AIBU to *not* want Yet Another Recycling Bin, AAARGH!

[StopRainingPlease]

So far, I have (ignoring destined-for-landfill waste):

Garden:
Box for cardboard (collected fortnightly)
Box for glass and bottles (collected fortnightly)
Compost bin (my own)
Wheelie bin for garden waste (collected fortnightly)

Kitchen:
Compost caddie (goes into outside bin at intervals)
Pile of cardboard on microwave (goes into outside bin at intervals)
Assorted bottles and jars in the corner (go into outside bin at intervals)

Spare room and elsewhere:
Bag for clear plastic bottles, e.g. milk (collected fortnightly)
Pile of assorted items for recycling centre (light bulbs, bits of wood, metal, ripped plastic bags etc.)
Bag for paper (collected fortnightly)
Stuff for charity/jumble sales

Now the council want to give me another, no actually two more recyling bins, a compost caddie for food waste and an outside food waste bin. I CANNOT TAKE ANY MORE! I AM FED UP WITH PILES OF SORTED RUBBISH! My kitchen is the size of a postage stamp, and in any case as vegetarians we compost the peelings, eat up leftovers, and produce very little food waste - maybe burnt stuff at the bottom of pans, or sometimes plate-scrapings.

So should I
a) Put the bins on top of the wardrobe and ignore them
b) Put them in the garden and plant flowers in them
c) Tell the council where to stick them?

I do support recycling but HAVE HAD ENOUGH, and would like to reclaim my house for use by me not by rubbish!

YANBU that is totally ridiculous. As I live in london the "bin police" aren't allowed to impose such things. I have one bin and that's it. Oh, and I leave the recycling orange bag thing by the communal front door (live in a house split into two flats) to drop junk mail in.

What the F do I pay coucil tax for.

We recently got the food waste ones, they STINK, i usedd it for about a week then gave up.

We were instructed to put food waste in our green bin (garden waste) that bin stinks and imo will attract rats. (collected fortnightly)

YANBU do what suits you

West Berkshire is not too bad and very tidy. One black wheelie bin for general landfill rubbish, one green wheelie bin for garden rubbish, one green crate for paper and cardboard, one green crate for glass, one large green plasticised canvas bag for tins and plastic, and now one small caddy (with plastic bags supllied) for food waste. We are supposed to put our food waste bags into the black bin one week and the green bin the next week. I put my food waste bag into my black bin last week and it was still there after the dustman had been. Why? Because they opened the lid, they saw nothing and thought there was nothing in the bin. Generally, speaking though, I have no argument with them. I feel for those with small gardens or flat dwellers though.

Streamline your indoor bins/piles of rubbish. I have one of those flexi plastic bins with handles that I chuck all recycling into (obviously apart from food waste) and take it out when its full.

We have food waste bins and every couple of days or so and put it in the bottom of the outside freezer, then into the food recycling bin the evening before collection.... no smelly bins that way

Move to bromsgrove.
One black bin - landfill
One green bin - recycling.
One brown bin - garden waste (optional)

Fabulous and easy. All the recycling gets sorted by the contractor - so paper, plastic, foil, cardboard, everything recyclable goes in together.

And some residents still moan!

Just don't have space for any more proper bins in the kitchen, which is where they should be. And the plastic bags for paper, milk bottles etc. can't really go outside before collection day or they'll blow around.

But I may try and do some creative thinking on what to do with the wretched stuff!

Or maybe I should be lobbying out council for a single recycling bin like Bromsgrove - that would do the job and make me very happy .

Yes our system is the same, you can have a number of black boxes that stay outside that all recycling goes into and the binmen sort it, though they do say if its sorted by the householder it make their life easier.