Bin men! Ridiculous

Is it your first experience of having a bin 😁

We have twins and a dog, when they were in nappies we still had enough space. I think the issue you have is genuinely that you need to make more effort with your recycling.

We rarely fill a black bin but often struggle with the recycling bin as everything we can possibly recycle goes in the blue bin.

Don’t you put food waste in to the food bin provided by your council? Sounds to me like you just don’t recycle properly. We’re a family of 5 and manage fine. I know the lid has to shut on my bin and they won’t take extra, that’s a rule up and down the country regardless of council and has been for 30 years. If everyone left their old food and used puppy mats out in bin liners we’d be overrun with rats and every road would look like a tip.

I think you’ve answered yourself. Food waste. Buying more than you should. Work on this before getting annoyed at bin men just doing their job.

Do you have food waste recycling? That will help greatly with food waste and far better than land fill. We collect our soft plastic to take to a Co Op to recycle and we now very rarely even half full our landfill bin.

There's your answer. Do better with your recycling.

Agree. Sometimes it's completely mad that the only way you can get stuff to the tip is in a car which is not environmentally friendly (central London here so we are screwed any which way, apart from paying the council an extraordinary amount of money for an extra pick up)

Recycle more!!! The reason they aren't collecting your black bins that often is because you should be recycling!!!

I have 3 kids, 2 still in nappies, all 3 in nappies at the same time at one point. Our black bin is only collected every 3 weeks.

We recycle glass bottles, cardboard, paper, tins/cans, plastics, soft plastics and food waste. I have to take glass bottles and soft plastics to the collection points at the supermarket.

When the kids are out of nappies my black bin will be my emptiest by a long shot!

I, as you are supposed to do, rinse my recycling first.

I do have a garden and I use delivery type boxes as mulch so I will concede that that stops my recycling bin emptying too quickly. But our council will happily offer you a second recycling bin without any justification required. They are only strict about black bins.

I work. As does my husband. So anyone crying they don't have time is just making up excuses.

Yes it's a pain in the arse, but what do you think the alternative is???

They don’t choose, they’re following instructions based on H&S.

We have 2 adults, 2 kids,,5 pets and fortnightly collection… very rarely struggle. On the odd occasion that we have an extra bag I ask neighbours if they have a bit of room left in theirs.

Do you open out and flatten boxes? Squash cans?

We are a three adult household and have one bin bag a week and one fairly full recycling wheelie bin every two weeks.

Most councils will give you a second recycling bin for free if you need one. We have two.

Potholes........ or maybe not

bin issues here also

Same!

You can but something to squash down stuff in your bin to make more room

But are you recycling everything you can?

You need a wheelie bin compactor

https://amzn.eu/d/fkTLvqn

You know the bin people have rules they have to follow. Some have every bin they tip weight is registered against lifts.

Have you looked into a bin crusher thing. It is basically a crusher that you put down on your rubbish that compacts it so you get much mor in the bin.

A relative of mine has one from. when she had my 2 kids in nappies and before light plastics could be recycled.

Be grateful that you don't live in my council @SassyCrab you get one 1/2 general waste bin emptied fortnightly, and the rules are ridiculous. If your bin lid isn't properly shut they won't empty it, if there's bags on top they won't empty it, if there's bags beside it they fine you for flytipping.

We all need to actively reduce our waste. This is one way to make us think more about the stuff we're putting in our bins. It's too easy just to 'throw it in the bin' ... If we all make a small conscious decisions about where we put our waste, then the world will be a better place. These small decisions make a difference ❤️

Double check your recycling rules too by the way. Our bin men wont take over full rubbish bins, but they will take as much recycling as you put out. So if you are filling your rubbish bin with packaging, you probably don't need to do that!!

What’s the dog doing to create so much rubbish lol

Same as us ! Wonder if we are the same council , we are in Kent

I don't mind people putting bags in once its out to be fair, but I didn't want them filling my bin during the weeks and not having any room myself!!!

Why would this bother you ? If I've got room I'd be more than happy for my neighbours to do so, at least they asked !
I live in one of the few councils left that have weekly collections and no limit as long as bags aren't overfilled ( we don't have wheelie bins ) my family often do a rubbish run day before bin day as their neighbouring councils aren't so generous !