Just 3 here!

Mixed Recycling Refuse Garden waste

I have 2 bins, but only because the council took away the wrong one and have taken nearly 2 months to do ~~anything~~ nothing about it

We are supposed to have a black for general, a blue for plastic/packaging recycling, a black box for card and paper and a teenie baby brown bin for food waste. Our neighbors were fly tipping outside our property and their bins were full to the brim with incorrect waste so we reported it. They said they would remove the offending bins and we should leave ours apart from theres so there is "no confusion".

There was confusion. I have called them what feels like a billion times.

And now my shed is full of almost 6 weeks of recycling as I can't get to the tip as my wife gave birth and now I'm back at work.

edit: I'm still pissed off so added more info to vent

To keep this brilliant thread alive 😁, we have:

Wheelie Bin - Black- black bags of general rubbish

Wheelie Bin - Green - Recycling - no glass

Small caddy for food waste.

Apparently we can put bags of batteries on top of the recycling bin and they will also be taken. Anything else has to be taken to the local recycling center with the usual glass banks in supermarket car parks etc.

Bins? You guys don't know how lucky you have it!

• One blue bag (plastics).
• One white bag (paper).
• One orange bag (cardboard)
• Blue bags x2 (general waste)
• One brown bin (food waste)

And as a bonus we get to see everyone's manky rubbish scattered across the street on a windy, rainy day - what joy!

Welcome to Bridgend, Wales. ;-)

1 small rubbish bin.

Located in In a small village in Scotland. The road is too narrow to get the normal trucks through, so there are special smaller bin trucks that come by weekly. We have to take care of everything else by carting it to a recycling point or the tip.

One general waste wheelie. One food waste caddy. One blue tub (paper and card). One black tub (other recyclables)

It is not remotely onerous. Anyone who thinks it is is either an invalid, in which case the council should make accommodations, or a lazy cunt.

• Food bin

• Glass, metal, plastic

• Green waste

• Shit that can’t be recycled.

I actually do have seven bins.

1. Cans and plastic
2. Paper and cardboard
3. Glass
4. Food waste
5. Garden waste
6. Black bags "normal" waste
7. Yellow bags hygiene waste (nappies etc.)

Monmouthshire.

Non recyclable (black) Recyclables (green) Paper and cardboard (purple) Garden (brown)

We’ve got two garden bins cos we’re posh as fuck and the groundskeeper needs two (not really, it’s just permanently out of control - I got a tree trunk in one the other day, was well impressed with that)

I worked on the bins for a while between jobs, and I can tell you, once the recycling pile is too big at the tip site, the rest just gets thrown in with normal rubbish anyway. More different piles means more trucks to move them, we can keep adding new piles but if there isnt a truck to move it then whats the point

Paper & cardboard (blue)

Food waste (brown

Plastics, glass & metals (white)

Non-recycling (green (?) )

Four:

• 1 recycling wheelie bin
• 1 smaller general rubish wheelie bin
• 1 Food Caddy
• 1 Garden Waste bin (I pay extra for)

• Green - General waste
• Black - Plastic, Paper, Cardboard
• Brown - Garden waste

4 bins: 1 black (general rubbish) 2 blue (recycling) 1 green (garden waste)

Normally we'd have one blue but a neighbour bought an extra, then his kids moved out so they don't need the extra space - and we regularly fill them both, mostly with cardboard packing.

Seriously, who gives a fuck if you've got a number of bins? I'd much rather items go into recycling or compost than landfill. If the council / recycling place isn't doing a great job at their end, that's a) not my fault and b) another matter to deal with.

Four wheelie bins

• Green: general waste
• Blue: plastic, metal and glass
• Brown: cardboard and paper
• Grey: garden waste (it's £30/year for this service though)

The brown and grey are only picked up once a month which is really annoying if you've had a lot of parcels and forgot to take the bin out.

Green and blue are every other week.

I love in a flat, so externally I have 6 massive bins - 2 brown, 4 black (recycling and general waste, respectively). I do separately collect my green waste but, until the food waste collections return (it went, they threatened a blu bin for glass which no-one wanted and they offered the return of food waste collection again at some point), it just goes in the grey bins (I largely do it because my main inside bin doesn't fill up much and this stops it from being minging). I have an Addis bin for recycling and separately collect tetra paks, blister packs, plastic bags and batteries to all go off to their respective recycling locations.

My brother has 6 normal-size wheelie bins:

• 3 x black - general
• 2 x brown - recycling
• 1 x green - garden waste

They were there when he moved into their new house and, as there are only four of them, they are under-utlising the bins.