Recycling bins-how many do you have?

dianasnan

I currently have, courtesy of my local council:

1 general rubbish wheeley bin full size
1 garden waste wheeley bin full size
1 paper and cardboard large crate
1 bottle and glass large crate
1 very large woven plastic sack for plastic bottles and cans
a small compost collecting bin in the kitchen

and now they have given me another kitchen bin for food scraps.

Absolutely no objections to recycling but this is getting ridiculous now.

Anyone beat this number?

PasturesNew

What do people in 3rd floor studio flatlets have? That'd be half the floorspace gone.

elsien

None for recycling- I declined the councils kind offer, sent it back and I use the recyle bins in the nearest carpark instead.
I just have my one general bin.

tim9966

1 full size general waste bin.
1 full size garden waste bin (Pay £31 per year for this)
1 full size all mixed recycle bin.
Food caddy, which I don't use as I buy exactly what food I need and don't waste any.

I also have an old little recycle bin, but that's not in use any more now they have replaced it with the full size one.

savemoney

Alternative weeks we get

Green bin none recyclables
Blue Bin recyclables plus garden refuse in bags provided by council/shop 10 for £1. Or a brown bin which not many folks use

Blue bin takes paper/cardboard/books etc plus plastic bottles and yoghurt pots/margarine containers and tins. I wash them out before putting them in

Some terraced streets with no room for bins sometimes get black bin liners. My last house was terraced but had a shared back passage for 2 houses so had 4 bins between us both

savemoney

We also have in various places bins for glass just down road on a few places have bins for other stuff like clothes, batteries

keith_r59

1 green wheelie bin for garden and food waste
1 small grey food caddy to store and transport food waste to the wheelie bin
1 blue crate for bottles and other glass
1 small yellow bag for batteries
Pink sacks for recyclable cardboard, plastic, cans and clothing
Black sacks for general waste

Weekly collections.

pinkteapot

No wheelie bins where I live.

Landfill waste goes out in black bags - we have a dustbin outside our back door and just put the bags out for the binmen.
A roll of clear plastic bags that are used for paper and plastic collections.
A crate with a lid that glass and tin goes in.
Large canvas type bags for garden waste.

Weekly bin collections and alternating recycling collections (plastic/plants one week, paper/glass the next).

Luckily we have a side alley so we just keep it all out there.

When I used to live in a flat, there was a communal bin-store in the car park that had separate landfill bins and recycling bins, so we didn't have lots of individual containers. Wouldn't have had anywhere to store them.

dianasnan

thanks for your replies, so my lot is not unusual nowadays.

My Son lives 5 mins away and only has 2 bins;1 general waste and 1 recycling but can't put glass in it.

Why can't all councils standardise their rubbish collections?

mo786uk

We have
1 normal waste bin
1 recyclable bin
1 green waste bag

I dunno if you saw Dispatches the other week but they said having all recycling mixed was quite inefficent and having the homeowner seperate the waste themselves was far better.

I wouldnt be averse to having to split the cardboard and plastic up (its not hard) but I can see the issue with havign os many bins for people with limited space.

tiff

Those of you with garden waste bins, do you not have a compost bin in the garden?