Do you regularly recycle

[ChristineM]

Oh yes, that reminds me - there's shops in the UK where you can take your own containers and buy stuff to avoid needing anything from the shop to buy the product. Not wine though! Stuff such as washing up liquid.

Here they have nuts, pulses, pasta etc dispensers where you can do that. The bio shops sell a huge range of dried goods like that

 

[Secret Chief]

Here they have nuts, pulses, pasta etc dispensers where you can do that. The bio shops sell a huge range of dried goods like that

The more the better

- Great Pacific garbage patch - Wikipedia

 

[Altfish]

I just check what the neighbours have put out!

The trouble is that our bins are collected very early; 08:00 is not unusual, so it has to go out the night before. I'm organised, I have a laminated bin collection calendar fixed to the fridge.

 

[Secret Chief]

The trouble is that our bins are collected very early; 08:00 is not unusual, so it has to go out the night before. I'm organised, I have a laminated bin collection calendar fixed to the fridge.

Some of my helpful neighbours put their bin/s out on the lunchtime the day before!

 

[Secret Chief]

No I don't

Why not?

 

[Eddi]

Why not?

Too much hassle

Can't be arsed

I don't think anyone on my street seems to be a regular recycler

 

[Rival]

Too much hassle

Can't be arsed

I don't think anyone on my street seems to be a regular recycler

Where do you live that you haven't a recycling bin?

There are fines for putting things in the wrong bin.

 

[Eddi]

Where do you live that you haven't a recycling bin?

There are fines for putting things in the wrong bin.

I just put everything all together, into a bin bag

Always have done

Have never received instruction about what to do

Have been in my current place for 10 years

 

[Rival]

I just put everything all together, into a bin bag

Always have done

Have never received instruction about what to do

Have been in my current place for 10 years

If we did this we'd be fined, in East Yorkshire.

Here in Canterbury, too. They'd see the empty blue bin.

 

[Eddi]

If we did this we'd be fined, in East Yorkshire.

Here in Canterbury, too. They'd see the empty blue bin.

I'm in West Yorkshire

They don't seem to care

The recycling in my borough used to be done by a social enterprise, people with disabilities did it all, manning the trucks and machines in the wear house etc.

I worked in their office filing statutory waste transfer notes from business collections and taking calls from the public, that would have been in 2008

Then the ******* ****ing tories gave the contract to some Spanish corporation and that was the end of that!

 

[Heyo]

This, in Greater Manchester we have 4 different coloured bins, only the smallest grey bin is not recycled.
We have a green bin for garden and food waste; a blue bin for paper and cardboard and a black bin for glass, cans and plastic.
"Bin day" is a complex event.

We have two bins, one for cans and plastic, one for rest waste. We also compost, so we don't need the green bin. We drive glass to the container, paper and cardboard gets collected bundled about every 6 weeks. PET bottles have a deposit system, so we take them back to the store for a refund. There are also collection boxes for batteries in stores which sell them. Clothes also have containers. And there is a recycling centre nearby where we can drop off items like household appliances. (Or you can have such things collected once a year for free.)

 

[Revoltingest]

I sort by....
Paper & containers (glass, plastic) <-- The recycler separates things.
Lead
Iron & steel
Brass
Copper
Copper with insulation
Aluminum
Trash for the landfill.
Lead-acid batteries
Other batteries
Items for donating to re-sale organizations
Compost
Burn

 

[Estro Felino]

We have two bins, one for cans and plastic, one for rest waste. We also compost, so we don't need the green bin. We drive glass to the container, paper and cardboard gets collected bundled about every 6 weeks. PET bottles have a deposit system, so we take them back to the store for a refund. There are also collection boxes for batteries in stores which sell them. Clothes also have containers. And there is a recycling centre nearby where we can drop off items like household appliances. (Or you can have such things collected once a year for free.)

I see.
Here each condominium has its own recycling bins. Something like this. When a condominium is too big, there are at least 4 or 5 bins every street door. Organic, paper, glass, plastic-metal, dry unrecyclable material.

 

[Altfish]

We have two bins, one for cans and plastic, one for rest waste. We also compost, so we don't need the green bin. We drive glass to the container, paper and cardboard gets collected bundled about every 6 weeks. PET bottles have a deposit system, so we take them back to the store for a refund. There are also collection boxes for batteries in stores which sell them. Clothes also have containers. And there is a recycling centre nearby where we can drop off items like household appliances. (Or you can have such things collected once a year for free.)

We also have 3 composting bins for garden waste - but the 'green bin' takes the 'woody' stuff and excess grass cuttings from the lawns.
We also have a 'tip' where we can take large items, and appliances, books, clothes, etc.

 

[ChristineM]

We don't have a garbage collection. There are several "poubelles" scattered about the area. We take waste to them.

Grey for non recyclable.
Yellow for plastics, card, paper, non organic waste etc.
Green for glass.

Some of the poubelle areas have an organic waste (garden waste etc) container.

Then there is a "dechetterie" where bigger stuff is desposed of.

 

[Viker]

Yep.