General Chat

We only have two bins, rubbish & recycle. I think it's weird that we don't have a "green" bin, because we live in what's known as the "Green" shire of NSW.

We have bin police! They randomly select houses, & check your bins. If you have something in the wrong bin you get a caution, if you keep putting things in the wrong bins they stick a sign on your bins, and they don't get collected!

We don't have a compost bin now. It gets hot & humid here & the compost bin would stink to high heaven :-(

Luckily we have plenty of space as we have 3 wheelie bins plus a box! You can ask for a smaller size if required. Black bin for household waste, green for garden waste (but not peelings etc. which go on one of our garden compost heaps), blue for cardboard and plastic. Box for paper, glass, cans and textiles. All collected fortnightly. I write the dates on a kitchen chalkboard!

We have a grey wheelie bin for glass, collected monthly, a blue one for paper, cardboard, cans, plastic containers, collected fortnightly and a green one for everything else, (mostly garden waste) also collected fortnightly.

We also have a small container for food waste with a little kitchen caddy, which stands on the work top, lined with compostable liners, provided free by the council. This is collected weekly.

I have a large binbag under the kitchen table for the blue bin stuff and take it out when it gets full.

Although most people recycle, it isn't compulsory and some households still dump everything in the green bin - and then complain when it gets too full.

Round our way everyone was sorting glass from tins etc. Dustmen came along and put everything, yes everything into dustcart. What's the point in separating it. We don't bother now except for the garden stuff.

we dont get bin liners either, and were not allowed to bag up our recycled waste, altho some bags are recyclable :-S

we dont hav to pay for garden waste thankfully, but than i never have any as i rarely garden haha

I have to keep my bins in roadfacing garage as steep steps up to the kitchen. I use a wheelie sholley as a walking frame,, so load recyclables straight into that in the house, and add bagged landfill waste each time I go out. We have a garden waste bin we have to pay for collected fortnightly – we don't get any bags to line any bins

eee what a carry on, i wish i had a big kitchen so i could have a bin for each, all day iv been in n out putting stuff in the recycle bin lol,

my recycle tchnitian has decided to play out so hes no help, i will be docking his wages

my friends just been n put her tissue int he garden waste bin, :-0

i think i ned a glass of wine

In West Norfolk, we have a black wheelie bin for non-recyclable waste - we tend to initially put rubbish into bin liners in old style bin, then put them into wheelie bin for collection day, as it keeps the bin cleaner.
We have a single green wheelie bin for recyclables, but glass is not included- a real pain, as we have to take it to recycling centres ourselves.
There is also a bin for waste food, with accompanying kitchen caddy, which I hate, won't keep it anywhere near my kitchen and refuse to put raw meat and fish trimmings in it. Yuk!

Just one tiny bin for food waste and a box for Glass....rest goes in bags

All local authority rules are different. Our recycles a lot more than some and all the recyclables go in our blue wheelie bin mixed. I keep a small crate in the cupboard under the stairs, which is actually in the kitchen. All recyclables, washed clean go in there, when full it is taken out to the bin. A small bin in the kitchen has non recyclables in bags. Garden waste bin is in the back garden. Compost bin is in the kitchen as is small food waste bib with a degradable liner acceptable to our council. We have had this scheme for three years now and it works very well. We put our bins on the end of our drive the night before the collection.

Got 3 large bins and one small one

Green - general household waste that does not go in the other two

Brown - garden waste and food waste

Blue - paper, cupboard, tins, glass and plastic

Small brown bin - that takes the food waste in corn starch bags that then gets put in the large brown bin.


Have the lid from a box of photocopy paper which keeps the scrap paper and cardboard in.
Small basket for tins, glass etc.

STRAY LOOK OUT FOR RECYCLE STUFF
A LOT YOU WOULD ASSUME IS RECYCLE
ARE NOT AND ITS A PAIN, I HAVE TO CHECK
ON THE BIN LID,
AND THE GARDEN BIN WE HAVE TO PAY FOR
THEM FROM ABOUT JUNE TO SEPTEMBER
BUT NO EARTH TO BE PUT IN THEM,AND IF OURS
ARNT ON THE PATH THEY WONT EMPTY THEM OR
IF THE LID WONT SHUT THEY WONT EMPTY THEM,

yeah im sure i will, i always said if we had bins not boxes n bags id recycle lol, but now im like oh my!

its defo a good idea, i mean most my rubbish is recyclable, my green bin will hardly be used so that can defo go in the alleyway, leaving 2 outfront lol x

You'll get used to it Stray - give yourself time :D

As it's not always convenient to dash out side with one tin or piece of paper, could you hang a bag on the back door handle to pop items in?

You'll have to get used to looking for the recylcing symbols on packaging - I get irritated as OH puts cling film in the wrong place. Grr.

Like you, although we have a household waste collection evey week, we only bother putting that bin out fortnightly when the recylable collection takes place (on the same day)

i have side access but i tend to forget its bin day till im rushing out to work n then pull bin out as i go, i fear if its in my locked alleyway ill forget

my old rubbish i only put out fortnightly as i really dont use that much, as im living upstairs my upstairs bin gets changed out daily, kitchen every 2 days ruffly,

but from now on i think ill put the recycle out straight away and then household as usual in the normal bin,

till my kitchens been renovated then look for a nice stainless steel, smallish, spllt bin

what a carry on lolololol

We've 4 bins/boxes now, the garden waste one was by choice.

We've a bin in the kitchen for general waste which gets put in the non-recycleable bin when full
There is also a swing bin in the kitchen where recyleable paper/tins/foil etc gets put before being emptied into the outside one. Waste paper baskets through out the house normally contain 'dry' rubbish and get sorted before emptying in the outside bins.

We aren't supposed to put veg peelings in the garden waste bin. As it is, we do have a small compost heap so store peelings in an old icecream box on the windowsill, transfer it to a bucket by the back door and eventually to the compost heap.

Glass gets washed out and put outside in a black box.

Although our system works for us, I can see how difficult it could be for people with small kitchens or no side access for rubbish bins/bags etc.

FOOD,,,,EMPTY DAILY USE COUNCIL RECYCLE BAGS A MUST
GENERAL KITCHEN SMALL BIN UNDER SINK EMPTY WHEN FULL
RECYCLE TAKE OUT STRAIGHT AWAY ALWAYS WASHED..
GARDEN WASTE BIN SHARE WITH DAUGHTERMS

WATCH OUT WITH GARDEN BIN SOMETIMES DAUGHTER HAD NO SPACE FOR HER GARDEN STUFF BECAUSE IN THE NIGHT FOLK FILLED IT UP

;-) i thought the same carol :-D he was "clean your bedrom technician" but that jobs not working out to well so im thinking a shift in job roles this one may suit him better ;-)

hi greenfingers, im sure ill get used to it my garden waste wont be a problem i do as lttle gardening as possible and currently have a jungle in the back, but the cats love it lol

I believe that all children should have their own little jobs to do round the house so sounds good to me :-D

We keep our garden waste bin in the garden, near the back gate, fill it up and then drag it out........Indoors we have a plastic bin for recycling, which is emptied every day
You just get used to a different routine