My Rubbish Collection

There's got to be a better way!

In the house right now we have

- A plastic bag sitting by the front door with bottles in it waiting to go to the bottle bank at Tesco's
- A bowl to throw packaging in, before we take it out side to the Blue Bin
- A domestic "other" rubbish container in the kitchen for stuff that goes in the Green Bin
- A Brown Box in the kitchen for food waste, that eventually goes out to the Brown Bin
- A bin in each bathroom (x2) for tissues, empty shower gel bottles, and such

And then outside we have:

- the Brown Bin (Organic waste),
- the Green Bin (Other waste) and
- the Blue Bin (packaging waste)

That's a total of NINE bins/bags around the house for rubbish!!! At least seven of which are of great interest to rats, cats and dogs.

Oh I've just discovered another bag, one to keep plastic bags in!

The Green bin gets full first as lots of stuff we don't know where else to put it - like my son's bits and pieces left over from mending his old Mini. Next comes the Blue Bin which overflows with packaging stuff. But the Brown Bin comes a close second in summer as the garden grows and we cut it all back and fill it up.

What could we do?

One thing would be to cut packaging waste. My son has a theory that manufacturers love the Blue Bin because they can actually increase the packaging of products - making them look bigger on the supermarket shelves so you think you are getting more.. I think that we need to turn the Blue Bin problem over to shops and Supermarkets, they need to be measured on the amount of consumable stuff they sell, versus the packaging it comes in.

Added later

But this is not so bad as some people living with an over-exuberant council, look what they have to do