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.

Currently:

Black wheelie for normal waste - weekly
Then they alternate each week between collecting either:
Brown wheelie for garden waste (not soil) and cardboard (which can't exceed 25% of total ).
Black and blue boxes for paper and glass (which they don't give us a lid for, so they have to live permanently outside the front gate, or dd smashes the glass).

As of 2 weeks time, they will also collect tins, but our black wheelie collection will go down to once a fortnight. As if just tins will half our rubbish .

This is North Herts btw.

Black box - bottles, cans - plastic bottles to be added next month
Blue bag - paper, textiles - cardboard to be added next month
Green bin - all kitchen waste, incl cooked food, meat etc
Garden Waste - additional charge, just leave in bag in front garden

Brilliant. Can take all other plastic to tesco car park

Only problem is nowhere to recyle envelopes, but tend to reuse them - havent bought an envelope for years

Swindon:
Black bags of normal waste - weekly - soon to change to wheelie bin fortnightly
Cardboard, paper, glass, tins, clothes - weekly
Plastic bottles - fortnightly (if they actually turned up!)

Hello LaDiDaDi [waves]
I think they are only trying it out in small areas, I'm in Gosforth, my sister less than half a mile away hasn't got it, and friends in South Gosforth haven't. It's really good, I hope they keep it going.

[waves back at JulesJules]

Oh well, hope they roll it out everywhere.

Crumbs, some of you have super-duper schemes. In Aberdeenshire we get a fortnightly wheelie bin collection and a monthly paper collection (but they won't take envelopes, greetings cards, wrapping paper and a whole long list of other forbidden items). That's it.

Here in Lagos, waste gets chucked at the side of the road until it rots away.

Black Wheelie Bin - general waste
Green Box - Glass and cans
Blue Bag - Plastic bottles
Green Bag - Garden Waste
Clear Bag - Newspapers and magazines.

All collected once a week on the same day.

I'm in South West Wales.

(I have heard a rumor that they do not recycle the plastic bottles because they do not have the facilities in Wales but are "training the population to recycle"??

Cherwell, north Oxfordshire:

We have general green wheely bin emptied fortnightly
blue wheely bin or boxes (pay Council for bin, boxes free) for plastic, paper, card, tin
brown weely bin (provided by Council) for garden waste
blue and brown collected fortnightly on the alternate weeks
Also given a strong bag to put bottles in which is big enough to carry to the bottle bank without being too heavy. Bottle banks and battery banks provided locally.

Would love kitchen food waste disposal, but do compost everything we possibly can.

Our blue bin is generally far fuller than the normal green one.

Here in Runnymede (Surrey), we have weekly wheely bin collection (max 2 wheelie bins per household, and all wheelie bins have to be compltely closed). We also have weekly recycling collection - glass, steel and aluminium cans, paper.