Barefoot Andrew
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Where do you stash your recycling?...specifically paper, cardboard etc - the stuff that needs to be kept dry.
At the moment I keep my mountain in the "dining" room - currently a minor building site. With work benches and pots of paint, the odd pile of newspapers, junkmail and cereal boxes is hardly noticeable 
But I'll be tackling this room soon and making it a tad more homely. Better find another location for the paper mountain then.
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Jamanda
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Why don't you take it to a paper bank?
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Marionb
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Mines in carrier bags in the pantry - well the 2 bags of cardboard (cereal boxes etc) bag of jars and 2 bags of tins are. Plastic milk and squash bottles are under the stairs in a black bin bag, and newspapers are in a tub in the play/computer room.
I would normally have taken them to the recycling point by now but the weathers been so rotten this week that I havent got round to it - unfortunately the weather doesnt sound any better for next week and I am getting over-run with recycling stuff.... 
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alisjs
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paper in bag under sink till full, then transferred to plastic box out side(with lid)
cardboard....in box in kitchen till full, then transferred to garage
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gil
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Paper for recycling goes in natty blue plastic box provided by Council, and lives in the back porch
Paper and board for kindling goes in the sitting room beside the woodburner.
Cardboard for eventual composting lives in nearer outbuilding.
Paper for composting goes in compost bucket with veg waste.
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Barefoot Andrew
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| Jamanda wrote: | | Why don't you take it to a paper bank? |
I usually put it out for kerbside collection, but forgot this week 
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Marionb
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Wish we had kerbside collection!!
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AnneandMike
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Under the stairs, but it is a squash.
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cinders
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mines in the big green bin outside.Were able to combine ours
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2steps
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we had a really pants system before and if its left outside it kept getting blown over and spread all over the garden. so I got a (currently unused) unit made to hold Andrews toys when he was little, put 3 see through staking boxes in it and labeled them.
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Jamanda
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Ours is in one of those collapsible crates in the pantry.
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Nanny
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we have blue plastic bags from the council for our recyclables and the carboard goes in there with all the other stuff and it is sorted at the council depot
great system as far as i can see......
our other rubbish is in black bags....i don't normally have more than a half a bag of other rubbish but often a whole bag or sometimes 2 of recycleables if rolf has had beer in cans.................which is often
i know we should be making our own brew but where to put it is the problem like everything here......
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marigold
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Mostly in the kerbside collection box in the hall, but
- glass for recycling squats on the stairs until I remember to take it to Tesco's with me to put in the bins there
- tins go in a bag which hangs on the catch to the cupboard under the stairs (in the kitchen) until full - then it goes in the kerbside box
- stuff for the charity shop/clothing bank gets dumped in the corner of the living room nearest the front door
- shredded paper stay in the shredder bin until I put it in the compost bin
- cardboard for composting gets dumped somewhere in the kitchen until I rip it up and take it up the garden
We're getting a new kerbside collection system this year and will have two wheelie bins. Glass will then go in the appropriate wheelie bin. As I put out about half a binbagful of rubbish and about half a crate of recycling a week I'm not pleased at the prospect of having two ruddy great bins cluttering up my front path, but that's progress for you.
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Nanny
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| marigold wrote: |
We're getting a new kerbside collection system this year and will have two wheelie bins. Glass will then go in the appropriate wheelie bin. As I put out about half a binbagful of rubbish and about half a crate of recycling a week I'm not pleased at the prospect of having two ruddy great bins cluttering up my front path, but that's progress for you. |
that is why i like the system we have
apart from glass and any clothing you have, you can recycle via the blue bag for most household stuff
i would love a glass recycle container here, it would free up the space i am using to stack the glass until i remember to take it to a centre.....
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wellington womble
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In my car, usually. They only take paper here, so I take glass, plastic and cans. They live in those wilko bag for life type things in the utility room, in a space that's actually earmarked for the dog crate. They'll probably go back under the kitchen table soon (I moved then when we had guests for Christmas!)
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LynneA
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In a bag on the inside of the kitchen door. When full transferred to the plastic bin for council collection.
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hamster
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We have separate boxes from the council for plastic/metal and paper/cardboard, so we have two cardboard boxes in the kitchen to keep them in meanwhile. Usually works fine, but there's a backlog from Christmas (we were away when recycling was collected) and we now have a precariously balanced pile of newspapers and cardboard packaging by the veg rack.....
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Treacodactyl
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Re: Where do you stash your recycling? | Barefoot Andrew wrote: | | ...specifically paper, cardboard etc - the stuff that needs to be kept dry. |
I don't think it needs to be kept dry as we have to put our uncovered boxes of the stuff out for collecting and if it's raining it gets soaked. Wind is a greater problem so ours lives somewhere sheltered outside.
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Pea
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I store mine in the feed shed and take it once a month. I dont have any rubbish collection ffrom the council, I pay for a skip with a lid for the customers so use that instead.
I dot get a rates reduction though.
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Mary-Jane
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We have a 3-bag recycling system here in Ceredigion, with the plastic, card and paper going into large clear bags. So we just fill up the bags, tie them tightly at the top and put them down the side of the house by the back door until Monday morning, when they get put at the yard gate for the dustbin men to collect.
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Barefoot Andrew
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I know someone who does both of these:-
| wellington womble wrote: | | In my car, usually. |
| LynneA wrote: | | In a bag on the inside of the kitchen door. |
She knows who she is
I might start keeping some paper stuff in the car, then I can get rid at the recycling in town.
Can anyone tell me why HMRC saw fit to send me a self assessment payment reminder when (a) I paid them weeks ago, (b) they knew because the giro slip was for £0.00 ? 
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earthyvirgo
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green bagsTesco were, not sure if they still are, doing a 3 pack of pretty sturdy bags for a fiver, which sort of velcro together in a row. We've got these in the "cwtsh dan star" (under the stairs) and it's working pretty well. I take them to the recycling centre when they start to get out of hand/overflowing. As long as the plastics and the tetrpacks washed, it's not too bad.
Put card and paper (in two wine boxes) in one, anything plastic in another, and tetrapacks in the third. Gwynedd Council kindly collect cans and glass every week, so they get crushed (the cans not the glass!) and put in the blue box outside on a regular basis and then I forget which day is collection day ....hmmm.
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mama67
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We have a 3 wheelie bin fortnightly doorstep collection system.
Wk 1 - A black bin for normal household rubbish
Wk 1 - A grey bin for recyclables - paper, cans, plastic (1 & 2)
Wk 2 - Green bin for gerden and veg/fruit waste (compostable)
These sit outside my back door along 1 wall, have positioned the grey one right next to the door so the kids can easily put stuff in there as well.
I also have 2 boxes (old safeway green box) 1 for glass
another for tetra paks in the shed and a bag in the kitchen for type 4 plastic, ( junk mail wrappers, beer ringos etc).
We have bottle banks, the council site takes tetra paks and I have any address for mailing in the extra plastic.
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