How many bags of rubbish do you put out? (MERGED)

ELIZA_D · 27 July 2008 at 11:21PM

I am a nerd for reycling,often pulling things out of my bin things that have been discarded by others in my home. I recycle,paper,plastic,tins,cans and glass.Yet i am still putting out 2-3 bags a week?? THere is myself 2 boys and their dad.I cannot understand how i am filling the !!!!!!s up.I am going to keep a careful eye on what i actually bin this week,but how about you lot??

~Chameleon~ · 27 July 2008 at 11:24PM

I put out one black bag most weeks, but occassionally it can be as many as 2 or 3 if we've been having a bit of a clear out

A couple of my neighbours manage to amass 12+ bags a week :eek: and don't recycle anything!!!! Really pees me off :mad: :mad: :mad:

ka7e · 27 July 2008 at 11:45PM

As well as the usual, our council accepts plastics and cardboard for recycling. Unfortunately they don't do a collection, you have to take it to the Recycling Facility (formerly known as the dump!). We wait until we have a bootload and take it when we are passing that way. I put out 1 bag per week, which is rarely full - but it is a 50l bag which is larger than the normal black sack.

waggys · 28 July 2008 at 12:01AM

We put 1 or 2 bags out a week in our wheelie bin and 4 recycling boxes - some of our neighbours fill 2 wheelie bins and don't bother with the recycling at all. We are a family of 5 and also ave a 'green' recycling bin for garden waste and herbivore 'pet' waste (which we pay an additional £30 per annum for). Wish our council would provide more recycling opportunities.

Baileys_Babe · 28 July 2008 at 12:03AM

Half a carrier bag at most for us. We are a family of 3. We recycle/compost everything we can.

A_fiend_for_life · 28 July 2008 at 4:00AM

Less than one carrier bag equivalent a week. This is mostly plastic and the occasional awkward plastic / cardboard hybrid that I find really annoying. This is as much about being poor as it is about doing my bit. Cardboard is not collected but this is bagged and put in the shed for taking to the recycling yard.

Coveredinbees!!!! · 28 July 2008 at 9:22AM

Where I live we have an orange bin for recycling which you can put plastic in but only if it bottle shaped. I still can't fathom out what difference the shape makes as to it's ability to be recycled????

Viper_7 · 28 July 2008 at 9:27AM

3 person household. Usually just the one black plastic bag per week.

We have kerbside recycling for paper/glass/steel/aluminium.

Majority of the grey matter waste is cardboard/plastic. I'd recycle these if the nearest recycling drop off point wasn't 15 miles away.
As others have said you see some households with dozens of bags outside.
Our next door neighbour lives on her own yet every week without fail she puts out 3 full bags.
Based on what I see others throw out when recycling facilities exist on the door step, I'm all for seeing charging introduced for excess grey waste, but can't see how it can be introduced without increasing fly tipping / 2am visits by your "friendly" neighbours dumping their stuff in your bins!

Vipes

Purple_Peril · 28 July 2008 at 12:30PM

I usually put out one black bag per week (way less than half full - probably nearer to a quarter) - single person household.

We have doorstep recycling for paper, glass, cans and some plastics, but myy local recycling centre is only about a mile away where I can recycle other plastics, cardboard and tetrapaks - so I save these up and take them about once a month. My local council doesn't recylce foil, so I've also got a big pile of foil dishes (about half a carrier bag full) that I'm trying to find a use for - or somewhere to recycle them!

mech_2 · 28 July 2008 at 2:25PM

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Where I live we have an orange bin for recycling which you can put plastic in but only if it bottle shaped. I still can't fathom out what difference the shape makes as to it's ability to be recycled????

Plastics aren't just one material - they are many (dozens). In a mixed waste stream they have to be sorted somehow before they can be usefully recycled. Plastic bottles make up a major proportion of household plastic waste and most of them are made of just two types of plastic: PET or HDPE. These two can be separated from each other relatively easily and anything that isn't one of these two plastics is likely to end up in landfill. It's not that the others are impossible to recycle, just that they're probably so much smaller in quantity that it generally isn't considered worth it to separate them out.

If you are a keen recycler you could ask your local council which types are recycled in your area. The chances are that it's probably just PET and HDPE (the numbers 1 and 2 in the recycling logo stamped in the plastic).

margaretclare · 28 July 2008 at 3:30PM

We have recently had a new collection/recycling scheme started in our council area. I have been nagging the council for years to increase the items that they could collect from the kerbside because unless you make it easy for people they just won't do it. Also, you can't expect the older people/those without own transport to carry heavy items to the 'bring bins' in town centres.

From my point of view, almost anything can now be sent for recycling and there will be very little that can't. See link: http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/rayleigh/3225949.Confusion_over_new_rubbish_collection_system/

As others have said, 'bottle-shaped' plastic items only were collected in the 'bring bins' - now all types of plastics can go. I built up quite a collection of plastic dishes from things like organic chicken, chicken pieces, bacon etc and I didn't know what to do with them. Now they can all go into the recycling bin which gets collected this week - Week 2 of the new scheme.

How many bags of rubbish do you put out? (MERGED)

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