Recycling

[Catzsy]

Wondered about the differences in recycling on the forum and also is there any other daft councils out there? We have recycling with paper and plastic in blue bags, Food bin and black bags. The stupid thing is that we are not allowed to put glass in any of these bags and have to take them to the local recycling centre. :@ What do we pay our tax for? Also it is about 2 miles away - no bottle banks in town so what on earth do Old age Pensioners or people without transport do? Crazy I feel.

[matt$]

I'd be gutted, and im with you what do we pay taxes for :L they should get the council to come to your houses and collect them. Where i live we just simple have a paper/cardboard recycling bin which is collected once a week i believe might be fortnight though not sure.

[dirrty]

erm not in a recycling scheme, but we always recycle. got a recycle bin the same size as a large standard bin, and then a small brown bin which goes inside the house for food waste which is then emptied into a bigger (but still small) brown bin that goes outside. and then they come and collect the recycled stuff every other week

[Caution]

We have a blue bin for recycling everything apart from glass and stuff, a black bin for all rubbish and a green for garden waste. I don't really see the point in the blue/black bin cos you can put pretty much anything in either. I've heard it's not even recycled anyway.

[Rozi]

we have fabby recycling. Just throw it all in a big orange sack the size of a normal rubbish bag and it gets collected every week. Food waste goes in the little green bin which goes on the compost heap.

[Shar]

We have the council recycling bins and we just re-use re-usable stuff really

[dogboy123]

We have council recycling bins, and also brown bins which are for like garden waste

[Smits]

We have brown bins for garden waste, blue boxes for glass/plastic/cans/tins and a sack for paper/cardboard and you can get one for textiles as well i think

[Angel-Light]

Green bin for general waste, Brown bin for garden waste, Blue Bin for plastics, cans, paper, cardboard, White bags for textiles and in the next few weeks a black box for glass and small electrical items

[Dan2nd]

We were just given two black bins for plastics and paper and tins.. glass we have to make an effort to drive to the bottle bank in town...