Green zealots succeed in nine-bin nightmare

[SamuelRSmith]

SeriousWB said:

SamuelRSmith said:
In my local area, we have three bins. One for all recycling materials, one for non-recycling, and one for compost.

That's it. Not confusing at all. Our local authority deals with the sorting of all the recycling materials.

We have a bin for rubbish, a bin for garden waste, a bag for plastic and cardboard, and finally a box for metal and glass.

For us, plastic, cardboard, metal and glass all go into the same bin. Paper can either go into the compost or recycling bin, as long as it hasn't got that waxy coating stuff on it.

Typically, though, they're not all that strict on it. I haven't ever heard of anybody being fined, and people are always putting non-recycling in recycling and vice versa.