To think Everyone knows what a Green Wheely Bin is for, even builders from a different town?!

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Everyone knows what the green bin is for, right?!
Four bins, all different colours. OH says that it's not obvious if you're from a different town, I know that the colours vary but surely green is the same everywhere?!

We're having work done and today I found a load of broken glass in our green bin.
AIBU to think they've just been completely lazy and thoughtless and that it's not on at all? OH doesn't seem at all bothered and just made excuses for them.
I doubt he will be sorting through a mixture of rotting food and broken glass...

we don't have a green bin here.
Blue is for paper
Back for general
Brown for cans and bottles
I seem to constantly have a card in the post saying brown bin too @Gotthetshirt23

Our garden waste always went in the green bin. In their wisdom the council changed them all round 2 years ago when introducing a new 4th bin to our collection. Now our green waste goes in the new brown bin and cardboard in the old green bin. Why the new recyclable couldn’t go in the new bin is beyond me! It’s really thrown me after so many years of being logical, and I still refer to the brown bin as the green bin.

Our green bin is for all recycling, black for general waste and brown is for garden rubbish

Ours are quite sensible. Green for garden waste, blue for recycling, brown for anything else. Neighbouring towns are totally different.

slash that is a monster ! Taking that up 3 flight can’t be good for your back and what about everyone simply unable to do so ?? Shocking you are expected to use that. Where I am as there are daily rubbish collections (weekly recycle) and a lot of flats and/or no front gardens we have bags for recycling.
If you wrote and said you couldn’t manage it anymore surely they'd havento do something different ? It must damage walls /carpet/stairs??

We don’t have wheelie bins in our LA; I have no idea what any of them are for!

our green bin is for mixed recycling (glass, metal, plastic), we have a green box for paper and card and black bin for general waste. Funny how it seems to be different everywhere!

It clearly varies across the country from all these answers, but the builders were unreasonable not to check what goes in what bin. If it's not on the bin, they have phones and could have googled the council website.

It stays in the main part of the building so doesn't damage anything. The council said that we could leave it outside along the side of the building, where the wheelie bins are but it blows around if it's empty and would mean that recycling would need to be carried up and down stairs regularly. They're emptied weekly and general waste is every three weeks. What ends up happening is that most people in the building don't recycle at all. (there are 12 flats and 4 or 5 trolleys get used and maybe 2 food bins.) We used to have separate boxes for plastic/cans and glass, and bags for paper which was much better as I don't used much glass or cans so that box went out every few months and I could get rid of a load of paper at once.

slash Hmm what a process ! Feels like one of those things which made sens for about a nano second in some council recycling meeting but then needed to be binned by anyone with any real life experience of ‘doing the recycling’.

I would put glass in our green recycling bin.

We don't have green bins. We do have bins for green things but they aren't green!

People were complaining before it was even brought in but it didn't stop them. It was the same when they brought in the three week general waste, I went to the consultation and asked about people putting their rubbish in my bin as it was already happening with the two week uplift. I was told that they couldn't stop it but as long as the lid closed they would uplift it. That doesn't help me when I clean the cat's litter tray and can't put the bag in my own bin, so I ended up having to buy a bin lock.

We have

Grey for general waste
Brown for garden & food
Blue for card & paper
Green for plastic & bottles etc

So yes YABU assuming coloured bins are the same everywhere

Green bin is recycling - glass, plastic and paper and cardboard and metal here. So broken glass wouldn't be a problem!

We have green bin for general, non recyclable waste, brown for compostable garden waste (which mustn't include kitchen scraps so for example windfall apples from your tree ok, apples from the shop no), burgundy for card and plastic. Then we have boxes - blue for paper and green for cans and glass. People who have a non specific recycling bin, do you just put everything in unseparated?

Not read the thread, but skimming shows a huge variation across the country. I read something not so long ago about a proposal for standardisation, but it seems it would cause huge confusion.

Ours is black for non recyclable, probably because historically, bins have always been black.

Then recycling came along, and the recycling bins were green, because recycling is a green thing to to.

So when they started to introduce garden waste bins, they had to think of a different colour, and brown is a logical alternative to green, because the waste goes to make compost, which is brown-ish?

We’re -
Grey for paper & card
Green for plastic & cans
Brown for garden waste
Blue for everything else
We have to traipse to the bottle bank at the supermarket for glass recycling.

We have different coloured lids. Black bin with black lid for rubbish, black bin with orange lid for recycling. I think black with a brown lid is for garden waste but you have to pay for those so we don't have one.

When we lived in a different town we had a black wheelie for rubbish, and then four boxes for recycling (one each for paper, plastic, tins and glass, I think). Then they stopped that and went down to one wheelie bin and two boxes.

DM (different county) used to have a black wheelie bin for rubbish, a blue box for tins, jars and plastic, and a black box for paper. Now I think she has two wheelie bins like us, with different coloured lids. They used to take garden waste as well but the council stopped that.

Stan I’m in flats too. We all have general waste bins, but there’s not enough room in our bin store for individual recycling bins, so we have 4 or each, for 8 flats. You’d think this would work ok.
However, we have residents who are either too lazy, or too stupid to read the big signs I’ve printed, and sellotaped to each bin, to say what goes into them. I am the crazy bin lady, invariably out in my pjs the night before bin night, raking plastic out of the paper bin; glass out of the plastics bin; and general waste out of the recycling bins. I don’t get why it’s so hard. We’re now in danger of being fined, because of consistent misuse of the recycling bins, through the selfish actions of one or two people in the building. 🤦🏻‍♀️

We have two green bins. One for general rubbish and one for garden waste.
Plus boxes for glass paper and plastic. Other people in the village have a brown bin for garden stuff but I inherited the green one I moved here.
Couldn't the builders ask before they got rid of the glass?

We have green for general waste, brown for garden waste, blue for recycling and grey for glass. Well they are all green but the kids are different colours.

So the answer is no the builders should not know but should have checked!

Here:
Green garden waste
Blue recycling
Black general waste

Our black bin is general waste, green bin is recyclable with a wee caddy inside for glass & brown is food & garden waste.
My parents' have a blue bin as well. I'm not sure what that is for. They are under a different council to us