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!

YADNBU, how simple can it be, 2 bins, I kitchen, one for waste, one for recycling, then empty that recycling bin into separate bins in your garden. I have 2 large wheelies and 8 recycling bins(3 council, the rest I bought from BnQ, this is adequate for 2 weeks worth of waste and recycling.

Despite me having 8 bins, they just pick them up and chuck it in, it takes the collectors significantly less time to do mine than the rest of the street which they have to sort, I think separating it should be compulsory in some areas of the country.

There should be weekly collections!

If the council doesn't have the budget for adequate sized bags/tubs/bins, they certainly won't have the budget for weekely collections.

With wheelie bins, weekly collections certainly aren't necessary.

We don't have rubbish wheelie bins instead we have a wheelie bin for garden waste.

So the great plan (in a wooded area with scavengers, especially foxes) is to put everything in giant plastic bags, food waste, recycling, everything, all separate but also SEE THROUGH! Do I want everyone to see my tampon boxes and wine bottles?!

The bags mean that you cannot put the rubbish out early because scavengers will rip the thin plastic bags open and scatter the rubbish everywhere! It's like the ultimate walk of shame, picking up the weeks rubbish in front of the neighbours

I literally have to put mine out when I hear the dustcart, maybe 30 mins before he gets to us.

I would really like to thank my council for providing one brown wheelie bin that stores grass clippings away from scavengers, I'm sure they would go straight for the garden waste before the yummy food stuff in giant carrier bags

We get a wheelie bin for rubbish in my London Borough, which is rarely filled beyond the halfway point. We get recycling sacks for everything (unsorted), of which we put out at least two, usually three a week. Our kitchen is tiny, and yet we still let it back up in the kitchen, as I'm too anxious about a dog/fox ripping it open even though we rinse, and leaving crap all over the street. Irritated with my council, and sometimes we do leave it outside if there's no room in our kitchen, but only ever on our drive.

We live about 500 yards from a recycling centre and don't have a car. YABVVU to expect people to take sacks of recycling, even as close as we are, and to sort it at the centre. It would take a minimum of 45 mins and frankly don't have the time or energy to do what I pay council tax for. Think you are being slightly Hyacinth Bucket about it TBH.

You obviously don't live near me.

We have four full sized wheelie bins per household: one for garden rubbish; one for glass; one for paper, textiles and plastics and one for other household rubbish.

It doesn't end there, though. Oh no. We also have two boxes for food rubbish - one you have to keep inside the house and one for outside that you empty the inside one into.

I do sometime want to set all of the above bins alight, so arsed can I not be at the hassle.

You get a much better quality recyclable material if it is collected in separate small boxes or bags rather than a big wheelie bin. It increases the percentage of materials that is actually recycled because it dramatically lowers the levels of contamination and it therefore lowers the percentage of waste that is sent to landfill.
Many of you also seem to be under the mistaken impression that your waste is somehow the council's fault.
Buy less and sort it out yourselves properly.

It's my waste, of course it is but we do pay them to collect and recycle it for us.

My problem is how to manage it in terms of collecting it together ready for them - we can't put it in bags, apparently so I suppose we have a box in the house, to put it in, then tip that into the bin when full - but the paper and card has nowhere to go once the weirdly shaped, non-square crate is full.

Unless I start buying cornflakes loose by the scoop and taking them home in a cloth bag, how do I manage this? I do my best not to let stuff end up in the landfill bin, but achieving this is very hard work when you've not enough space for your recycling.

And tying up bits of randomly sized cardboard packaging with string, to leave it outside next to the bin, is just not happening.

We have see through bags for all paper, plastic and glass recycling. I couldn't care less what's in my neighbours and I doubt they are interested in mine.

It is simple, and although there's a separate collection for garden waste that's a big nylon bag so easy tp differentiate. Food collection starts this autumn but I don't know what that will be on - we are in another area surrounded by wheelie bin providing councils but we won't get them.

OP do you have front gardens? I leave recycling out but it doesn't go onto the pavement until bin morning when the collectors pile it up.

I'm with calculators. It's our waste, our responsibility.

Actually you don't pay for it to be collected and recycled. You pay a property tax to the local authority that they use to fun a range of services, both statutory and not. The LA has a duty to collect and dispose of your waste but this can be interpreted in a number of different ways, many LAs provide 'bring banks' where you are expected to take some of your recycling. It's not a given that it should be collected from your curtilage at all.
In Ireland people pay directly for their waste collections.

*fund, sorry.
Though fun would be better.
I'll shut up now, I'm bad enough at home, ranting about people's attitudes to their waste. Do not get me started on litter or fly tipping.

To answer your question, Rooney, you either get a second, weirdly shaped, non-square crate for your cardboard so that you have enough capacity. Or you take it to the recycling centre yourself when you are passing.

I get fed up with the recycling collectors then leaving half the contents strewn across the street. Ours provides boxes which they then empty into wheelie bins but rather than picking up stray cartons from when they transfer it they just leave it where it falls, def falling out on collection as I've seen them do it. I do agree though rubbish only goes out on the morning, or occasionally the night before, no earlier.

Thankyou, Where - yes, I realise we are fortunate to have an authority which uses the money to pay for kerbside collections.

Please don't get me wrong. I'm on your side.

I have already rung to request a second crate. The ones that flats get are rectangular and I've asked for one of those - I offered to pay.

The woman said she would make a note that I would like one. (to use alongside the other bin)

I don't know what this means. I have no idea if I will get one, or what.

I have been putting out an improvised system of unwanted (or sometimes rather useful) cardboard boxes filled with my paper waste so far. The box is always taken along with the waste.

I just want something the bin men will leave me behind so I can use it again.

Anyway I'll wander off and do something else instead of moaning about this. I put about one carrier bag's worth into our landfill bin, the rest is recycled. I think I'm doing 'Ok' basically for someone on their own with three kids including a baby - the people upstairs still stuff the landfill bins every week.