This is what we do:"Recycling centre" in a corner of the kitchen/breakfast room, in which reside:- green box for newspapers and junk mail- old straw shopping bag for glass bottles and jars, and for cans- cardboard boxes torn and/or folded and stacked vertically between the green box and the bottle bag.On top of this lot:- large plastic carrier bag (an old Waitrose "bag for life") for hard plastic stuff - bottles, food trays etc.- another large plastic carrier for card packaging like Weetabix packets and outer card packaging that needlessly surround plastic food pots (never quite sure whether they count as paper or cardboard, so we keep them separate, which is convenient as they tend to be small)Garden waste from our very small garden in a Hounslow white bag, kept outside until it's full or starting to biodegrade.All other waste including food in kitchen pedal bin (in bin liner), which is emptied daily and put outside in a plastic dustbin lined with a black sack (anti-fox precaution).On the evening before the collections, stuff small card packets into the biggest one (e.g. Kleenex, Weetabix), put on top of newspapers in green box, add cardboard, then bottles and cans.We take the plastic to Waitrose, West Ealing, every week when we do our weekly supermarket shop.Having written this down, I realise it sounds complicated, but it becomes natural very quickly. I'm amazed at how much plastic we are now recycling, and we often have just one black bag per week now.
Richard Jennings ● 6685d