What kerbside waste disposal and recycling services do you get at home?

[Hulababy]

I am in Sheffield and we get:

• black wheely bin - all waste - once a week
• blue bin - paper and card only - once a fortnight

I really wish we had more recycling options for kerbside collection. I think it would make a huge difference to how much people locally recycle.

I'm in East Yorks.

We get:

wheelie bin - emptied weekly (today in fact)
blue bin for paper NO CARDBOARD ON PAIN OF DEATH! emptied once a month.

We have a glass recycling bin thing about half a mile away, but for any other stuff at all, we have to do a 16 mile round trip (at the least)

I went through a phase of trying to recycle everything, but it was costing me so much in petrol (and probably completely cancelling out the green-ness of recycling) that I stopped and just take stuff now if I happen to be going that way.

And incidentally, my council are talking about fortnightly bin collections, but haven't proposed any other form of recycling to offset.

SW London
We have

Box for glass, tins, shoes, clothes

Bag for newspaper

Caddy for food waste

They are about to introduce cardboard and plastic at which point I think I will have virtually no normal waste as most of mine seems to be these two!

sorry is weekly

same as hul cept bottles as well

WHY?

dh reckins if htey go fortnightly here we will sue our chim chim inea

We are very lucky here I think, we have...

Black general bin emptied weekly

Green bin for paper and card emptied fortnightly
Glass container emptied fortnightly
Plastic and cans container empted fortnightly
(these are all emptied on the same day)

Brown bin for garden waste emptied fortnightly in summer, montly in winter with an extra collection for christmas trees.

Our local tip has a recycling rate of 73% at the moment as well, when you drive in they stop you and check what you have and tell you where it all goes.

bin - weekly
recyling - every 2 weeks, paper in bag, glass, plastic etc in box

MIL has a green bin for garden waste as well

We are in Kirklees and we have:

Fortnightly black wheely collection - general waste
Fortnightly green wheely collection - paper, card, plastic (but not carrier bags), tins
Monthly collection of glass box.

We have no facility regarding garden waste or food waste but are also not allowed to put garden waste in the black bin. Theoretically you can ring the council to arrange collection of garden waste, but that is hardly practical every time you cut the grass, is it? We have a compost bin in the garden though, so all our kitchen peelings, a lot of our paper (shredded first), grass cuttings etc go into that. I sneak weeds into the black bin. But if we have a big tidy in the garden (including pruning etc so branches that I couldn't home compost) we have a trip to the tip.

also, do you peer in your neighbours boxes - we have to leave ours with the lids off - to spot the huge mofo bottles of fizzy drinks and think how on earth can they drink that much of that shit?

or is that just me?

surry - we have green box for glass, tin and paper and a blue bag for clothes.
I collect all cardboard and plastic and recycle it about twice a week. Luckily there is a Tesco in a neighbouring borough that has collection bins so it isn't too much hassle.

Greater Manchester

We have 4 wheely bins
Black - general waste
Green - glass
Blue - paper
Brown - garden waste
and red sacks for plastic, cans, foil

we get weekly black bags collected.
Weekly recycling boxes collected -paper, some glass (don't know why some is/isn't taken and depends on person collecting it), card, books, aluminium cans.

They say they do palstic bottles too so we bought their special bags (won't be taken if not in their bag) followed the instructions on the bag and colected for about 3 weeks, left out, they won't take????

Are a little confused as to why they taken certain things one week, not the next, why they don't follow their own instructions and why oh why can we not have a bl**dy wheelie bin as the cats/foxes/birds wreck the bags and waste is strewn all over the road.

(Yes, I bought a wheelie bin but they won't touch it so we fill it with the bags, then have to haul the bags out again for them to be collected. I'm 35+ weeks prgt and can't possibly do that!!)

We keep our lids on olive but the glass is in an open box and I am regularly shocked at how full of wine and beer bottles they all have. I drink wine and DH drinks bottled lager but our box is still only a quarter full after a month whereas most of our neighbours are stacked high. I have to confess though that there are as many bottles of wine as bottles of beer in ours. And a 25cl bottle of beer is hardly equivalent to a 75 cl bottle of wine is it?

Some of you have loads. Love idea of the food waste one as well.

Our wine and beer one would be way too full!

paper blue bin thats it

hulababy we are in sheffield too

Hiya We are up in Lodge Moor, S10. So all of recycle stuff is a drive away. We need more recylcing kerbside!

i'm in s6 we have a few near us

no wheely bins here thankfully

black sacks - weekly
orange sacks for glass, paper, plastic - weekly

garden waste - separate collection for around 20 quid

I live in Newcastle.

We have a green wheely bin for general waste emptied weekly and a black box for recycling (BUT NO CARDBOARD) fortnightly. We could recycle massively more if we had a wheely bin for it but the council website states that the box is adequate for most families and that reserach indicates that if you have a wheely bin for recycling then it gets lots of cross contamination with general waste and they can't tell which households are responsible for this. They think the box is better because the rubbish crew sort it out at the kerbside so less contamination. They will offer another box but we don't really have anywhere to store it indoors.

My parents live in Northumberland and have alternate weekly collections of a recycling wheely bin and a general waste wheely bin.

Dp's parents live in a different part of northumberland and they have three bins, two recycling but different materials, and one general waste. A different bin gets emptied each week.

we have a black box for bottles / cans / foil / clothes and paper, and then a bag for cardboard and garden waste / fruit & veg waste / eggshells / teabags etc (basically a compost bag!). Plastic bottles we have to take ourselves to the recycling centre, but they do plan to collect them as well soon.
The council also heavily subsidise food digesters so that all cooked and uncooked food can go into that.
With that scheme it should mean that if they go to biweekly collections then with no food in the bin the risks from maggots / rodents etc is less.
I don't think there's been a great take up of the food digesters though which is a shame.

wheelie bin for non-recyclables - emptied weekly

black box - for newspaper, cans, bottles, foil and textiles. Emptied fortnightly.

Garden waste is collected but only if you pay I think it's £25 a year for a brown bin.

Plastics still not collected, so we save bin-bags full of our milk bottles etc and take it to the recycling centre every month or so.

zubb, our council also subsidises the digesters, we have two, but again I don't think take-up is brilliant.