Bins, bins, and more bins

[mydamnfootstuckinthedoor]

We now have 5 (yes, 5!) different coloured bins in Angus - , green, purple, grey, blue, and two brown ones inc the little "indoors" caddy that I don't use as it attracts mice. In spite of these 5 lovelies lined up in our garden, we are expected to take our glass - not all types of glass, mind you - to a glass recycling point. AIBU to think that enough is enough? The rubbish sorting rules have got out of hand, and the world is being taken over by BINS!

Weird about the glass but we’re in a bit of a battle with UKG over that. I quite like my multiple bags/boxes but appreciate that not everyone has space for them. I’m quite proud because Wales is second best in the world for recycling so I do everything I can to help uphold it (also where I moved to in March has two bottle banks which are almost unheard of these days!)

The food caddy won't attract mice any more so than your regular bin.

We dont use the food caddy either, ut stinks! In East Lothian we only have 2 bins - main bin and garden. For everything else its an array of plastic tubs and even a 'weighted' bag - just what you need in a breezy town on the coast if you want rubbish to be blowing everywhere.

Fulll sized bins?

How often are they emptied and what goes in them ?

@StripedTomatoes My regular indoor bin stand 2 ft tall and has a flip lid. So far, no mice have ever managed to creep into it. The food caddy, however, was ditched after I opened it one day to find a cute little rodent peering up at me!

@greencartbluecart Yep, full sized bins. Emptied alternately at 2 week intervals - green bin (garden waste) emptied monthly .

We have 4 wheelie bins. One for glass and tins, one for garden rubbish, one for paper and cardboard and one for non recycling stuff. Plus a small one for food waste. Wheelies are emptied every 2 weeks, food one every week.

I have just the one (semi rural Fife) for general waste which is emptied weekly. We have to take everything else to the recycling centre. I wish we had 5!

But full size is daft - and a waste of plastic it shouI'd be a stacking system surely

Perthshire - three bins - green for general waste every two weeks, blue lid for cardboard every month, grey lid for cans and plastic every month

We actually have six as we have two of each but the council delivered a set when we registered to move in - and then delivered again - so we've kept the set of six. Means we never run out of bin space.

Glass we do however have to take to recycling ourselves.

I have wondered if thats along the lines of the minimum price of alcohol Puritanism arm of the Scottish government at play - alcohol is really the most common substance contained in glass bottles so therefore if you have to take the empties to be recycled then it more embarrassing for you.

4 full size plus a box for glass. Recycling and general waste and cardboard are only collected every 4 weeks as is the glass box.

The brown bin for garden and food waste is every 2 weeks but we pay an extra £50 a year to put garden waste in it.

4 weeks for a bin collection is tough going.

We have four in Fife - paper, general, garden and food (together) and plastic and metal (together). The collection pattern is so complicated that a local printer produces a printed calendar showing which bin goes out when. We have to take glass to a bottle bank.

I really like recycling! Yes, I’d rather not have 4 bins in my small garden, but I’d much rather that than see it all go to landfill. Since soft plastics recycling came in, I love seeing how much less goes in our landfill bin.

Same as me. and we have to book a slot to take stuff to the tip - which knowing our council is just the first step on the road to charging us to do so as we have the most expensive waste collection service in the whole of Scotland

We'll soon have 5 wheely bins plus an inside food caddy.

Brown bin: garden plus food waste. If you want the garden waste picked up, you have to pay an extra £50 (valid September-September) but they'll still pick up the food waste. Every fortnight (Wednesdays)

Blue and grey bins: cardboard, paper, plastic, plastic bottles, cans and tins (not sure of the exact split as they've not rolled out the grey bins yet). Alternate fortnights (so every 4 weeks per colour?), alternating with the brown bin on Wednesdays.

Purple bin: glass. Every 8 weeks on a Thursday.

Green bin: everything else. Every 3 weeks, also on Wednesdays. Often not full, unless one of the two households has been having a clear out.

I have recurring alarms set on my phone

As we share our driveway with our downstairs' neighbours, that will mean TEN bins on our drive!

Fortunately, we get on well with them and coordinate using the bins (ie share one until it's full then start on the other one) so we'll work out a way to push 5 of them under the holly tree, behind the current bins and just have 5 actually on the driveway.

Our previous neighbours wanted us to keep all the bins ("only" 6 - 2x3 - at the time ) at the entrance to our side of the garden, not even on our path round the back of the house (because their precious daughter might see it if she looked to the left out of her bedroom window) and if we didn't want that, we should tell the council to take away the blue bins "as nothing was really recycled".

