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<p style="text-align: left;">Rishi's pathetic scrapping a non- policy aside, it has I guess brought recycling into the media again. Shame there doesn't seem to be any discussion of what a good policy would look like 😔 myself I think much more pressure to reduce packing and waste is still the way to go, but at the end of the day stuff still needs to go to bin. So who has a decent system? Anyone? Croydon here, I've 4 massive wheelies. Garden waste (charged extra for this), 1 for plastic, glass and metal, 1 for paper and card, and 1 for landfill. Finally a small food waste bin too. 2 wheelies are emptied each week, food bin every week. It works I think but the 4 wheelies do take a lot of space. Is there a better system?</p>
Bristol:
1 wheelie bin (fortnightly, though we don't bother putting it out every fortnight)
2x recycling boxes for glass/plastic/paper/cans/stuff (weekly)
1x big bag for cardboard and brown paper (weekly)
1x food waste bin (weekly)
You can pay for a green waste bin, but on our terraced street no-one has a big enough garden to bother.
Three.
Recycling (cardboard, paper, some plastics, cans) but not glass which I have to take to a bottle bank. Big bin. Fortnightly collection.
Garden. Only for 7 months and costs extra. Big bin. Fortnightly collection.
General. Big bin. Fortnightly collection, same week as garden waste.
Not sure it is 'decent', they are mostly in soft plastic woven bags so more manageable than big wheelies for those in flats etc. The council next door makes it much easier for residents as 4 of the below are combined into a mixed recyclables bag.
- General
- Food
- Plastic & Metal
- Glass
- Card
- Paper
- Batteries
- Garden
Then small electricals can also be put out on top.
Hampshire:
Big black bin for general waste - weekly (but probably only put out once a month).
Green bin for recycling - fortnightly.
Plastic box for glass - weekly (but normally just put it out when it's full)
2 well 3 as I have a compost bin too, but I keep forgetting to pay for it.
There’s talk of the glass ones being ‘rolled out’ as they’ve done a trial in some streets nearby. As of yet it hasn’t happened.
Still only another 4 to go.
Ooh, we were having this exciting conversation earlier. West Oxfordshire if that makes a difference - 1 grey smaller sized wheelie bin for general rubbish every other week, 1 extra large blue top recycling wheelie bin every other week for everything except glass, fabric, small electricals which can go out separately, 1 regular sized wheelie bin for garden waste (we have to pay for this), glass in a separate recycling box, food waste weekly in a caddy sized thing. Not sure where they recycle the broken bins as it seems to be a favourite past time to see how often they can break the food waste ones and they have split and replaced the green waste one at least once.
We're going from 3 to 4 wheelies here too - takes up way too much space.
Garden & Kitchen Waste
Paper and Cardboard
Metal and Plastic Packaging
Landfill
There's no kerbside glass collection though.
We need to get away from the expectation that our waste will be collected and dealt with by the council. Even using communal bins where you have to put a bit of effort into taking your waste to be disposed of may provide a bit of a nudge for some behaviour change.
Errrr.
Outside i have:-
Green Waste - fortnightly collection, 175l bin, usually only 15% full
Burnable waste - monthly collection, 175l bin, could probably go to quarterly collection for the amount that's in it!
Inside i have:-
Plastic
Metal
Clear Glass
Coloured glass
Deposit bottles - ones i get cash back on.
Card
Paper
Most of those get emptied and taken to the recycling centre (by me) anywhere between 2 and 8 weeks.
We've got 7, i'm being repressed!
2 blue (cardboard), 2 green, garden and food waste, 2 grey for general waste and a brown one for glass and plastic bottles.
all collected fortnightly, not entirely sure how we ended up with 2 grey ones, we just sort of adopted it when it was left in our drive way.
five-ish here in East Dunbartonshire. fortnghtly collections alternating recycling one week, grey and green the next.
grey general waste
green garden waste
blue cardboard
brown bottles and cans
small grey caddy for food waste (weekly collection)
2 - green for stuff, blue for recycling stuff - brown bin for garden waste is optional at £40 a year
The only time I've seen more full size bins than that at a domestic property was in Germany in around 1993 when the word recycling didn't exist with local councils in the UK. IIRC it was one for general waste with the 3 others being various forms of recycling.
