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Help with son's survey please

Hi My son is doing about ls doing sbout Landfill at school. Could you MSEers answer few questions about rubbish please.
1. How many adults inyour house?
2. How many children?
3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).

Many thanks and I apologise if this is in the wrong section.
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  • TAG
    TAG Posts: 2,823 Forumite
    2 adults
    2 children
    1 sack a week
    Fill 1 or 2 recycling boxes
    Everything else goes ion the compost bin

    HTH

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  • hm71_2
    hm71_2 Posts: 1,980 Forumite
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    2 adults
    3 children
    3 sacks a week
    Fill 2 recycling boxes
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  • 2 adults
    1 child
    2 black sacks
    2 boxes of glass/plastic recycling
    1 box paper/cardboard recycling
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    1. How many adults inyour house?
    2. How many children?
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).
    1. one
    2. none
    3. 1/6th
    4. 1/6th
  • ka7e
    ka7e Posts: 3,132 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic
    4 adults
    1 black sack
    1 very full box paper, glass, metal per fortnight
    Cardboard, wood and plastics also recycled at tip
    Green waste in compost bin
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  • 1) Two adults
    2) None
    3) 1 Sack
    4) None - we take ours to the supermarket bins because it is easier ]
  • isme_2
    isme_2 Posts: 141 Forumite
    Hi My son is doing about ls doing sbout Landfill at school. Could you MSEers answer few questions about rubbish please.
    1. How many adults inyour house?
    2. How many children?
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).

    1. 2
    2. 3
    3. about 1 a day..
    4. no idea, we dont have bags or boxes for recycling, we just take it out and put into the metal bin when i have it... sorry...
  • Hi My son is doing about ls doing sbout Landfill at school. Could you MSEers answer few questions about rubbish please.
    1. How many adults inyour house?
    2. How many children?
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman?
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste).

    Many thanks and I apologise if this is in the wrong section.

    1. 2
    2. 0
    3. 1
    4. Don't have a recycling box yet but it's supposed to be coming later this month. At present take several carriers of plastic bottles/tins/glass and some cardboard to supermarket bins as necessary. Keeping back some jars for jam/chutney making! Compost as much as I
    can.
    :wave:
  • 1. 4 Adults
    2. 0 Children
    3. 3 sacks
    4. 2 very full boxes.

    HTH x
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  • kisto
    kisto Posts: 7,075 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    1. How many adults in your house? 1
    2. How many children? 2
    3. How many black sacks per week do you put out for the dustman? 1 - 2
    4. How many bags of recycling do you put out per week? (not garden waste). 1 box of glass/plastic, and we also have a big green wheelie bin which I mainly use for cardboards (but you can put garden waste in it too). This is collected fortnightly.
    :T*Thanks to all who posts comps * :j
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