They didn't want us to put any of the bins down at the bottom of the driveway like everyone else around us "because that's what the Asians do."

We told them to stop putting any bins at the entrance to our garden and we started leaving our own bins beside our garage opposite our front door - so much more obvious from the road as opposed to hidden at the bottom of the driveway by the holly tree They could put their 3 bins where they wanted on their side

Guess where we moved the bins the day they moved out

We're fortunate though that we have plenty of space

We have this setup. We don’t need/have the brown bin for garden rubbish so the others don’t take up much space in the garden.

recycling trolley/food bin is collected every friday, household bin every 3 weeks.

I don't mind it, we have 3 wheelie bins, a large recycling box and a food waste bin. It is quick and easy, really no hassle when you consider the benefits of recycling.

We have hardly any glass recycling and a glass recycling bin as the leisure centre down the street so that wouldn't be a problem.

Don't understand how the food bin would attract mice, keep it close and empty it daily.

We have 4 outside bins and a small indoor food caddy.

General waste - every 3 weeks
Cardboard/paper - every 3 weeks
Mixed recycling incl glass - every 3 weeks
Food/garden waste - every 2 weeks

We don't get charged for garden waste to be uplifted....yet!

We have types of 4 outside bins and a small indoor food caddy.

General waste - every 3 weeks
Mixed recycling incl paper, plastic - every 2 weeks
Glass - every 4 weeks
Food waste - every week

No garden waste option here

At the recycling centre on my side of Perth we have to stop at a barrier and say what we are recycling. On January 3rd I did that with a big box on the passenger seat. At the barrier I said "glass" and the man said "ground level, round that bend for your bottles". "It's all jam jars!" I replied.

in Ross-shire we've got 3 wheelie bins just now, a full size blue for card & paper collected every 4 weeks, full size green bin for plastic and metal also collected every 4 weeks and a slightly smaller grey bin for the rest collected every 2 weeks. we haven't been given a caddy for food or glass yet. I wouldn't used the food caddy anyway, we don't waste any food it a'' gets eaten and peelings go on our compost heap .The only real food waste I have is cooked bones but I keep them in the freezer until the night before the household bin gets collected and then they go in there. I wish they'd give us a bin for glass

Three full size in my part of London - recycling (every other week) landfill (every other week) garden (every week, costs £80 a year) and a small kerbside bin for food waste (every week).

We can put glass, paper and carboard in our recycling bin. If London can manage it, the rest of the country ought to be able to?

And actually I don't subscribe to the garden bin system. I can buy paper waste sacks from the council for £2 each and I use these and put them out - couple of bags a week in gardening season costs me less than the £80 per year.

5 full sized bins here also. Some emptied every 2 weeks, some every 3 weeks and the glass bin on a totally different day every 8 weeks i think. I feel lucky to have the space for them all but it really is quite bonkers.

We have three outside, black for general, green for recycling and brown for garden but we don’t pay for the collection for the latter, we just use the bin to store garden waste which we periodically take to the tip. We don’t use the glass one as there are big glass recycling bins down the street which don’t seem to be too full for us to use, I always feel like lady muck expecting a doorstop collection for glass for some random reason. Only time had mouse with food waste was when cat brought on in and let it go, was hiding under the sink and living on the caddy until we could get it out again.

Don’r have massive space outside but ok with the bin situation, is better than the stupid scheme they tried to bring the other month.

Ooh @mydamnfootstuckinthedoor we’re in Angus too, quite far north though we don’t have a blue bin. What have I got to look forward to with that one?!😆

Aberdeenshire - we have 3 full size and a Food Caddy
Black - general / landfill
Orange - may be paper/ cardboard
Blue - plastic, tins, food containers

I may have got the blue/ orange switched.

We work on a 3 week rotation, but Food Caddy can go out each week.
Glass has to be taken to the bottle bank , and we have to deal with garden waste by composting/ driving to weekly collection point/ driving to recycling centre.
This last bit drives me nuts. I swear I was lined up behind several neighbours to dump my garden waste last week. How green is that?

Used to live in Aberdeen where we paid extra for garden collections, and all recycling , including glass, was in one full size bin, collected every two weeks. Food waste went into garden brown bins, also full sized.

I guess geography plays its part, but I would think a bit of consistency might reap rewards.