to LOATHE recycling?

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Don't get me wrong, I do it.

But it is up there with hoovering as the most hateful domestic job.

All that rinsing out jars. Trampling down boxes. Folding up card. Collecting papers and cans etc and storing in a messy corner. Putting out recycling box in the rain. Enptying rain water out of recysling box at the end of the day. Fishing things out of the bin which DD has hurled in there.

Top hatred reserved for the waste food bin. Washing the vile bin at the end of the week. Urgh.

Running out of room and having to post excess waste in recycling area in Asda soding car park. Again in the rain.

Wpould love to just throw everything in black sacks and forget about it.

I totally agree. I do it too but it is sooo time-consuming and all the boxes and wheely bins take up so much room in our garden (which is quite small)

Yucky job, I agree.. but..

Could you look your children in the eye if you didn't do it?

Yes the bins make the front of the house look scruffy and horrible.

I oculd put them in the garagae but then could I be arsed to schlepp in and out of the garage door? No.

Bloody 2 great big wheelie bins, a green box and 2 small brown food bins.

Bloody palaver.

Lots of people have front gardens that just look like recycling yards now with all these bins. I don't think the system is very good, but have no idea what would work better.

I could look my child in the eye and say you bloody well do the recycling

i have to say it's something that's never bothered me.
I rinse the stuff out when i wash the pots and put them into a recycling box, so that they can just be tipped into the recycling bin.
when i lived where there was no recycling bin, they were put into separate boxes and then loaded into the car to go.

to me, it's no more hassle than emptying a bin bag.

compost is a bit more gross, in the summer it can really make me bawk, but i can't bear to throw foodstuffs/teabags in the bin.
(i have been known to take them home with me if i have made a cuppa somewhere they don't compost)

I don't make compost but Gloucester has just introduced a scheme whereby all food waste is collected.

It is just another bin to wash. And in the summer it'll stink.

Just feel it is more domestic DRUDGERY

It gets on my tits as well but the one thing I will not do is food bins. I had the little things beginning with M in my kitchen food bin last summer and it makes me heave thinking about it now. So sorry, no food hangs around in my kitchen and I'm quite happy to tell DD that.

Buy biodegradable bags for the compost bin. That's what I do

I love re-cycling. Sorting out, keeping an eye on the compost bin and the occasional trip to the local tip for batteries / metal / rags .

food waste? Is that everything, bread / meat / cooked food leftovers?

Where do you all out your recyling day to day? Do you traipse out to the bins every night or have a fancy segregated bin or what? I'm looking for something to put in the kitchen instead of a pile.

Can't do the bags, the council will not collect it. They say that they cannot tell if you are using biodegradable bags or normal ones, so if you put a bag in the bin they will not empty it.

They say you can put food in little parcels of newspaper which will not affect the municipal compost heap. So will then have to go into recycling box for newspaper and make little food parcels like some housewife in the war.

FFS etc

My mom lives in LA, and they don't have do all this sorting. It goes into a bin including plastic! Brilliant.

YANBU. Not only do we have outside bins galore (we have black bin, green bin, 2 red tubs and 2 irritating as hell plasticated bags) but ALSO to avoid trudging out in all weathers, a ruddy great white flip top tub in the kitchen AND a food waste caddy

WTF are you supposed to do if you live in a tiny flat?

Don't get me wrong - I am strongly for recycling and think it's our responsibility to do it. but there will always be part of me that resents the effort it involves and wishes someone else would do it

Yes, the food waste is all foodstuffs, including bones.

It's a good idea in principle but I don't WANNA (waah).

You have two bins - one little one to keep in the kitchen, and one biggun to keep outside into which you empty the small kitchen bin every day.

For rest of recycling it collects in a pile by the bin (looks messy) and then gets shoved into the outside box.

YANBU - i hate it, its a messy pita, but i still do it religiously

Yeah - way to go, loads of landfill, ilovemydog

Line the bin with newspaper then? I hose mine down outside every now and then. I also have a very smart recycling bin from John Lewis which is stainless steel and divided into two sections and I just put stuff outside when it's full

It's really not that much hassle

No, it isn't. It doesn't go to landfill. All the recycling goes into one bin and sorted at the depot.

What's the problem with that?

we dont even have recycling collections here (streets too small for even a small van and no alternative has been offered!)

we have a compost bin which i put food in but I tend to just chuck it in while im washing up rather than have a little bin as I know a little bin of old food would drive me mad and I am too lazy to clean it lol.

How do they sort food waste from plastic and paper and non-recyclable stuff out when it's all been mixed up?

(is that what you mean? We can put paper, plastic, glass and metal in one bin here and then that gets sorted but we have to separate out food and landfill)

That's it whoami - resentment.

That and the fricking astonomical council tax bills.

AND AND a load of stuff that you cannot even recycle like stupid tubs which Innocent food pots come in. Innocent is such a poncy poxy company you would have assumed that they would use green packaging ffs.

But I still do it because of the guilt if I didn't.

LadyB I tried to line the bin with newspaper when first got it but it would take skills of origami like levels as the bin is a weird shape.

Yes I know it's not that much hassle in the grand scheme of things but it is the one thing that makes me crack at the end of the day and it pisses me orf.

We don't have any type of recycling scheme - the council just collects black sacks. Now thats a PITA! You either chuck everything into landfill of you have to fill your garage with various boxes and take them to a recycling centre which is inevitably full of overflowing bins

Yes littled - that indeed must be a PITA.

Am really surprised that any local authority just does refuse collection nowadays (obv am assuming you are in UK).