What do you use for indoor recycling stuff??

[Nemo2007]

Our council provide a small box for outdoors for them to collect stuff, however we recycle tins,plastic,paper and glass so there is loads. At the min we use carrier bags for each thing on hooks but it is messy and a nightmare so we need something better.

Put the recycling bin very very close to the back door, so you can reach it without having to get your feet wet.

Our local council provide clear plastic sacks for indoor recycling stuff...card, paper, cans, etc...everything really apart from glass and polystyrene. It then gets collected with the rest of the weekly rubbish.

I've got a couple of large lidded boxes that live outside the back door, and a hessian bag in the kitchen that has 3 sections in it, so stuff into bag, when bag full out the back door into the boxes Then on supermarket shop day into the back of the car to be emptied.

You could maybe buy a seperate pedal bin type thing and put it next to..behind your kitchen bin...my bag hangs behind the main bin..

I bought an extra metal kitchen bin, so that one holds the vegetable/cardboard, and the other has all the plastic/tins/glass in it. I also have a bin on the door under the sink iyswim for normal rubbish
Then i make sure dh empties them all

We have a saucepan draw that is big enough to fit one of those plastic toy box type things in. It then gets transferred outside to the proper recycling box .

themoon we cant get out our backdoor as we blocked it off with a second freezer as we only had a fridgefreezer with small space.

We've got 2 of these - one for cardboard, and the other for all the other stuff that we can recycle (paper, cans, glass etc). They stack, so don't take up too much room.

See the other problem is council only collect stuff every fortnight and ours kids go through at least a 6 pint of milk a day.

jackieno those boxes look great.
They gave us a huge wheelie bin for cardboard and garden waste..its all a bit mad as they seem to be trying to work out how to do it.

That site is great, Nemo - though I think Ikea might do something similar for less money (as usual!).

We've got a wheelie bin for cardboard and garden/vegetable/fruit waste. You'd be amazed how full it gets each fortnight

mmm might pop up there to have a look this week.

Here you go . Bit cheaper.

marymoocow they said our garden one can only take grass and cuttings, nothing about food?

JackieNo excellent thanks

Ours is the same Nemo - cardboard and garden waste, but no food waste, unfortunately. Still A Good Thing, though.

This is a real bug bear of mine. I WANT to recycle and I DO recycle.. and I guess I am lucky that we get a fortnightly collection of paper/cardboard.. but by the time that collection occurs, outside my backdoor is a horrid, unsightly and probably unhygienic mess of wet paper and card!

I tend to throw it out by the backdoor for a while.. but that pile gets too huge and you end up nearly peeing yourself when you unknowingly trot off to the downstairs loo with a very full bladder then find you have to scale a mountain in order to get there..

Plastic lives in a bin bag that also lurks around the same area or blows around the garden!

And foil/alluminium often tends to NOT get recycled at the moment because there's just NO space!

I was going to start a thread about this myself... I'm sure a lot more recycling would happen if there was PROPER provision for us to do it. (Forgot to say I have to drive my plastic to a neighbouring TOWN to recycle it! )

We are supposed to be getting blue wheely bins some time this year.. for ALL recyclable stuff.. which would be a great improvement. But they were promising us those last year as well..

we have a food recycling bin for kitchen scraps, with a biodegradable bag in it. I put plastic bottles and tins etc in a plastic bag in kitchen , I ve made it DS 1 special job to take out the recycling everyday. He is very pleased with this , he gets paid 50p a week.

shiny ours only added tins and plastic this week but no extra provisions for it apparently our area is 8th worst in country for recycling. They are obviously trying to do something about it but needs to be more user friendly to get more people involved IMO.

Mine doesn't take plastic and the only way i can recycle it is to carry it into town 9nearly a mile) with a buggy and 3yr old walking.
At the moment i have a plastic bottle mountain by the back door!
Don't take cardboard either so that gets binned (no cardboard recycling in town!).
All i get to recycle is tins, foil and paper. Oh and we have food collection too.

i have these

brilliant and only cost a fiver. i put them at the back of our garage which has a door from the kitchen