Every sympathy for people with children

[kallis3]

With our council, if you have a large household you can get larger bins.

We have one bin for normal household refuse, one for recycling and one for garden rubbish. They are emptied on a fortnightly basis which does suit us.

We are a four adult household and four dogs!!

[Skippy]

We have the recycling and rubbish bins which are emptied fortnightly. That's fine for recycling but not rubbish as any food waste or packaging causes a problem. We're getting food waste caddies in October which I'm not happy about as a) we haven't got room, and b) I don't see why I should buy the biodegradable bags! The only good thing is they will be emptied weekly. I've no idea where they think I'm going to keep it though!

[Broke of London]

I'm embarrassed to say I only recycle magazines and newspapers as my kitchen isn't big enough for all the separate bins and I'm not having the rubbish stink out my flat. Wine bottles I'll run down to the recycling bin too.

[kallis3]

We already have food waste caddies and have had for some time. It's wrapped up in newspaper when it's finished with and then put in the garden waste bin. It's only emptied every two weeks though but we've not had a problem.

Do you not have anywhere outside to keep your bins BOL?

[Skippy]

I'm the same BOL, my kitchen is a postage stamp - we don't even have room for a normal bin inside, let alone a food caddy as well. We have a carrier bag on one of the cupboard doors for rubbish which is taken out daily and the recycling is as and when. We're getting a small indoor caddy (which there's no room for) and an outdoor caddy as well.

Although we've got a garden there's only just about enough room for the bins we've got, and to be honest I don't want to have to look at any more as our bedroom looks out onto the front garden.

Recycling is a good idea in theory, but councils need to take into account that some people genuinely don't have room for all the bins.

[Broke of London]

I'm in what I lovingly refer to as the 'penthouse' aka a loft conversion; so I have two flights of stairs to get down to the wheelie bins. I will recycle more when I can as I feel a like I'm going to be slapped with an ASBO! When my mum started recycling I knew everybody was at it!!

[Broke of London]

A postage stamp is about right Skippy. The landlord did it up just before I moved in and i had to choose between an oven and a washing machine as there was only one space!

[kallis3]

If the food caddy is the same as ours it is just a little thing to put on your draining board.

[Pandy]

We recycle as much as we can, infact our main bin normally has 1 black bag of rubbish per fortnight,when the main rubbish wheelie bin is emptied. the council pick up the recycling weekly, that is Paper, cans, cardboard, food waste, batteries etc, next year they are starting to do a kerbside pick up of plastic as well, at the moment we have to take it to a recycling point which my grandson and I do when he visits and for being good and recycling he gets to go to the sweetshop with his pocket money on the way back.
We have an indoor worktop caddy for food waste plus amn outdoor one. We dont use the indoor one just have the outdoor one by the back door.
It is an advantage living in a house and not a flat although we only have the wheelie bin, food waste bin and the black bog for all other recycling although we do have to seperate everything in that into seperate plastic carrier bags. We use newspaper as well for the food waste not going to pay for the disposable bags, my one bug bear is that the council charge for garden rubbish You have to buy the bags for it at £1 each, or have a green wheelie bin which costs £50 per year for emptying.

[Pandy]

We recycle as much as we can, infact our main bin normally has 1 black bag of rubbish per fortnight,when the main rubbish wheelie bin is emptied. the council pick up the recycling weekly, that is Paper, cans, cardboard, food waste, batteries etc, next year they are starting to do a kerbside pick up of plastic as well, at the moment we have to take it to a recycling point which my grandson and I do when he visits and for being good and recycling he gets to go to the sweetshop with his pocket money on the way back.
We have an indoor worktop caddy for food waste plus amn outdoor one. We dont use the indoor one just have the outdoor one by the back door.
It is an advantage living in a house and not a flat although we only have the wheelie bin, food waste bin and the black bog for all other recycling although we do have to seperate everything in that into seperate plastic carrier bags. We use newspaper as well for the food waste not going to pay for the disposable bags, my one bug bear is that the council charge for garden rubbish You have to buy the bags for it at £1 each, or have a green wheelie bin which costs £50 per year for emptying.

[Shining]

I have a recycling bin and ordinary waste bin in my kitchen, my daughter has always been in charge of Green Monitoring at school so we're often lectured if there is anything found in the wrong bin! We don't have wheelie bins only black bags for waste and green for recycling (provided) collected once a week.

[Skippy]

Jan, we honestly don't have any room! The draining board is tiny and the bread maker is on one side of the sink with the toaster and kettle the other, and that fills it! We also don't have a back door (the dopey people who lived here before us had it bricked up!) so whatever we do it's got to be carried through the house as it'll have to go out the patio doors or the front door.

I dream of having a house with a decent sized kitchen!

[Shining]

Sometimes if things aren't practical Skippy they can't be done. Although my kitchen isn't huge it's workable but having two doors and a chimney breast in it (3 doors originally) it makes it a bit awkward.
You can only do what you can do. x

[Skippy]

To be honest there is a lot of wasted space in our kitchen - it's badly laid out but there's no way we can afford to replace it!

[Shining]

Luckily hubby changed ours to utilise the space, he gets a lot of bits from work sometimes so we're lucky in that respect as you're allowed it so long as you don't sell it x