how much waste does your household produce in a week?

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in terms of bin bags/recycling boxes(?)full?

i am just wondering as i have no recycling boxes yet,and we currently fill our wheelie bin 4 days after the refuse collection.i have seen the boxes though and they look pretty small,so i cant see the superfluos bin bags(which get ripped apart by seagulls)issue being resolved.

but i am willing to listen to waste-reducing advice as long as it doesnt involve cloth nappies

As a rubbish bag costs ?5.65 where I live (and the rubbish won't be collected unless it's in the right bag) we manage only putting out one rubbish bag each fortnight.

Recycling takes over the garden tho!

Where I live you have to have six in your family and you get a large bin and you can as many food and recycling boxes as you wish.

11 of us, 10 when ds at uni. We average
1 black bin a week
2 recycling boxes a fortnight.
Compost what we can.
Reusable nappies.

Very occassional run to the tip.

6 of us. We fill 3 wheelie bins (for paper/glass/plasic recycling every 2 weeks). We also fill two normal green wheelie bins every fortnight and the last few weeks 3 brown wheelie bins with garden waste every week.

far too much...and we have no nappies anymore to fill the bins.

2 'little bins' per week (they are the 'rubbish bins')

and 2 recycling bins every two weeks, and they are huge too!!!

no compost facilities here as teeny garden and garden waste is not collected as yet....

Do you all stand on your milk cartons to flatten them?

Family of eight - we fill a wheelie bin every week. We have two, but only touch the second one if we are doing major cleaning.

I have a big toybox (the kind with the rope handles), that I have outside for plastic bottles, and I take it to Sainsbury's about once a month for emptying (I hate that job).

We send out two recycling bins for kerbside pick up per week (glass and newspaper).

We compost kitchen and garden waste, and the odd bit of cardboard. We could probably compost more.

Family of four:

three or four carrier bags full per week.

We recycle all paper, card, food scraps, glass bottles, plastic bottles, cartens, tins and cans.

Also used washable nappies (mostly). The rabbit helps recycle vegetables and I've learnt to make soup with the parts of vegetables that I would usually throw away - the leaves of leeks for example.

Family of 6 - 1 wheelie bin of normal waste every fortnight & 1 wheelie bin of recyclables (card, paper, tins, plastic bottels) every fortnight. The only time either bin is near to being full is at Christmas or if we're having a clearout.
Glass goes to the glass bin along the road; tetrapacks to the recycling centre in the next local authority's area whenever we're passing (our council doesn't recycle them); garden waste in our third wheelie bin and we compost what we can. Must say composting has made a huge difference.