So, all of you who recycle everything...

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...a few questions

What do you recycle?
Where do you store it?
What do you store it in?
Where do you take it?

Am trying to be more 'green' as only currently recycle glass simply because we have a box for this and the bin men take it.

TIA

Compost-about to start this (couldn't face this and the reusable nappies but got that sorted now,and the nappies will be passed on)

Council collect glass,tins and paper.

No plastic facilities yet,but will be soon.

Old clothes go to charities or get passed on.

Anything else to charity shops as well.

If you buy stuff that is as unpackaged as poss,it helps. Also,buying in bulk.

Save plastic bags and take to shops,or buy some big tough bags.

Recycle Cardboard/Paper - In box collected by council.
Recycle Garden Waste/Food Waste- In bin collected by council.
Tins, Glass and Plastic - Box next to bin took to the recycling place just up the road by car when theres loads or walked when Im organised...at the moment its overflowing and looks awful Beer can alley!
Take own cariers to supermarket too!
Plastic toys boxes are good for storing/taking to recycling centre.
Stored outside next to wheelybins.

Newspapers, cardboard, junk mail, tin cans, plastic bottles etc taken by council once every 2 weeks. Stored in a kitchen cupboard. Ahve a couple of smaller boxes in there but stuff is basically chucked in willynilly.

Glass bottles and jars - not collected by council. Kept on kitchen window sill until I remember to take them to local bottle bank. Local bottle bank has just moved and I haven't been for months so entire kitchen in danger of vanishing under beer, wine and passata bottles!

Plastic bags in a kitchen drawer, used for picking up dog crap or re-used for shopping (along with about 4 reusuables)

No collection for food waste...leftovers go to the dogs...manky rotten stuff from back of fridge goes in the bin.

Clothes to charity shop, or if they are dead I strip them of zips and buttons before chucking them.

Garden waste sits in a pile in the garden until I take it to the tip (is turning into unintentional compost heap at the moment - but we have no need for compost unfortuantely as we don't have a garden more of a back yard with a couple of overgrown shrubs and some pots)

Store in utility or garage

We have a kerbside collection fortnightly and they take glass, tins and paper.
In my back garden I have two receptacles for plastic bottles and cartons. Once a month, on his way to work Dh recycles the plastics in a Tesco's. The cartons are done once a month at the local Sainbury's when we do a shop.
Oxfam get clothes via one of their bins the same day.
Cardboard packaging and cards plus any personal details on paper such as statements is shredded and soaked, in water for a fortnight, in a bin in the back garden. When it's mushy it gets made into 'bricks' which we dry out and give to my mam n dad, who use them on their fires to heat their house and water in the winter instead of coal. Each brick burns for 45 minutes.
We have a Bakashi bin in the kitchen into which we put all kitchen scraps, cooked or raw which it makes into compost. We also have a compost bin in the back garden for outdoor waster like grass etc.
We don't use carrier bags but have reusable bags you can get from the supermarkets for 50p I think. If someone does bring a plastic bag to the house, Sainsbury's recycle them instore.
Batteries, light bulbs and old mobiles go somewhere too, but I'll be honest, Dh does it so I'm not sure where he goes and he only does this once a year.
Generally, if it can't be recycled we don't buy it.
Think that's it, but if I remember anymore I'll post again.

Actually considering a wormery for kitchen waste...

Grey water from condenser dryer is used to water plants indoors, the fluff from the dryer door collector is saved in a tub and I hang it out in a coil hanger in Spring for the birds to feather their nests with!

sorky, i have always wondered what to do with fluff from dryer.

Brill sorky!
I keep old containers for children to paly with.Filleggboxeswith toys and bits for the baby.
Also pass them on to the farm/nursery where dd goes as they sell eggs.

Save all scrap paper for notepaper and for kids to paint/draw.

Once you start this stuff,it is really addictive.

We have a wormery and its ace! Been using it for just over 3 years and havn't had to buy new worms yet, it makes compost and a fantastic liquid feed which is pretty potent stuff! Kids love using it and it eats all our household veg peelings.

What is purpose of wormeryt?
To make good soil??

Used to have a fun way of recycling fluff. Good for backpackers, outdoor types and friends living in cabins w/real fireplaces.

Take cardboard egg cartons and cut into individual cups. Fill cups w/fluff. Pour melted beeswax over and allow to harden.

Voila! A lightweight, dry firestarter to use in place of kindling sticks.

My dad's got a wormery. Uses the compost to mulch his tomatoes. Brill stuff!

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to know birds have cosy nests somewhere .
I'd love a wormery! Dh is thinking of getting one for the allotment, money just tight atm.
I did score rather high on the lentil weaver survey, Moondog

The worms eat your waste very effectively! What you are left with is very fine very rich compost for the garden and a liquid feed for plants.

We have a textile recyling bin in walking distance to us.

heres the link to wiggly wigglers! worms!

Paper, glass, plastic, tins gets put in the green box and collected by the council every week with the rubbish. We pay a yearly amount for an extra brown wheely bin where we can put cardboard and garden waste (fab). We have 2 of these in the kitchen - one for the green bin, one for cardboard before they go out into the ones outside.

Children's clothes go to friends, ditto some toys, the rest, plus adult clothes, go to charity shop. So far we just chuck food waste in the bin. Shredder waste goes to a friend who uses it to make briquette things for using on her fire.

On a daily basis we recycle all plastic bottles, tins, paper, card. I have a great stacking box system in my kitchen cupboard (recommended by Mrs Badger) where I seperate and collect them - find it's much easier to do it if it's almost next to the bin. Newspapers and magazines and glass bottles go straight out into the council box in my porch.

Council collects every fortnight.

We have a wormery in the garden which is great and that takes all left over organic waste - food, tea bags, egg shells etc. It means our bin is virtually odour free.

At the end of our road there is a charity clothes bank and I take all old clothes, kids shoes etc there. I'm planning to do a car boot sale soon and anything that doesn't go will be taken to charity shops or put on Freecycle.

According to my washing machine instructions, water from condenser and be used for car batteries and iron, as I think it becomes de-ionised. Haven't used it for car, but I do use it in iron.

Freecycle is strangely addictive. I've found grateful takers for some really unpromising junk.

When my dp shops he often takes the cereal etc out of the carboard boxes just outside the supermarket and puts them straight into the cardboard recycling thing there

glass, paper, tins, old clothes - weekly, binmen take it, we keep it by the front door in the communal hallway in a green box
plastic bottles - take these and any extra plastic bags to sainsbury's
food - we have a compost bin
cardboard - take it to school/nursery for the little darlings to recycle it into something creative

Thanks for the link HM.Are you Heather???
Great website.

When I shop at the supermarket,(not often) I unpack stuff from unnecessary packaging and (politely) give it to the cashier
eg toothpaste cartons.

I like to think I am passing on the message.

Nice one Moondog