In Derbyshire, UK, we have three bins with different colour lids.

Green- domestic waste, generally bound for landfill, sometimes waste to energy. Anything can go in here but we are deterred from putting toxic material such as batteries in this bin.

Grey- recyclable material such as paper, metal and glass. Some have separate containers for glass.

Brown- garden waste. This one is optional and there is an additional £40 annual fee to use the service (the others are included in the council tax).

Appliances can be left by the roadside and a privately operated metal recycling company will eventually find these. Many scrap yards will buy cars and pay by the kg for the metal. I got about £200 for my 1996 Volvo V40 (~1400kg). Anything else can be disposed of at municipal waste processors which is free for domestic users and charged for commercial waste.

City picks up

• bins of trash
• bins of recycling, single stream, unsorted
• yard waste, bagged
• fallen leaves at the curb , once
• Christmas trees, once

Call ahead

• furniture and appliances

Third party

• composting
• electronics

Drop off

• hazardous waste, every other month

I’ve gotten yelled at for unbagged trash. I never hit a limit of how much but there’s a rat problem. I also got yelled at for too little. Apparently the landfill that takes hazardous waste was charging the town $40/car so the town wanted to be sure it was worth it

Ireland

It’s privatized so we pay monthly based on weight and a standing charge.

3 wheelie bins, one black for general rubbish, one green for recyclables, one brown for compost. Our collection is weekly for black bin and alternate the other bins every week.

Recycling is clean dry waste including paper, plastic, tins. Glass is brought separately yourself to bottle bins and sorted by colour. Usually there are charity run bins for old clothes there too.

We have a return system for plastic and cans too which are at supermarkets usually and you get your deposit back, 15c for small stuff, 25c for larger.

All this means we have in the kitchen… 1 rubbish bin, 1 recycling bin, 1 compost bin, 3 large bags for bottles by colour, 1 large back for return stuff. And it’s not a big space, it’s a real pain.

In Thailand (and Vietnam, Philippines) where I often live plastic recycling is basically non existent and I think it’s a good thing, let me explain.

The value of plastic and recyclability is really low but exposure overhead is massive (thrash being lost to ocean etc) and after visiting a trash burning facility myself I’m completely converted to trash burning. On paper plastic recycling make sense but it so low value with absurdly high overhead - just getting plastic straight to the incinerator as fast as we can is the best thing we can do imo.

As for other materials like aluminum it’s very recycled everywhere I’ve been as it pays very decent money.

US deep south. There is no recycling… everything just goes into a landfill. It’s fucking stupid.

Three bins, Trash, Recycling, Yard Debris.

Recycling and Yard get picked up every week.

Trash is every other week.

Frankly, I wish trash was weekly too!

USA, Virginia: My county does not have municipal trash collection, so we either haul our own trash to convenience centers, or pay a private service to pick it up. The landfill and convenience centers are run by a private company and it seems to work pretty well, except for recycling. The county only recycles paper/carboard, metal, and #1 and #2 plastic, and for #2 plastic the opening of the container must be narrower than the container. We don’t recycle glass or any other plastics. Apparently my neanderthal neighbors couldn’t be arsed to rinse out the containers and the people whose job it was to sort it out refused to accept any more recycling from us until we made changes. And most of the county still just tosses everything in the trash compactors. I think our county-wide recycling rate is just under 25%.

I like the system better than when I lived in a city where we had trash pickup. I can go drop off when I need to instead of missing trash day, having trash pile up waiting for trash day, or having it not picked up because it was “too heavy,” or some other reason. It doesn’t cost me anything other than gas, and we can usually combine the drop off with grocery shopping or other errands. I just wish we were better at recycling. My daughter lives in a city with single-stream recycling - all the trash and recycling goes in the same container and it gets automatically sorted at a processing facility.

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My council (in the UK the rules vary between coincils) just has two bins. We have a black lidded wheelie bin for general household rubbish that is collected every week and a red lidded bin for most recycleables (glass, plastic, paper cardboard) collected every two weeks but it has restrictions on things like plastic film. If you are found to break the rules (open lids, wrong items in bin) they may refuse collection and leave a note saying why it won’t be collected. For example the black lidded general waste bin stipulates that all your rubbish must be inside refuse sacks, if you just have loose rubbish they won’t collect it.

You just make sure the bin is accessible/near the road on collection day and it gets picked up. Bins get lifted and tipped into the bin lorry then they put the bins back.

You can also leave a plastic bag on the floor next to the bin for disposal of ‘small electricals’ (chargers, dead electronics etc.).

Bins are provided by the council and collection is paid by your council tax. Both bins are 140 litres but you can ask for a 240l if you have a bigger family producing more waste.

You can pay an extra charge (I think about £80 per year) for a ‘green bin’ and associated collection which is for disposal of plant waste (i.e. if you have a decent sized garden and maintain it).

And finally if you have too much rubbish or items that can’t be easily disposed of (oil, large electronic items, diy waste) you can fill your car and take it to the local ‘tip’ (normally named something like waste management centres etc.) where you can get rid of it all.

There are some little organisations like Pedal People that collect and dispose of waste via bicycle. I don’t have something like this in my area, but it’d be nice.

We have a blue bin for recyclables, a green bin for organics, and a trash can for non-recyclables. Leaf and yard trimmings are put in a bag or tied into a pile.

Where i live the garbage man just drives past without stopping while everyone stands on the side of the road with their trash and then then tries to throw it in the back as he passes. He goes very slow though.

Two Words: Parker Piles

(Philadelphians will get what I’m saying)

(images obtained from the internet)

It’s a pretty good simple system here. You have two wheely bins, one red lid for rubbish and the other yellow lid for non glass recycling, and you have a much smaller bin for the glass. Rubbish goes out every week, recycling goes out every other week, and the specific day depends on your suburb (mine is Monday). You just leave your bin on the side of the road the night before your rubbish day, and bring your bin back once the rubbish truck has been past.

I live in America I just have a giant dumpster that everyone in my complex uses for anything and everything, we have no recycling programs here and the so called recycling parts you can do to recycle all go.to the landfill also.

I don’t know how richer people in houses have to do with them, but they got 2 bins one for “recycling” and one for everything else. Don’t know if they need to pay for them though. But yet 90% of the recycling goes to landfill anyways.