brown

General waste - none (whatever you choose to buy or just put the bag out)

Garden waste - brown

Glass - black tub

Rest of recycling is reuseable sacks:

Cardboard - orange

Paper - blue

Plastic and metal - red

We're about to have a change and will get a black bin for general waste and a grey one for food waste. All the bags will remain. So we will have a total of 7 bins! SEVEN!

Purple?

Regular - black
Recycling - we'll we don't just have one, so not sure how to follow your "simple" instructions.. - black boxes, blue bag, green bin, green small bin, depending on what is being recycled.

Regular green, recycling blue, it’s a black one with a blue lid, but the council call it blue bin.

Regular - Purple (but we are not in Liverpool)
Recycling - Black (pisses me off, black is clearly a general waste bin colour) all card, paper, metal and glass goes in here.
Garden waste - Brown
Food - Small brown caddy.

Bins are DH's domain, he knows what's going out when and how it all changes on a bank holiday. I think most of them are on a fortnightly cycle except the food caddy.

Hi fellow Cornwall resident. 👋 (Like the user name)
We've moved over to new bins a while ago and it works well for us. But yes there are a lot of bins and bags now.

General waste - brown
Recycling - black - they were actually the general waste large bins when we had to sort recycling.
Coffee pods - a green bag

Green - Landfill
Grey - Cardboard and Paper
Blue - Tins, plastics
Brown - Garden Waste
Small Grey - Food

Regular- green on a 3 week cycle
Garden/food- brown on 2 week cycle
Paper/card - blue on 2 week cycle
Plastic/metal - grey on 2 week cycle
Glass- purple on 12 week cycle

5 bins! My front garden is just bins!

Regular - Black
Recycling - Green

Green = landfill
Blue = recyclables
Brown = garden waste
Black (small) = food waste
Blue bags = soft plastics, collected with recyclables
No kerbside glass collection = accumulates in plastic boxes until I feel ashamed of the number of empties and go to the bottle bank...

Grey general waste
Blue cardboard
Brown tins
Green garden

Fellow scouser!

General: black with a red lid
recycling: black with a blue lid
garden: large paper bags or tied with compostable twine

(really glad they use this method because the garden waste stinks due to the heat here and the more air it gets the less awful it is, plastic bins would be a disgusting)

Glass - brown
Paper - white
Cardboard - orange
Food - green
General recycling - blue
General waste - black
Garden - green (but pay a subscription)

And black are collected 3 weekly, everything else is weekly

With a black limit of 3 black bin bags per collection we don't have wheelie bins

Regular- black
Recycling - green
Garden waste - brown

Ours is exactly the same

Landfill bin = black
Glass, foil, plastic etc bin = green
Garden waste bin = brown and you pay for it
Paper and cardboard = shallow, open topped bin (great in the rain, not) = green
Food waste = grey

We have green plastic bags for all our recycling. Black bins for landfill, green bins for garden and brown bins for food. About to switch to red and green bags instead of green bags for separated recycling.

Is the green bin the recycling bin? No, that’s the blue one

Is the green bin the garden waste bin? No that’s the brown one

Is the green bin just for normal rubbish? Yep apparently so.

Southwark, your bin colours are stupid

Cardiff by any chance?

@Blushingm yep :)

Why are you asking, OP?