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Original poster

To ask what recycling bins you have

41 replies

Eliza9917 · 07/01/2018 18:28

Need new bins, the council only collect one black bin and we have to take all our recycling to the dump ourselves.

I'm going to try move away from buying things in so much packaging and be more sustainable ie make my own wet wipes etc but I want some kind of compartmentalised bins or baskets, something we could transport easily, so can I ask what you all have please?

Not an aibu, except maybe the expectation that the council should collect recycling (they do for other streets in the borough but not all of them) and also, to expect that the dump should have a bin for plastic recycling (it doesn't - I might take ours to my mums and put it in her recycling bin).

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trinity0097 · 07/01/2018 18:35

Where are you?

Surely they collect at the kerbside?!

frasier · 07/01/2018 18:39

We have black bin for household, green bin for recycling and food waste (small green bin) has been suspended at the moment, forget why.

There are also various instructions about batteries and fabric and other stuff being left in bags or boxes by the other bins.

Green/black bins are emptied alternate weeks.

Original poster
Eliza9917 · 07/01/2018 18:42

We're in East Kent.

Sorry, I didn't mean what bins the council give you, but what you have indoors, this sort of thing; see pic.

To ask what recycling bins you have
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Original poster
Eliza9917 · 07/01/2018 18:43

Or this

To ask what recycling bins you have
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ivykaty44 · 07/01/2018 18:47

I have one bin indoors to put all items to recycle
Another bin to put plastic that can’t be recycled
Large yogurt pot to put green food waste - green bin beside back door

Then take everything out once or twice a week

I wish a lot of the clear plastic recycling was removed from goods

Snowysky20009 · 07/01/2018 18:48

My 'outside recycling bins out by my back door, we have brown for food, black boxes for glass, plastics, foil, papers etc, blue bag for cardboard, green bin for garden waste and black bin for general.
When I have something to recycle I just open my back door and put it straight in. Why would you want something inside too?

iklboo · 07/01/2018 18:50

Big blue ikea bag for paper & card (blue bin)
Large storage tub for cans, plastics etc (black bin)
Grey caddy for food waste (green bin)
Normal kitchen bin for non-recyclables (grey bin)

Council empty green bin every week, all other bins every 3 weeks on rota eg

Green & grey - Week 1
Green & blue - Week 2
Green & black - Week 3

TwoBlueFish · 07/01/2018 18:51

We have 2 Ikea boxes with handles that go in the cupboard under the sink, one for paper/card and one for tins/plastic. Then a general rubbish bin attached to the inside of the cupboard door and a green food waste caddy on the kitchen bench.

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Eliza9917 · 07/01/2018 18:53

We haven't got outside bins, other than the one wheely bin in the front garden. We've got stairs from the back door down in to the garden so loads of faff to go from the kitchen to back bins.

Plus all recycling has to be bagged up and taken to the dump in our car so I don't want to have to mess about with nasty wet rubbish. I could get 3 or 4 waste bins with lids and put them in the front garden but having something indoors will be easier.

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Allthewaves · 07/01/2018 18:54

Council collect one landfill and one mixed recycling wheelie bin - it's great. Wish they would do one for glass

KurriKurri · 07/01/2018 18:55

We have blue recycling (plastics and paper and tins) and black bin (household waste) - they alternate weeks.
Every week we have composting bin (fruit and veg peeling) and separate glass bin.
I also pay a yearly sum to have a garden waste bin which gets collected at the same time as the blue bin.

Oldraver · 07/01/2018 18:55

We now have a big wheelie bin for recycling apart form glass which still needs to go in a black box.

So I have a swing bin in the kitchen for recycling and the black box for glass is by the back door

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Eliza9917 · 07/01/2018 18:56

I'll just order this. It can go in the hall and be picked up easily to go in the car and then the waste can go out like normal.

I thought someone might have a nice one they could recommend.

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Cantspell2 · 07/01/2018 18:59

I have an ordinary swing bin the other side of my kitchen away from the general waste bin. I don’t have to sort it as it all goes straight out into the recycling wheely bin.
Veg and peelings go in the green caddy to be put in my compost bin. Cooked food waste goes out for the birds, foxes, hedgehogs.

frasier · 07/01/2018 18:59

Oh sorry!

We have one of these which looks great but doesn't work very well because the drawer at the bottom is too small for anything (we keep a dustpan and brush in it!) so we have an Ikea in for recycling.

www.johnlewis.com/joseph-joseph-intelligent-waste-separation-recycling-totem-bin-60l/p1897300?colour=Stone

frasier · 07/01/2018 19:01

"Ikea BIN" that should say. And ours is the smaller version of that, itcertainly wouldn't fit fullsize bottles.

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Eliza9917 · 07/01/2018 19:07

Yes those look a bit small and can't just go in the car.

Our recycling has to be sorted because you have to put it in the different bins at the dump.

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Talkingfrog · 07/01/2018 21:05

Our recycling is sorted kerbside so we have the following
A normal wheelie bin for waste (smaller ones issued earlier thus yr)
An orange lidded bin for garden waste
An inside bin for foodwaste (put biodegradable bags inside)
An outside bin (bit larger than the inside one) to put the food bags in.
A bag for cardboard
A box for metal, plastic, glass
A box for paper, textiles, small electrical

Recycling is collected every week. Rubbish and garden are alternative weeks, but no green collection Dec or Jan.

LyraPotter · 07/01/2018 21:12

I have a glass recycling bin, a mixed recycling bin, a garden waste bin, a food waste bin, and a landfill bin. The council collects all of them from the kerb so it's really easy.

In my old place where the council didn't pick up we just did one box of glass and one box of paper / tins / cardboard and we took it to our local recycling bins every so often.

WeAllHaveWings · 07/01/2018 21:19

We have an indoor worktop food caddy that gets emptied every 2 days into outdoor food caddy.
We have a bag for plastic in the kitchen which goes into a plastic outdoor box when full.
We have a box for paper in the garage (next to kitchen) which is emptied into blue wheelie bin when full,
A kitchen bin for general waste which is emptied into general waste wheelie bin when full.
Glass and cans are left on worktop and put out in glass/can box each night/morning.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 07/01/2018 21:20

I have the Ikea Sortera which stack on top of each other

slippermaiden · 07/01/2018 21:30

We have black bin for rubbish, brown bin for garden rubbish. 3 recycling boxes, glass, paper, plastic/foil. Then some people use a food waste box but we don't have any food waste! Sounds like your local council is pretty rubbish!

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Eliza9917 · 07/01/2018 22:03

Oh they are, 'rubbish' doesn't do their incompetence justice.

I have one of those sortera boxes for my dog food but we've put her on the anti-cancer diet so she's on homemade human food now, but I want that space back and don't want to put more boxes there.

I'll order that set above from eBay and see what the quality is like and if not good I'll keep an eye out for better ones.

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speakout · 07/01/2018 22:07

Council give us

1 Large wheelie bin for landfill stuff

  1. Large wheelie bin for plastics/cans/paper
  2. Large wheelie bib for garden waste
  3. Plastic box for glass
  4. Plastic caddy for food.
speakout · 07/01/2018 22:08

Are you in a flat OP?