What're your recycling habits?

Kipz

Kipz

Kipz

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Hey all,

Doing a final project for uni regarding the recycling habits of people and how we can increase the awareness of better recycling habits at home.

For me I try to separate as much as I can but sometimes if the recycle bin is full I will be naughty and throw it in the normal trash. I don't wash out any of the stuff or peel the labels off things even though I think you're supposed to? :confused:

Either way this is what I'm working with.

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Any discussion regarding ideas would be cool but I'm more looking for research on how everyone else recycles. Do you separate? Do you wash things out? Do you peel the labels off? Do you have more than two sections? Do you have a recycling center nearby? What could be some incentives to invest in anything that would help you? A reduction in council tax perhaps?

POST YER BINS!

Cheers guys, This forum has helped me out lots with a different project I was doing so if I get as much help as that one I'll be one happy camper!
 
Plymouth council take everything and give us a green wheelie bin for it, so we just chuck it all (after rinsing) into a bag and then empty it weekly into the wheelie bin outside. There's 3 recycling centres in Plymouth. Also, as it's so hassle free (no sorting and what not) it really doesn't bother me to do it.
 
We've got two wheelie bins, 2 boxes and a food waste bin. I separate everything and wash things that need it, i.e. tins, jars, packets from meat, and put them in their corresponding bin. Also 'recycle' all food waste - nothing goes in that can be recycled.
 
Two wheelie bins (one for refuse, one for mixed recyclables) and a green food waste bin. We don't use the green one though as we've got a waste disposal in the sink.

I make a decent effort to recycle, although the specifics of what can and can't go in the recycling bin are sometimes a bit of a hassle.
 
99% of what the council take I recycle, to the point I go to the effort of taking plastic bottles etc home with me to put in the recycle bin rather than use a public "landfill" bin.

Why? I worry for the future of our resources and what effect this will have on my kids and grand kids lives and feel it is the responsible thing to do. I also compost food waste in the summer months and keep hold of things I think I can re-use in the future.

I also make sure all electrical items go to the tech recycle bin at the tip rather than just slipping them into the normal bin - Batteries go to the battery box at Sainsbury's.

Basically anything that there is a facility to recycle, I will. I have a seperate box in the kitchen next to the bin for anything for mixed recycling.

Council provide a mixed recycle wheelie, which is card / plastic / cartons / paper etc and a box for glass. Other specialist facilities at the tip for tech waste, oil, wood etc. We have a garden waste service too, but this year they started charging extra for it :( Not sure what I will do on that front yet - I compost my grass but now need an alternative for hedge trimmings - They do take it at the tip for free so may do that.
 
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None, I live in an apartment that has no recycling facilities. Just a massive general waste bin.

Glasgow city council are terrible for providing such facilities to both offices and residential buildings.
 
3 Bins

Blue - Recyclables - do not need labels removing, but we do give things a quick wash out to get rid of the main crud.
Green - Food and garden waste
Black Bin - General rubbish - clothes, electrical items and other things that cannot be recycled.

The blue is normally full, the green has a bit in it (more in summer when gardening is being done) and the black normally has a small bin bags worth in it.

All collected weekly as well.
 
Just paper, bottle and cans/tins, nothing else. My parents even use the brown bin for cooked food. It is absolutely disgusting and not worth it imo.
 
Reading council have two recycling bins. Copy-Paste from their website.

Black - Non-recyclable rubbish.
Brown - Paper and card, Tins and cans (rinsed), Plastic bottles (no lids), Empty aerosol cans

They don’t accept glass at all which is highly inconvenient but they do have communal glass bins around the town to use which is ok. A very picky recycling policy in comparison to up north (Melton borough) which have one recycling bin for everything and sort it on the street and accept everting recyclable under the sun.


I make every effort to recycle things; peeling labels off plastic or breaking down a mixed material item to it's core components and sort....if I can. I would love to do more! There is a big recycling plant only 2-3 miles away but that doesn’t take plastic in any shape or form...all goes to landfill.

The council street collections go to the same place so god knows how they sort plastic or why they wont accept it.



not recycling everything/as much as possible is a big pet hate of mine.
 
Council: SODC

I have separate wheelie bins - which are fairly small - so I have to recycle some stuff. I tend to stick to things that are easy, e.g. paper, glass, cardboard, plastic. Partly because the rules say no bags in the recycling bin, so anything with bits of food can't go in there because it'll smell (and I cba cleaning rubbish) - the bin collections are alternate weeks. I pay extra for a garden waste bin, they wanted us to compost it but I cba with that - I don't do gardening, it's just for grass. The council also gave me a food waste bin, but I don't use it because it's too much hassle and I barely waste food anyway.

My environmental view is that recycling is small fry, I do it because they've made it more convenient than not doing it. I think our efforts are much better spent on:
- driving electric cars (stop using oil for propulsion)
- buying fresh food that doesn't have so much packaging (it's better for you anyway)
- ban junk mail (nobody wants it)
- etc
 
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We have two bins - a landfill one and a recycling one. Stuff for the recycling includes paper, cardboard, cans and tins, glass plastic food trays, foil etc. We recycle religiously. We do not have to take any labels off and the council "prefer" us to rinse the stuff out, but screw that. I'll be buggered if I'm paying extra water bills to clean rubbish.

Each bin is emptied once a fortnight. We have two bins in the kitchen - a recycling one and a landfill one.
 
We have four various bins/bags:

Black - general waste
Green - paper/cardboard/glass
White - plastics
Green - garden waste
 
I recycle, just been introduced in my area. Bought these bins on Amazon to help, only £19 so bargain. They're great. I printed out a label for the green bin, so everything goes in there if it's on the label and everything else in the blue bin. The red bin is in my bathroom and I just empty it into my recycling green bin when full.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb...keywords=recycling bins&sprefix=recyc,kitchen
 
We have 4 bins, paper/cardboard, general refuse, plastics and food. Everything goes where it's supposed to apart from the food one as i don't see the point in it and having a bin in the kitchen of rotting food disgusts me.
 
Durham council.


Green bin for general waste.

Blue bin for general recycling.

A green box for glass (long since stolen :rolleyes: )

Its good having the two bins but not sufficient as when they introduced the two bins they still only come once a week, so fortnightly collections.

For the bins in the house we tried one of those bins with split compartments but neither part was big enough for anything useful.

It depends where you live in durham. My parents live 3 minutes away from me and also have a brown bin for garden waste.
 
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