Anyone found a good system for sorting out rubbish/recycling? - very boring

[saadia]

I live in an area where recycling is compulsory and we have three different bins outside the house for for different types of rubbish. ATM I have two bins in the kitchen and various plastic bags all sorted by type of rubbish and it's all really getting to me because food waste has to be wrapped in newspaper, I have to make sure that the wrong thing doesn't go in the wrong place or else it won't be collected. What I need is a sort of compartmentalised refuse container which I can label so that dh, and everyone else who comes here knows where to chuck stuff - would be immensely grateful if anyone knows of such a thing.

Is the food waste compostable and do you have a garden? Our local council sells VERY inexpensive (subsidised) composting bins for gardens and we get a free little dinky compost collection bin that sits on my worktop and collects scrapings.

As for the other stuff, I bought plastic boxes from IKEA and put sticky labels on them at home. Not much help I guess but it works for me.

I have a corner unit - it used to have a carousel in it

The carousel went & I have 3 different bins (rubbish/glass & "Plastic & tins"

Plus a veggie rack with confidential for shredding, newsapaper & recyclable paper

Food goes in an ice cream carton on the draining board one for compost one for the chickens

thanks rantum, yes we do have a garden and I am not sure if the food waste is compostable - I presume it is, but as I am not a keen gardener (or any kind of gardener) I wouldn't really know what to do with it.

But, the IKEA box idea sounds good might have to do that.

thanks katymac, that sounds like a good system. I think I need to be a lot more organised as I am slowly going potty with having to wrap every teabag in newspaper.

you could see if your local council do a composting scheme where they collect it as teabags, raw veg, eggshells, eggboxes, and some others i cant remember can be composted so it would save a lot on what you acctually throw away.

for normal recycling i just have a box inside a cupboard in m kitchen and shove it all in (once cleaned out etc) and sort it all out once a week, may take a bit longer but it easier for us as i dont have room for lots of boxes!!

sleepless, they do collect all that stuff. Food and garden stuff goes in one place so I guess that is all used for composting. I think the best thing would be to just get ordinary boxes with lids and label those. Thanks for all your help everyone.

you can buy compartmentalised bins in Germany - I have one.
my different categories are:
paper/card, glass, tins
tetrapaks
crinkly plastic
plastic bottles
plastic cartons
general rubbish

so I also have a few plastic bags hanging around. Need another compartmentalised bin, but must get a bigger kitchen first.

whats a tetrapak???? sorry intrigued now!

tetrapaks are basically the rectangular boxes that juice come it
man who invented tetrapaks v v v v rich

oh i see, like orange juice cartons, we cant recycle them here coz of the wax lining or summit!

The home recycling website has loads of things you could use - they have a whole section on segregated bins and we have a couple of these stacking ones in the kitchen for recycling stuff.

Nightynight - do you live in Germany or did you buy your bin from a website? Can we get them in the UK?

I have this issue too - can't find a good solution and is irritating and boring at the same time.

You are not alone and will steal all your ideas.

Good thread!

JackieNo - brilliant link!

I bought it at Aldi!

I have shelves behind my kitchen door. One for glass, one for plastic and one for tin.
Paper gets throw outside into council box.

thanks again everyone, JackiNo, that stacking bin looks very good and not too pricey and seems to have quite a good capacity.

THose stacking bins look good and reasonable.our kitchen is always littered with recycling waiting to go out and dp is awful at recycling meaning that I often ahve to go through our rubbish and sort it. These may encourage him to have a go at sorting the rubbish.

Bear in mind that the price is per bin, not per 2 or 3 as in the pic. Just remembered that Ikea do similar ones that are a bit cheaper, but you have to factor in actually going to Ikea and buying loads of stuff you never knew you needed at the same time, so the more expensive ones may work out cheaper in the long run.

I keep things outside and try to get to the tip every 2 weeks or so with plastics - or if I'm in the car I'll chuck the glass/tins/papers in too and stop off at a Tescos or place where they have the big green recycling bins and do it that way

I've stopped buhing juice in tetrapaks now as I can't recycle (well you can, but can't be bothered shipping them all off to wherever it is, too much effort)

Exactly twinset and Dimpledthighs - it's just so annoying to have to do but obviously worthwhile and I do think that with simple organisation - really keen on the stacking bins - errors could be avoided. We once went three weeks without having our rubbish collected because a small piece of plastic was mistakenly put in the food-waste bin.

Does Aldi still sell them do you know?

Aldi has a different offer each week. you have to get their advertising literature, work out what you want and get there before its sold out, becuase the quality is v v good for the prices.
(I bought dd's summer shoes there, they are elefanten quality and cost c 12 euros)
They tend to repeat their offers each year, the bins were around the end of March.

so next year maybe - agree btw, I do like alot of Aldi stuff.