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...

Our green bin is for garden waste here. There’s no uniformity across the country when it comes to recycling.

Green bin fit gebrealwaste. Brown bin with grey lid for recycling. I covert a purple wheelie bin though

Green wheely bin for general waste here

Brown bin for garden waste but ONLY if you pay almost £40 a year extra specifically for that to be collected.

Recycling is in a series of ineffectual small boxes without lids around the 30l size (standard plastic storage box size) where everything blows around the garden/streets in weather like this and the bin men don't pick up what they drop out of them whilst emptying them either.
Orange = plastic/tins
blue = paper
green = glass

Totally usless for anyone like us who actually does recycle and has multiple boxes because we get told off for the amount we put out... and the next thing there's a missive in the paper about how the council are failing to meet targets for recycling - make your minds up(!!!)

I see why it makes sense for green to be garden but ours is because of how our collections evolved.

When our council moved from a carry bin to a wheely bin in the 1980s the bin was black/dark grey so that has been the standard waste bin.

In the early 1990s they introduced a recycling bin for card and plastic and because it was all about being 'green' they gave people green bins to use.

We then got glass recycling a few years later (because people kept putting glass in the recycling instead of using the bottle banks at the supermarket) so we got a box for glass that was put out next to the recycling so people emptying the recycling didn't have to sort through glass.

It was several years later we got bins for garden waste and black and green were already established and in use so they gave out brown bins.

We still don;t have food waste collection here yet but other parts of town do and they are purple boxes - not sure of the colour logic there though.

Green bin is for non recyclable waste here. We aren’t allowed to put window glass in our glass recycling so WOULD put it in the green bin....

Green - general
Blue - Recycling
Brown - Garden and food waste
Purple - Glass

We have a small green bin (very dark green) which has a sort of lockable lid for food waste. Black recycling boxes (one for plastics and glass and one for paper). Main bin is ours and is grey. We also pay for an extra large brown bin which is for garden waste.

Black = general waste
Green = recycling (paper & plastic, you have to take glass to the bottle banks)
Brown = garden

My mum’s (next council area) is:
Large Green = general
Small green = plastic & glass
Large brown = garden
Small brown = paper & cardboard

Two council areas away they have blue, purple, black & grey. Not sure what goes in what, but no green at all!

Where I live the grey bin is for all recycling. I moved to Stansted for work and used the bins as I did at home. Came home after work one day and found 2 weeks worth of wine bottles lined up on my wall Didn't make the same mistake anywhere else. Ever!

My green bin is for recycling. So that's where I'd put glass too

Green - all recycling
Black - general rubbish
Brown - garden waste

Though if you cross the road at the bottom of ours to the next council they have
Blue - recycling
Black - general waste
Food caddy plus can leave bagged clothes and small electrical items separately to be collected. Really confuses my Nan when she pops round.

Very nice of the council workers to make the effort though, instead of refusing to take it

Our green bin is for garden waste but unless you pay it's not collected.

Grey for recycling and black for general waste.

We don't even have a green bin but should have.

Black - general
Blue - recycling
Brown - garden waste
Green - food waste

The houses all around us have food waste bins, none of the flats do. I've emailed to ask for one but they're "not in the area" except they are. Frustrating!

We have two green bins, just to blow your mind even further! Dark green for general waste and bright green for recycling. Blue for cardboard and Brown for food/garden.

Green here is for glass and plastics

Green is recycling - glass, thin cardboard, tins, plastic bottles (but not any other plastic). Grey bin is general waste. Garden waste is the householder’s responsibility, kitchen waste goes in general waste.

Green bin is for recycling here.
Garden waste is not collected.
Different colour coding in different boroughs.

Green bin is for garden waste here. Regardless, what were builders doing dumping their stuffing your bin!?

Builders waste is commercial so should not be going in any of the household bins

We don't even have a green bin! Only a brown one for general waste.
White bag = plastic
Brown box = food waste
Green bag = paper!

My green bin is for garden waste and we get ours for free but if you live in the next town (same county) you have to pay a yearly fee for it. Blue is for plastics, glass and tins and grey is for general waste. We have a brown caddy for food waste and a green box for papers. Again, another town not too far away (but another council) don't have bins they have purple bags so even between towns in the same county we have different colours/uses.

Builders should have checked with you!

Our green bin is for garden stuff - grass clippings, weeds, tree trimmings, etc. Not glass.

We don’t have a green bin at all. Big black for recycling, small black for general, brown for garden and food.

We don’t have a green bin. Our garden waste bin is brown.