Recycling - One Bin?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/recyclables-to-go-in-one-bin-under-simpler-collection-rules-in-england-13131991

I had no idea there were parts of the country not having one bin. Mine has been one bin since the start.

Do you have multiple bins?

[Maydup]

I'm feeling very lucky to have just two bins, one for all recycling and one for landfill.
 

We can also leave small electrical goods, textiles, and batteries in a bag for collection with either bin. 

[brainiac]

Not that big, pasta.   7 black general bins, 4 'multiple' bins for cans/bottles/newspapers, and bags for cardboard and plastic.

I was Bin Store Monitor for 13 years!

[youngmafbog]

We've got little bin for general, big bin for all recycling, a food bin (emptied weekely) and a (padi for) Garden waste big bin.

Works well, no complaints.

[Old_Geezer]

Have 3 bins. 1 for unrecycleables, 1 for garden waste, but they rip you off by stopping providing the service with no rates reduction and then having a charge if you still want to beautify the area with your garden, and 1 for recycling, but it has a basket at the top so there is some separation.

[fender62]

businesses have three or four, plastic metal, food, paper, brown cardboard, i have nociced all the plastic paper metal all get dumped into the same lorry, so why both sorting it, some jobworth in council thought it a great idea, imagine three or four separate lorries behind eachother one for each bin, hey save the planet...but more petrol

[davebro3]

they don't all come every week

[Tilly2]

I think the recycling process should be nationalised. It's all very ad hoc at the moment and unfairly allocated. We don't have to pay for garden waste recycling but others do. We also do not have a glass recycling option therefore all the bottle banks are rammed to the hilt and are a danger to life and limb with the smashed overflow. 

[jno]

five. The fifth (paper and cardboard) may have been a  mistake, the council's thinking about it.

[tomus42]

Three big bins:

1 All recyclables, mixed.

2 Garden waste

3 Household unrecyclable.

If you've got a big garden you can buy extra garden bins for something like £15 a month each.

[fender62]

spoke to an old friend who works in the recycling industry, he said msot of the recycling stuff get land filled anyway or gets sent abroad as there is not much demand for used plastic paper plastic, he did not give me a figure, but said a lot just gets landfilled. the green lobby would deny this he said, as they have an agenda not unlike stop the oil etc.

[douglas9401]

Joined up thinking could suggest using it to fill potholes.

 Win win.

[newmodarmy]

Fender...why would the Green lobby deny it if it 's true? How would that fit with their agenda? Surely if they knew they would complain that we're not gren enough 

[davebro3]

I think I did see summat about using melted plastics to fill potholes (India maybe?).

[david small]

3 big bins. Household waste. Recycling bin. Gardening bin that we pay £106 a year for twice monthly collection.

[10ClarionSt]

In answer to the OP, yes, we have four, as others have said. However, I know someone who never recycles anything. It all goes into black bags, then landfill, because he says that recycling is a con. It doesn't happen.