Council not giving extra allowance for those whose bin dates not changed

I think there should be a ban on selling non-recyclable wrapping paper. I've just checked my leftover Christmas paper, and it's all recyclable, but that's more by luck than judgment. I'll make sure I check in future.

And food recycling will be coming to you soon. It will be mandatory for councils to collect separate food waste weekly from March 2026.

Food waste collection

If so many people host extra people over Christmas, that means loads of people are not at home, and therefore not using their bins. So find out which neighbours are away and use their bins.

I'm away, I don't care if my neighbours use my bins, as long as they put them out and back and don't leave them full ages before bin day.

So this is why we don't have a separate Food waste collection... I got wondering when PPs have said its compulsory.

Ours is separated at the Processing plant so exempt from the law

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68722390.amp

@millymollyminging - yes our monthly bin collection and the fact that we have no nappy bin option is why we opted for washable nappies. It was far better. No stinking summer bin stink, no full bin.

People blame councils for everything. Why not take some responsibility for yourself? The options aren’t fly tip or rubbish collection.

Our bin day is Thursday.
Alternating household one week, recycling the next.
Bins are full- Household not done last week, recycling wont be done this week.
They'll have to take extra when they do decide to turn up...

I think it’s April 2026 or that’s when we have been told it’s coming in here.

One thing our council does tight is unlimited recycling. If your plastic/metal/paper/cardboard bin is fill you just put boxes of stuff next to it. Larger boxes can be folded and left between your bins. Electrical and batteries left in bags on top of the bin.

No food waste though. Weve no where for our own composting bin.

I thought councils had a deadline by which they have to have separate food waste collections.

It was a source of some amusement here, as our council started it a few years ago and everyone was gobsmacked that for once they did something well before it became mandatory.

This! Ours is collected 3 weekly and last collection (pre Christmas) we had one black bag in there! However our recycling is chock full each week.

we hosted Christmas and ours will be collected a day late and we’ve still not filled our wheelie bin.

i simply don’t understand why people struggle. In our area if you have nappies you can ask for a bigger bin, but other than that, what’s being binned?

Our council, will have gone 20 days between collection, over Christmas when you have guests and more rubbish, be it recyclables, or in my case loads of stinking cat litter and DGD’s nappies. I have five small bin liners which I will be taking to the local tip to get me through to 8th January.

No extra allowance here.

I discovered the supermarket collects soft plastic bags and wrappings. I save stuff up and take it round. Means our black bin has more room in.
Every three weeks it gets emptied and it's rarely full.

If only Christmas came at a predictable time each year, then people could put some forethought into how they might manage any excess waste

Our cardboard goes in the recycling. It means you have to fold or cut up any really big bits, but it avoids the need to go to the tip.

As the tip is only open 9-4, that's a blessing for people who work. You have to book a time slot, too, and the weekend ones get booked up really quickly.

Much of the wrapping paper cannot be recycled. Not everyone has food recycling/a compost heap.

Our bin collection will be 5 days late. They will take extra which is good because our adult son with medical needs is home over Christmas but we don't have a large bin now due to him no longer living with us.

Thanks to Christmas and a feed delivery for DS my cardboard bin in overflowing (we have a second bin for medial waste but not for recycling waste it creates sadly). So I’m doing a tip run with the extras.

If it's an issue help your parents, stop expecting someone else to solve simple problems.

@TheNightingalesStarling - we’ll buy one that can? I always buy paper ones, non shiny or glitter
@Only2daystogo - no neither does ours. But that’s why we home compost. But most places in the uk do have food waste

I don't think our council have every allowed extra rubbish even when they come late. We do often have a bit of extra waste but we just make sure the dry stuff like wrapping paper (which they won't recycle) goes in separate bags so we can hold on to it till the next collection if it won't go in. We take the cardboard to the recycling centre.

Now that you’ve been thinking about it, next year factor this in and have a less wasteful Christmas.

My black bin will be collected next Monday instead of tomorrow and I get no extra black bag allowance! Go to the tip if you create more rubbish over Christmas.

Not all councils have food bin waste collections

We've basically missed a week - bins were due to be collected Christmas Day, so no collection that week or new year's day, and out next collection is on the 2nd.

I've run out of space in the food waste and recycling is nearly full too.

Hence the need for the extra bags.

If councils allow all households an extra allowance for rubbish, there would be less rubbish about

If people bought less shite, there'd be less rubbish! Just store what can't fit in the bin this collection and put the rest out over subsequent collections.