Fortnightly collections, wheely bin is half full on average.
We recycle glass, tins, paper and plastic bottles (although the latter we have to take to the tip ourselves).
How? We don't buy stuff wrapped in packaging if we can avoid doing so, plus we compost, plus we just don't buy much stuff/crap we don't need.
Oh and I brew my own beer so I recycle my own bottles.
No - that would be illegal. There have been some problems with illegal shipments of general waste, but the perpetrators have been prosecuted.
I'm sure I read an article saying that there was stuff going to China supposedly for recycling, but it was actually just dumped. Can't remember where I read it though.
Before the kids I filled one bin a month and recycled everything else, now we throw away about 3 bin bags a week, mainly of nappies!
"I'm sure I read an article saying that there was stuff going to China supposedly for recycling, but it was actually just dumped. Can't remember where I read it though."
We can only export waste for recycling (Transfrontier shipment of waste directive). I'm not saying it never happens, but it's the exception rather than the rule.
I think collections should be charged by weight, as someone pointed out why should I subsidise other peoples excessive waste generation?
Our bins round here already have RFID chips in them so it's not far away. It's up to you then to choose weekly/monthly bin collections.
We get 'general waste' and 'recycle bin' emptied alternate weeks. It's more than enough for us, and we often miss a week by not putting the bin out. Even if you miss quite a few weeks, getting in the bin and jumping up and down a bit means you can always squeeze a bit more in 
Rubbish gets collected one week, garden waste / recycling.
Just 1 in the house, but I could quite happily go to monthly collections and not fill the bins.
We get Rubbish every week and recycling once a fortnight. Not sure what you lot are buying but we have more of a problem with our recycling bin being full.
It's a rare week when the rubbish bin has more than one bag in it, recycling is always full to bursting....
I think collections should be charged by weight, as someone pointed out why should I subsidise other peoples excessive waste generation?
Becuase im sure youd be pretyt pissed off when you wake up one morning to find your bin full of other people rubbish which youd then be charged for. Or worse, find it all floating around the street or filling the local flytipping spot.
There seen to be a huge amount of difference across the country, they do our waste bin one week and garden waste the other week, kitchen waste and recycling (paper, glass, tins) is taken weekly, it works pretty well but they don't take card and plastic, so that means a trip to the re-cycling centre.
Normal rubbish / green waste alternate here but my bin hasn't been out in about 6 weeks and it's still only half full.
I recycle most stuff (the local recycling place is just round the corner, they'll take everything, even clothes and shoes).
Two adults and two large children. Rubbish and recycling collected on alternate weeks. Rubbish wheelie bin is deliberately small to encourage recycling- fine if the local council (Wiltshire) would accept for recycling the two largest components of our recyclable rubbish which is cardboard and plastic. I usually have to jump up and down in the wheelie bin to get the rubbish to fit. If it doesn't I then get a snotty note threatening not to collect the rubbish. If they ever did that I'd dump the lot at the door of the council offices. If they accepted cardboard and plastic for recycling there'd be no problem. Bl00dy local government and its half thought out policies.
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