Food waste is collected every week
Rubbish every second week
Mixed recycling (not including glass) every other week
Green wheelie for landfill. It rarely goes out.
2x Brown wheelie for garden waste. We pay extra for these.
Blue wheelie for recycling plastic
Purple wheelie for paper
Black box for glass. Yes, I feel like the bin men are tutting at the amount of wine/gin/whisky bottles. 🥴🥴
Grey box for food waste.
Indoors we have a recycling bin for thin plastic wrappers, bags etc. That's by far the most quickly filled. We recycle this at the local supermarket.
I can add something different! 1 green recycling, 1 black all the rest of the crap. Fortnightly collections.
Garden waste I dispatch to the nearest wasteland by bike trailer. I ain't paying for that! 😀
Manchester
4 bins in total all the same size
Black - general landfill
Green - garden & food
Blue - paper & cardboard
Brown - bottles, some plastics
Collections are weird; black, green, blue, one week, and the brown by itself the other week. We separate it all indoors, so it's no hassle to put it in the right bin. Doesn't everyone?
Rother Council (East Sussex) are removing all local recycling points due to cost. Now only the tips will take anything extra. More fly tipping then…..😣
bin wise, we have 2 black wheelie bins for waste - 2 weekly
1 green for all dry recycling - 2 weekly
2 paid for brown garden waste bins - 2 weekly
No food waste any more as that was scrapped too.
3 but I'd prefer 7 if it meant we could recycle things from home rather than taking them to the supermarket.
3 bins plus...
Bin for normal rubbish
Brown for organics
Green for paper
Glass goes to bottle bank.
Plastic with plastic bottles for recycling/refund
Big bag for recyclable plastic
For my bit of Hampshire (Winchester):
3 Wheelie bins and one plastic box collected:
Recycling (paper,plastics, metal) - fortnight collection
General waste - fortnight collection
Garden extra fee - fortnight collection
Box for glass- monthly collection.
We do get the choice of large or small wheelie bins.
Wiltshire: 5
- General waste (small wheelie)
- Plastic and cardboard (small wheelie)
- Glass (small box)
- Compost (small box)
- Garden (small wheelie)
Each is collected every 2 weeks. Only the mixed dry recycling really needs to be. We’re a family of four.
We also take soft plastic to Tesco and clothing/batteries/etc to the recycling centre every few weeks.
3:
Grey = non recycling - fortnightly
Green = recycling - alternative fortnightly (anything but glass or electrics, need to take them to bottle bank or tip/recyling centre)
Brown = Garden waste - not sure how often but free in Leeds
The fact that there are soooooo many different colours and schemes in this country is ****ing rediculous!
Stirling (4 - 7 depending on your definition of a bin)
Grey wheelie for landfill. Collected every 4 weeks.
2x Green wheelie for cardboard (I applied for the 2nd). Collected every 4 weeks. Have a box on the microwave to collect this before the big journey outside as the wheelies are kept in the side entry away from the back door.
Blue wheelie for recycling plastic and metal. Collected every 4 weeks, except a collection was skipped due to industrial action and so we have a backlog with overflow going into the grey bin.
Brown wheelie for food compost and garden waste. Collected every 2 weeks. We pay for the garden waste collection.
Food compost caddie at back door and a smaller one in the kitchen because the brown wheelie is kept in the side entry away from the back door (the smell and the flies are bauffin).
Brown Box for glass recycling. Collected by the council every 4 weeks but I also pay a private company to collect in the middle of the cycle.
Also have a bin bag for polythene, wrapping etc in the utility room. This gets taken to the supermarket every few weeks. And a small box for electricals/batteries that also go to the supermarket for recycling.
Just north of Peterboghorror - South Kesteven council.
3 bins -
grey. recycling. What we can put in it has been gradually reduced over the years.
black. general waste
green. garden waste. we pay for this one (about £40), but am relatively happy to do this, rather than all the trips to the tip that would be needed.
