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

[jndt]

Leeds

Black bin - general waste (alternate Tuesdays)

Green bin - recycle bin (no glass) alternate Tuesdays to black bin

Brown bin - garden waste from March to October alternate Mondays.

[Evil queen]

We have 3 wheels bins and a food waste caddy for inside.
Green bin- general waste collected fortnightly.
Blue bin- recycling of paper, cardboard, glass, tins etc fortnightly
Brown bin- garden and food waste -fortnightly

Our bins are always very full, I think we could do with a more regular collection even if it is just of the blue bin. This is in East Yorkshire.

[buryboy]

Just thinking about the regularity / type of collections , again such a huge variation

In a 2 week period Roses has two collections , where I belong has 5 . So in a year roses has 52 , where I belong has 130

We would have 78 ( ignoring any garden waste drop off in the winter )

Scary difference

And I suspect ( without digging back ) others may have even more than where I belong

[Beth_Disney]

Dudley MBC here...

Black wheelie bin collected weekly for general waste

Green wheelie bin for garden waste
Black box for glass
Blue bag for cardboard
Green bag for metal and plastic

The green bin and recycling are collected on alternative weeks, on the same day as the black wheelie bin.

There are 3 different trucks. Black bin, green bin and then a recycling truck. The different types of recycling get loaded into different parts of the truck to keep it separate.

[boo2]

3 wheelie bins, a red box and a small food bin.

Grey small wheelie bin- landfill, collected ever 2 weeks

Blue medium size wheelie bin- cardboard and plastic recycling collection every 2 weeks (opposite week to landfill)

Brown medium size wheelie bin- garden waste collected ever 2 weeks in summer- an additional £35 per year.

Red small box (smaller than DVC owners locker! ) glass recycling- collected every 2 weeks

Small grey food bin- collected every week.

Midlothian council😊

[raven45678]

Rushcliffe (Notts) council: we have a black bin for general waste, emptied alternate weeks to the blue bin for recycling (though no glass allowed - this has to be taken seperately to specific glass recycling points).
We also have a green garden waste bin that we pay yearly for, that gets emptied the same week as the blue bin, by a seperate bin lorry.

[Taffy1959]

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 a wagon for our general waste and another wagon for the recycling which has separate compartments for the different types of recycling.

[Scotsmomma2]

We have 4 wheelie bins and a box and a lidded bin.

Brown bin,garden waste,every 3 weeks.
Blue bin, plastic.Every 2 weeks.
Burgundy bin,paper and cardboard,every 2 weeks.
Green bin for everything that doesn't go in the other bins.Every 3 weeks.
Black box,glass bottles and jars.and small electrical stuff.Every 2 weeks.
Grey lidded food bin,every week(also known as ≈≈≈ it's food bin day again)

[kc1]

Black bin -general waste - every two weeks
Brown bin- garden waste-every two weeks
5 Small red bins- recycling- collected weekly(you can have as many as you need) so glass -plastic-cardboard-tins- etc
Live in Northern Ireland

[scouser]

Liverpool

1 x purple bin - general waste - emptied once a fortnight.

1x blue bin - recycling- emptied Once a fortnight.

1x Green bin - Garden waste - no charge, emptied once a fortnight.