With great difficulty!
I edge my way very slowly down the driveway. I have not fallen yet, but I have nearly taken a stumble a few times. I would never get back up unaided so I am very slow
@Annb
Prior to Covid and lockdowns, the recycle bins and the waste bins were all collected from the top of my driveway near my house. That was a service they provided for disabled people. Once lockdowns came in it didn't happen anymore. And it still hasn't restarted.
So I'm afraid there are no useful hints from me.
Except, I recycle a lot of stuff for myself, because I am unable to make the several trips down to the bottom of my driveway with everything that you have to put out for recycle.
So for food waste, this is why I now have two wormeries. I started with two dozen tiger worms nearly 20 years ago, they have bred into their thousands and thousands by now. Egg shells, kitchen towels, food waste & everything goes into the wormery. I used a very large plastic dustbin for the wormery. And and I have just made a second one also a very large black plastic dustbin and this one's right outside the kitchen door which is much more convenient.
I also feed them cardboard, not the cardboard which has got coloured printing on the outside. And so I prefer eggs which are protected in cardboard cartons. I feed the worms those cartons. I also feed them Amazon packaging, because that's in cheap flimsy cardboard containers and that is very easy for me to tear up and feed them and I just pour water on it.
So all this makes very rich soil for my container vegetable garden. And I used it in the rest of my garden before these badgers and foxes came along.
All the stuff I buy from the shops, I consider what the packaging is before I buy it. Preferably fresh stuff with virtually no packaging. This was a lot easier before covid and lockdowns. And I would choose stuff with packaging but I could recycle myself, on my premises, without it having to go in a container and be dragged down the driveway.
After the electric shedder for shredding documents went for the final time, I never bought a shredder again but I bought a very small galvanised metal bin that you can burn rubbish in, and then I discovered if I added a little bit of the cardboard to it from the Amazon packaging it would get a nice little fire going and I could wrap my dinner in silver foil, perhaps potatoes & perhaps some vegetables and I will put it in the cinders and that would be my dinner cooked for free. And also it would have got rid of a lot of the cardboard I have that has printed colour on the outside.
This is not quite the answer you probably thought you were going to get, but it has developed this way because of me living on my own and not being able to do a lot of stuff, so I was finding ways around things so that I wouldn't have to ask for help.
Similarly, the garden refuse, branches and stuff, I compost all that. Everyone else in the street pays a sum of money to get these brown wheelies which they have to drag down to the bottom of the driveway and then bring back in again after they're collected, and it costs a bit of money yearly to do that. I put all that lot back in my soil after it's been composted.
Hence the constant naps I need that you see me write of in order to get through the day.