How much do you fill your bin?

Rainy-Days

The garden wheelie waste is always rammed full to capacity esecially throughout the summer then it tails off around this time of the year. Then after that we do not use it until about February time when we start cutting the lawns again.

General rubbish is always rammed full and sometimes I have to push down on it to close the lid.

Recycling - not allot I'm afraid, all our paper and cardboard is used for fire fodder so we recycle zilch in terms of paper. The odd bottle/can and thats about it. We only put our recycling bin out once every two or so months!

brighteyes1987

Black bags are fortnightly here but with weekly collection of all recycling and weekly collection of food waste, I very rarely have anything to put into the bins.. seems really simple now compared to some others x

Emmala

snowleopard61 wrote: »

I wouldn't mind fortnightly collections at all for my own sake (we are a household of one and two half adults - the kids aren't incomplete , just not at home all the time - and three cats), but I would mind the knock-on effect of other people's overflowing bins.

Most of all I mind that, living in sunny Southampton, we had a prolonged bin strike in the summer and have had a 'work to rule' since, which means that even now our bins are being collected on random days. Since the place I normally keep my bins (one general waste, and one recycling, which I use for everything they'll take) is either side of my back door for convenience, and nowhere near the collection point in front of the house, with a locked side gate in between, this is thoroughly annoying :mad:

I'm in Southampton too - we've managed our rubbish but only because we've been finishing an extension so DH has been going to the tip most weekends anyway! But this week, I forgot it was bin day (I often just leave both on the pavement on the off chance) and the bin men came on green bin day for the first time since the first strike in May/June..................typical!!!!!

I have to say though, we are a family of 5, and considering that, we have produced a LOT less rubbish than some households near us!!!! I do feel sorry for people in flats/terraces though who don't have the space to easily accomodate the wheelies.

Chickenopolis

We have a black bin for household (collected weekly)and green bin for garden waste. We also asked for more recycling crates which are also collected fortnightly. As it just OH and I (and nine hens , who eat most leftovers )we don't ever fill up the black bin so my Mum who lives next door puts her rubbish in my bin also to save her taking her bin out. We recycle more than we "chuck out" iyswim ! Our garden waste bin is always full as we have a big garden with a lot of trees in it.

Rummer

I recycle where I can and we have bins for:

• paper
• plastics
• tins
• bottles
• garden waste

and even donate boxes to the local school for their junk modelling. Reusable items go to charity or freecycle and things that need special disposal go to the local dump. Regardless of all that however our bin is almost always full as they have reduced us to collection once a fortnight now.

Patchwork_Quilt

We are a household of between three and five, depending on who is home from Uni or who is staying to tea.

Our wheelie bin is only ever a third full since we started composting. This has made a huge difference. I have four compost bins and am thinking about how to obtain another.

Another thing that makes a difference is that virtually all our food is home made, so packaging is minimal.

Bottles and tins are recycled in our black bin and collected once a month.

Clothes and household goods go to the charity shop unless really useless.

Aril

This site may be of interest as it's got lots of ideas for reducing waste
http://myzerowaste.com/
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eandjsmum

Half a black sack a week. We also have a large brown wheely bin for garden rubbish a blue crate for paper and cardboard and a white bag for plastic, glass, tin and foil, (collected fornightly) I can also recycle old clothes and shoes. There are four of us.
I do compost but next year but next year I want to recycle more.

Hawthorn

Our wheelie bin gets put out once a fortnight and it's just on full then. There are six of us (plus a dog)
Blue bin gets put out when it's full.

Occasionally it gets fuller quicker, but that's usually when I decide to go on a 'useless stuff' purge.

greent

We have weekly collections of recyclables (batteries, paper, non-corrugated card, plastic bottles, glass) and food waste. Fortnightly (alternating) colllections of green wheelie bin (garden waste) and black bin (non recyclable waste) We're a family of 6 with one in nappies and one in pull ups overnight. Usually our black bin could *just* about go 4 weeks although we have filled it to the brim the last couple of collections due to building work and decorating creating more waste in the form of packaging and some decluttering of items not suitable for re-homing via freegle/ charity shop[.

Our neighbours bin (3 of them in that house) is ALWAYS full to the brim every fortnight - the lid doesn't usually quite shut