It's the evening to put out the trash cans, here. How many different kinds of stuff are you supposed to separate from the normal trash/rubbish where you live?
5 or 6. 1. Garden waste (but not fallen fruit) in a separate green receptacle. 2. Most recyclables in a split cart: paper and thin cardboard (but not frozen-food boxes) on one side, plastic, glass, and metal on the other (including juice and milk cartons, but not including takeout containers of any kind, whatever they say on the label, or black plastic). 3. Food scraps in a separate compartment on the trash cart. 4. Corrugated cardboard bundled with tape or twine and propped against the recycling cart. 5. Batteries in a sealed plastic bag on top of the recycling cart.
1. Food waste, in a 23l caddy. 2. Paper, card, cardboard, some plastics (not plastic film, PVC or polystyrene), glass bottles and jars, aerosols, cartons, tins/cans altogether in a 240l wheelie bin. Big pieces of cardboard can be folded and placed next to the bin. 3. Garden waste in another 240l wheeled bin, though it's a subscription-only service so I compost mine instead.
There are recycling facilities available for other types of waste, e.g textiles, batteries, electrical goods, wood etc. but you have to take the items to the site.
We must take our own rubbish to the collection stations. There we are to - put cardboard and paper and specific plastic containers and metal cans in one bin - glass in another - and the rest of the garbage in another.
There are lots of other things that can be left at the collection station, and i've done so:
- electronics and appliances in another bin (a microwave that the habitat for humanity folks turned down because the door was broken off) - bulky stuff in another (that's where we'll need to take our mattress) - apparently you can give the attendant batteries and fluorescent light bulbs, which i did not know, and we've been waiting for the hazardous collection days, ha! - useful stuff can go in a "swap shop" but i think it just gets moved into the trash at the end of the day. Although my nephew found a big tote full of loose change once, and my dad's found some things useful for around the house... i generally send stuff to the thrift store instead of the swap shop.
We compost pretty much everything we can because our garden desperately needs it. You can't take yard waste to the collection centers, but you can pay for the main facility to take it. I'm talking with someone who is going to haul off my poison ivy, but he says he knows somewhere he can dump it in the woods. I suppose i have places in the woods where it could go, but... meh.
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1. Garden waste (but not fallen fruit) in a separate green receptacle.
2. Most recyclables in a split cart: paper and thin cardboard (but not frozen-food boxes) on one side, plastic, glass, and metal on the other (including juice and milk cartons, but not including takeout containers of any kind, whatever they say on the label, or black plastic).
3. Food scraps in a separate compartment on the trash cart.
4. Corrugated cardboard bundled with tape or twine and propped against the recycling cart.
5. Batteries in a sealed plastic bag on top of the recycling cart.
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2. Paper, card, cardboard, some plastics (not plastic film, PVC or polystyrene), glass bottles and jars, aerosols, cartons, tins/cans altogether in a 240l wheelie bin. Big pieces of cardboard can be folded and placed next to the bin.
3. Garden waste in another 240l wheeled bin, though it's a subscription-only service so I compost mine instead.
There are recycling facilities available for other types of waste, e.g textiles, batteries, electrical goods, wood etc. but you have to take the items to the site.
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- put cardboard and paper and specific plastic containers and metal cans in one bin
- glass in another
- and the rest of the garbage in another.
There are lots of other things that can be left at the collection station, and i've done so:
- electronics and appliances in another bin (a microwave that the habitat for humanity folks turned down because the door was broken off)
- bulky stuff in another (that's where we'll need to take our mattress)
- apparently you can give the attendant batteries and fluorescent light bulbs, which i did not know, and we've been waiting for the hazardous collection days, ha!
- useful stuff can go in a "swap shop" but i think it just gets moved into the trash at the end of the day. Although my nephew found a big tote full of loose change once, and my dad's found some things useful for around the house... i generally send stuff to the thrift store instead of the swap shop.
We compost pretty much everything we can because our garden desperately needs it. You can't take yard waste to the collection centers, but you can pay for the main facility to take it. I'm talking with someone who is going to haul off my poison ivy, but he says he knows somewhere he can dump it in the woods. I suppose i have places in the woods where it could go, but... meh.
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