Is it possible to recycle without clutter?

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Hardup_Hester

Thanks for that, mine. I read through the whole damn list, lol.

Olliebeak

Hardup_Hester wrote: »

Thanks for that, mine. I read through the whole damn list, lol.

So did I - lol!

poppett

When I lived in Hampshire we had a huge recycling bin that you could put virtually anything in so recycling wasn't a problem. Here we have a tiny plastic box that has a divider, one side glass, other side tin. We also have a green bag for paper products. These sit outside my back door and when something needs recycling it is put straight outside into it's correct container. The local recycling van here doesn't collect plastic however, so we went out and bought a large curver type box and we use that. Once a week when heading to the local supermarket where the nearest plastic bins are, we take along all the plastic we have collected and dispose of it there. There used to be recycling bins in the village apparently but kids set fire to them so they were removed. Pain the the bum as it now means a 16 mile round trip to the nearest one.

Bargain_Rzl

Having moved in 2006 from a house with storage space under a council rated 119, to a flat with no storage space under a council with a shameful rating of 335, I sympathise :rolleyes:

I don't have any home-collected recycling at all. My council takes care of recycling if you live in a house or maisonette, or on a council estate. If you live in a private block of flats with a communal entrance, there is no scheme. You can request recycling facilities from the council, but our communal bin store is small enough as it is, and after how long it took the council and our managing agent to sort out access to it for the ordinary bin-men, who knows how much hassle it would be to get extra facilities installed :rolleyes:

I tend to collect my paper in a pile in a corner, and I keep my Wally Trolley standing to one side of the kitchen worktop so the bottles/tins/jars go straight in there as son as I have rinsed and drained them. Then I just stick the pile of paper in a bag, take the trolley and pop to the recycling banks - which are, in fairness to the council, quite plentiful in my area - on my way to the supermarket every week or two.

Still got no way of recycling tetrapacks or plastic (other than plastic bottles).

rosh12

We have a stupidly small green bag for paper / card and then an equally stupidly small black box for glass / plastic tins.. but the system is allegedly changing in June to get rid of these andinstead we'll get a compost caddy and a new wheelie bin for most recycleable stuff (I think).

HOWEVER I've noticed my neighbour currently keeps their recycling boxes in their garden under a lovely mini wooden shelter- it's a bit like a wall-less garden shed, about 1m tall? The house is rented and the people don't know where it came from though. Looks so much tidier than having the grotty bags / boxes lying about, like us!

Olliebeak

I wish I could come up with something that doesn't get blown all over the garden in windy weather, when it's empty or only half-full. Our small crate that is supposed to hold paper, tin cans and glass bottles/jars is frequently upside-down on the grass after a windy night. Got to the stage where we run out in the evening when we hear the wind starting to 'get up' now to stop it from happening. Couple of months ago I left the box out with a very heavy large tin of paint on the top to weight it down - oh yeah! you guessed it!! Next morning the box was upside down on the lawn with contents spilled everywhere and paint-tin had landed on the patio, lid come off and paint all over my patio and running under next-door's fence :mad: - how very green of me !!!

DianaMattos

Just a little thing that we have recently done - got so fed up with all the plastic milk bottles as they were the bulk of the recycling that we have our milk delivered daily in glass bottles which can be washed and returned the next day. It has made such a difference, and I think that the extra cost for the convenience of a) having fresh milk every day without having to think about it and b) not having to drive somewhere to recycle the bottles after they have built up and driven us crazy is more than worth it!