Kitchen Garden Forum

We are very lucky with our local waste collection. We have three large wheelie bins: the general rubbish is collected every week (even at Christmas, Easter etc), the second bin is for waste paper and has two inserts, one each for glass and tins. This is collected every fortnight and alternates with the third bin which is for garden rubbish (no collection for the third bin from December to March). We recycle all fresh food rubbish (and some paper and cardboard) in three compost bins which I empty every autumn. Anything smelly, like fish wrappings, we put in the freezer until collection day. Plastic bottles are taken to a local collection site. So our general rubbish bin is usually quite empty.

Let's hope our council continues like that!