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?!

rubberduck - i can understand if some people are just blatently filling the recycling bags with nappies or food waste but i cant believe they would do this if there was a washed fruit juice carton in there that shouldnt be?

I better double check with the council what can definately go in there or not then.

our recycling seems to be different than some other part of the country. We have a big green tub and you put in everything together then the guys on the recycling lorry that has lots of compartments come round and sort each box by hand. I guess then they don't get contaminated lorries. I know down the road they are in a different local council and they just have big wheelie bin which they fill themselves and it has to be right as its not then sorted.

oh right up my street this (I'm so sad). We have 1-2 black bags a week)plus one bag of recycling but all my recycling is actually recyclable and we are still using bage=s from the old council which are way bigger than the new ones. I was shocked when I first moved here at all my neighbours (who no doubt bristle with pride at their recycling efforts) with their 7 artfully arranged bags each one containing 1 tetrapak (not recyclable here) and a piece of paper. We used to have 2 recyclables a week but it's now one since we got milk delivered and don't buy so many newspapers.
I'm a bit saddened by the shipping to China bit can't we even do that.(someone is going to come on here now and tell me why we can't)

really must sort out the composting but no garden.....

Hi Cali was a bit at all your green recycling neighbours for a minute (and wondering where they put all thier rubbish....)

2 adults, 2 children:
2 bin bags
3 green recycling boxes full of bottles, tins, plastic bottles and newspapers/magazines.
I would recycle more but there are some things the council won't take.

3-4

at work...

3 adults (but im only there 4 days a week)

and 2 children

about 1 big strong full rubbish bin (brabantia bin) per 5 / 6 days

and a smallish swing bin (not full) of nappies about every 3 days

Per 2 weeks we have a a full big green wheely recycling bin, and we use the built in uncer sink bin (about the size of a bucket) for compost which is full and emptied into the compost about every 5ish days

Me at my house.... just me a rarely eat here.... maybe 1/3 of a kitchen bin max!

a whheelie bin of recycling.

2-black bags

5-6 of us

I'm sad to say about 5-6 bags (black) I live in a flat and there are no seperate bins for recycling. dp and I don't drive or I would try and recycle as much as possible.
There has just been a new scheme introduced where we have a bag collected for newspaper/card etc and that gets put out once a fortnight.

1 kitchen bin full of rubbish a week and 1 bag night tiome nappies. 6 bags of recycling a fortnight

2 black bags of rubbish and the equivalent of 2 bags of recycling.

We have a weekly collection of rubbish from a black wheelie bin which is half full and fortnightly collection of a recycling bin which is full to the top.

Glass recycling is separate - we have to take it to the recycling centre about once every 2 - 3 weeks.

Wow - looking at that, we must recycle slightly more than 50% of our rubbish. I am now slightly smug but I am sure that we could do better. The end of the nighttime nappies should help.

Two adults and a baby.

One black bag every two weeks.
The rest is recycled.

2 adults, 5yo and 20mo - about 2/3 of a black bag worth.

no recycling here, I don't drive and dh refusees to do it.

half a wheely bin a week, fo a family of four.

food waste goes in the green cone/fire/or to the four hens/ compost heap

1-2, but we will soon be composting again, so I think we will get down to 1. family of 3. We recycle everything we can, but our local facilities do not take plastics

The only kerbside collection we have is of paper

family of 5, about 1 bin liner a week. a lot of receyling tho - I live in Hackney, its fantastic for recycling - food, aper, cardboard, metal, plastic, glass - its only really nappies that we don't recycle in fact! And they collect it all from outside our house once a week. it is really good - always strikes me when i visit friends who live in Barnet how crap and out of date it is there that they chuck everything off to land fill. AND the council there refuses to pay for cycle lanes - the only london borough to be so ridiculously fume loving!

2 adults 2 children.

1 1/2 bags when dh is home
1 bag when dh is away

Can't work out why

Really interesting to see how everyone has different collection systems available to them. Wonder how viable it is to have a standardised system...

3 person household. A lot less than one bag a week.

When I first moved abroad I missed the order and ease-of-use of UK rubbish collection. You just fill your bags, remember to leave them out on the right day and in the right coloured bags/boxes, and it all gets taken care of by dustmen. Now we live somewhere so inaccesible that there is no rubbish collection so it has really made us think hard about our waste. We've had to adapt a lot but that part of our life is definitely a lot 'greener' now. We use the compost heap and the chickens to maximum effect. Cooked food goes to the dog. We keep glass and reuse it. Plastic bottles go to our neighbour to be filled with milk. And when we shop we tend not to buy things that come with excess packaging because any excess rubbish we create means having to start the car and pay for petrol to transport it to the nearest town to find a communal bin.

Obviously it was a lifestyle choice for us but there's a lot to be said for losing your home comforts! It's transformed DH from being a "pah! all that eco-rubbish" kind of man to some kind of 'tree-hugger' (his words)!!

About 1 - 2. Do several more of recycling though!

We try for 1 bag a week, but sometimes it is 2

Our neighbours (2 single men) have upwards of 4 a week, I cant think what they could be throwing away!

One swing bin bag every two weeks
(three of us)

1 adult 4 children

about 2-3 black bags

plastic, glass, tins and paper once a fortnite and loads goes out for that.

There were compost bins left here when previous owner moved out and we filled it in first 9 months or so and I don't think its done anything

so got fed up of that but I bet if there was raw and cooked food collection then we would be down to one a week.