The KonMarie method

springdreams

No wheelie bins here.

Small carrier bags for batteries, orange bags for paper and plastic recycling, expensive green bags bought from the local library for garden rubbish (they won't accept any other green bags) and normal black bags for everything else. Our council has also recently started collecting small electrical items, which are simply left on top of the other bags. We have weekly collections for everything.

Goodintentions

Good evening

No wheelie bins here - just pink (recycling - everything in one bag) & black (general waste) bags. We also have blue food bins, bags provided. There is an option for a garden wheelie bin, but I haven't got one. We are also given white bin bags for textiles, but I never put them out as they get stolen by people who take them to cash 4 clothes type places!! They root through them first, and just dump what they can't sell! All waste is collected weekly, so nice and simple

Operation loft is still ongoing. We have about 6 bags of recycling to go this week (so far) and a pile of stuff in the front garden & on the landing to go to the tip (hopefully, tomorrow). There is a stack of boxes in the bedroom that I need to sort through. I have about 5 bags to go to the CS tomorrow as well. DH says it may be finished this week DH found some DS games belonging to DS (confusing!) that had been missing (presumed lost/stolen) for about 5 years - probably a few 100 pounds worth at the time! DS has been playing them

Lots to do tomorrow, so I had better switch this off now!

greentiger

4 wheelie bins & a wee caddy for us

wee brown bin - food waste (weekly) - we have a small black bin for in the kitchen too and bags are provided for this

Black - general waste
alternate weeks with
Blue - recyclables

Green - glass
Brown - garden waste
There's a calendar that lists when these 2 are collected as it varies over the year.

Frogletina

I live in a block of 8 apartments. We each have a general bin and there are two recycle bins.

Instead of us using our own bins we have decided to fill just one bin until it is full and only then move onto another. Usually we fill up two general bins a week and the two recycle ones every fortnight.

We also have one bin for garden waste, but don't we don't have much of this.

weesmiler

greentiger wrote: »

4 wheelie bins & a wee caddy for us

wee brown bin - food waste (weekly) - we have a small black bin for in the kitchen too and bags are provided for this

Black - general waste
alternate weeks with
Blue - recyclables

Green - glass
Brown - garden waste
There's a calendar that lists when these 2 are collected as it varies over the year.

Mine is exactly the same. It's amazing how council areas vary so much across the country! My main challenge, however, is getting dh to put the correct things in each bin...

just_the_two_of_us

Morning everyone!
VJsmum - if the suitcases have some life in them please donate to ch shop - they go really well here as lots of people come for a few days and need another in which to take all their ch shop bargains home!!


Well done on the coat Mav - I am looking for another joyful one myself.


Bins - well we are grey for general and a green one for garden and a blue one for paper cardboard, with green boxes for glass and cans. They go out grey one week and the rest the next week. The council molly coddles us with a calendar each year showing which date is which. We have a really high rate of re-cycling locally but I could personally do better!


Just off to watch the GP then need to get some new baking tins as making parkin for a bake sale and must make it this week. May also get some biscuit trays if they have any.
This afternoon I WILL do some kondoing - I promise.

grunnie

We have a green wheelie bin for general waste
alternate weeks
a bright pink wheelie bin for metal and plastic marked with a one or two in the triangle on it
a blue wheelie bin for all paper and card - this is always full in my house.
an orange plastic box for glass - but they are choosy what glass and sometimes some are left behind.
All my food waste goes into 2 huge dalek kind of things in the garden and I also have a huge compost heap.
I have a problem with the huge bins as we have chukkies in the front drive and find pulling them to the roadside a struggle.
The wheelie bins up here were brought to stop the mess the seagulls make when we used to have binbags.

FurryBeastOz

Hi all. Just had to come on here and post. DH just doesn't understand. He looked at me like I'd just grown horns when I danced into the living room singing last night!

I have just kondoed the finished roll of cling film, and it has brought me joy! We have had 2 on the go since coming back from Birmingham (November), and it has been driving me insane since I've started kondoing.

I also have 2 greaseproof paper rolls on the go. I've been baking up a storm and one is almost finished as well. What will I bake today?

We have a black (general) and green (garden) bin that are collected fortnightly, and boxes for cardboard, tins, glass, plastic, tetrakpak emptied weekly. Depending on how much I am kondoing, both the bins are normally about half full, but the recycling and food waste ones are full every week.

uk_american

On the bin topic, I live in a building of 12 flats, mainly 1 beds. We have two of those giant bins and no recycling facilities.

Previously, I would take my glass to the two public pods behind a nearby pub, a two min walk for me, but the council took them away. There is a paper bin which is a 15 min walk away and an electrics bin a 10 min walk away.

I sent an email to the council who explained that they implemented recycling at the kerb (for houses) so they no longer needed to provide the glass pods.

When I asked where I was to take my recycling then, she helpfully offered that I could come over and use the council office's facilities. I live in the city centre and it's around a 5 minute walk from my front door to their bins, which are also used by the community theatre which also backs onto them.

So I pop over every few days with my glass, tins, cardboard, paper and plastic.

VJsmum

Hmm I think I have found my first Kondoing miss

I have a CD cleaning kit and the disc has fallen out - I think it will be in the pile of random discs I chucked the other day. It would involve going through the bin to retrieve and, as stated above, we have food waste in our bins

Not the end of the world, still fits into the minimimalists 20:20 rule (less than £20 less than 20 mins to replace), but a bu88er all the same