Cooking for one

caronc wrote: »

PS- Why do you dry your recycling I just wash/rinse out and pop in the recycling wheelie bin?

Because I only put the recycling bin out about 2x a year - I could go a whole year before it filled up .... so I like things to go in there absolutely dry else it'd fester.

caronc wrote: »

I knew there would be a reason, mine goes out every fortnight even if just part full so I don't need to worry about pongs. In my area if you don't put your recycling out regularly you get stiff letters reminding you to do so and the importance of recycling .......;)

It's my first ever recycling bin - and after I moved in it took me over a year before I started using it - the tip's just up the road, so I'd take stuff there myself and pop it into the individual containers.

Then I decided to start using the bin ...

I am a low consumer of items. I do all the recycling possible, but I simply do not consume enough goods to make it worthwhile dragging it up the garden and through the gate, and back, once a fortnight.

Right now, 2 weeks after the last collection, it's probably got 6 pieces of junk mail and 2 empty envelopes; 12 crushed/empty fizzy pop cans; 6 crushed/empty bean tins; 2-3 ready meal black containers and a couple of other random small pieces. It'd all fit easily into a small plastic supermarket carrier bag.

For cardboards, I start with one loo roll insert, then the next 4-5 are folded in half and slid inside the first one, once it's full/tight I chuck that into the bin, so that's about one "filled loo roll inserts" a fortnight. For food packaging, I keep a reasonable sized box from a ready meal and all subsequent boxes are taken apart and folded to fit within the first box, until it's tightly bunged, then the whole lot goes into the bin, so probably one tightly filled ready-meal box of cardboard every 3 weeks.

Over the course of a year I can fill the whole thing up - but I tend to put it out about 2x a year as I get fed up with seeing it filling up so slowly.

For glassware, I have only put the container out once, it's a rectangular bucket thing - in it there were about 15 empty coffee jars, 6 empty food jars and one empty schloer bottle from Xmas Day.

The regular bin is smaller and I do tend to put it out every fortnight - it contains usually one small swing top bin of "general rubbish". If I only put it out when full it'd go out about 3-4x a year.