Hamtun recycling collections are actually something our council does well!!! (shock horror! 😂)
Everything goes in one blue lidded Wheeli Bin and the recycling people sort it out. Glass, plastic, paper & card.. In it goes!
We did have plastic crates for each thing but i ended up growing carrots & onolions in mine.
ECDC is also excellent when it comes to recycling. Likewise, we only have the one (blue-lidded) wheelie bin into which we wang all our stuff - paper, card, cans, glass, plastic trays and bottles, tetrapacks etc. I make sure everything is clean and washed, as it's courteous towards the people who have to sort it out.
Tesco takes the soft plastics and pet food pouches, so there's a bag in the kitchen for that, and then there's a large box in the garage for the stuff that is recyclable but can't go into the wheelie bin or in the soft plastics bag. When the box is full, I do a tip run.
As I said in my post above, there's not that much that goes into the black bag. I probably only fill one a year, but I don't wait that long as things can get a bit niffy, especially in summer...
Before we got the wheelie bins, only the village proper had boxes for recycling, so BITD, the tip runs were more frequent and I used the recycling containers and bottle banks in town. They always used to be full, and people would just dump their rubbish there, so it wasn't a pleasant experience. Since we all got the wheelie bins, the recycling containers have gone. The only ones left now are the book and clothing banks.
