Recycling-what will your council take?and in what?

[MerlinsBeard]

Following on from another thread, what containers do you have for your kerbside recycling? and what are you allowed to put in it?

Big plastic box: tins, cans and glass mixed (the nimble fingered recycling team sort them at the lorry)

Big plastic bag: paper

Brown wheelie bin: garden rubbish and small cardboard such as cereal packets.

Any old bag: clothes etc to Salvation Army

Rest is in black wheelie bin.

Not taken: plastic bottles(bank in village), food stuff (compost it myself), big cardboard boxes (take to local tip).

We are Hinckley & Bosworth in Leicestershire, apparently they score well for their percentage recycled.

Glass, newspaper, and cans.

All have to be bagged seperately then put in a black box, and are collected once a fortnight.

White Sack - Cardboard and plastics
Green Box Tins, cans and Glass
Blue Bag - Paper (not envelopes)
Large Green Wheely Bin - Garden waste
Normal Wheely bin - fortnightly collection

We also have our own compost bin, so our Green bin is empty all the time.

Big green wheelie - cardboard, paper, tins and plastic. Fortnightly collections.

Green sack for garden waste betwen April and November ( can put out one bin bag of garden waste a week during Dec-March with 'normal' rubbish). (not sure how often they collect)

Weekly collection of big brown wheelie bin for household unrecyclables.

Discounts available on composters.

No glass. But there is a bottle bank down the road and round the corner.

We don't have kerbside recycling - too rural.

But the nearest town has a free dump with vast skips for pretty much everything (which are never full up) - I save up about 3 months worth before going.

green bin for bottles and cans, green boxes for paper and card. Paper bags that you buy locally or a brown bin (also chargeable) for garden waste. No glass. Crap really. They are supposed to be changing it soon though when they open the new plant so that everything goes in the green bin.

we have a black bin for rubbish

and a grin bin for recycling:
in the green bin we CAN put
newspaper / mags / any paper /junk mail
card board boxes / packest etc
plastic bottles
aluminium cans
food cans

No
Glass
tetra pack
wrapping paper
yogurt pots or ice cream or margaerine containers
foil
compostable things
food waste

Tesco give me 1 club card points for ever 4 items of glass i recycle so i take my glass there

A paper bin in which we cannot put greetings cards, wrapping paper, grey-backed card, shiny paper, envelopes and so on and so forth.....

Brown wheelie bin for all food stuffs and garden waste.
Black box for plastic, cans and tinfoil packaging
Maroon box for glass
Green Box for paper & card
Green Wheelie for anything else
Umpteeeen plastic bags for charity every other day through the door!

Pretty much everything really.

Blue box for glass
Clear bags for plastic bottles, carrier bags, paper, card, tins.
White (biodegradable) bags for garden waste, but not kichen waste.

All collected fortnightly, unlimited amounts.

Black wheelybin for everything else the weeks inbetween.

we have
a general paper box
brown paper compost bags (they take cardboard and cooked and uncooked food stuffs as well as other compostables)
Glass box
tins/metal box
plastics bin at local primary school
tetrapak recycling at local primary school

The only things that go into our black bin bag is cling film some plastic packaging, plastic windows from envelopes, elastic bands stuff like that. (oh and 14 nappies one each night)

We usually put out 1 bin bag per fortnight

I wish they took plastics - they do in the next village but they don't take glass there.

We also have textile collection every three months, and are due our first battery collecion in Feb. (Small card box for household batteries, not car ones!)

wow some councils are great (and a tad confusing) about recycling!

Ours is crap!

We have a white bag for paper,newspapers,junk mail,magazines but NO dyed paper,envelopes or cardboard

a green/black box for cans and glass (have to be seperated and washed with no labels on)

Some households have a green wheelie bin for garden waste as well but can't have one(long story)

Now they have issued us with a roll of 60 bluey clear bags (replacing black bin liners) so they can see in to see if we are recycling properly. There is no cardboard collectionm so can't put that in the blue bag, no plastics collection so can't put that in the bag.

I know it sounds like i am being lazy but i don't drive, am currently 31 weeks pregnant and have a 2.5 yo and a 4.5 yo. The trip to my local tip is faaaaar and i can't recycle plastics there despite what it says on teh website!

I can however recycle tetra paks in my local co op....yey - except that thats a really far walk in the opposite direction to the tip!!

omg sorry

i started to rant at the end didn't i?

Glass, plastic, aliminium, card, paper, tins, tetrapaks. We put them all in orange bags and they are collected weekly on a Friday. No sorting required.

We have rolls and rolls and rolls of clear recycling bags (am I the only one who sees the irony in how unenvironmentally sound these are - use boxes and bins ffs!) These have to be separated into metal and plastic (washed). One for paper (not newpapers/telephone books) Newpapers have to go in a carrier bag at the side and telephone books in a seperate carrier bag. A green wheelie bin for garden waste and veg peelings (which we don't use as we have a compost bin). They don't have anything for glass - we take that to the supermarket recycling bay. We have about 10 bags pushed thru the door a week collecting bric a brac/clothes etc for charity shops and not one has ever been collected!!! (DH had to take them all to the charity shop HQ place in the end - shop wouldn't take them).
They make this being a good human business difficult don't they

Only yesterday we had a letter from the local Council announcing new improved kerbside recycling in our area.

Will take recycled stuff every week - bottles, plastic, aerosols, cardboard, batteries, garden/food waste. (Although we have our own compost heap anyway).

Every other week they will take non-recyclable rubbish.

All appropriate bins to be supplied and a "food caddy" for the kitchen too if you want one.

Brilliant. Such an improvement.

our council use a crap contractor for their recycing as well. We have a small black box for glass, tins and paper - no windows from envelopes and no dyed paper, no plastic or cardboard. Council will issue a green wheelie bin for garden rubbish.

Don't worry mumofmosters, think of it this way, by not driving you are doing the environment a favour!

lol weezle, i guess you could say ithat by not driving i get to fill landfill with plastic

We have discount composters available too but we have a ban on home composting at mo, on my row at least,because there has been a recent rat problem - that could be because you don't always collect the rubbish you steeyoopid council!

We have a 240l Brown recycling bin which takes all paper, card, plastic bottles, Plastics with a 1 or 2 code, tins, aerosols.

A green bin for garden waste, and a grey bin for non recyclables.

All collected once a fortnight.

I have to take glass and tetrapaks to the local Tescos (about 5 minutes away)

We also have discounted home composters and garden caddies, so we have just got one and started composting.

Can I just add my council, Wandsworth, is wonderful.

We have glass,cans and paper.You only get a green bin if you have a garden so I take mine to my Grandads. I take plastic, foil, card, to recycling place and compost at home.

this looks like the best place for my rant/recycling info!

We can recycle pretty much everything- except bottles, but i'm yet to hear of a council that will take these on kerbside collection (apologies if someone above has this facility, i'll be honest, i'm tired and got bored of reading!!)

However- we are now back on black bags for non-recyclables, and clear plastic bags (plastic bags?? very eco-friendly!!!!) as someone complained about our wheelie bins blocking the path- apparently they tried to get a wheelchair past at 5am on collection day... only problem with their complaint being that our bins went out at 7am and were the first ones out!! (The recycling man decided it was "malicious", and probably came from our neighbour who campaigned against the wheelies!)

Therefore we now don't have a kitchen waste bin, and so don't "recycle" kitchen waste- i'm terrified of getting rats under a compost bin as we have a very small garden- any good ideas for this please???

black box: paper
brown sacks: compostables & cardboard
Plastic sack: plastic bottles
then glass & tins in separate carrier bags (although could put in own boxes)
once a fortnight