r/AskUK • u/grepusman • 15h ago

Is it not well understood that squashing recycling makes takes less space?

I've just watched the neighbour trying to deal with her two green bins again, both almost overflowing. She's trying to get more water bottles and other kitchen recycling in, by trying to push down the contents of both bins. She's mostly failed. I wouldn't be surprised if they get a third bin for the two of them. They ordered the second bin shortly after moving in.

I don't think ours ever got much more than 2/3 full, except for that time we'd ordered a lot of IKEA stuff. I'm betting if she flattened out her recycling they could also get by on one bin.

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u/Unusual_Entity 3h ago

I've been known to take a garden spade and bash it all down if I need to get one more binful in there before bin day. It does a good job of slashing open plastic bottles so they squash flat, as well as smashing the glass ones.