To not want 7 wheelie bins

[Viviennemary]

Article in DM saying some councils are going to expect people to have as many as 7 bins. Already got three which is just about manageable. But the DM can always be relied on to give folk something to froth about. Especially if they have nothing better to do. And a lot of car parks and supermarkets have removed their recycling bins which is a pain.

I have 5 fairly large wheelie bins, plus a smaller food waste bin, already! However two of these are for garden waste, which we pay extra for, and if we didn't have a large garden (and therefore space to store them) we would only have 3. Standard here is one general waste, one paper and card and one all other recycling.

They've got rid of the recycling bins in the local car parks here cos frankly people just used it as an excuse to fly tip.

This - working assumption that if it's in the Mail then it's not true.

The government has announced it wants all councils to do the same thing, across the country. It won’t all be wheelie bins. We have seven different containers already, and each is size and material appropriate.

One wheelie bin for landfill
One wheelie bin for garden waste (for which we pay an annual fee)
One small bin for food waste (collected weekly, everything else fortnightly)
A bag for cardboard
A big bag for cans and plastics
A box for glass
A box for paper

You can also put out batteries and small electrical items in carrier bags if you don’t have another way to dispose of them.

You definitely don’t need the gym on the day you put everything out for collection, but it soon becomes routine enough to sort stuff out appropriately.

Provided you have a massive kitchen to store them all and space at the front to put them out.

What do people in tiny houses with no front yards do, @MoongazyHare?

I don't have an issue with 7 separate containers. But seven full size bins is a bit much.

They need one way for example of partioning a bin into 3 so that it can get emptied.

At the moment we have a stupid tray that goes in the top of the green bin for paper. Problem is everyone always has a ton of paper that overfills it.

Meanwhile my black bin (landfill) is often half empty.

I have 6 and it drives me mad. Our council supply 4 - mixed recycling, paper, green waste and general waste.
Because we have clinical waste I then have an extra mixed recycling for any clinical waste that can be recycled and another general waste for anything I can't recycle. I have just erected a new shed and had it positioned further forward from the last one to put some of the bins behind. It's mad if I'd have to have any more I'm not sure where I'd put them.

I didn't realise so many people still had different bins for different recycling. We just have 1 big recycling bin and everything goes in there, council then sort it.

We already have an extra large general waste, two recycling (just normal mixed but as five people we get extra) a garden waste we pay for and the food bin. Going to get a second garden one this year. I cnba sorting paper/cardboard etc if they try that I’ll use sling it onto the fire pit tbh.

THISSSSSSSSSS

It wouldn’t be seven bins as others have commented, but open boxes aren’t great , our dogs would empty them. Not to mention things like foxes and even t
strong winds blowing it all over, not ideal.

We have 4 bins already and they are emptied on a 3 week schedule.
Grey for general waste,
Green for paper and cardboard
Blue for plastic, glass and metal
Brown for garden and food waste
Plus a kitchen Caddy for food scraps.

We also have a bag in the kitchen and we collect soft plastics and recycle them at Tesco when I'm shopping.
No idea where I could store more bins but I have no objection to recycling more.

You can have bags for landfill and garden waste if in a terrace (we have long rows of small workers’ cottages in town, and it seems to work fine for them). Bags and boxes kept in the courtyards at the back and brought through on bin day. We’ve had this system for several years in Cotswold and I’m not aware of major complaints. Nobody keeps any of them in their kitchens, they all live outside.

The boxes have lids so you can stack them, and you can stick the bags inside them until they are too full.

thanks for putting me straight @tommika
(I should do my research before I post👀)

We have 7 already , as in 7 different types of container/boxes/sacks etc , I very much doubt everyone will get 7 whole wheelie bins though.

We have 3 wheelie bins. One for landfill, one for green waste (includes food and garden waste) and one for tins, glass and plastic - which has replaced plastic tubs and was optional. We are not yet charged for garden waste in our area although it has been discussed so I can foresee another bin for that at some point. Waste paper and cardboard goes in a weighted bag.

I can't imagine having 7 bins.

Two bins here. Both communal, full after one week so get your stuff out early then hang on to the second weeks worth. One for general waste the other for mixed recycling.

Cornwall doesn't even have black wheelie bins due to narrow streets. The bastard seagulls have a riot with the bin bags on bin day.

We already have from our council:
food bin
cardboard bag
plastic and tins bag
box for glass
brown wheelie bin for garden waste
black wheelie bin for general waste

so we’re pretty close.
the county next to us has a bin that has 3 boxes on it for recycling cardboard, plastic and glass. It’s so much neater, takes up less space and doesn’t fly all over the road on collection day like all our bags too. Our streets look a mess on collection day if it’s windy because the bags go flying and all the recycling falls out

Can't remember where I read it, but it's the GOVERNMENT not the Local Councils that are doing this.

They're trying to get all LAs to have the same (batshit) system.
This might mean 7 different containers - not all wheelie bins.

Frankly it's crackers. Not all LAs are the same. The ones with big cities will have different requirements than the rural ones. The cost of sending different collection vehicles around rural areas will be huge compared to towns/cities.

@Turtleoo Cheers for that link! That's what I'd been looking for and missed

We have five wheelie bins where I live. They take up a lot of space in the garden but it does help getting all the rubbish sorted and put out.

I have 4 bins and 2 food waste bins. Luckily I have a side area to store them but most of my neighbours keep them in the street

We have -

Weekly pickups
A trolley with 3 boxes stacked on it - 1) Paper, 2) Cans / Plastic, 3) Glass
An outdoor food bin and indoor food caddy
Then various bags for batteries etc that are rarely used

Every 3 weeks
A wheelie bin for household
An optional garden waste bin that gets picked up 10 times a year but you need to pay extra for the pickups

The trolley is a bit crap but at least doesn't take up as much room as previous wheelie bin and 2 separate boxes and it gets collected weekly. Any additional cardboard can be left at the side.

Where I am the council varies it — they give you wheelie bins if you live in a house or flat with outside space, and smaller boxes/seagull-proof sacks for those of us who live in flats with no outside space. There are also big communal bins dotted around.

If they try to change it to seven separate bins I’m just going to start dumping everything in the river, frankly. /s