We also have a bag for the plastic that can now be recycled via supermarkets.
We used to use a local Terracycle place that accepted tons of stuff, but they lost the building they were using so had to scale it back.
3 wheelie bins for us in Skipton. Green for general waste, blue for mixed recycling and an optional + charged brown one for garden waste.
Sheffield - 3 (we could pay for a green garden waste bin but don't)
Black - Big; general waste, done fortnightly. Only gets anywhere near filled if I've cut the grass or hedge
Brown - Big; cans/bottles/some plastic. Unclear as to "which" plastic. Never gets more than 1/4 full. Quad weekly in rotation with
Blue - Small; paper/card. This is the only one we ever routinely fill. Again done every 4 weeks.
Random plastic gets taken to Tesco as the recycling area at the Sainsburys we use has been closed down, so that's a separate trip (they're actually only 30m away from each other, but separated by a railway line).
"Soft plastic" whatever that is, can go in carrier bag recycling at Sainsbos, but I'm continually confused as to what can and can't go in that.
**** knows what's supposed to happen with Tetrapacks. Possibly Waitrose in town, but I'm buggered if I'm going to drive there just to drop off recycling.
Can't help but feel that the best way to do it would be to chuck everything in one bin (or at most separate organic/non organic) and get the people who are actually experts at it to separate it out. Yes it would cost. So does 7 bins times Xty million households and you'd end up with much less cross contamination.
...but yes to shared French style Poubelles...
And one standard nationwide.
Salford here, 4 wheelie bins:
Black, general waste goes to incineration, every 3 weeks.
Blue, paper/cardboard, every other week.
Brown, glass/metal/plastic bottles only with no lids, every other week (blue/brown alternate).
Black with pink lid, garden and food waste.
Optional smaller green food waste box for those who don't want/need the pink wheelie bin.
Soft plastics bags etc get stored to go to the supermarket but there's no council collection for this.
Agree with a need for standards here... Prestwich, right next door, has green for paper, blue for mixed and brown for garden/food. Though saying that, as different areas of the country have different recycling capabilities it would be difficult to have the same collection scheme countrywide.
West Berks
1x black wheelie
1x Green box for cardboard
1x Green box for bottles
1x Green bag for plastics
There's also a green wheelie for garden cuts but I don't use it as the council recently introduced an additional charge for having it collected.
So out the back there's a long line of plastic green wheelie bins that don't get used, and the council won't take them away because apparently they belong to the household and it's our job to dispose of them and not the council.
Angus, Scotland. 1 general waste and 1 mixed recycling. Each emptied fortnightly.
We could get one for garden waste and food waste, but we compost ourselves.
Spelthorne - Surrey
Green - Recycling Bin - glass, paper and card (clean and dry), metal cans and tins plastic bottles, pots, tubs and trays. Bi-weekly collection
Brown - Garden Waste (Extra £52 per year). Bi-weekly collection
Dark green - all other household rubbish. Bi-weekly collection
Food waste caddy. Weekly collection - This goes to an anaerobic digestion facility at the recycling centre in our district.
There is also kerbside collection of small electricals (irons, power tools, toasters, kettles, laptop PC's, mobile phones etc) on bin day, which is handy.
What needs to happen is a lot more transparency (and regulation of) what happens to the stuff once it's collected. Just because you put it in a recycling box doesn't mean it doesn't end up burnt, in landfill or shipped abroad.
Hertfordshire.
Black wheelie bin for glass/metal recycling, collected fortnightly.
Brown wheelie bin for landfill, collected fortnightly.
Black box for cardboard/paper recycling, collected fortnightly.
Green foodwaste bin, collected weekly.
Green wheelie bin for garden waste if you pay more but we have a small garden and a council dump within walking distance so I don't.
The only one that comes close to full is landfill, and that's because of nappies.
East Cheshire
1 large wheelie mixed recyclables
1 large wheelie 'general' waste
1 large wheelie garden waste that food waste can also be dropped into.
