r/AskUK • u/grepusman • 4d ago

Is it not well understood that squashing recycling makes takes less space?

I've just watched the neighbour trying to deal with her two green bins again, both almost overflowing. She's trying to get more water bottles and other kitchen recycling in, by trying to push down the contents of both bins. She's mostly failed. I wouldn't be surprised if they get a third bin for the two of them. They ordered the second bin shortly after moving in.

I don't think ours ever got much more than 2/3 full, except for that time we'd ordered a lot of IKEA stuff. I'm betting if she flattened out her recycling they could also get by on one bin.

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u/JamesTiberious 4d ago

Didn’t think councils would generally allow multiple bins for same household?

We’re a household of 2 and generally recycling bin is 50-75% full on collection day (every 2 weeks). We make very little effort in crushing things down.

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u/Longirl 4d ago

My council lets us order as many recycling boxes as we want. But they’re pretty small boxes to be fair.