To think it's ridiculous that there are city centre locations that still don't have recycling collections in 2022

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I've lived at 2 different flats in Nottingham in the last three years, one right in the city centre and one (which must have had over 100 people living in the building) about 5 minutes' walk about of it, in a residential area. Neither of them have had any option for recycling. I have friends in two different buildings in Nottingham and a brother a different Midlands city who are all in the same position.

When I moved into my current address, the other people in the building said that they just stopped showing up to take recycling bins over a year ago. I called the council and they said that they'd decided to take our building off the recycling route! It isn't that we don't have a bin and need to get a new one, they just don't provide recycling services to our postcode, despite there being plenty of people living here. It's disgusting thinking about the sheer volume of recyclable waste that's going to landfill because there still aren't recycling services available at so many addresses.

Really curious about how common this is, because until the last 3 years I'd just assumed that pretty much everyone, except maybe people who live very rurally, had recycling collections. My grandparents in a small village in northern Scotland have 3 different recycling bins collected every couple of weeks!

I've never had this personally, but I'd be delighted with this. Loads of "recycling" ends up in landfill anyway, and it's less rubbish trucks clogging up the streets in a busy location.

We have 3 different sets of bins on different days and fortnightly cycles and I find it a nightmare keeping track of when they're all due. It wasn't as bad where I used to live where it was always the same day and just alternated each week which bins got collected.

I'm in a city centre in the SE and don't have one either. We don't have any communal bins outside. In theory, we're supposed to bag up and store our rubbish inside our individual flats and put them out early morning on collection day so they dont get ripped to shreds by seagulls when we put them out the night before.

In practice I and all my neighbours smuggle black sacks out with us whenever we go out and put them in a public bin as we walk by.

All rubbish together, no separate collections for recycling, even though the houses a few feet up the road get provided with plastic boxes for paper and plastic.

Yanbu

The council should be doing all it can to facilitate this

My previous house had no curbside recycling. 2 miles outside of city centre in highly populated residential terraced street housing area. Not even as if they couldn't get the wagon around because they collected the black bins just no recycling. Nearest recycling centre was 3 miles away.