we just got a big plastic composting bin for free (i think) from the council recently. fucking righteous! being lucky enough to have a bit of a garden at my london abode, it would be mighty slack to not give it a go. if you sit it on a turned over bit of soil the worms and all that will make their way in i guess. i read ages ago that it's beneficial to
piss on the heap to get it going (or in winter when it needs extra help).
we have those green boxes that we can put quite a lot of different recycleable material into and is collected, which i think is brilliant. i really should pull my finger out and start taking the suitable plastic waste down the road, where there are recycle bins outside the supermarket. i reckon they should tax plastic bags, like they do in ireland if i'm not mistaken. the amount of these used is mind boggling and infuriating.
and yeh, things like freecycle and gumtree are good for avoiding dumping things that could be used by someone else.