All fortnightly, garden waste about to become a chargeable service - £56 p.a. We've been told that you can't put garden waste into the general if you opt not to pay for the garden waste service.
Really good to hear about battery and small electrical collections. We don't have these yet but most supermarkets take batteries in store now. These items are the biggest health hazard to the waste sector with fires etc
We have three - landfill waste, all recyclables and a garden bin that is optional. I feel cheated.
New Forest - none of those new fangled wheelie bins for us.
Black plastic bag for general waste
Clear plastic bag for recyclable waste
Plastic box for glass
Green nylon bags for garden waste (will be wheeling bin from next year)
Not having wheelie bins in a pain in the ass and when putting out rubbish to be collected the horses and cows get at it and spread it across the road, that's if rats don't get into the bags first. I therefore have to put the bags into alu bins.
2 big wheelie bins, one blue (recycle paper, cardboard, plastics) and one black (anything else), both emptied fortnightly (on different days).
We live in the country, so no other collections offered so we also separately box glass and then take it down every few months to a local glass collection site. Anything else I'll take to the tip as/when.
We've a big garden, so some waste (wood etc) is burned and other is composted which we then use on the garden.
Clackmannanshire: 4 wheelie bins + glass box + food caddy (small electricals can be left with the glass box)
- Green WB - general waste
- Brown WB - garden waste
- Blue WB - mixed recycling (no paper, card or glass)
- Grey WB - cardboard
- Blue box - glass
- Blue box - small electricals
- Food caddy
We live on a hill, and only have a small flat area for bin storage. The forth wheelie bin (grey) only got left last week, i need to rejig my storage!
Three wheelie bins here...
Black - Landfill
Green - Garden waste and food waste. Although I think this is only collected 7 or 8 months a year.
Red - All the recycling. Card, paper, tins, plastic, glass, tetra pack.
The only thing they don't take is plastic bags. So overall pretty good.
The only ones that matter. Bass.
5 here residual wheelie, green wheelie, tins and plastic bag, paper and card, glass boxes. Works well enough for me.
agree there should be more standardisation but there are limits due to housing stock, demographics and vehicle suitability.
Cambridge all wheelie bins
1 green bin (free) - garden and food waste
2 blue, extra one is free if you ask. Mixed recycling
1 black bin .
Now the ex has moved out I only need 1 blue bin a fortnight and black bin monthly.
4 wheelie bins -
General Waste, Paper + Card, Glass + Plastics and Garden waste.
Small food caddy, so 5 bins in total.
I'm struggling to put the Tory cancellation of a non policy aside.
It was such a blatant, cynical, evil move based on an an arrogant assumption that the electorate is both too selfish and too thick to see through it. Like a known paedophile offering free sweets.
I also worry that they may get away with it.
myself I think much more pressure to reduce packing and waste is still the way to go
Or at least legislate packaging be more recyclable.
By far the most landfill waste for me is no recyclable food packaging. It no good saying we need to recycle more if the products are non recyclable.
Anyway 2 bins
Green landfill
Silver recycling
Glass into a box and taken to either supermarket bottle bank or recycles center, same for batteries and clothes.
All garden waste is taken to recycle centre.
The new extended producer responsibility regs for packaging are aiming to do some of that as well as target fast food/ fmcg stuff that makes up the bulk of litter, time will tell how effective the scheme is
1 General, 1 Mixed, 1 green.
but to be honest most modern MRF plants and ERF systems can sort it all out, with any bottom ash from ERF plants getting repurposed and recycled now in a lot of systems.
So any bin regime that requires more than a rudimentary separations is just bunkum to increase profit rather than of any additional green/recycling process benefit. (its a bit like the waste equivalent of using a supermarket self checkout, you get joe public to the work for you, but still charge the same)
Also worth bearing in mind that over 60% of the UK plastics for recycling is shipped overseas for processing, and a lot of the time, its not recycled back into the same material but then repurposed as a filler material in items which can then be recycled no further so will still end up in landfill or going to incineration eventually.
baled waste card and paper profit is mentally low as well
It makes more sense to keep the really high grade materials in a true recycle loop and just whack everything else through an ERF and get some power out of it.
