We've had sorted waste for over a year now. Black bin for 'household' and 'noxious' weeds, green bin for compostable including cardboard and food waste, plus separate container(s) for bottle glbutt (never crystal or anything else special), tins and foil, and paper. Two of us rarely get the black bin more than half-full in a fortnight; most of that is packaging, but a lot is re-used (sensitive souls should skip the next paragraph)
along with junk mail envelopes to reduce the smell from the brown lumps from the cat litterbox. They'll take the urine-soaked compressed pine in the green bin, but not the lumps.
The green bin is often 1-2 to full after a fortnight due to cat litter, cardboard, noxious weeds and stuff I can't fit in our compost bins.
I strongly recommend a supply of pine sawdust if you can find one, to cover any food waste in the green bin during hot weather. They can get really, truly, disgustingly noxious. If not closed properly there will be maggots.
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Don't buy, just pick it up, march up to the Customer Services Desk and complain vociferously. I don't even use a plastic bag for my banananananas, just stick the weight sticker on the skin. That's what it's there for.
I occasionally complain about excess packaging to the store in which the item is sold. I once unwrapped a Pret a Manger cake in front of the till while complaining vociferously about the layers. Mind you, some of that is due to our long-distance transport of food (it has to be protected) and some to over-imaginative EH regulations (we have to be protected).
regards sarah
Packaging 568AIUI local authorities now (or soon will) have to have licences to run community composting operations. ISTR...
-- Think of it as evolution in action.
