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This is also the Rushcliffe way. Garden waste bin is £35/year.

We don't have a garden waste or organics bin. Garden waste gets picked up once a month, we have to leave compostable bags at the end of the drive. Organics/food waste just goes in the garbage, but we bought some fancy composting machine which turns food waste into a dry compost which we then dump in the woods over the road. It's surprising how little actual garbage we produce now.

We have the following

Red box - Plastic
Red box - metal
Red box - glass
Yellow bag - Cardboard
Blue bag - Paper
Brown bin - Garden waste
Black bin - any old shit

Even though the boxes are all the same colour they have to be separated. If you mix them you get put on the naughty step and the boxes are left.

Only for newer houses this side of the river - our "whatever" is black. We pay for a brown one for garden waste but we've turned down the glass one - can't see the point for a collection every 8 weeks, can just keep taking them to the bottle bank.

All booze sold in Ontario has a deposit associated (10c for cans and small bottles, 20c for large bottles) so we generally either take it back to the beer store to get our money back, or give it to whatever local youth association or hockey team is currently doing collection drives. Which reminds me, I need to do something about the very large collection of booze empties in my garage.

I couldn't really be arsed with reading much past the headline if I'm honest as I felt the context probably unimportant.

This seems an entirely reasonable stance whatever.

On the recycling front, what the hell is going on now with the message on all the plastics - don’t recycle at home take to larger supermarkets?!?

We never put plastics in our home recycling now. As we get internet supermarket deliveries and they won’t take the plastics I now need to drive back to the supermarket to hand deliver the plastics, which I very much suspect they just bin. What incentive do they have to do the proper thing and recycle it?

Isn't that just certain types of plastic, usually the film-type ones? They were never recycled previously.

Hard plastics still go in the standard recycling bins?

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Recycling arrangements in the East Midlands? Two pages, with illustrative examples.

This has become my latest rant. Nearly all plastics now say this, not just the film type.

Two bins here. If they think of giving us 6 or 7 then the fire pit will get some use.

I know it's wrong but I tend to apply my own rules so hard plastic stuff goes in.

(To be fair in SW London I think it is still ok from what it says in the orange bags we have. We are a two tier system, black bags and orange bags).

The household recycling system in Gaza must be even worse than ours right now.

Murillo is living in my son’s apartment block on Wilford Lane, and is apparently confused by the recycling scheme. I don’t know how many bins they have but I’m sure there’s a good line about recycling the ball to be had. Anyway, Murillo’s arrival means he has joined the club’s new fitness guy and also Danny Ward, the Leicester keeper, as my son’s neighbour.

How many bins does he have?

Sounds like they need to show Murillo the way (to effectively recycle).