How much do you fill your bin?

freakyogre

We also have fortnightly collections (alternate weeks for black and green bins).

I live in a flat/converted house, so we share one green bin (for food waste etc) and one of the green and black boxes which I personally don't think is enough and have a feeling some people in the other flats don't bother recycling.

We all have a black bin each. I live on my own and usually only just fill one bag in the fortnight for the black bin, so that's almost empty.

I'm 'on one' recently with the bins as a few weeks ago the bin men didn't take our recycling as everyone had chucked everything in together and not sorted through it. This meant both boxes were overflowing in front of the house which looked a total mess. I ended up taking all of it down to the local recycling banks as otherwise it would have just been added to for the next fortnight and probably taken over the pavement! Anyway, on my return I stuck a reminder of the recycling 'rules' leaflet on the wall for everyone to see. I think it's helped and since then, someone else has put up a new leaflet (although that may have been our landlady/lord!)

As I said earlier, I hardly use my black bin and am really not fussed if other people put their rubbish in 'my' bin as appreciate they have more people living there. What does annoy me, is people blatantly dumping stuff in it that doesn't belong there (ie. empty milk bottles) as if the bin men see if, they will refuse to empty it and then i'm stuck with a problem! Last night when I took my bin out, someone had just dropped an empty slow cooker box on top of the existing rubbish in the bin :mad: It hadn't even been flattened or had the polystyrene removed! Lazy bug*ers!

Oh dear, I went on a bit there

Hellyboo

I have a black bin for household rubbish and a green one for recycling which are collected every other week (was black this week, will be green next). My black bin is usually overflowing There are four of us, a baby in disposable nappies and a toddler in pull-ups at night, a cat who has completely new litter every 2-3 days and a very fussy hand sorted recycling centre! There are so many things we can't put in the recycling it confuses me and I worry I'm doing it wrong. The recycling bin is usually full or almost full though. This week my black wheely bin was full to the point the lid wouldn't shut and there were two extra bags I had to leave next to it too (I had a big clear out though). But I wasn't the only one, frequently I see the neighbours having the same problem so maybe our wheely bins are small or something :wall:

suki1964

Fortnightly collections here, one week recycling, the other household

4 adults

A compost heap

A dog

Theres very little wasted here

Actually we are very lucky as the recycling centre in town is very good and takes everything from tetra paks to used oil, from clothes to washing machines. We put the paper, tins and plastics out for collection.

We dont have a lot of package waste as we shop locally - with out own bags and when we want eggs we supply our own boxes and the veggies are just thrown in a box or carrier - no bagging up first. The butcher puts the stuff in wee plastic bags - no trays or pads.

Living in the country theres more of a mend and make do or pass on to someone else attitude. We try not to waste anything and reuse as much as possible. I had a massive decking area which we finally decided had to go - and we sold it for 40 quid and the guy spent 3 days taking it down carefully so he could rebuild it at his. Saved him a few hundred and stopped a lot of treated wood landing up in a furnace

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I live alone so at most I only have a small carrier bag of rubbish per week but most of the paper stuff goes into the recycling bin across the road from me.I have so little refuse at all as I try to use everything I have and even then I drop my carrier bag off at DDs in the morning as I never have enough to warrant a black bag for the dustman

JayJay14

We have 3 bins, a brown 'normal' sized (240 litre) for food and garden waste - collected fortnightly. Usually not very full unless we've been cutting down bushes.
A large blue mixed recycling bin (360 litre) which is collected fortnightly - this is almost always full, sometimes I have extra but our binmen will take recycling side waste in a bag. We had the bin changed from the normal sized one as it was too small.
A small black bin (140 litre) which can be collected weekly but we put it out about once every 3 weeks (but often still isn't full unless we have been diy ing or such). We had this changed down from the normal sized one. We are three adults in the household,

I used to work in the recycling section of the council when this scheme was introduced 2 years age - we used to have little black boxes which the wind took, and blue bins for paper. This is much better, my stack of black boxes are now used to grow spuds in - they are great for that.:D

mummyroysof3

we have a normal bin and a large recycle bin..normal bin isnt usually full but the recycle one is and sometimes i even put some in next doors, ivenoticeda big difference after changing to a better cat litter so i dont have to change the litter every2 days. there are 5 of us including 1 in nappies and 3 cats and a ginuea pig.

Meadows

As I never use ready meals etc my food waste bucket (peelings, coffee pods etc) can be about 1/3 - 1/2 full. My recycling normally goes in to one box depending on how much plastic and paper and cardboard there is (I have very little glass or cans if any). My everyday wheelie bin often does not go out as I have one - two carrier bags of no recyclable and my bin men are good and will just take the bags (bio degradable) that are not in a wheelie bin.

adelight

I live next to two student houses with the same number of people in them. Our bin's our every other week, black is generally quite low, recycyling often about to overflow(cardboard boxes always seem to spring back up!) and food waste quite full. But one of our neighbours doesn't seem to use the recycling at all and had two over flowing black bins for about a month, one wasn't "regulation" so they were never collected and there ended up being 6+ bags on their drive way and ripped open rubbish all down the street.

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We are really lucky in that our Council's recycling policy is very good. We recycle paper, cardboard, garden waste, plastics, glass etc. I also have large compost bins and we don't tend to buy that much stuff which is packaged. This means that we only throw out about the equivalent of one black, bin bag a month, this is for two adults.

Butterfly_Brain

We are a family of four adults (kids are 17 and over) and have fortnightly collections here too with 3 bins, a black one for household waste and an orange one for paper, plastics, tins and clothing and a green one for garden clippings etc.
So basically we fill half a bin a week which is about 2 bin bags worth. The recycling is always full to overflowing and we have requested a larger recyclying bin.