How many people in your household and how often do your bins go out?

There are different black bin sizes so be aware of them with responses, and many providers around the city dont charge per lift so many people will put them out at each scheduled collection full or not.

We have a 140litre black bin and that goes out twice a month . We have a one year old so unfortunately majority is nappies. Without them once a month would be fine.

Compost goes out every two weeks, small amount of food waste, usually grass, leaves, trimminings etc.

Recycling every two weeks usually full of cardboard and similar by the time its lifted.

Glass - Once a month to once every two months, its rarely even half full.

Two adults here usually. I'm curious about you not putting the brown (food waste) bin out regularly. I don't think our leftovers would be that good for the birds but if its pigeons and seagulls that visit you they're not so fussy but smaller birds are more delicate. Our black goes out about once a month, green around three weeks and the brown every two weeks. Do you have the same brown waste as me? Banana skins, turnip skins, fat off meat, potato & carrot peelings, chicken carcass - they all weigh quite a bit and even on colder days can begin to produce some wiggling life so I feel its best to be rid. I also wash out the bins as regularly as possible especially the manky brown one.

There's 6 if us that use our bins. 4 in this house and her parents across the road. Our recycling goes out once a month as we generally bring any cardboard and plastic bottles to the recycling centre ourselves. The black bin is out once a fortnight and it does be quite full with two houses using it.

Where do you leave it for the wildlife? Have to say the odd time we'd have a leg of lamb I'm tempted to leave the bone out for the foxes.

Edit... two adults and a few kids. Green bin left out every fortnight packed, Black bin every fortnight usually full, brown bill same day (every fortnight) as the black bin and usually full.

Why aren't you charged??????????????????

I'd say all the rats in the area are delighted that you are feeding them and supporting their growing population

Single person here.

Brown Bin- Never. All food waste goes into rotating composter.

Green Bin - Never. All paper/cardboard make into paper bricks for the fire. All Glass to the recycling centre.

Black Bin - About twice a year

2 adults. We've a general waste bin, the small size narrow ones and a normal size recycling bin. They each get collected once per fortnight and would be reasonably full.

Our waste company don't offer a compost bin for rural customers. We've very little organic waste anyway, potato skins and the like have been going in the general waste but we will be composting ourselves, we're not long in the property.

Do you recycle any plastic or tetra pack cartons ?

Black bin every week, don't use the green or brown, just put everything into the black.

Recycle anything that has a 1-5 on the bottom of it. Thats a lot of different plastics. I dont think you can recycle tetra packs.

There's just myself and the OH. The green bin goes out every 2 weeks and the black one every 4 weeks. The brown one goes out just once every 3 months or so, it's mainly garden trimmings and fruit/veggie peelings. I really wish there was a glass collection in my area because it's a pain having to haul ass down to the bottle bank with bags of bottles and jars, especially when you don't have a car.