segregating waste

mukki

right i have this set up in the back porch...

4 swing bins (1 large, 2 med and 1 small)
2 large plastic hold all tubs with lids
and a 2 little lunch boxes ( for batteries and food for composter)

I decided to put glass and cruched drinks cans into the 2 tubs, becuase they can be lifted into the boot of the car and brought to the banks easily, and won't make a mess of the car

I decieded on plastics for the large bin
paper and cardboard on a med bin
food cans and tin foil things into the small bin
and i suppose everything else into the other medium bin

all are clearly labled

i have never really bothered about waste before so any suggestions from experience on better ways, or anything i did or might do wrong

i am i meath if that makes a difference

kelle

Good on you, Mukki!

netwhizkid

Toss everything into one bag and let it build up before taking it away. It is much easier, why bother recycle when most of it either ends up in landfill or gets dumped on China.

I calculated that for to recycle in my household it would take 66hrs of effort a year that is two and three quarter days a year. Why bother??

I gave up on the whole idea when I read about the privatisation of waste. Rubbish/Recycling is not a business but rather a service and this service should be provided free out of our taxes. Look as the situation in New York rubbish collection is free out of the peoples taxes, some is public more is private however both are free, with the private operators payed by the NYC taxes.

mukki

oh okay, 1 big bin for everything

right any other suggestions

prospect

I have the following:

All compostable materials go to my composter
All other foods will go to my new 'all-foods' composter.

1 bin for non-recyclable, / non-compostable waste.
1 large plastic containter for plastic bottles + plastic packaging
1 large plastic containter for glass
1 large plastic containter for tetra-pak
1 large plastic containter for cardboard
1 large plastic containter for magazines & paper
1 large plastic containter for tins & cans (after crushing)

When these are full, I bring them & the rubbish to the tip-head / recycling centre. It usually costs me about €4 every 2 months for my entire waste disposable, as recycling is free.

Kipperhell

netwhizkid wrote:

Toss everything into one bag and let it build up before taking it away. It is much easier, why bother recycle when most of it either ends up in landfill or gets dumped on China.

I calculated that for to recycle in my household it would take 66hrs of effort a year that is two and three quarter days a year. Why bother??

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The question is why go to a green issues forum and post a exclamtion of how you wouldn't bother to recycle. Obviously the OP is looking for constructive advise on how to recycle their waste. As waste is charged by lifts and weight in many areas in Ireland there is a finacial benifit to reducing your waste. I don't know what they do in NYC (New York?) but fail to see the relvance to irish waste services.

Either way OP it depends on what services are local to you. No point in seperating paper and cans in Dublin as the methods used by the recycling company taking waste, for example.