to think that if you have too much recycling to fit into your recycling bin, then you should keep it in your house

[Mintyy]

until collection day, not shove it all out on the pavement as soon as you want to get rid of it?

Or take it to the dump or a recycling centre yourself?

Sick of our scruffy street with (mostly very nice) neighbours who don't care about rubbish piling up on our pavements!

No this drives me mad. it's rubbish. I don't want it in my house.

We have silly little bags for card/plastic etc whereas nearby councils get an actual bin for their recycling. (Even though we're paying higher council tax )

We would recycle a lot more if it meant that it wasn't cluttering up our house etc.

As it is, I'm sick of my utility room being chock full of bits of card/plastic etc. I work 6 days a week and I am not spending my precious time off at a recycling centre.

Sorry for the rant, but this has been driving me mad for ages.

Ask the council to enforce the rules. Rubbish shouldn't be on the public highway till the night before the scheduled collection, otherwise it's 'early rubbish'.

I can't stand the house being full of rubbish but I store it outside until 'bin night'.

Ask for extra recycle boxes. I have, problem solved.

we just get bags. the bags go in the bin shed until collection day. when they are ignored by the bin collectors. it is not possible to store 4 weeks of ecycling in the flat.

Fair enough if you don't want it in your house, but its not a solution to leave it out on the pavement, is it? It is just littering everyone else's enviornment. Surely all large supermarkets have recycling centres these days?

Our house seems to be full of random bags and boxes constantly since they changed it,

I used to have a bag for paper and card and tins and plastics, now it's a huge plastics/tins/glass bin outside, so you have to store stuff somewhere in the house till you tip it (and you're not meant to put bags in the bin! What do you put things in in the house then?)

and an inadequate little plastic crate for card and paper which is filled by day two, and then what the feck do you put your paper in.

I don't know what to do. Our stuff goes out the side in boxes and bags and all sorts, till bin day, but not all over the pavement.

We don't have the space for extra boxes, barely have space as it is. We don't use supermarkets either. (Lucky enough to still have decent local grocers etc) and we don't drive to take bulk loads of whatever to a tip/recycling point.

It's completely nonsense, either they provide a proper receptacle for recycling or it doesn't get done at all.

Tell the council if people are sticking it on the pavement.

We have a large wheely bin, but if that fills up, we stick it in a black bag, or, if it's big stuff like cardboard boxes, slide it down behind the bin, or shove it in the garage if the weather's bad.

YANBU, some councils take action if bins/rubbish are put out too early. If I have too much I go to the tip, but it isn't very far away.

I agree with Mrscucumber I'm sick of trash.

mrscumberbatch and feminine - you're generating your own rubbish. Perhaps you should look at a way to reduce the amount you're producing. Reducing waste is much more preferable to recycling it.

We already have a wormery, and buy local to reduce packaging etc

DP and I are not exactly luddites on the recycling front. (Previously lived in apartments with great recycling facilities and
We both run businesses from home.. (Both to do with recycling/reworking/vintage and second hand)

We are conscientious consumers but the sheer silliness of not having a reasonable receptacle for what rubbish we do have is nonsense.

So imho, we are not BU... the council is

mrs - how large is the receptacle, how big a household are you and are you including items from your business in the waste generated? If the receptacle is too small, have you taken this up with the Council?

Scholes, we only get a small bag for paper, small bag for plastic and a tub for glass. We are a family of 3 but everyone in our area has the same issue.

It's been taken up with the council again and again, they have said there's no money in the budget for it. Even if residents bought their own bins that were compatible with the lorries that do the pickups it is still not 'in the budget'.

Everybody gets irate about it because we live in quite a lovely community and when the recycling goes out- it ends up strewn everywhere because of the inadequate open topped receptacles that we are forced to collect them in.

As mentioned- business revolve around recycling etc so any actual waste generated from them is minimal- it actually decreases our normal household waste.

The majority goes straight in the general bin in our house and even then its not full every week.

In my London borough the council provides a full sized wheelie bin for recycling (glass, plastic, paper and card) which is collected every two weeks.

There is a separate wheelie bin for non-recyclable household waste (collected in the alternate weeks to the recycling).

And another wheelie bin for garden waste and food waste, or a kerbside bin for food waste only, which is collected weekly.

But despite all this people leave their bins stuffed full and overflowing, or the recycling in separate little carrier bags balanced on top of the wheelie, or huge great cardboard boxes just left outside because people can't be arsed to flatten them and keep them inside for a few days.

Lazy, scummy, inconsiderate, entitled, thoughtless.

My recycling wheelie bin is full to the brim. There is an insert inside to put cardboard which is nowhere near big enough. And the bloody binmen missed me on Thursday. Ooh you would not like me op.

I would rather keep rubbish outside than in.

Oddly enough, I spend more time looking at the inside of my house than I do the outside.

The problem is the council not collecting often enough, not people who are just trying to keep their homes tidy. I would literally have nowhere inside except the floor to keep extra rubbish, and that would not happen just to save some uptight person from getting upset over the five seconds it would take them to walk past my house.

It is not "uptight" to dislike rubbish on the streets ffs.

If you don't want rubbish in your house dispose of it elsewhere!

mrs - how "small" are the bags and the tub? We used to have in Wandsworth three different coloured bags - for paper, glass and something I now can't remember - all were large bin bag size and plenty large enough and collected weekly.

We now, outside London, have one wheelie bin, which takes all recyclables together, smaller in capacity than the three bin bags, collected fortnightly, and still plenty big enough for a family of five. Only once had a problem when we had a student staying, who left behind six weeks worth of newspapers in a large pile in her room, and they took up quite a lot of space in the bin.

Scholes, ours are about 2 feet tall and 1 foot wide. Non flexible and open ended. So given that i'm in Scotland which is normally windy as hell- it's just a disaster.

I'd rather do the one wheelie bin thingy as would the majority of my neighbours (as do the majority of surrounding councils- even the 'cheaper' ones.)

Agrees with Minty. Wandsworth now do combined recycling in one bag. The different colurs used to drive us nuts - we had a complicated system that involved five or six bins with the right colour bag painted on each lid (anal my DH) which DH hated the sight of so much he had a bin house built for them. I think the recyling then was also on a complicated three or four week rota: paper, glass, tin and garden. Thankfully we get recycling and general waste collected weekly now. If DH annoys me though I sometimes put a bottle or tin in with the general rubbish!

If people don't have gardens though minty they might not have much inside space either so where would they keep it?

More regular collections needs to be the way to go but wouldn't that put the community charge?

Can be rational but it would annoy me too.