we are avid recycling people. In our old kitchen we had a roll top bin but it doesn't fit in the new kitchen so I bought two bags from Sainsbury. They are spacious, rather like big shopping bags but fit perfectly under the sink and easy to carry down the stairs to the main recycling bin. Only cost £3 for two bags and they are reusable.
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In truth we try to recycle but get totally confused as to what the council will take. At first we left out a large cardboard box. They left it ....the reason being that we didn't flatten it! We've also been left with someone else's broken bin & two stolen. We gave up on box lids long ago. Not going to give up tho' as it's important to our children/grandchildrens future."Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them....your smile, your hope, and your courage."
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We have ikea shoe boxes on the wall in the downstairs loo we fill them with our recycle then empty them into our recycle bin when full , we are lucky our council take everything and all in one bin ,only thing they don't take is polystyrene packagingIm not fat just 6ft too smallComment
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Our council recently said they would take textiles. Well if I have some clothes I am clearing out if they are good I will make sure they are clean and take them to the hospice charity shop. If they are not suitable for the charity shop or, as in the case of husbands uniform shirts we are not allowed to give away and have to destroy, I have usually kept them and eventually taken them to the textile bank but that is a nine mile drive. So I dutifully put old dishcloths, tea towels, said shirts, odd socks etc.out as instructed and labelled them as instructed and what happened? A big fat nothing. They did not get collected and are still sitting in the shed waiting for another go! Our council also takes white goods but the problem is around here if you leave anything out it will disappear before the council get here! My neighbour accidentally left a cross trainer thing in the front garden, she forgot to put it in her Landrover. I saw it there when I was putting the washing out and decided to take it into out garden for safekeeping. My phone rang so I went upstairs to answer it and it was neighbour asking me to take it in for her as she had forgotten it. I went downstairs immediately and it was gone! She wasn't intending getting rid of it just taking it to her stable where she has a caravan to stay in when her old horse gets unwell which was often. Unfortunately she has just had to give in to the inevitable and dear Harry has gone to the stable in the sky just this week
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We just have a big carrier bag on a hook inside our kitchen cupboard. We put anything for recycling in there, and when it is full we empty it into the 3 council recycling boxes which we keep in the garage. Your bags from Sainsburys sound a better idea Zizi.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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We ha e mixed recycling apart from textiles. I will take a pictures tomorrow so you can see what the bags look like. We have had them for a few months and they are remarkably strong so good value.If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go togetherComment
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Not bad here, Most things are taken but we now have a box for paper and card. Mine has been found in the road a few times and the lid has been run over.😳 I put my recycling straight in a dustbin allocated by me but have to keep the food recycling in the shed as foxes can open the box even when locked.🙄 All ok unless it's raining!!Women are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until they are put in hot water.
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Our food recycling is put in a lined pottery crock and then sealed in recycled paper bag before being put in the the council outside recycle bin. I have got annoyed with the husband when he is careless and hasn't secured the lock handle and the foxes get in and even worse the flies so you end up with a disgusting maggot mess. Oh my goodness do I give him hell then?? YEP? GM ours, issued by the council, is plastic and you shut the lid and the handle goes over it and locks it. I line it with a recyclable bag and then put the crock bags in. I also wash it out every every time it is emptied and spray with disinfectant. Good grief I am starting to sound like a bleach babe.....If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go togetherComment
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I have a washing up bowl on the work top next to the sink in the utility room and we put all our recycling stuff in there. When it's full or one of us thinks about it, we put it out into a dustbin lined with a recycling bag provided by the council. We put glass into a separate box which is only collected once a month and it can get full of water and really messy. So now we put all jars, bottles etc into an old milk crate so the rain drains out, and then just transfer them to the glass box on the day they're collected.
Zizi - if we had to recycle food waste I'd do the same, and there's no danger of me ever becoming a bleach babe!
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Same as oursZizi, they also supplied us with a bin to go under the sink. The papers go in a brown box, the garden waste into a green bin, glass and tins in a blue bin, they are all large and on wheels, oh and we have a brown bin for the general waste. I think our council has got it just rightWhat is life if full of care we have no time to stand and stareComment
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We have 3 plastic boxes. 1 for paper and card 1 for glass, 1 for plastic and cans. Plus a wheeled bin for garden waste, not collected in the winter months.“A grandchild fills a space in your heart that you never knew was empty.” – UnknownComment
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We do not have an under sink food waste bin provided by the council. I bought one independently, it is a nice porcelain looking crock pot win a handle, bought it from Lakeland. We have light green wheelies for recyclingand dark green for general plus brown for garden stuff and the last collection was last Friday for garden waste for which we pay extra. They won't take any bin if the lid is the least bit open unless it is recycling and then, if the lid is open they trawl through it and if they find one thing that shouldn't me in there they will not take it. If you are found to "be in violation" of the rules you get a very officious, almost unremoveable sticker on your bin telling you off for your crime. Yes crime. There is a threat on there that "if you continue to ignore the rules" you may be taken to court and your collection services may be suspended. Err excuse me but just who is paying the council employees wages? Yes me and other council tax payers. Oh dear I have gone off on one again haven't I?If you want to go fast go alone, if you want to go far go togetherComment
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Oh dear, sounds a bit drasticWhat is life if full of care we have no time to stand and stareComment
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We have green bin for garden waste, brown bin for plastics,blue bin for cardboard, sack for newspapers etc, and grey bin for anything else.Sometimes I forget to like posts,but that doesn't mean I don't like them.Comment
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