How do you organise your rubbish?

Our council recently introduced another wheelie bin for kerbside collection. This means that they ought to be able to get better quality waste streams for recycling, which is great! However it means that I now need to separate out paper and card from cartons and metal waste, as well as from non recyclable waste, glass and compostable wastes.
At the moment I use open plastic crates by the kitchen bin. I occasionally get them in the shop with deliveries and can select ones which are stackable, so glass crate goes under paper crate which goes under cartons and metals. This means the dogs can select their milk carton 'toys' easily and it looks a bit tatty.
I'd prefer not to buy a special bin if possible, but others might appreciate a recommendation.

Does anyone have a good system or suggestion on domestic waste stream separation?

What works for you? What do you think might be good features to include in a home recycling area?

Following, hoping to make things better at our place too.

Here the garbage collection has three collection bins; one for "household waste", one for all packaging material (including paper since begin this year) and one for glass.
In our kitchen we have a big pedal bin for household trash, one 'recycle bin' for said packaging material and a compost bin.
Glass goes straight into the bin outside, it's not so much.
Compostables go to the compost heap where chicken gladly turn it.

In the long run it's our ambition to detach ourselves completely from the communal waste service (it's very expensive and I find the company quite arrogant) as we - hopefully - become more self-sufficient.

But yes, I've got my eyes peeled for suggestions for neat(er) rubbish organisation systems. Thank you, Nancy, for starting this thread!

This thread shows some systems that other folks use.

Where I live we have no trash service so I found that thread to be informative.

The same system could be used for none burnables or other items that need to be sorted.

https://permies.com/wiki/119012/pep-nest/Set-system-collecting-burnables-PEP

Nancy Reading wrote: What works for you? What do you think might be good features to include in a home recycling area?

We've been trying to make a habit of taking all the trash & recyclables to their outside bins every night before we lock up the house.
Compostables go in the worm bin, in the compost, or to the chickens, depending on what it is & how far I feel like walking.
Everything else gets rinsed & put on the edge of the counter to dry so one of us can sweep it into a bag or basket at the end of the night, and just toss it into the correct bin outside. If we cooked a lot and have a BUNCH of cans, or just went shopping, I might take care of it right away.

After several instances with fruit flies making a home in well-intentioned recycling bins, and 'forgetting' to take the recycling out on the correct day so it piles way up, my wife and I agreed it was actually easier to make clearing the house of trash a nightly routine.
We already go outside in the evening to secure the chickens in their henhouse, rain or shine, so we may as well use that trip to remove unwanted stuff from the house, too. Adds like 20 seconds to the trip, and there's rarely enough buildup in one day to make it a multi-trip ordeal.

Now if only I could get myself to be so diligent about doing laundry.... *sigh

Toko Aakster wrote:We've been trying to make a habit of taking all the trash & recyclables to their outside bins every night before we lock up the house.

I'm going to give you an apple for this! Really why have two bins when I already have them outside? I may well try and do this too - it will make extra space for me in the kitchen!