New Recycling Bins

Only have three here.

Black/Blue - General waste (landfill)
Green - Paper, plastic, cardboard etc (but not glass)
Brown - Compostable waste

Glass still goes in our landfill bin here, which I think should be sorted out pronto.
 
Where my parents live, like the OP they have loads of different bins and baskets for all the different types of waste and recycling.

The Flat complex in which I live in Islington basically has only three large bin types.

- General Waste
- Recycling (Cardboard/Glass/Plastic)
- Food Waste (Special small bags which biodegrade so it can be used to make compost).

I can only assume that given how mixed the recycling bins are, that somewhere, somebody must be sorting them all out into their correct properties. Perhaps that's why it was announced today that Islington residents pay 3x as much in council tax for waste collection than Camden does.
 
Grey bin for normal rubbish
Blue box for metal and glass
Red box for paper
Brown bin for food waste
Green bin for grass
 
Blue lid for recyclables - ie paper, plastic, glass, cardboard etc
Green lid for food/garden waste (we also get a little green bin for the kitchen that use corn starch bags which we scrape plates etc into, then transfer the bags to the big bin).
Black lid - other stuff not covered by the above.

Generally our blue lid bin is full, green quarter full and black usually just has one bag of mixed rubbish in it.

Weekly collections.
 
OP - *snap*, but Stafford for me instead of Buckinghamshire.

Green wheelie - general
Brown wheelie - compost
Blue wheelie - recyc

All 3 bins are full size, and have been in place since Jan 2007, so 5 years like this for me now. Before 2006, green and brown were the same but we had a small green crate for recyc instead of the blue bin.
 
3 where I live.
Grey/purple lid- general rubbish non recycle
All grey - card/paper/plastic/glass & other recycle bits
Green & Yellow- garden waste

The 1st 2 are emptied alternate weeks & the last one every week.

Seems to work as the borough won an award for recycling in 2010.
 
Up here in Huddersfield, we have:

Black wheelie bin - general waste (collected every two weeks)

Black box - cans and glass bottles
White bag - plastic bottles
Green bag - newspapers
Brown food caddy with lockable lid - food waste
Inside food caddy - to keep food waste in before you take it to bigger outside caddy. (all collected every week)

Garden waste bag which you have to pay £5 for, but then they'll take garden waste whenever you want as long as it's in that bag.

Council will come to pick up any big things like washers, fridges etc if you ring them up.

It doesn't take up much room, thank goodness we don't have loads of bins. Where do councils think people can keep all these bins?!

But we don't do food recycling. I think it's gross, having old food sitting in a little bin on my work surface. I have my bin out in my utility room. Then there was the time we went away for 3 days during the summer and forgot to empty the food bin before we left. We came back to maggots. That was the last time I used my food waste bin.
 
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Normal self supplied bin for general rubbish.
Large plastic bag for all recyclables.
Additional bag for garden waste if you want it.

All collected weekly, and no ugly wheelie bins. Hillingdon Council got something right!
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Just the one here.

My Mum has like 6 different bins though, gets made to wash everything out before putting it in the bin and gets fined/rubbish left if it's wrong.

Don't get me wrong, I can see the merits in recycling but after working more hours than ever for less pay, being taxed extra etc. I don't really see why people put up with being told to do the council's job for them? It's not like they give you a rebate for sifting through all your crap so they don't have to?
 
You guys are lucky, id love to have a glass bin, right pain in the ass having to go to the bottle bank all the time,
 
Black bin general waste
Red bin Recycling

Both are emptied every two weeks, and trust me in the summer the black bin if you do not tie up waste food correctly etc can become very very smelly.
 
********* I'm fuming....

We're getting Wheelie bins in a couple of months :(

You do not know how angry I am. Being in a Terraced house I'll either have to leave them out front or wheel them through the house on collection day. What do you guys do ?
 
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********* I'm fuming....

We're getting Wheelie bins in a couple of months :(

You do not know how angry I am. Being in a Terraced house I'll either have to leave them out front or wheel them through the house on collection day. What do you guys do ?
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They tried to collect ours from the front for the first few weeks (this was a while back) then realized that it really wasn't working, so now they do it from the back (no, not that ;)). Makes it much easier.
 
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