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[CLKD]

I had an e-mail from Freecyle today, included in the items is a 'blog' about families who have really reduced their rubbish amounts.  Can't see how myself  we still have the plastics off the weekend magazines/papers etc., and other types of non-recylable stuff.  These I feel should go into a burning facility.  DH refuses to put the contents of the various hoovery-thingies in so that goes into the general waste bin.

SO: kitchen waste goes into our home-made compost to rot down for later use - this includes the insides of kitchen/toilet rolls; kitchen roll used to wipe down surfaces; tissues the same; peelings; tea-bags; egg-shells; coffee grinds; toe nails; chicken thigh bones, fish skins/bones (we have a Council composting bin but twice the men haven't emptied mine  so I now refuse to use that!) ……….

into the recycling bins: 1 for garden waste - twigs; weeds that we don't want spreading through our compost;

1 for selling on: cardboard; envelopes including ones with plastic windows; bottle tops; yoghurt cartons; plastic milk bottles; glass of all types; silver paper or silver egg custard bottoms etc.;

anyone else managing to declutter their household rubbish to almost nowt?

[Limpy]

Was doing ok till this morning when they didn't take the food waste bin.
That's really what you want in this weather..............

[honeybun]

If they forget to collect my food waste bin I call the council and complain. It's part of what I pay council tax for so if they miss us they are not long in coming back 

The way I have cut down on a lot of my food waste recycling is I am much less wasteful. I used to throw out a silly amount and now I don't. So by cutting down on what I buy and planning meals the amount I have to throw out has reduced a lot.

We have three bins. One for garden and food waste, one for plastic bottles paper cardboard and glass. And another for non recyclable stuff.
I do know that sometimes the council just chucks the lot in landfill. I resent the amount of time it takes me and then the end result is still the same.


Honeyb
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[Joyce]

We have a general waste bin, a garden/food waste bin, recycling boxes & a wastepaper bag. We are about to get a change to these. Smaller general waste bin & a new combined wastepaper/recycling bin. We will  then be allowed to recycle juice/milk cartons plastic containers, these are put in general waste bin just now. I recycle way more than any of my neighbours. We do drink a lot of coke/lemonade that's our thing, always has been. Plus a couple of wine bottles per week & the odd beer bottle.  Food waste is put in special compostible bags in the garden/food waste bin.

It is a bit of a pain, especially as the recycling has to be stored in the garage until collection day. Will be glad of new bin.

[littleminnie]

We have 4 large wheely bins and a small food bin. Hate it in the summer as they smell.

[Joyce]

I've bought some special wheelie bin powder which deodorises & kills bugs.  One time I forgot & opening garden/food waste bin to heaps of flies. 

[bramble]

Amazing how different councils are with waste. We have 4 bins:

Garden and food waste - food gets put in recyclable bags supplied by the council so no smell (2 weeks)
plastics and tins(monthly)
paper and cardboard(monthly)
landfill - small wheelie bin (all the others are full size)(two weeks)

[CLKD]

Food waste across Northants is collected weekly - otherwise there would be RIOTS!
Other bins are alternate weeks.  The Council here is pretty good about distributing waste for sorting and re-cycling, probably because we are in the centre of the country.
Our household waste bin whiffs a bit so I leave it ajar - to allow a circulation of air.  Don't know why though 'cos it's mostly plastic that can't be recycled 
Batteries can be taken to shops or hung in a plastic bag on one of the bins each week.

[Dyan]

We have a recycling bin,rubbish and garden bin.
We also gave a food waste bin but I'm not using that especially this time of year.
It is attracting ants and we have a waste disposer in the sink anyway so all our food waste,tea bags,egg shells,etc go down that.
The only thing I don't use is our very small bin for glass.It doesn't get collected anyway,we have to take it to a glass bank ourselves.I'm afraid glass goes in the rubbish bin
We are very limited on what we can put in the recycle bin- cans,plastic bottles, card & paper.
No toilet/ kitchen roll inners,egg boxes,yogurt pots,margarine tubs.envelopes so all this goes in the rubbish bin.

[CLKD]

Dyan - your Council are way behind then 

Where does your waste disappear to from the sink, into the main drain 

How about starting a real old-fashioned compost in the garden and nope, you won't get rats  - mice, worms, woodlice ……. but we haven't seen a rat for over 20 years!

[Dyan]

Yes I think it goes in the main drain

It's very frustrating on the little amount we can recycle compared to other councils.
Don't know about the old-fashioned compost.I don't think DH would go for that

[CLKD]

Composting is easy-peesy 

[Limpy]

I'me sure it is CLKD - But the what to do with it isn't so easy.......