In the suburb I am living in, we are supplied with 3 wheely bins
- one for garden waste, domestic waste and recycling.
Domestic waste bin gets emptied every Tuesday while garden waste
and recycle bin gets emptied alternate Tuesday.
For the recycle bin, we can put everything that is recyclable
including papers, cardboard, plastic bottles with code 1, 2 and 3,
cans (aluminium, foil, steel), milk cartons and glass
bottles.
We do make full used of the recycle bin provided as I don't see the
reasons not to. I can understand it will be more of a chore to do
so in Singapore as you need to take them to special place or have
to wait to be picked up by Karang Guni.
Apart from recycling, we also try to reduce the landfill waste by
having a compose bin in our backyard. Basically, we just put in all
the greeneries (like vegies) and fruits (including skins,
seeds,etc) which have gone off in the compose bin and occasionally
put some soil in it. The compose can then be used for growing
things in the garden. Natural fertilisers. 
