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...

In my area we only have 1 bin and that's brown.
So I have no idea what your green bin is for.
This ^^.

No idea.
These are our recycling 'bins'
Can pay extra for garden waste collection.
Have to buy our own general waste bin, if we want one (we just put bags out)
No food waste collection.

Not allowed the big wheelie bins as the lorry doesn't have the thing for lifting them and bin men can't reach the bottom.

Whoops

Broken glass isn’t allowed in our recycling.
We don’t have any green bins here either.

But I should think builders have problems disposing of stuff everywhere. They have to pay at the tip so I’m not surprised they dumped stuff in the nearest bin.

I’d get some heavy duty sacks and bag the entire lot up for landfill. You’d possibly have to take it to the dump. We aren’t allowed DIY waste in landfill here.

Our green bin is for garden waste.
Black bin for general waste.
Brown caddy for food waste.
Green bags for recycling.

Black- general
Brown- garden
Green- recycling

I do think it’s ludicrous that all our councils have dreamt up different schemes. We should have done this nationally and employed expert people to do it as well as possible. It’s a fucking shambles at the moment.

I don't have a green bin...black, burgandy, brown, blue and wee black for food..no green!!

But what difference does it make what colour the bins are so long as household in that county know which is which and the refuse collectors know which compartment to put it into on the lorry?
They’d have to first standardise what each LA accepted in their recycling scheme as that varies enormously across the country. If it was standardised across the uk then that might make recycling economically viable (presuming the charges were spread across the uk)

Our green pin is for plastic and tin

I wish there was a more universal colour scheme - but maybe that's too easy ... in my council:
Brown - general waste
Green - plastic and card
Green but with a brown Lid - garden waste (£chargeable)
Small caddy with handle - food waste
Small oblong green box - plastic, cans & glass

My NDN has put a label on each one - but his one of green bins is plastic, cans & glass

Our green bin is mixed recycling

Our green bin is for garden waste only.

Grey for general waste, blue and brown for recycling. The recycling bind are labelled on the lid with what can go in them. The green and grey ones are not labelled.

So yeah, YABU for assuming it's the same all over the country.

Green: general waste
Blue: recycling but no glass, fabrics, metal, or plastic bags
Brown: garden waste and only if you've paid the annual fee

No food waste bin and they're collected fortnightly, blue bin one week and green bin the next.

I’ve lived in a place where the green bin is for recycling. They don’t even do green bins where I live at the moment.

Our green bin is for plastic, tin and glass.

We have two green bins - lighter one is for bottles, cans etc and darker green is garden waste.

Nan in Scotland green bin is the general waste bin which is black here so no I think it depends where you are!

We don’t have green bins.

Black for landfill, brown for garden & compost, blue for recycling (paper & plastic but not glass, clear bags for textiles.

My green is general waste. My mums - next town over - is recycling 🙄

We don't have a green bin!

Green bin for recycling including glass here! Black bin for general rubbish.
They are all different in different areas!

Ours are, green for recycling (card, paper, some plastics, tin and aluminium cans), black for general waste (food, some plastics that our council has no recycling contract for, non recyclable card and paper and other general household waste). Brown for garden waste.

We don't have glass recycling bins, we have to take ours to glass recycling points because our council stopped the collection of glass from households when the contracted recycling company objected to glass contaminated paper.

We aren't supposed to put glass in any of our bins, but take them to the recycling centre in the village.

Well that is for glass bottles etc, but wouldn't work for builders waste glass - broken windows? If I was having building work done, I would expect that to go in a skip if there was one.