Help with recycling

Gillian01

I live in a terraced house and have to bring my bin bags of rubbish through the house. We are given a plastic sack for cardboard but this gets wet and is just a soggy mess. How can I store this outside and keep dry. I was thinking of plastic bins for the cardboard. If I line them with a recyclable bin liner, would the council still take them. Do they have to be in the plastic sack supplied?  This is always left outside the house but often blows away and I have to request another. Any ideas for outdoor storage which looks good in my back garden. 

MovingForwards

Have a bin store built and put in your garden, it's a shed but for bins and keeps them dry.

Can't comment about your council as they vary.

Snuggles

Do you not have room to keep it indoors? Our council also use the stupid sacks for cardboard (which inevitably blow away) and they won't take it unless it's in the sack, so I would check with your council before you buy a bin. We have always kept the sack and the cardboard indoors (in our downstairs loo) so it doesn't get wet or blow away.

rach_k

You can buy traditional style dustbins on Amazon for not very much.  I have one to keep the food waste bin in to stop flies getting under the lid.  For card, I'd still line it with the bag provided but then put the whole bin out at the front of the house with the lid off, so they have no excuse not to take it.  If you have space to store bins at the front of your house - our terrace has just enough depth for three wheelie bins - I'd keep the bin out there, but the one we have is plastic and only light so not too much trouble to take through the house when needed.  

I suppose it's debatable whether a dustbin looks good - I don't mind, it's traditional and humans in houses have always needed bins! - but you could put the actual bin in a bin store in your back garden if you prefer.

maisie_cat

We have a similar problem, daft tarpaulin bags that do not seal. We have a huge black plastic lidded box that we use to stop it all getting wet. On bin day we simply move it to the driveway.