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.

Brown wheelie for garden and food waste. Plus a little version to keep in the kitchen.
Black box for plastic and tin (fortnightly)
Maroon box for Glass (fortnightly)
Green Box for paper (fortnightly)
Green wheelie for everything else

I have to say, I wouldn't have a problem with fortnightly collection of everything. My 'any other' wheelie is rarely filled to the top and if it is, we can call the council and they do a special collection.

Aparently, we are one of the best recycling Councils in the country - we don't half pay the price for it though!

I'm in Northern Ireland. We have 3 wheelie bins: week about collection
1: Black bin - general rubbihs
2: Green bin - recycling (paper/cardboard/plastic bottles/cans/tins/books etc)NO GLASS - and in spring/summer/autumn, collected on the same day is Brown bin for garden waste.
The garden one isn't collected in the winter.

It suits us fine, and has really encouraged us to recycle more - we (family of 4) can hardly fill the general rubbish one in a fortnight.
They take up a lot of room though!

I'm in N. Yorks. and we get sweet F.A. - weekly black bag collection and nowt else.

We have fortnightly collections of the black rubbish bin and the green garden waste bin.
Also fortnightly collections of paper, bottles and tins in boxes and card and plastics in heavy duty bags.

My gripe is that the boxes don't come with lids so when it rains the paper gets all soggy and the boxes just collect all the rainwater.

We're in Cumbria.

You lot are really lucky - in my part of Pembrokeshire: absolutely nothing, other than the weekly everything collection (although I guess I should be grateful that is still weekly) and a free composter.

Fortunately the glass/cans/paper banks are 100 yards from my house. There is a voluntary scheme for recycling plastic, but you have to buy special bags and lug it all to a collection at a set time. The only facilities in the county for recycling cardboard are 20 miles away, so guess what, I don't use them, so if everyone thinks that way I guess the council probably thinks there is no demand.

OliveOil, I look in my mieghbours boxes! Particularly the plastic one, which is usually full of Fruitshoot bottles! Down side is, because we have a shared drive, our bins are right next to each other, so if her's are full, she uses mine! I get her back though, I put all my empty wine bottles in her bin!!

Lambeth (london)

Black Bin (although I have a communial bin as I'm in a flat) - weekly
Orange Bags. All paper, card and cardboard, glass bottle and jars, plastic bottles, tins, cans and empty aerosols - weekly

wheelie bin for househole waste - collected on alternate weeks

recycling boxes for paper, glass, tin and plastic, collected on alternate weeks

cardboard goes to sainsburys where they have a big recycling thingy

i'm in sw surrey

Preston city council:

black general rubbish wheelie bin fortnightly

brown garden waste wheelie alternating.
(except after xmas they do extra black instead of brown for a week or two, and something for xmas trees).

Alternate weeks:
red lidded boxes for cardboard and plastics (need to check again what plastics, was originally only bottles). In theory textiles but they don't usually have room on wagon for many (and we can recycle clothes via school for PTA funds).

yellow lidded boxes for paper, cans and glass.

Free compost bins available for non-garden compostables.

As many boxes as you want; brown wheelie free and I think you can have more than one of those. Def only one black and they say they wont collect extra bags but seem to from neighbours who have huge family.

I was thrilled when they introduced brown bin. I get such a sense of acheivement from filling it with prunings! Oh, and fortnighly collections of black bin are FINE, does not niff too badly even though I only use supermarket carriers in it and it includes dog waste.

Works brilliantly... if you have room for 2 wheelies and several boxes. They do stack and we keep ours in garage, though as the lids are watertight some people keep them outside.

I live in Westminster and we get none. But I can understand why.

I live in a flat and there is no outside space - our front door to our block opens right onto the very narrow pavement so there is nowhere to store recycling boxes or bags. If we had individual boxes or bags, they would just be left on the street and then there would presumably be 22 bags or baxes hanging around until the owner picked them up again.

We don't even have anywhere proper to put our ordinary rubbish - it just gets piled up under a lamppost round the corner as there is no room for a big black bin.

We do, however, get twice daily (yes daily!) rubbish collection, which is nice. Because the street is lined with restaurants and bars so they produce vast amounts of waste every day.

I try to gather up paper and take it to the nearest recycling bin but it can only be as much as I can carry because you can't really drive round here (congestion charge so would have to register just to pop round the corner to recycle).

