What colour are your bins?
Noticed ages ago different areas have different coloured bins. What colour are yours at home? 
Recycling - maroon
General - grey
Recycling - maroon
General - grey
Reply 1
General waste: Green
Recycling: Grey
Garden waste: Brown
Recycling: Grey
Garden waste: Brown
Reply 2
Normal waste is all black and recycling is black with blue lid.
Reply 3
Original post
by ChronoscopeNoticed ages ago different areas have different coloured bins. What colour are yours at home?
Recycling - maroon
General - grey
Recycling - maroon
General - grey
General is black, Recyling is... green? But we separate cardboard/paper from the tins and glass. Plastic is pink, and garden is... white???
Reply 4
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General waste: black
Garden waste: brown
Recycling: blue
Garden waste: brown
Recycling: blue
Reply 5
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Original post
by ChronoscopeNoticed ages ago different areas have different coloured bins. What colour are yours at home?
Recycling - maroon
General - grey
Recycling - maroon
General - grey
red bins, with a black/grey lid for general waste, olive-y green lid for recycling and brown lid for compostable
Reply 6
Wow - I didn't realise how much they vary!
Reply 7
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General waste: green
Plastic: Yellow
Paper/cardboard: blue
Plastic: Yellow
Paper/cardboard: blue
Original post
by Phoenix5680General is black, Recyling is... green? But we separate cardboard/paper from the tins and glass. Plastic is pink, and garden is... white???
bet the gardening bin shows the dirt
At home the garden bin is brown which at least makes sense.
(edited 1 year ago)
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