...wie wäre es damit?

Great!
Thanks a lot

Just for future reference, I had to look into the same term and discovered that in the UK, 'residual waste' is in fact the technical term for waste that cannot be recycled. It's used by the authorities, but they do often provide an explanation of what it means.

Restmüll [env.] - unsorted household waste.

#4 = falsch. Das bezieht sich ja auf den gesamten Haushaltsmüll vor der Trennung.

Ich gehe hier mit #1 und #3 ...

I don't know what goes into the yellow trash can, but here (CA) we have three: brown (for most types of trash), blue (recyclables: plastic, paper, etc.), and green (yard waste).

Aha. Thanks.

In Britain paper and plastic recyclables also go into the same bin (if I remember rightly it is blue).

It varies according to the local authority. Where I live, paper and cardboard go into one blue box, glass into another, metal cans and plastic into a bag, compostable waste into a green wheelie bin, and everything else into a grey wheelie bin.

In Scotland they call it recycable (sometimes seperated into plastics and paper), food and general waste. And then there is glass and garden waste.