Greater Manchester in a block of flats is hopeless. All we have are big dumpsters for everything. No recycling provided whatsoever. As we don't have a car to drive recycling to central depots, DH does midnight recycling missions to the bins of the people who live in detached or terraced houses (why do they get recycling bins but not us?) on the night before collection. Even those bins only take paper and glass so we've started buying milk and glass bottles and try not to buy canned food.

We get weekly wheelie bin for ordinary rubbish and fortnightly recycling collection which is in a smallish black box, they take paper (no card or envelopes)cans, glass, and plastic bottles (no other plastic), and batteries which you have to put in a separate labelled bag on the top. They are quite fussy, the stuff all has to be in separate bags, extra bags by the side not on top - or they won't take it. And put a note through your door! That's a bit annoying, and I wish they took more stuff, especially card and other plastics. But, best of all we get a weekly food rubbish collection, this is just a trial at the moment, but it's brilliant, you have a sealed bin and free cornstarch liners and you can put all food waste, cooked and uncooked, including bones, coffee grounds, eggshells, leftovers etc.

Forgot to say - this is in Newcastle upon Tyne. The black box for recycling is too small and doesn't have a lid which means that you can't put the stuff outside before the collection day. My parents live in Northumberland and they have two wheelie bins which alternate weekly, general rubbish and recyc, but the recyc doesn't take glass so they have to take glass to the bottle bank.

Teesside
green bin - biweekly - all waste
blue box - biweekly - glass, paper
white bag - biweekly - cardboard, plastic
brown bin - biweekly - garden waste

works perfectly and if we have any bulky items there is a recycling depot 5min drive away.

we get weekly green recycling bin collection which takeseverything but plastic
weekly food scraps colletion, fortnightly garden waste/thick card collection.

then normal rubbish every week.

Cambridgeshire - we haev 3 wheely bins, one for normal rubbish fortnightly, one for recycling (no glass) fortnightly and one for garden waste fortnightly (yes two of them are the same week..!).

It's very good and I think our district council is listed as one of the best in the country.

However, we are fortunate enough to have room for 3 wheely bins, which I am sure many aren't.

Glasgow:
Green bin weekly: non re-cyclable rubbish

Blue bin every four weeks: paper, cans (tin and aluminium), plastic. No cardborad or glass

Brown bin every two weeks (4 weeks in winter): organic waste

They used to do glass in a box they supplied, but stopped (without telling us) and increased the number of local glass bottle banks.

pb I wish that they did the blue bin more often (Glasgow) - we fill it ina fortnight (even crushed down, we get through a lot of milk containers. So we end up at Morrisons with the recycling quite a lot!

Rubbish in a black wheely bin collected fortnightly

Recycling in a green wheely bin collected fortnightly (on oppsite weeks)

will NOT collect rubbish if bin lid isnt completely closed

Refused to collect a rubbish bin a couple of weeks ago (containing 2 weeks rubbish) cause a bunch of dead flowers from the supermarket was in there and apparently they are not household waste

My council has just started a weekly refuse/recycling collection - it used to be a fortnightly recycling collection and weekly refuse. They'll only accept glass, tins/cans or paper in the boxes - cardboard, 'household refuse' or garden waste contaminates the boxes and they won't empty them.

I actually temped for the refuse agency earlier this year and they write reports on whose contaminated their recycling bins or who didn't put their refuse out.

London Borough of Redbridge btw

Cambridge City:
alternate weeks

Black wheely bin (general rubbish) and blue box (plastic bottles)

Green wheely bin (garden waste, food waste, cardboard) and black box (glass, paper, tins)

Seems to work well, despite whining from some people in the local paper.

Wilts - fortnightly grey wheelie bin collection.
Fortnightly green wheelie bin- garden waste only.
Fprtnightly coolection of black box - paper, glass, tin, shoes and fabrics in a separate bag.

I take our plastic and cradboard to the Co Op recycling bins when I am passing, or take yogurt pots etc into scjhool for them to use.

We have a composter in the garden too.

Our council is excellent (Clacks)

General waste collected fortnightly
Blue box for glass/plastic/paper/clothing/tin collected weekly
Brown bin for garden waste and cardboard

Our local tip recycles as much as possible too. Considering this is the smallest county, it's recycling efforts is very impressive.

Hey JulesJules!

What's this about weekly food waste collection? Where in Newcastle do you live? I'm in Heaton and that hasn't been offered to me.