Given the size of the Southampton population and the amount of waste that goes with that, I still can't believe we simply have recycled, general and glass. And optional extra cost for a gardening waste bin.
Collected fortnightly, awful smell during heatwaves.
Aluminium is supposed to go in general here because they don't process it, or transport it to somewhere that does. I presume, perhaps wrongly, that it is recycled if taken to one of the local councicl household waste recycling centres.
Luton
1 x General waste (collected fortnightly)
1 x Recycling (collected fortnightly alternating with general waste.
1 x Garden (Paid for separately collected same week as general waste.
1 x Glass bin (Collected monthly)
Did have a food bin that was collected weekly but that was dropped by the council a couple of years ago.
Bury
4 bins
Brown - Garden and food waste
Blue - Glass and selected plastics
Green - Paper and card
Grey - Everything else
I wish that the Local Authority would expand they plastic collection to encompass more.
Not sure where Rishi's other 3 bins are. Or what the meat tax is.
Pembrokeshire:
Red reusable bag for plastic, cartons, tins. Emptied every week.
Blue reusable bag for cardboard. Emptied every week.
Food Waste caddy (all food). Emptied every week.
Glass box. Every week.
Paper box. Every week.
Grey 'residual waste' bin bags. Allowed up to 3 every 3 weeks. We only usually put 1 out every 3 weeks (family of 4)
You can then have a garden waster wheelie bin.
And you can apply for purple bags for sanitary and carer waste.
We then choose to collect soft plastics and film and take them to Tesco.
Batteries can also be put out for the recycling pick up every week.
So in theory we could have 10 bins! I think Pembrokeshire is top of the national league tables for recycling.
We have a green bin for general waste, a black bin for dry recyclables and a glass box. Garden waste is a charged option that I haven't gone for as my gardening is not frequent enough to fill a small wheely bin regularly. A chipper would be good though to avoid any tip runs with large quantities of garden waste.
South Staffs
Week 1
1 Black wheelie for general
Week 2
1 blue wheelie for glass/plastic/tin
1 green wheelie for garden waste (£45 for 10 months)
1 blue bag for paper/card
One wheelie for general household non-recyclables (Inc food waste). I've repurposed the green recyclable bin for glass and tins which I take up to the recycling centre whenever full. Garden stuff just gets put into piles for either a good old bonfire or habitat. Oh, another repurposed wheelie for cardboard and paper (unless I use it for starting bonfires) which I also recycle myself. I can't stand this "every third Tues for recycling, every 2nd Friday for refuse" bollocks. Rather do it myself.
Doncaster. Three wheelies and a box for glass.
Black bin for landfill, fortnightly. Everything else the other week, blue for card, plastic, tins etc. Green wheelie for 7 months, free but can pay to have a second.
Newcastle upon Tyne
Blue bin (with bottle caddy) - A mix of select plastic, glass, card, paper, tins, tetrapacks
Green bin - Landfill
Brown bin - Garden waste - no food (for a fee)
We deposit all the food packaging that is now recyclable at the supermarket.
Small electrical, batteries, metal, hard plastic, wood, bulbs, plasterboard, waste oil etc all taken by ourselves to the local recycling hub
Food waste composted in the garden.
Frighteningly large amount would go to landfill if we didn't take the initiative
Chester:
1 x WB for paper/cardboard recycle
1 x WB for plastics, cans and glass recycle
1 x WB for household waste
(you can pay for a garden waste bin but we don't)
Schedule is:
Week 1 = recycle bins
Week 2 = Household
Week 3 = recycle bins
Week 4 = Household
... etc.
Works well and seems the best system we've had so far.
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Gwynedd:
3 stacking boxes for paper, plastics/cans & glass
1 x WB for household waste
(you can pay for a garden waste bin but we don't)
Schedule is:
Week 1 = recycle bins
Week 2 = recycle bins
Week 3 = recycle bins & household
Week 4 = recycle bins
Week 5 = recycle bins
Week 6 = recycle bins & household
etc.
