They have just started a curbside recycling system in my area and I havebeen delivered of a series of coloured sacks for separating out materials( tins and cans, textiles, and newspapers).This is a complicated system because in addition I have to put all glassjars in a separate carrier ( presumably a recycled one for the supermarket.All other rubbish is still collected weekly and most folks here ( includingme) use black bin sacks ( I have a dustbin outside I put this into also)Recycling bags are collected fortnightly.It is not a tub or bin system like in other places I have been.So, how do people cope?I currently have two half filled sacks gracing the kitchen! They are underfoot and in the way!I have nowhere to store them. The kitchen is not big enough to take anyextra waste bins ( I have one large pedal bin in a corner.Any suggestions as to how I can set up a system for storing these bl**dybags? Looking at the size and speed they are filling, each bag is likely totake at least a month to fill for me, so they have to hang around that long.I cant keep tripping over them. I am getting fed up and soon , I'll slingthe SOB's out and S*D the saving the earth!Anyone solved such a problem?( remember there are three of them and I already have a bin in the kitchenfor "normal" waste, I cant think of a feasible way of having three large bincontainers in my kitchen and there is no space outside either)

This is a good scheme because most of the expense of recycling is inseparating out the different sorts of materials so if the homeownerdoes the sorting then the whole scheme makes much more economic sense.I agree that it is easy to proliferate containers though.I used to live in Bristol which had a presorted scheme like you. Iused to have one box (crate) in the kitchen which I collected allrecyclables in. Then when it was full I would decant into the variouscontainers which were stored in the garage.In Babergh where I live now, we seem to be proliferating wheelie bins.I suppose the powers that be think that there is more spare space herein the country. We've only been doing any recycling for about a yearand our recyclables all go in one bin, unsorted at the moment, but Ibet they will start asking people to sort them once the system hasbedded in and everyone is used to it.Anna

Recycling - how do others cope?

Nov 08, 2003 101 Replies

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Mary Fisher 22 years ago

You use two cans a day?

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Mick 22 years ago

Nope once in once out :-)

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