Recycling bins - help? Please confirm what goes in 'em.

[cliveshep]

My beloved insists that the recycling bin is only for plastic bottles and the like and cardboard boxes. For me, ex-pat from the UK, recycling was paper, bottles, cardboard, tin cans, plastic items, all metals like broken cutlery etc. 

 

We are in a very large rural "village" just NE of Central BKK, our "dustmen" don't always seem to separate the recycling bin contents - hot and tired I guess.

 

So please, can anyone advise exactly WHAT should go in the recycling bin? 

 

As an after-thought - some people have hi'so's and society folk "toot" them up in the car when they are out.- we get tooted up by our "rubber-bin men" who spot us regardless of which of our cars or motor-bikes we drive. Possibly this is because we regularly give them a bottle of Red Bull from the fridge - I would hate to do their hot and smelly job so like to show my appreciation.

[giddyup]

Probably only stuff that the dustmen can sell. I put all our bottles, cans, cardboard, plastics etc into a separate bin and let them sort out what they want. AFAIK there's no hard and fast rules about what gets recycled. In a gated village of 40 houses I think I'm the only one that bothers to separate what I consider to be recyclable.

Edited May 4, 2019 by giddyup

[Estrada]

The problem is that you may only have yellow bins (rubbish/dry recyclable waste) and green bins (wet organic waste). I have not seen any grey bins (hazardous waste) for 20 years since I helped write the 20 year BMA solid waste master plan. Also there are not enough bins and neighbours do not think it is their job to separate waste. I have my own Yellow bin so I separate my waste into recyclables, wet waste, dry waste for burning/landfill and hazardous waste using those handy single use plastic shopping bags. The garbage collectors pick out the recyclables and place them in sacks they have on the outside of their trucks. The rest of the waste goes in the back of the wagon. When the truck gets to the waste transfer station, the refuse is tipped and sorted hand. If it is presorted into shopping bags then the waste is easier to sort. Wet waste is turned into compost and remaining recyclables are recovered and the hazardous waste is dealt with. The rest is destined to be incinerated and used to generate electricity later this year in new waste to energy power plants.

[Thongkorn]

Off at a tangent,  Talking of recycling,b We had a king sized mattress to get rid off, As we had bought a new one, I paid the Bin men to take it away, just a couple of hundred baht, they tied it down on the top, went 50 yards and some one bought it off them , had to laugh.

Edited May 4, 2019 by Thongkorn

[AlQaholic]

In our village, we need not worry about it. We have multiple scavengers roaming around the bins several times a day. The garbage collectors do their own small profit of what the scavengers miss. then at the garbage landfill, there are several families that live there and collect what others have missed.

[cliveshep]

I've been separating plastic, glass, paper/cardboard and metal. My wife insists it is plastic only.

 

We live in as huge gated village, probably several thousand houses. The bin men do often pick out plastic bottles, we put all our recycling into one dustbin and landfill wet/dry/rubbish in Big C bags we use in our waste bins into the other dustbin. We certainly don't have separate coloured bins, just the 99 baht Big C black dustbins we buy ourselves. Most seem to do the same or use those strong blue polythene barrels or globe-shaped refuse bins made from old truck tyres.

 

It doesn't from the answers seem as though there are any hard and fast rules.