What a Load of Rubbish: It's the NuILX Garbage Thread!

Despite our house having four adults in it, we don't get anywhere near filling our bin in a fortnight.

Generally it takes me two weeks to a month to fill a recycle bag. I think I generally get through one or two Sainsburys bags of trash a week, though.

Both are taken away once a week.

This is the only undesirable thing about where I live.

Quite close to my block are the recycling bins. There are bins for cans, paper and the three colours of glass. A notice tells you not to deposit glass after 7pm. "Think of your neighbours!" it says. All well and good, but I have far more of a beef with the herbert who opts to deposit his glass bottles at six o'clock on Saturday or Sunday morning!

I have no facilties for recycling organic waste. Or plastic.

when I briefly house-sat for my friend who lives in Kidlington, just up the road, plastic was recycled in a blue box once a fortnight. But that was coz Kidlington, though only three or so miles north of Oxford, is in Cherwell District and so its refuse collection is administered by a different local authority.

We take plastic bottles to local plastic bottle recycle box once in a while. Glass bottles are recycled with cans and paper via rubbish collection every Friday. We have a blue box for food waste which they also pick up on Friday.

But this is the third blue box we've had because the rpevious two were apparently stolen. Why would someone steal a blue box full of rotting food waste (or indeed one that had been emptied of this but still smelt rank)? I ask you.

someone or some THING?

i fill an orange recycling bag every two weeks or so (papers, cardboard, tins, jars, types 1 and 2 plastic, mainly those hdpe milk carton things - roadside collection, thursday mornings), a binbag (non-recycleable waste) takes me about a month to fill (in summer they get taken out well before they are full because of the smell - wheelie bins out the back). i have very little food waste and nowhere to compost it.

does anywhere recycle batteries? i have quite a few kicking around...