How Many Re-cycle Wheelie Bins Do You Have??

[binley100]

We have three bins.......
one for garden waste (whatever I can't compost)
one for paper, cardboard ,tins glass, and plastic bottles
one for other waste....
They take the household and green waste bin one week and the household and recycling bin the other. If the lid is not completely down or if you put plastic bags in the wrong bin they won't empty it......

[coreopsis]

Council supplied:
Green wheelie bin for general waste
Blue wheelie bin for plastic,paper and tins.

I have my own 2 composting daleks and collect the glass stuff for the recycling centre(beside the village hall)

[selfraising]

We have one black wheelie bin for household waste.
A box for glass
A box for paper
A box for plastic and cans
We have 4 garden waste bags for stuff I can't compost which are collected every other week.

We have two of our own compost bins in the garden and a wormery.

[trish60]

Bournemouth is good, in my opinion , for recycling.
We have a small wheelie bin for general rubbish which is collected every week & is rarely full.
The larger recycling bin which was previously our general rubbish bin, takes paper.plastic, glass bottles.metal & recently included envelopes with windows & tetrapacks & is collected every 2 weeks.
We also have a green bin for composting materials for 8 months of the year which is useful for blighted plants & big compost material & is collected every 2 weeks.
I see councils near us using plastic sacks which are torn apart or silly small boxes so am pleased wit our recycling facilities

[snohare]

One blue lidded wheelie for paper and cardboard: one black wheelie for all the rest ! Each one is emptied once a fortnight - except I usually end up using the papers for compost, lining raised beds, and lighting fires, so it never needs emptying.
Like TS, I simply avoid packaging - I think it is high time there were national laws to make manufacturers cut back on it - if it wasn't for things like biscuit trays and polythene, Tetrapak cartons, burnt food etc, I wouldn't have enough to need the black one emptied. As it is, sometimes it takes me a month to create enough waste to fill it.

[TonyF]

We don't even have a wheelie bin for normal rubbish. We have to take ours up to the skip type bin further up the hamlet. Having said that though, I do have 2 big boxes, one for paper and one for plastic and aluminium and a bag for bottles and they are taken up to the pont vert (recycling area) when they start to overflow I also compost as much as possible. I try to be really good and recycle as much as I can but I know I could do more.

We have the same/similar arrangement here. The Dordogne has just been told that it has the best recycling system and uptake in France which is good - I'm on the local cantonal recycling committee so a bit of a recycling zealot. In the house we have one general waste bin, a bin for the dry stuff for recycling and one for food waste. All the garden stuff, with few exceptions goes into the compost and all the hard landscaping material that we don't want (old concrete that I can't use for rubble etc) goes in the remorque and off to the dechetterie.

And the local dechets (tips) are really well maintained and spotless, if you make a mess at either of our local tips, they hand you a broom and shovel and you have to clear it up!

[arpoet]

For years i had to seperate bottles into green, brown and clear glass, plus another bin for plastic bottles and cans down at the supermarket, now the council collect em they all go in the same bin.
Roger

[lizzylemon]

None - our local council doesn't even let us have a normal wheelie bin for rubbish!

We're 'allowed' black bags and have 1 tiny recycling box for card, glass & tin. Green waste goes straight into brown paper sacks (50p each) which go to a composting company.

It's pretty shocking TBH - I stack all my plastic outside and then drive it to nearest (award winning) re-cycling centre every few weeks. Sadly the local council announced its being shut down to save money, which means I either start putting it into the bin again or drive 25 miles or more to the next recycling centre.

We're expecting Fly tipping to rise again, which in the long run will only cost the local council more. IDIOTS!

[SarzWix]

We have a big green wheelie for landfill rubbish, a big blue wheelie for glass and tins, a couple of big plastic boxes for plastics (anything with a 1 or a 2 in the triangle), 2 big blue plastic bags for paper and cardboard, and a big brown wheelie for compostable waste. They all get emptied every 2 weeks, alternating between recyclables and 'normal' rubbish & compostables.
I think our system is very good, none of our bins get to overflowing point despite there being 5 of us (and 4 pets) in the house, unless I have a particularly massive clear out and then the bags for paper tend to overflow.
I guess we're lucky as we have a driveway that has room for the wheelie bins, and a utility room with space to collect the recycling in smaller tubs.

[zazen999]

One black bin for general
One brown for garden and cardboard [and kitchen scraps but as we don't eat meat and compost everything possible - we don't use it for that]
One plastic box for glass/metal etc

We do have a wormery, and about 6 compost bins/heaps around the garden and lottie; so we get a fair amount of home made compost for mulching and putting in pots etc.

We can't leave any black bin out as it gets filled by people from the canal - so we have to keep that locked away. Brown bin usually only has stuff that is too prickly or thick to compost in it.

[SarzWix]

Recycling League Tables for 2008/09 (the most recent available figures) 2008/09 — letsrecycle.com - recycling and waste management news and information

North Yorkshire aren't doing too badly, but collection of recyclables from farms and other rural areas could be better.

[Hilary B]

Recycling League Tables for 2008/09 (the most recent available figures) 2008/09 — letsrecycle.com - recycling and waste management news and information

North Yorkshire aren't doing too badly, but collection of recyclables from farms and other rural areas could be better.

Wiltshire (and Swindon, which has the same system) seem to be far down the list, but to some extent this is due to low composting figures, and I suspect those are because the compostables bin has to be paid for (last I heard it was £30 a year) and a lot of people prefer to compost their own. I also wonder whether stuff taken to the recycling centres is included in the arithmetic, because there are plenty of those around here, and they always seem to be busy when we visit!

[janeyo]

We don't have weelie bins her it's black bags. We do get a black box which is just for paper.

Cardboard has to go into brown sack which have to be bought at 50p a go from local garden centre or post office, and they will only take 4 each - ridiclous as I can fill 4 in an afternoon and that is with having 3 compost bins too, collection (once a fortnight), but they do give you the same number back so you only really have to buy them once, unless they blow away before you get home that it
Or you can take the brown waste to the local tip and empty it out yourself and then re-use the bags but it's a 12 mile round trip...Or you can put carboard into other cardboard boxes and they will take those.

We have to put glass in a plastic bag and tins in a plastic bag (not supplied which is also collected.

They stopped the plastic bottle collection last year (they were giving us a clear bag for them to be squished in at home and collected), so now we have to bag them up and take them to the village recycling site which is always completely full of bags as the ONE unit to put them in is always full, so the whole place ressembes a garbage dump there... and nobody ever sees anyone empty the thing. I think they do it once a month.
I am glad I do not live opposite it that's for sure...

[HotStuff]

Two big wheelie bins here. A green one for recyclables such as paper, card, cans, glass & plastic. A grey one for non-recyclables. We also have a small dark green caddy for kitchen waste, but I only put stuff that isn't compostable in that, like chicken bones. All the compostable stuff goes in my dalek.

[Chef_uk]

wow, some of you guys get it rough.

3 bins all on fortnightly collection (except Brown which is every 4 weeks during winter)

Black = Landfill
Green = Recyclable
Brown = Garden Waste

Pretty simple setup and with 3 kids, the twins still in nappies, we manage without any overfill. Some down the street struggle but there are 8 living in one house the same size as ours :/