Because we live in a rural area, we only get one bin for everything, which is collected weekly.  However, I do put garden and vegetable waste on the compost, and I take bottles, plastics, batteries and paper to the recycling place when I'm passing!

One bin. Ours happens to be blue. Everything except garden waste and plastic goes into that bin. Garden waste is either collected by the locals for feeding the cows/buffaloes or burnt, whereas plastic is collected by the empty beer bottle collectors and we are paid by weight (it's not a lot).

However, there are little men who drive past on bicycles with trailers who will sort through the blue bin and remove anything that is recyclable (and they can get money for).

But here is a different world.

Last edited by beerforyorky (Wed 23 Jan 13 9:55am)

We have one bin into which all burnable waste goes.  You organise to have this collected by an independent refuse collector who you pay.  He then takes it to the local refuse center.  They burn it, and use this to heats a number of municple buildings.  Then they charge us again for recycling it!    All other types of rubbish (glass, metal, paper) you take to a recycling point.  But like Coco, we recycle drinks bottles and also drinks cans at the supermarket.

3 stream here....

green  for  anything organic which goes to our compost facility  weekly

blue  is picked up weekly . All recyclables and we recycle a lot of things  here.
aluminum ,boxboard and cardboard (flattened) ,Glass (all colours)
,Newsprint and paper ,Plastic bottles and containers (all numbers) ,Polycoat/Tetra Pak (milk cartons/juice boxes) Shredded paper ,Steel cans

clear/white bypass for all other waste . which is picked up only every other week

In Tassie we get two bins.

One for general rubbish collected weekly.

One for recyclables collected fortnightly.

I have two compost bins.

Green waste can be taken to our local tip free of charge on our rates vouchers.