Most of what we collect is recyclable. What decides how much of it actually gets recycled is not our truck or our processing line, it is the ten seconds before something goes into a bag. Mixed waste is expensive to separate and often too contaminated to recover, which is why we ask households to sort at the source.
You already own the containers
You do not need a matching set of colour-coded bins. Families we collect from every week use a cardboard carton, an old paint bucket and a cloth bag, and they work fine as long as everyone in the house knows which is which. Pick a spot that is on the way out of the kitchen, because a sorting system you have to walk to is a sorting system you will abandon.
- Dry and recyclable: paper, cardboard, clean plastic, metal, glass, textiles.
- Wet and compostable: kitchen scraps, garden trimmings, spoiled food.
- Hazardous: batteries, bulbs, tube lights, expired medicines, paints and solvents.
- Sanitary: diapers, sanitary pads and medical dressings, tied separately.
Where most households get stuck
The usual failure point is the evening rush: everything gets swept into one bag at the end of the day. Two habits fix that. Keep a small dry-waste container next to the kitchen bin so the lazy option is also the correct one, and empty the hazardous jar only when it is full, because batteries and bulbs are rare enough that they do not need daily attention.
When a bag arrives already sorted, we can send almost all of it to a recycler instead of a landfill.
Ready to hand it over?
Book a doorstep pickup and tell us what you have sorted. We will bring the right vehicle and the right number of hands.