Originally Posted by jonbxx

We have four bins and will soon be five; big green bin for general waste, HUGE brown bin for garden and food waste plus cardboard (this gets turned into soil improver) a box for papers, a box for glass and a box for cans and plastic bottles. We're getting a plastic waste bin as well soon for all plastic except for raw meat containers.

The general waste is emptied each week while the huge brown bin and the boxes are emptied on alternate weeks.

To be honest, it's not really much of a faff sorting out the rubbish and the reduction of rubbish in the general waste bin shows how much could have been recycled in the past