Recycling

[e5]

Do you recycle? Are you a regular recycler or do you just recycle when you remember or when it's convenient?

I try my best to re-cycle everything I can and as much as I can.

They say there has been an 85% reduction since they brought in the 5p carrier bags, which IMO is great. They are now talking about charging for plastic bottles... You buy the bottle, and the shop charges you 10p, if you bring it back for recycling, you get your 10p back... This is potentially a huge business for someone who will go hunt a load of plastic bottles and sell them back haha.

I'm pretty up for that, I mean, you get your money back as long as you recycle it, so it's a win-win!

[xxMATTGxx]

We are kinda forced to where I live. We have like 4 different bins - The one I hate the most is the food waste bin. Like, sure you shouldn't waste food but sometimes you just can't finish the meal but my god that bin gets nasty.

In terms of shopping bags, I only ever get one If I really need it. Normally I would have a bag on me anyway with my work stuff in so I would just shove my items in there If I can.

[scottish]

Wasn't the 10/20p bottle a thing like 10 years ago lol

We don't here, at parents house we had like Matt dif bins for everYthing but here it's just one big one

[Elegance]

we have different bins in our house for recycling one we have a tiny food bin, a paper/plastic bin and a general waste

i always make sure to recycle in college cus there's 2 bins in the food areas

[Cerys]

We only have 3 bins here, black bin for general stuff, green bin for recycling and lil grey bin for food.
We're kind of forced to recycle cos the black and green bin is only collected every two weeks alternatively. So if you put everything in the black bin it'll be full long before the two weekly collection.

[dbgtz]

Ye I recycle when I can. Annoyingly at the moment I have to sort through the recycling here as nobody seems to realise you can't just put any old crap in there.

[thatc00lgirl]

Yeah my family recycles whenever and however we can.
We either reuse the plastic bags we get at the supermarket, or give the plastic bottles to my aunt who uses them for her
air plants which she hangs in her farm, or collect a bag of cans and give it to those aunties foraging through the trash and
at the end of the month we give the whole lot of newspapers to the karang guni man so he can sort out and sell to those
recycling plants.

We'll bring either our own fabric shopping bags to the supermarket or the plastic bags we get to the wet market.

[x-s-x]

We have to recycle in my area otherwise they won't take our bins. We are also only allowed to fill up 1 black bag every 2 weeks as that's when they are collected. If we have additional black bags we have take them to a household recycling centre ourselves. I think that's pretty bad tbh, especially for those who have big families :/

[e5]

We only have 3 bins here, black bin for general stuff, green bin for recycling and lil grey bin for food.
We're kind of forced to recycle cos the black and green bin is only collected every two weeks alternatively. So if you put everything in the black bin it'll be full long before the two weekly collection.

thats Leeds for ya

black for geneal
green recycling
brown garden

dunno about brown but black and green every 2 weeks alternatively but they take everything and aren't fussy.

the bottle thing is just being talked about now on the news

[thatc00lgirl]

thats Leeds for ya

black for geneal
green recycling
brown garden

dunno about brown but black and green every 2 weeks alternatively but they take everything and aren't fussy.

the bottle thing is just being talked about now on the news

ooo in my estate, we have 4 different colors.

Green - General
Red - Plastic
Blue - Paper
Yellow - Cans

[Red]

We have the two, green bin for recycling and blue for general waste. People have brown for garden. Only recently found out that you can't put pizza containers in recycling bin lmao. We wash everything out for recycling but didn't know they just dump it if you don't wash out your containers.

[Empired]

We have three bins - black for general waste, green for garden and food waste, blue for recyclables.

We recycle when we can but tbh normally we put most stuff in whatever bin is going next bc food waste being left in a bin for two weeks in summer is rank

[nat965]

We take the recycling to the dump/waste transfer station. No recycling bins here. I try and recycle whenever I can.

[Charlie]

Yeah, we got two black bins from ikea to separate the recycling so it's easier to chuck it into the right bins although going to the effort of taking it down two flights of stairs is annoying.