Too many bins!

[CountessDracula]

We have just received yet another recycling bin thing from the council. Don't get me wrong I am very in favour of recycling but we now have in our miniscule front garden

Our normal bins (two black ones with lids)
A large box for recycling tins and glass only
A big blue bag for recycling paper (not cardboard, irritatingly)
A big green bin for food waste

FFS I can barely get in the front door for all these bins. And what on earth do people who live in flats do?

At the new house we have two bins - a black one and a blue one. We are due to get a green bin as well. daft thing is this is a brand new house with a purpose built alcove for the bin - but you can only fit one of them in there!

At the aparmtnet we had big shared bins, stored in a bin store room in the underground car park. In there were several large bins - both black ones and blue ones.

We have 3 bins black one which gets emptied every fortnight FFs the garden and street now stink especially with all the shity nappies my twins produce

Blue for plastic/paper recyclable cans
Brown for garden waste and foos stuffs.

I am a believer in helping the enviroment but god this area is now minging.

Once a fortnight is not enough for the black bin to be emptied and we have just been given the 300L one like that helps how>

OK, we have:

2 brown wheely bins
1 black wheely bin
1 big green box
1 food digester (currently out of use because it had maggots)
2 composters (not sure why 2)
1 wormery (though dh keeps killing the worms)

And that's for 3 of us

ahh jambuttie... you need to start using cloth nappies!

i think the problem is that a lot of people are in favour of recycling but very few actually would take the time to take stuff to a bigger recycling point.

this is the only way the councils can get people to recycle at all, which is a shame really.

we are in flats and have a big communal bin, but only for paper/cardboard!
strangely enough when initiating the new red bin scheme in our area they wasted an awful lot of paper by sending leaflets to all of our flats... despite the fact we wouldn't be having them! the fools

Cor, you're lucky! Our council has just gone over to wheelie bins. We now have a single wheelie bin, to be emptied fortnightly, and a recycling crate about the size of a kids toy box. That's it!! Oh, and the lorries the council has bought are too big to go along many of out narrow lanes so lots of people aren't even getting the two-weekly service. The local rag has been full of complaints for weeks now.

PS Our recycling isn't even collected.

we have 2 black bins (no wheely bins here ) a glass recycling box, a paper recycing box,and a garden recycing bin. I always forget the collection days for them too so I have papers in my paer box going back months

We have a green bin for landfill rubbish, a brown bin for compostable stuff and 2 paper bins that do take cardboard.

They dont recycle glass tin etc but I collect it and take it up to the recycling place.

Does anywhere recycle plastics?

SM... you need to wait until everyone else has put their box out... then just do the same!

I do look out for my neighbours to do that LOL but I keep forgetting.....

My MIL's recycling bin takes plastic, paper and cardboard, plus a box for glass only.

I live 10miles away but another area and or recycling bin takes paper and cardboard, the box is for glass and cans.

We both have a bin for garden waste but strictly no peelings???

It seems a fulltime job for someone in each household to keep track of what's going where, and when it's being collected.

Poor bin men - we're all so ratty about this at the moment, they won't be getting many Christmas tips this year!

we have 3 bins - green (normal, non-recycable waste); blue (recyclables - paper, card, tins and plastic bottles) and brown (garden waste)plus a composter.
I don't have a problem with this but I do have a garage to store the blue and green bins and a garden for the brown one. Glass bottles have to be taken to a recyling point, but again I'm lucky as there is one just five minutes walk away.
The green bin is collected every fortnight and tbh, despite there being 6 of us, I don't really find this a problem. Try to use cloth nappies for baby (smug emoticon) when I can.
Apparently, the two week collection 'regime' has been based on the life-cycle of the housefly. Presumably it takes them 2 weeks plus to hatch their eggs and become really maggoty and horrible.

We don't have plastic collected but there is s bin at tesco and asda although you have to sort it and the holes are like can hole so not everthing fits!
I usually go to the coop in the nextt town on the way to work as they take ALL plastic and have loads of containers with proper holes.

In our area we have just been given:

A brown wheelie bin - for garden waste (doesn't start getting emptied until March though)

A blue wheelie bin - certain plastics/cardboard/aluminium

A green wheelie bin - for all the other shite.

But we've got to go to the recycle points for glass.

Its not that bad except the alternate one week each..... can be a bit.... eh.... smelly!

We ahve the blue for plastic and glass, green for garden waste and cardboard, black for non recyclable and a bag for paper.

I have been trying to look for a kitchen bin that is compartmentalised so I do not have tins and jars all over my kitchen particularly now it is so cold and windy that I don't want to keep nipping to the garden.

No one recycles here! I am shocked about it. In the restaurant we have bottled water with labels on and no one recycles them. The company dont recycle either...what a waste of money. They just go in the bin with everything else.

collision, you should move the other side of the border! Here in staffs we have a box for everything except plastic and fortnightly collection (oh and a free composter). Are you in borough of congleton or somewhere else? congleton seem to be really up on it, I take our plastics up to alsager when I remember.

We are in Staffordshire/Cheshire not far from Newcastle Under Lyme. Where are you?

right down the bottom collision

Of course! Knew I recognised the name. Sorry.

Must arrange a meetup.