Talk:Tag:amenity=recycling

• My rationale is to add a new item if I find a recycling point that has a specific facility for it. For example, you'll often be able to recycle glass bottles but it's rare to find a place where you can recycle sheets of glass, so it's worth having that information properly defined. TomChance 18:10, 19 September 2006 (BST)
  • I think that depends on how big the recycling centre is. I'm pretty sure the Redbridge recycling centre in Oxford takes sheets of glass! It's a fair bet though that if it isn't on the recyclenow list, recycling centres won't take it. Gagravarr 20:37, 19 September 2006 (BST)
    • Well precisely, my point is that we need enough granularity to accurately describe each recycling centre. It wouldn't be much use if you thought "recycling:glass=yes" implied the centre takes glass sheets, if it actually just did bottles :) Knowing where to take recyclable stuff in your local area is a very handy feature we can offer over and above that which many local councils, businesses, universities etc. offer. We can then use the recyclenow list as a guide, and people can amend the list of recycle:keys when they find new/different facilities.

I agree that having a recycling centre marked on the maps is good, but disagree that this level of information is appropriate in OSM. -- Dom 11:59, 24 September 2006 (BST)

• Can you explain why? I'm already finding it useful for some maps I've wanted to produce for a while now. TomChance 12:58, 24 September 2006 (BST)

So, what exactly does this node mean? Only recycling centres or also containers? In Germany there are many containers, perhaps more than post boxes. I don't think it is a good idea to draw each of those on the map. At least not with such a big symbol. Beebop 11:16 03 August 2007

I've been mapping every recycling point, whether it's a couple of bins on a street or a major recycling centre. We could introduce a second tag - amenity=recycling_centre - to distinguish them. The way they're rendered on the maps at the moment is entirely appropriate IMO, but that tag could show up on lower zoom levels as well? TomChance 10:36, 3 August 2007 (BST)

I am using amenity=recycling as area for recycling parks = location where you can bring your waste (like old furniture, garden waste) --Rubke 11:36, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

I would like to have area for reciclyng facilites rendered as well. --EdoM (lets talk about it) 09:41, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

In the places that I lived there always was a public place where inhabitants could take the waste they want to get rid of immediatelly or that can not be left on the street to be taken by the garbage car. This waste is not only 'recycling' waste. This should be analysed in relationship to Tag:amenity=waste disposal

There's a good list of what can be recycled at [http://www.recyclenow.com/what_more_can_i_do/can_it_be_recycled/], but I don't know quite how many of them we'll want to record

Contents 1 Vote 1.1 Post-vote discussion 2 Paper Based Beverage Cartons 3 Garden refuse? 4 Usage times 5 Multiples? 6 recycling centres 7 recycling:compost ? 8 recycling:glass_bottles ?

Vote

I'll vote against this, see why : [1] --Bartv 08:07, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

• I approve this proposal. MikeCollinson 04:07, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. User:David.earl 12.40, 19 December 2006 (UTC). It is already rendered in osmarender!
• I approve this proposal. Gagravarr 13:19, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --KristianThy 13:33, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --Batchoy 14:03, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. --SlowRider 16:04, 06 January 2007
• I approve this proposal. --Jammeh 14:57, 14 January 2007
• I approve this proposal.--Alban 08:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
• I approve this proposal. TomChance 20:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Post-vote discussion

• From the above discussion, in the U.K. 'recycling banks' can be found on the odd treet corner where a large bin has been placed, about the height of a man. These would be good to map, just like postboxes, it can be hard to know where your nearest one is and important if you don't have a car. In Germany I remember seeing the public bins were split in 4 and I had to drop my crisp wrapper in the right hole. Very good to be that environmental but not worth mapping. Something needs to distingush the small drop of points to the much larger ones (often with tips/refuse-transfer places) that you'd probably go to in the car because you've stored up several weeks of recycling. I would propose some sort of size tag? - LastGrape 14:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Often the recycling bins are for different coloured glass bottles. I don't know if they generally have the same selection of colours, is it worth tagging which ones? - LastGrape 14:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

• Could we have areas rendered as well? Here in Italy we have many dropping point for furniture, ectronics and so on.. --EdoM (lets talk about it) 09:43, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
  • I agree, do we need a vote to extend this to areas? I've been using this fairly extensively already. --Thomas Wood 17:40, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
    • I've done these as highway=service;area=yes with a node amenity=recycling in the middle. Osma renders the area, mapnik doesn't. A dedicated area makes sense, though. I was looking for one, before I decided to use what I wrote earlier. --Ldp 21:13, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

• In The Netherlands we have recycling stations, larger area, manned personnel, and pay for your waste. How should we tag those so a application can see the difference with for example a recycling basket ? (image http://www.margraten.nl/20060912T134506D1/gemmarg/gfx1/ZimpjymHowE.jpeg)

• Maybe "recycling:full_service=yes", like we do with laundry? --Slashme 15:38, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Paper Based Beverage Cartons

Found a recycling bin for "Paper Based Beverage Cartons" in Ingleton. I'll mark it down using recycling:beverage_cartons unless anyone can come up with anything better --Pobice 22:08, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Garden refuse?

I'd like to have "recycling:garden_refuse" as a tag: many of the local dump sites only accept light garden refuse, not big chunks of wood. --Slashme 15:36, 17 January 2010 (UTC) I see there is "green_waste", so I'll use that. --Slashme 15:51, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Usage times

Is there a good way of indicating the periods of time during which the containers can be used? Here in Germany, some glass containers can only be used during week days between 7am and 7pm. opening_hours=* doesn't seem appropriate, as technically the container is accessible at any time (even though you shouldn't use it outside those hours). Tryphon 14:47, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Multiples?

What if one bin takes multiple items? Tags can't be arrays, right? Brycenesbitt

Personally I think this type of information is too fragile to map... it is subject to change, and unlikely to be tightly maintained over a long period of time. Brycenesbitt

recycling centres

it bugs the hell out of me, that there isn't any differentiation between recycling containers and bigger recycling centres, which results in the recycling icon being rendered to prominently in mapnik. that's why i wrote a proposal for for recycling centres, which is ready for comments now. --Flaimo 21:35, 16 April 2011 (BST)

recycling:compost ?

I think the tag recycling:compost does'nt exist. It's different than recycling:green_waste, is'nt it ? --Christouf 22:44, 28 June 2011 (BST)

• Probably is different as 'compost' implies that the waste has been digested and is not necessarily limited to garden/lawn waste, including for instance peelings from food preparation. --Ceyockey 18:29, 14 August 2011 (BST)
• ok thanks. So can i propose this tag (recycling:compost) ? --Christouf 09:22, 17 August 2011 (BST)
  • It is my impression that the tag-proposal/approval process is pretty much broken and that the default path is to start using a tag as needed and seek reconciliation among similar tags at some future time. I'm happy to be wrong about this, though. --Ceyockey 05:07, 18 August 2011 (BST)

recycling:glass_bottles ?

Does is make sense to add a tag recycling:glass_bottles:colors=white;green;brown ? --Bibodo 02:53, 13 August 2011 (BST)

• Yes, it does make sense. There are some recycling streams which require separation and others which do not. --Ceyockey 18:30, 14 August 2011 (BST)