Not a good system as household waste only goes every 3 weeks - if you miss the collection or they miss you then you're in pretty big trouble. The recycle bins aren't big enough - especially cardboard/paper
Typical Gwynedd council f***wittery.
Edinburgh:
- General landfill waste (wheelie bin)
- "Packaging" - paper, card, tins, some plastics (wheelie bin)
- Garden waste, an annual fee is charged for collecting this (wheelie bin)
- Glass, small electricals, batteries, maybe fabrics too (box)
- Food waste (small bin)
So 5 for me. Each is collected fortnightly except for the food waste that's collected weekly.
4 large wheelie bins
1 for paper & card
1 for glass ,metal ,plastic bottle/cans/containers
1 for garden waste/compostible
1 for anything else that doesnt go in the 3 above
Black WB - general waste - ours is 90% used cat litter now as new cat refuses to 💩 outside 😂
Red WB - paper/card - this is the vast majority of the waste/recycling we generate now (which is good as it shows a lot of packaging etc has removed over to 100% cardboard). The council will also take extra cardboard boxes stuffed with recycling if they aren't too big!
Blue WB - other recycling, plastic/bottles/cans etc
all our kitchen waste etc tends to get composted although the council will collect a small food waste bin if you put it out.
There's also an optional Green WB for garden waste that you have to pay for, again our garden waste gets composted.
We've had a bin men strike for the last few months (someone was still collecting GW but not recycling) which is now resolved, fortunately we had enough space to stockpile all the recycling & also managed a few runs down to the local recycling centre (formally tip!) but some people had (or chose) to put their recycling in the general waste for a few months which was a shame.
Only 1 bin
Croydon council here so 3 wheelies (paper/cardboard, mixed re-cyclables, general) plus a food bin which is fine. The foxes have worked out how to knock the food bins over and flip the handles to get in, which can be a problem...
Where it goes once collected I'm not certain as I recall reading that Croydon were shipping containers to Indonesia at one point.
2
3. General, plastic, garden and food waste. No idea which is supposed to go out which week, but thankfully the neighbours do. The plastic one's usually close to full, the rest hardly ever. Currently have a huge stack of cardboard next to the house - I'm talking at least a cubic metre - as that isn't supposed to go in the general waste.
The next town over just flings everything in the one bin, and get their homes heated off the incinerator. Lucky sods.
2 sets of disposable bin bags, black for landfill, pink for basic recycling (no glass allowed) we can fold flat larger cardboard if it wont go in the bag.
Have to deal with glass ourselves in in town and no option for garden waste as we arent in a wheelie bin collection area.
1 x General waste (collected fortnightly)
1 x Recycling (collected fortnightly alternating with general waste.
1 x Garden (Paid for separately - £50.00 per year) collected same week as
Recycling.
2 as standard a blue one for recycling and a grey one for general waste. We pay for a green one for garden waste
However the recycling one is rather limited. No glass - your expected to either take it to a bottle bank or it’s general waste. No tetrapak for reasons I’m at a loss to understand especially as 2 miles away l, across a council boundary both were accepted as recycling
I assume OP is collating & making a nice graph/chart from all this data 🤔😂
sharkbait
Chester:
1 x WB for paper/cardboard recycle1 x WB for plastics, cans and glass recycle
1 x WB for household waste
(you can pay for a garden waste bin but we don’t)
Schedule is:
Week 1 = recycle bins
Week 2 = Household
Week 3 = recycle bins
Week 4 = Household
… etc.
Works well and seems the best system we’ve had so far.
I'm Chester & Cheshire West so guess much the same as you?
Grey Wheelie = General
Grey Wheelie with Red lid = Glass, Plastic & Tins
Grey Wheelie with Blue lid = Paper & cardboard
Green Wheelie = Garden waste
Brown Caddy thing = Food waste
So 4 Wheelie bins & 1 Caddy thing
Recycling and general waste alternate weeks but food waste every week.
