How many outdoor bins do you have?
By jugsjugs
@jugsjugs (12967)
October 18, 2009 8:09am CST
I have two large blue bins that are for recycled rubbish like paper,card board and tins as well as plastic and then i have two large black bins that i use for rubbish that can not be recycled as well as a brown bin for wood and garden rubbish.They are always full up what about you?
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18 responses
@climber7565 (2579)
• United States
7 Nov 09
well it is customary to recycle all so I guess we have like 7 bins, trying to cover it all eh? lets help the environment.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
20 Oct 09
We only have one bin outside that wee use. We actually need two of them sometimes. We have alot of trash some months and it overflows. We need to get another bin sometime soon.
@lelin1123 (15595)
• Puerto Rico
19 Oct 09
I have two bins one for recycling and the other for regular garbage. Funny a few weeks ago someone stole my recycling bin which was a little smaller then the other bin. They replaced it with the same size bin for the regular garbage. I don't understand why they would steal it.
@happy6162 (3001)
• United States
18 Oct 09
I have just one bin that I put my trash in because the city said we have to have one. I brought it from them many years ago when we move into our house. I understand why we need to have one it is so the cats and some dogs can not get into the trash and scatter it all over the streets.
@Fulltank (2882)
• Philippines
19 Oct 09
Got only one big one outside. Use for the garbage truck disposal. It comes twice a week. Good for us (really) as others only come once a week. The only problem is that all types of garbage are put into it. I wish I have several bins for the biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes from our house. The positive point is that I have learned to make a compost pit for some of the biodegradable waste for my plants fertilizer. Have pushing our homeowner officers though to make this one a project for the entire household in our subdivision. Hope its not too late.
@jenniferfreda89 (12)
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18 Oct 09
Well...i have two black bins to put bags of rubbish in to store before the dustbin man comes on a wednesday. And one green bin for recycle that is in the front garden and we put it out by the front gate on a sunday night for the recycle people on a monday morning. So that is three out the front but we also have a black bin in the back garden to put rubbish in when we clean out the rubbish and that goes out of a wednesday aswell. So what made you ask that ?
@coffeeshot (3783)
• Australia
18 Oct 09
Well we have quite a few bins around the place because we live on a farm. We have two wheelie bins because we only had a small bin when we moved here so we called up and ordered a bigger one. The smaller bin is now used for grass clipping and offcuts I think. We also have a recyclable wheelie bin. We have a small bin on a pattio for outside rubbish plus a few buckets scattered around the place for random rubbish.
Bins are good. So are wheelbarrows :-)
@cher913 (25782)
• Canada
18 Oct 09
here where i live in canada we are allowed to only put out one green bag of garbage (or whatever colour the bags are at the time) we have two blue boxes (one for paper, one for bottles and cans) and a green bin which is for scraps of food and peelings (i also put kleenexes in there).
@Keola12 (823)
• United States
18 Oct 09
I have a bin that's mainly for garbage. But I also have some special bins which I use for recycling.
@doormouse (4599)
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18 Oct 09
i have 1 large black bin for household rubbish,1 large blue bin for recyclables and a brown bin for garden stuff eg;wood,grass cuttings etc
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
18 Oct 09
We have two. We are blessed now to live in an area of our city where the city provides our trash collection. We have one large green one that is for the trash that isn't able to be recycled and we also have one blue one that we use to put all of our recyclable trash in. I'm very happy that we live in a home where recycling is offered as part of our trash collection because before we moved here, it was offered only at an additional expense. Typically in a week, our recycle bin is fuller than our general trash bin.
@shilley (155)
• India
18 Oct 09
Hi..i have two bins one small dustbin placed in kitchen,it is for throwing the kitchen waste and the other large dustbin kept outside the house for throwing other garbage.I do not have different bins as you are having different bins for each kind of waste,but i have to tell you that i have the habit of piling up plastic and polythene wastes in a gunny bag and also everyday newspaper in a shelf.And at the end of every month i sell those piled newspapers and plastic wastes to the vendor who comes once in a week to collect those and pays according to the weightage.
@simonllabelle (83)
• Canada
18 Oct 09
I also have two! A blue one, in which we put things we want to recycle, like papers, card board and most types of plastics and a black one, a little bit larger in which you put your trash. They are always full, it seems like all my neighbors put they things in my bins!
@BarBaraPrz (47670)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
18 Oct 09
I have a blue bin that I put out most weeks with the recyclables. And I have a large green cart for yard waste, etc. that gets put out most weeks, too. As for actual garbage, I put out one grocery shopping bag of stuff about every two weeks.
@Humbug25 (12540)
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18 Oct 09
Hi ya jugsjugs
Wow you sure do have a lot of bins going on there. Well to regards to recycling recepticles go we have a green wheelie bin for garden waste and food waste (the food waste is a new thing), a black bin for all the unrecyclable things, a green box for glass, plastic, tins etc, a brown bag for cardboard only (another new thing) and a green bag for paper and clothes. Did that answer your question? haha
@thea09 (18305)
• Greece
18 Oct 09
Hi jugsjugs, we don't have any outside bins as if we did no one would come along and empty them. We take our rubbish to the skips which are used as bins along the side of the roads. Sometimes these get emptied but othertimes they don't as the binmen often go on strke.