What colour /size are your bins , what do you put in them and how often are they collected ?

[daisymae]

We have 3 large wheelie bins and a small grey food waste bin.
Green bin general household waste alternates weekly with blue bin
Blue bin recycling of cardboard and plastics
Brown bin garden waste cost £46.20 per year every 2 weeks March to November
Grey food bin collected every week and receive green bags to put in it for free.
Glass must be recycled by yourself. We save it up in a storage box and Dh takes it to the recycling centre.

[Picalily]

Sorry, can't post pictures, haven't got that sort of phone. They are about 5ft high and 4ft wide, all together outside a supermarket, and have a metal bar that you press with your foot to open the lid. Would not want to go back to the old system of individual bins.

[vanlou]

We don’t have bins.
General waste collected once a week - we have to cover the bin bags due to the seagulls so some people have wheelie bins, or you can purchase a seagull proof “bag” from the council to put your bin bags in (or just cover with a sheet).
Recycling collected very 2 weeks - separate bags for cardboard, paper and plastic, and a box for bottles. One recycling lorry with different compartments collects it.
I’m in Cornwall.

[WhereIBelong]

A local company makes these, stops the jumble of stuff being heaped by the wall.

[TheHughesCrew]

Originally Posted by buryboy

For those of you with all these different types of bags, boxes and caddies - do you get a different bin wagon for each of them ? Or does the bin wagon have different compartments they throw the contents into ?

Also I see no one else so far has the same 3 week cycle on general waste as we do . We must save the Council a fortune by having that which I guess is potentially why we don’t have to pay for our garden waste bin .

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We have different wagons for all the different collection receptacles... so perhaps 3/4 different ones each collection day, and then 3/4 different ones the following week when the alternate collections are. We don't pay for garden waste to be collected either.

[hexagon]

We have two bins. One black for general rubbish and the other blue lidded for all recycling bar glass. Glass you have to take to a recycling point.

Bins are collected every two weeks, alternating.

[ROBBOTOO]

We have a normal size green wheelie bin for recyclable rubbish.

A smaller black wheelie bin for normal rubbish.

Plus a box for glass and a caddy for food waste.

All collected weekly. They used to collect the wheelie bins on alternate weeks but changed to weekly for both and it’s much better.

You can also pay for a garden waste wheelie bin too which is collected fortnightly, although we don’t have one of those.

[babbymint]

We have a blue lid for recyling, card, glass, metal, plastic.
Grey lid for normal household waste.
These two are collected alternate weeks.
You can pay for a green, garden waste bin.

We invested in a Hotbin for all our organic waste, and its brilliant. No more smelly bin, no more bin liners, no flies/maggots!

[Tinygog]

We have black sacks for rubbish. One wheelie bin for garden and food waste. We have a blue box and see-through bag for recycling. All of our various bags and bins are collected weekly.

[ali-s]

In Herefordshire. We have 2 wheelie bins provided by council, a black and for household waste and a green for recycling - paper, cardboard, glass, cans, plastic. They are collected on alternate weeks. I then pay for a brown wheelie bin for garden waste, collected every 2 weeks.