Recycling

In terms of weight my household probably recycles as much as 80%, volume similarly. This is probably because of the large garden we have, 800sq mtrs or so and the green refuse we get from cutting back, hacking down and generally, tidying the flower beds. 
All that despite running a monster compost heap 2 x 3 x 1.5mtrs. Takes me a week to dig it out and then refill the uncomposted 1/2.

ooops meant to add comment, do you put your ash in garden recycle bin? We can't do that with oursMind you sister in law can recycle plastic containers and we can't do that either.

I put my green bottles in the green bin and brown ones in the brown one, but I understand it’s different in other parts of the country. It all becomes most confusing when travelling around.

Our green bin is 'general' and blue bin is 'recyclable, both of the same size. For us at the end of two weeks at emptying time, the green is about 30% full and the blue is nearly overflowing.

By that 'scientific' view I would say our recycling comes in at around 70% by volume.

There’s a small flaw in your ‘rough’ calculation. Ignoring that the recycle bin is more than full, you recycle 100 out of 100+30. Or about 77%, by volume.

We have 3 bins, Blue = Recycling, Brown= Garden & food waste, and Green = general waste. Our council wont collect glass though so we have to take bottles to the bottle bank. Our green bin usually only has one, perhaps two bags in it.

Our council has a good record on recycling.

Edit: Our bins are collected fortnightly,one week general, one week recycling & garden/food waste.

The tendering process is the worse thing about our refuse collection. It can change each time it happens. I would like to think we do quite well on recycling though:

Black bin, general waste. This is collected weekly for us, as garden waste collector cannot reach us, lorry is too big for our road. We are allowed to put garden waste in here as well! But we don't, we compost it, or I put it into a green bin we have acquired,
and trundle it fortnightly to where garden refuse lorry can reach it! Green waste collection ceases mid November until mid March anyway. (Which as any gardener will tell you is possibly when there is most to clear!)

Glass and tins fortnightly, never full, we don't drink much!

Paper and cardboard, fortnightly. We use most for lighting stove, so usefully recycled. If it gets too much, I have been known to dump packaging at supermarket. Let them deal with it at source, most things are over packaged!

Plastic is our problem, doesn't get collected so we have to take to recycle centre.

We have four bins, two for different types of recycling plus clothes and shoes, collected every week. A wheelie bin for non recyclables, never really full for the fortnightly collection and a scrap food bin for recycling (but we usually compost veg scraps and rarely have anything else  left over.) We could have a green wheelie bin for garden waste but we don't need it and put everything on a big compost heap and anything hefty that we don't want we trailer to the composting bit of our waste depot.

Thinking about it we probably have more cardboard and waste paper than anything else, mostly unwanted fliers and food packaging. Sometimes I put that on the compost too! 

edit I see that the paper and cardboard match the stats on SteveL's post.

The answer to most of our waste problems is incineration, and use the heat produced to drive whatever. But we're a nation of NIMBYs so it won't happen and we'll continue to have a multitude bin waggons drive up & down our streets consuming fuel at 5 or 6
mpg (at best) and as above send our plastic pop bottles to China to be made into pastic 'stuff' & then shipped back here. The rest of the recyclable stuff that doesn't go to land fill counts as credits to your local council

The current rate of recycling where e live is 57% which we are informed is among the best in the UK
i put this down too the system used by our council of 3 bins only.  All recyled items go in one bin and are sorted at the recycleing
plant.We have one bin for landfill and one for garden waste which goes too a locol farm to be made into fertiliser.The bins are on a 2week emptying cycle.

peter.

.....  All recyled items go in one bin and are sorted at the recycleing plant. ....

A 'clean MRF' 

We have 4 bins plus one white plastic bag (for paper) which are collected fortnightly - grey general water one week and the recyclables the following week.

Except the green bin for garden waste which is not due to be collected until March 8 as nothing grows during the 'cold' winter months! Hmmmm....

I am staggered to be honest just how much we do recycle and I hope it is recycled correctly. The bottles and tins should be really easy as should the cardboard (Aldi boxes!)

We recycle everything we can and in our area we have a good record of recycling.  Mind you it is a tricky business putting out rubbish, as you have to REALLY concentrate. 

Black bin general rubbish very little for us, green food waste bin always full, not because I waste food but things like melon skin etc takes up a lot of room.  These bins collected weekly.

Brown bin, we have 2 for garden compost certain times both can be full depending on the amount of hard wood pruning going on.  Green box for cans, bottles and textile, this must be bagged for some reason, and we can also place small electrical items in there
too,  A sack for cardboard, a sack for paper and a plastic bag to place plastics in, this includes all plastic bottles, lids, yougurt pots, flora type containers, fruit cartons and plastic bags.  These ones are collected alternate weeks, week one brown bin(s)
cardboard and cans and the following week plastic and paper.  Our brown bins are collected through the year, good job this year with grass cutting still having to be done and there's always plenty of cutting back going on.

I would say we recycle 85% or more of our household waste at home.  However, because one is never sure about recycling whilst out and about this probably drops.  I always feel that details of what is recyclable on sites should be included clearly in site
info leaflets so that you can get to grips with what is and isn't required asap as how you collect and store whilst on site is vitally important before your first trip to the bin area.