So, let me get this straight.

[vulgalour@birdbutt.com]

@anthonybearles Where I am now the green bin is for paper, glass, and cardboard. The brown bin is for garden waste. The black bin is for household waste and the small black bin is for food waste.

Where I was before, the green bin was for garden waste, the green tub was for glass and metal (but only food containers), the maroon bin was for cardboard, and the black for general household. There was no bin for plastics or food waste.

It's all very simple, apparently, and not at all confusing.

[anthonybearles@mastodonapp.uk]

So the yellow bin is the green bin? No wonder everyone gets confused.

[bencotterill@mastodon.social]

@anthonybearles What weird council do you live in?

[rgarner@mastodon.social]

@anthonybearles all I can say is don't go to Greece it will Blow. Your. Mind.

[nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk]

@anthonybearles@mastodonapp.uk [Picard] THERE ARE FOUR BINS!

[anthonybearles@mastodonapp.uk]

+1,000,000 internets awarded for an epic reference.

[catmisgivings@stranger.social]

@anthonybearles and I have to drag them all to the curb on the same night

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@anthonybearles We have 4 bins, brown, green, blue and black. The Green bin is for general, non-recyclable waste. The recycling (which is fewer things than in most areas) goes in the black bin, glass in the blue and garden waste in the brown (the only one really logical). My mother-in-law, who lives 6 miles away, has 2 bins, and can recycle more than we can (including aluminium foil, one of the easiest things to recycle). Fortunately, most of our bins don't get half full, as we follow (cont)

[katzenberger@tldr.nettime.org]

@anthonybearles

Depends on your country, and your city.

In mine,

• green kitchen waste goes into the green bin

• the brown waste (paper, cardboard) goes into the blue bin

• plastic packaging goes into the yellow sack

• residual waste that belongs into neither of the green, blue or yellow goes into the black bin

• glass goes into either the green, brown or white slot of the glass container.

• bulky, electronic, and toxic waste goes to the recycling center

• garden waste goes to the communal composting site.

You guessed by now that a German is speaking.

And yes, the plastic packaging is officially collected separately to be "recycled". Unofficially, because this increases the caloric value of that separate stream of waste.

[ukeleleeric@mstdn.social]

@anthonybearles the mantra: Refuse, re-fill, reduce, compost, re-use, recycle (most people miss out 1, 2, 4 & 5)