Artful Dodger: we do the same thing....all kitchen waste (apart from onion family) goes back into the ground. All else is sorted and put into appropriate bins for collection. Normal rubbish (if there is such a thing) gets collected once a week and all recycled rubbish gets collected every fortnight.

We have a funny little man in our area that walks the main road everyday picking up all tins bottles etc and takes it in his plastic bag with him....I always felt sorry for him but then realized that he was worth a lot of money as he took all the stuff home and onsold it LOL....also he get plenty of exercise as well hahahaha