How many bags of rubbish do you chuck a week?????

[JARM]

Well I never.... after living here nearly 4 weeks now, im suprised at how easy it is to recycle the majority of what you would usually chuck away.

Where I used to live, the recycling was pretty much non-existant, the recycling centres were too far away to make it worth-while and we used to put out approx 6 black bags of rubbish a week.

Since we moved, we are recycling anything and everything possible, and only chucking 1-2 black bags a week!

So, how many do you chuck?!

1

Everything else is recycled.

2 of kitchen waste
1 of nappies

1 black wheelie bin a fortnight
1/2 green wheelie bin a fortnight

1 or two a week, it's a good county for recycling though. Plus, I have to fit it all into a fortnightly collected wheelie bin that my bastard neighbours keep filling up

1 bin bag
1 recycling bag.

But this is a family of two adults and two children

We have far too much waste and need to start doing something about it. We need to recycle more - just out laziness we don't too, as we have to take it to be recycled, it isn't collected and nearest recycling is a good drive away. Need to consider a small compost thing too as been told that the gerbil stuff can go in it.

Currently we have a full wheely bin a week, and then a full green bin (paper and card) a fortnight.

4 - 6 bags

no recycling facilities at all here (apart from glass)

1 bin bag (with a child in disposable nappies). The rest is composted or recycled. We're finding we can recycle a lot these days - the council collects paper, plastics coded type 1 and 2 and aluminium and tin cans/foil etc.

That is for a family of 4, 2 adults 2 children.

Why can't all councils get their act together and collect more recycling bags?

1 black bag a week
3-4 bags of recycling

Actually getting bit obsessed with getting out as little non-recyclable waste as possible (geek emoticon!)

I will say we do have 1 in disp nappies, and another in night nappies only.

its making me feel all a bit "fuzzy" inside which is REALLY sad!!!

1-2 black bags

most of it is the kids' food which I have cooked and thrown away

Too many. But they can't take tetrapacks or pyrex or about a million other things, won't take the recycling bag if its not actually out on the pavement, or if it isn't tied correctly, and they took away our old recycling box. So I got fed up. Pathetic, I know.

1-2 bags worth, including night-time nappies (not for much longer).

We recently received a leaflet from the council which held up the golden example of a local woman who only put 8 carrier bags of rubbish in her black bin last year! I find it hard to see how that is possible. Our bin gets pretty full each week just from things like fruit punnets, yoghurt pots, shrinkwrap from magazines etc, plastic packaging from things like rice/lentils/pasta. It would be hard to avoid using those.

cant you recycle yoghurt pots where you are melpomene?

Our council only collects certain plastics and the yogurts we eat are in pots made of a type they won't collect. You can recycle a lot of the other types but would have to get to a specialist recycling centre.

Barely 3 - 4 tesco carrier bags of rubbish (about a quarter of a wheelie bin) each week.

The big recycling bin is full to the brim though - once a fortnight.

2 adults
1 teenager

I know a lot of people in our street are "recycling" things they actually can't recycle - like the famous yoghurt pots, juice cartons, film wrap etc.

2 - 3 black sacks a week. (There are six of us). I could probably get it down to 1 - 2 if I tried.

Do any councils recycle polypropylene??? Or is mine particularly fussy!?

I try not to buy fruit and veg with too much packaging. I get an organic box delivery every week which has no packaging as the box is recycled.

1 bag a week but it's not normally full. We get cans / bottles / cardboard / garden waste / foil and paper collected and I have a green cone in the garden so all food - cooked and uncooked goes in that. I take the plastic to the recycling bank.
That leaves very little to actually throw away - usually just packaging and one nappy a day as ds3 has disposable at night.
Dirtygertie - we can't recycle yoghury pots, although butter tubs and other plastic containers are OK.

We have a different system here in Paris. The bin men come every single day. All the residents in the apartment block put their rubbish in two collective bins on the ground floor - one bin for all small recycling except glass and batteries (ie packaging, newspapers, magazines, small electrical goods, plastic bags, tins) and one bien for dirty waste (nappies, food detritus, used tissues etc). Large cartons must be folded flat and are put out with the rubbish.

I have to take glass to the bottle bank (all glass, whatever the colour, in one bottle bank) and batteries to any shop that sells them - there are battery banks at FNAC, for example.

Everyone on this thread is so good so far.

I wonder if any of the posters who get through 10 black bags a week will admit to it and defend it. Come on, roll up. We know you're out there.

i put everything in ours. The only things that are not meant to go in our recycling bags are textiles and plastic bags.

I also dont put in anything that specifys on the packaging 'not yet recyclable'

Apart from that I assumed everything else was OK?