@squiggle posted:Thanks Moonie, like EL they came first thing and its a great relief to have it emptied, it was more than overfull, not so much cardboard but it's amazing how cans and bottles of all kinds both glass and plastic add up over a week, mind you with a great bag for cardboard sitting in the middle there's not an awful lot of room left over to store the cans and bottles.
I'm glad yours got emptied quickly 
In my area cardboard & paper go in a blue sack, tins, metal foil & plastic goes in the green recycling box or alternatively glass bottles/jars in that box. Some people use two green boxes where they have lots but I don't have the quantities they do.
Cardboard boxes have to be flattened before being out in the sack, metal foil has to be crumpled up into a ball, and platic bottles flattened. Not everyone does that. As a result some weeks people find that their boxes or sacks have been left as the collectors have the right to do that. We were told by the council of their policy ages ago so we were warned.