Given we were at last time of looking in the top 10 councils for recycling and our neighbouring council "Wirral" were in the bottom 10 WTF don't they just adopt best practice?
My In Law's in South Gloucestershire have these stupid open containers for paper cardboard etc that just let it blow everywhere if its windy or get soaked if raining?
I'll have to ask my girlfriend what Flintshire council do but I'm sure it will be different to everyone else's 😀
Rural west berks:
Black general waste
Green waste which costs 60 odd a year
3 X boxes for paper, cans and glass
1 X big floppy plastic bag for plastics
1 X food waste caddy thing
Works pretty well. Most of our waste is recyclable and they'll take extra I'd you have it. Collections alternate between black bin and recycling/green. Food waste is every week.
Rural west berks:
Black general waste
Green waste which costs 60 odd a year
3 X boxes for paper, cans and glass
1 X big floppy plastic bag for plastics
1 X food waste caddy thing
Non-rural West Berks - we only have 2 boxes, one for paper/card and one for glass. Cans go in with plastics in the floppy bag. Rest is the same.
4.
- General waste
- Recycling
- Big plastic box for glass
- Garden waste (which we chose to have)
Further proof that the Tories know their voter demographic are either gullible, stupid or just don't care about honesty in politics.
West(ish) Berks town.
Landfill
Recycling
Green waste (optional extra charg)
Food waste
As for the Tory non existent policy- 7 deadly bins or 7th bin of a 7th bin.
****s
Germany, so...
Black bin for general waste
Green bin for paper/card (even in Germany most of my waste is free papers etc., so that fills up PDQ)
Yellow bin for recyclable general packaging etc.
Bottle etc return machine at every single supermarket to get deposit back on most bottles etc.
Bottle bank on the way for any glass that can't get a deposit back
Another recycling point 5min walk in the other direction that has a small electrical item waste bin and old clothes bin (although used batteries and ink/toner cartridges etc. go in respective bin of any shop that sells batteries or ink/toner)
I have yet to try the web form to book a day for the bin men to take away CRT monitor/tv, or old mattress from the doorstep, so that I don't have to go to the tip.
I fully expect that anything that I put in the clothes bin will probably actually end up making floor covering/protection for builders/painters and not to clothe a less fortunate person, and similarly half the other recycled stuff will probably only get a second rate re-use too or burned in the incinerator across town to make some leccy/heat, but at least I've done my bit to avoid landfill after 1 use.
Four - green general waste, blue mixed recycling, brown garden waste which we have to pay for, and small food waste bin which gets used a couple of times a year for stuff that won't go down the waste disposal. Small electrical goes on top of a bin to be collected seperately.
As the general waste goes to an incinerator I sometimes wonder whether the two big bins should be for burnable and not burnable.
Nice to see that not only do recycling policies vary by area but even the bin colours aren't standardised.
3 bins here:
Black for landfill
Blue: card, paper, steel cans and plastics (tetrapaks not permitted)
Brown for composting (absolutely no kitchen waste even the peelings!)
Aluminium cans I keep back, crush and get cash (bank transfer) for every 18 months from the scrapyard.
Just the 6.
General, garden, plastic/metals, paper, glass, food.
None.
Here in the Green Nirvana of Brighton we have a selection of Poubelle type bins at the end of every street. Just chuck your crap in the relevant bin as you pass. Or near...
Wouldn't want them outside my gaff!
None, due to being in Spain
We have Communal waste bins for:
glass
cardboard
cans and plastic
And one for anything else
Anything to good to bin gets left by the anything else for people to take(re-use)
It seems a really good system and everyone seems to wholly embrace it, bins outside the houses seems so mad a concept to me now.
No graphs or other visuals I'm afraid. Quite heartened that most of us seem to be recycling most stuff that days. Quite disappointed but not surprised there is so much variation in systems. Feels like 5 give or take is common.... I envy those with 3 or less!
Small wheelie: General waste, every week
Small wheelie: metal, glass and some plastics, every fortnight
Large wheelie: garden waste, each fortnight
Large wheelie: card/paper, monthly.