New recycling and waste service in my area...................

We have a regular wheelie bin for normal waste, and black box for recyclables and people with gardens also get a green wheelie bin for compostable waste - it seems to work okay although I do wonder how older people manage with their recycling box - we live in a first floor flat and it's quite heavy to carry down the stairs (especially if it's full of wine bottles) - my husband always does it for us. As they don't have lids it's always a problem when it's windy as you find the newspapers flapping all around the street. I'm not sure if the council have some sort of special arrangement to help older people manage or not

In our council area in NI we've had two wheelie bins for around 5 years now. The blue one is for anything that can be recycled and the black bin for everything else. It's easy once you get into the habit!

Most councils seem to assist those who ask for it, and are deemed to need it - in our area the elderly get help, as do those with disabilities. They do need to ask for help though - and need to find out where to ask as well (which can be a mammoth task in itself).

We currently have 4 wheelie bins.Black for normal waste,green for garden waste,burgandy for recycleable and beige for paper waste.

Our council do not help elderly people with their bins that is left to neighbours..

We've had 4 wheelie bins and a bag for years now!

Black bin is ordinary bin, blue is paper, brown is glass, green is garden and the bag is for cans! It's a pain trying to remember when they collect the bins (black one every week and the others twice a month but the green one is a different day to the others) but luckily my neighbours are pretty good so I tend to just look and see when they have theirs out!

I'm not the best at recycling and finding somewhere for all those bins is more tricky for those in the middle of my row (I'm an end terrace so I have the room) but it does seem to work.

We have black for ordinary rubbish, Green for garden waste, brown for recycling and a bag for paper. My mum also has a composting thingy but I don't have a garden really.

We have a brown wheelie bin for general/non-recyclable waste, a green bin for garden waste and cardboard/raw foodstuffs, a black box for glass bottles/jars and tins, a blue bag for paper, a pink bag for plastic bottles/containers and a white bag for old clothes. It works quite well I think in our area (St Helens) except if you lose the collection day calendar they gave you, you end up leaving everything out in the hope that someone will come and pick it up and take it away ?

Really? ?

We have 3 wheelie bins - black for normal rubbish, grey with blue lid for recylables (except glass), and brown for garden and food waste. It's a fab system IMO - they're collected on a 2 week rotational system (normal bin one week, blue and brown the next). Our black bin is never more than half full so I like to think that it's cut down on landfill a lot in our area.

We take glass to the recycle bins ourselves - it doesn't really bother me that the council doesn't collect that. There's a group of people in our village who run a collection service for elderly people who can't get to the bottle bank themselves.

I think I must live in the only council in the country which doesn't do wheelie bins!

My council doesnt do wheelie bins either, and Im glad as we wouldnt have anywhere but the pavement to put them! They do give us 52 black bin bags a year though. We have black plactic containers for paper and card and glass, we have compost caddies for kitchen scraps and veg peelings and theyve just started a plastics collection too but any plastic needs to be tied up in a plastic carrier bag to collect

We have a green wheelie for waste, brown wheelie for garden rubbish, red box for plastic bottles, green box for glas and cans and a bag for paper - all stuck in our tiny yard because the neighbours steal/fill them if you leave them out

I do wonder how the elderly manage, there isn't a provision for them here as far as I know

We have a brown bin for compostable waste and a small kitchen compost waste bin as well. We have crates for plastic, tins, paper and glass - all of these are emptied every week.

We also have a big green bin for all the other waste (including nappies etc.) which is emptied every other week - which really is NOT very good in hot weather - maggot/fly infestation which needed urgent treatment with a bottle of disinfectant - my neighbours had the same problem too.... ?

We currently don't have wheelie bins either, and we don't get given black sacks, we have to buy our own!

We will be getting bins soon though (oh the excitement!)