Recycling- How dou you do this without making too much mess??

[Bigpeetee]

At home, as much as possible is recycled, the council have very kindly given us a variety of different containers to sort our waste. (Yes I know it's not always easy to store them).

But how do you manage to sort the recycling in your motorhome as many CL's etc have the different bins to sort out your rubbish.

We have used a plastic carrier bag in a holder as a waste bin and up to now empty very regularly, sorting out at the recycling location, but is this the best way? Obviously there is a very limited space, do I have to buy another holder and locate it under the existing one for the "recyclable" stuff and keep the other for genuine rubbish?

Don't want to leave outside as when traveling that's not feasible.

Or do you just dump all as rubbish?

Your thoughts please??

 

[Solwaybuggier]

We use a fold-down plastic crate - takes up minimal room in a locker, when we stop we assemble it & put it under the van - works fine for bottles, cans, plastics and paper. Then you find most sites/CLs only have bins for rubbish, and maybe glass!

Worse still, we'd been on a Brit Stop recently and had some stuff to recycle - went through a town and saw a recycling centre. When I pulled up to it
and went to dump bottles, paper, etc, the guy there asked if we were local - if not, he said, he'd been told by his bosses we weren't supposed to use it. (Although he then looked in the opposite direction...) That seems to me counterintuitive - in that councils get "fined" unless their recycling rates are above a certain level, so surely they'd positively welcome "transient" recycling!

 

[Luckheart]

Rant alert!

I often stand at the sink at home washing up rubbish in hot water and detergent and wonder if I am doing more harm than good. Then every Friday at 06:00ish the recycle lorry turns up, (smells like it's burning DERV) to take anything the foxes haven't recycled up the drive already, and wakes the neighbourhood as they sort it into its various pods. More than once the council have not had the proper vehicle available so they send around a regular dust cart and heave it all in together The authorities seem very green about keeping us green!

 

[Deleted member 207]

We've always used a couple of plastic bags, one for recyclables and one for scraps/wet waste. Its easy enough to sort recyclables at the time of disposal - usually daily as we find that waste starts to ferment (stink) if left more than a day. When we were in the UK it was really hard to find rubbish bins let alone recycling bins - we often commented on the amout of rubbish left in laybyes without bins versus the small amount lying around when bins were provided.

I was really impressed with the recycling in Norway - all bottles/tins had deposits and you put them into a hole in the wall to get a voucher to use in a supermarket. Cant remember seeing bottles or tins littering the roadside.

 

[fairytooth]

We are lucky enough to have 2 bins already under the sink when we bought the MH so we try to separate out the re-cyclables where reasonable but we're not obsessive about it.