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

sillyvixen

our recycling box takes glass,tins and paper (news and mags) and i put these out once a fourtnight for collection. plastics and cardboard (and electricals but nothing has worn out yet)are taken by the local amenities centre (dump) i tend to keep the dump recycling in boxes in the spare room untill i have a large amount and drop it off on my way to mums (as it is on the way)as a result my bin is only 1/4 full when collected - my nieghbours generally have a full bin and 5 or 6 additional bin bags!!

tanith

We recycle glass, tins, foil, paper, card, food waste,garden waste and recently plastic all on a weekly basis at the kerbside all in bags or boxes supplied by the council... I put out half a black bag of 'other' waste every 2 weeks... they will also take clothes, shoes and textiles placed in our green boxes.. the only things I have to take to the recycle depot are old furniture carpets etc.....

jackomdj

I wish we had the facilities to recycle tetra's around here....

bigpaws23

It's worht checking this site every couple of months, Jackomdj, as new facilities are springing up all the time. A local one to us appeared just a few months ago:
http://www.tetrapakrecycling.co.uk/locator.asp

newlywed

We put out 2-3 black bin liners a week. Two adults and 2 kids (for half the week).

We don't have any recycling collections where we are :mad:

I have been using this as an excuse not to recycle
But I drive past a "waste recycling site" every day on the way to work

So having cut myself whilst pushing the rubbish down in the bin (on a tin can) I have decided it's time to change....

Just ordered a can crusher from Lakeland - hopefully this will work.
Plan to recycle all tins/cans and all glass jars and take them once a week to the tip - er recycling place.

That's my starting point.

I know you are meant to wash the cans/jars - but am I meant to take the label off too???

Goodness I sound dumb!!!!

jackieb

newlywed wrote: »

I know you are meant to wash the cans/jars - but am I meant to take the label off too???

Goodness I sound dumb!!!!

I don't know if you have to - but I always do. I wash any recycling I have at end of washing my dishes. It just looks and smells better when they're properly clean. I would imagine the label would go mouldy if washed and then put in the box wet.

nodwah

We recycle all our veg waste either in compost bin or council brown bin, glass ( but not broken glass -why?) paper, cans, tetra packs at the dump. recently the council has introduced plastic collection but it's been a bit of a shambles - no-one know what day they come and hardly anyone was given the bag and maybe one time in five they pick up mine from a crate. I reckon plastic is the bulk of what I throw out by volume in milk bottles etc so the council shoul buck up IMO.
Some people in my street were putting out 2 full large wheelie bins every week - I don;t know how they manage it, my bin is never more than half full. But lately the council is charging for a second bin he heh heh!

Quasar

I put out very little, now that there's a white bag for plastic recycling and a green box for paper, glass etc. So my actual household rubbish tally has decreased considerably. Add to that the fact that I live alone, and you can see that I generate very little waste now.

zekepes

We have a fortnightly wheelie bin collection and our bin is usually about half full on collection day and consists mainly of unrecylable plastic wrappings and broken items.

All compostable matter is composted (including cooked food etc) in our compost tumber (Jora 125) or regular composter (for larger quantity fruit and veg scraps), so we don't use liners in the kitchen bin. The added bonus is that our wheelie bin does not smell and it isn't a problem if I forget to put it out on collection day - a monthly collection would be fine for us.

The council collect paper, cans, glass and textiles in a black box and garden waste in a green wheelie bin (I use that wheelie bin to collect my cardboard in as I home compost garden waste).

I take my cardboard (stored in the green wheelie bin the council provided for green waste), recycleable plastics and cartons (stored in a smaller wheelie bin that I bought for this job) down to the local tip for recycling once a month along with any woods or large metal items that can be recycled.

I pretty much try to recycle whatever I can and never throw anything that in useable condition could be used by someone else (so I use eBay, Charity shops and freecycle regularly too).

I completely stopped taking shops carrier bags about 1 year ago and I am amazed at how easy a habit is to have (I had made unsuccessful attempts in the past) and how much easier it makes things (trolley bags are much easier to load and unload etc).

Pretty much every household near where I live puts out their black box for recycling once a fortnight and it is rare to see a wheelie bin so full that the lid cannot be closed properly. Many people expressed outrage when the fortnightly collections were introduced here but a couple of years down the road is seems to have been well adopted and I never hear anyone moaning about it now. I think that wiltshire county coucil have made a very good job of it - I hope that cardboard and plastics can be collected from homes too in the future.

zekepes

newlywed wrote: »

I know you are meant to wash the cans/jars - but am I meant to take the label off too???

No, you don't have to.