#21

Pretty good

Glass doesn’t get collected here, which is fine although it means there’s often a bottle mountain piled up in the kitchen due to a) how much is drunk and b) how lazy I am.

Not sure how people without cars get on though as the bottle bank is a good 5 minute walk away, which doesn’t sound like much but I wouldn’t want to lag anything bulky that distance

#22

I am very committed but it’s hard to have faith when it goes into a huge bin that today contains a TV?

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#23

Fill my green bin regular in the summer and spring.

Why yes, I do have a large garden.

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#24

Any flat dwellers struggle due to communal bins?

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#25

My council recycle small electricals from your house… I guess a TV probably doesn’t qualify.

#26

I chuck all my garden waste under the trees at the end of the garden like a baller. You have to pay to have garden waste removed.

#27

One of each. One for the worktop for accruing then one for the garden for the composting

#28

i separate my plastic, glass, tins and cardboard and then it all goes into the same bin outside

#29

Don’t you have to let them know it’s there though?

#30

also annoying we can’t recycle any plastic except for drinks bottles

#31

Nope. They are really good, take nearly everything and sort it. Tories innit, God’s people.

#32

We have such a nightmare with our communal bins cause people just chuck anything in there.

Or they just walk all the way to the communal bins with their bag of rubbish and leave it next to the bin and then the foxes spread that bin all over the carpark and then that just turns into mush.

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#33

We have this one on the worktop (it suits the biobags that the council give out and is dishwasher safe):

And we have the Blackwall bin in the garden with a base (discounted via a scheme the council ran - pop your details in to here to see if your council are doing similar):
https://getcomposting.com/profile/login

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#34

Its the Surrey way

#35

@TheWza I got the Brabantia caddy and have doubled up on the 30l as well with a fetching red one.

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#36

Stuck using a shitty ikea tipperware thing at the moment, green bags don’t fit in it properly. asked for a green caddy for Christmas and didn’t even get one!?!!

Definitely going to buy one this weekend. @aggpass

#37

GF and I are pretty strict about recycling. Would like to get a compost bin but absolutely no space for it in the house.

#38

Yes, obviously.

Very diligent.Everything that the council accepts as recyclable will be kept separate. Frustratingly, they don’t collect organic waste.

There are big signs to indicate what goes in where, plus smaller notices pointing out that we get fined by the council if black bin liners end up in the recycling. Most of the time this works, but every now and then someone ignores it.

Worse is that we have had people just chucking their rubbish bags outside the gate, on the pavement. Hopefully now that AirBnB has been banned from our complex this will stop.

#39

Yeah, it’s usually the likes of AirBnB and private rentals that are the issue, with their high turnover and landlords who don’t explain the system properly.

It’s why London has lower rates of recycling despite having better infrastructure and more proactive councils.

#40

Pretty damn committed. Our council doesn’t take plastic food trays, etc so we save that and take it with us when we hit up anywhere that recycles that stuff. Not composting at the moment as we have a small garden and no use for it, which is a shame as that’s a reasonable amount of food waste going to landfill.