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

[Mikey]

What is wrong with having a system which is rolled out across the country, why does each council need to have a different system. A lot of wasted cash if you ask me.

We have
2 x black boxes (1 for paper and cardboard, 1 for Bottles)
1 x kitchen compost bin (for all cooked food waste)
1 x Big Blue Bag (for plastic, with some exceptions and tins)

This is weekly

Then fortnightly normal bin collection.

The system is ok though there is an awful lot of plastic items that you have to put out in your normal bins.

[buzzingtalk]

On that league table, my house in London is bottom of the table!! (We have no recycling, and only a massive skip thing for you to dump everything in between different blocks of houses.)

In Norwich when I moved in to my house there was nothing, just black sacks round the back of the house that the binmen quite often forgot to collect. we now have blue bags for some recycling and food waste bins which is improvement, but still no glass collection. Plus we don't have bins as there is no front gardens down our road, so the backs of the houses resemble tips (especially when they forget to take the rubbish, like last week!)

The worst bit is no glass collection - I have been tempted to put glass in the bin next to ours which belongs to a massive nightclub, its a glass bin and gets collected every morning. I don't see why the council can't collect our glass every so often either :s

[HeyWayne]

A standard grey wheelie bin for househould rubbish collected every other week.
A green-lidded wheelie bin for recycling (paper, cardboard, metal, clothes, cartons, plastics)
A small caddy for kitchen waste (cooked and uncooked - including meats) collected once a week.
2 green reusable bags for garden waste (which I only use for bramble, hedge prunings and pernicious weeds)

Our local council are pretty good I have to say - compared with some of the stories I hear.

Central Bedfordshire: Recycling, rubbish and waste

We take glass to the bottle bank whenever we go shopping, or there's a local one at the school in our village.

So, in summary - two wheelie bins in their cupboard, a caddy by the back door and two green bags in the shed.

[Parsleythelion]

In the London Bororugh of Greenwich we have 3 full size wheelie bins which are all collected weekly.

Green - Food and Garden Waste
Blue - Recyclables (paper, card, plastic, glass etc)
Black - (everything else)

After reading some other comments it seems we have it quite good LBOG!! Very early in the morning of collection day one of the workers walks the street looking in the bins for foriegn items that should not be in that bin. If s/he finds something a little red warning hook is attached to the bin. You have a chance to remove the article and put it in the correct bin as the will come back and collect the bin later on.....I was caught once when I left a knife and fork in a cardboard take away pizza box, so it actually did me a favour!!!

At least it justifies part of my council tax!!

And since I have got my lottie, I see some rubbish (that I would usually have thrown away) and think I could use that for something.....it has really opened my eyes to what you can re-use!!!

[Polly Fouracre]

We have a black bin for landfill which I try to avoid filling, a green bin for the local compost compost heap which gets put out about four times a year and two plastic boxes for glass, plastic etc. that I grow lettuce and carrots in. We take the things that should go in them to the re-cycling centre now and then.