Recycling

[Tintinnabulate]

We have like err 5 bins. Can recycle glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, good, grass etc.

[Swastika]

na we don't recycle in our house.
we get huge bins in the alley that everybody on the row of houses uses, no individual wheely bins or anything.
we just shot everything into binbags and into the big bins out the back, then i guess they get collected whenever they do.
have to phone the council though for them to take away old microwaves and tv's and stuff.

[Blinger$]

Hmm, in melbourne there are three (wheelie)bins..

One is for general waste which in general is about 120 litres (picture here)
Another one is for recycling, which is for paper, cardboard, glass, plastic etc (anything recyclable) which has a yellow lid (picture here)
And they recently introduced a new one, a "greens bin" where you throw out all the leaves/grass/trees etc that you cut down (picture here)


We follow that, but we dont have the green bin since we just burn the stuff we cut down or keep it on the grass. At work though we throw everything into a big dumpster/skip and that gets collected twice a week.

[Stefy09]

I take bottles to the bottle bank at the tip. But people think im an alcoholic because my sister is and i end up taking like 10 vodka bottles

[GommeInc]

The Recycling Scheme in this area is incredibly good We have a recycling box which takes cans and glass, and we're given plastic bags for paper and plastic bottles (obviiously in seperate boxes/bags). Cans and glass are taken one week, plastic bottles and paper the next. Generally food waste and so forth is taken every week. I think they also take clothes and stuff if you place them in a blue bag any week (they chuck them on the side of the lorry/van).

The "dump" is about 9 or 10 miles away.

[ecstasy]

we have a bin for a pretty much anything recyclable + recently got a bin for garden waste. lavly

[AgnesIO]

Mu council allows you to recycle virtually everything now

[Catzsy]

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

I am way impressed with this - your council seems very progressive.

[nat965]

We also have council bins, then reuse our empty bottles, jars etc. with cans, we just give them to our neighbour then he goes to the local dump & dumps it (we rarely do)

[Tintinnabulate]

If government gave more money to those councils who recycle more, every council would be promoting it so much more.