Anyone with fortnighty collections tried to claim a larger bin?

WTF - not what's fallen out during being lifted??!! That's crazy! Don't they want to keep Britain tidy and all that?!

They don't have any bins really where I am, just put your sacks out (and hope cats etc. don't rumage prior to collection) and then black boxes for recyling and green bags for garden waste.

looneytune - ours won't collect anything unless it's in a bin. And that includes anything that falls out of the bin whilst it's been lifted!

Sorry Fio - it's just there is little respect for babysitters....oops sorry childminders sometimes

We don't get our bins provided by our council, we just have our own dustbin but what we put out each week is a pile of black sacks - they don't know how many are ours, how many are the neighbours etc.

We recycle everything we can but still would struggle with fortnightly collections - and how smelly with this heat! YUCK!

I haven't asked my local council for a bigger or an extra bin as other minders have tried it, and have been getting the "oh, you are running a business" - they will have to pay extra if they want to do it. We are allowed a bigger bin if we have two or more children in nappies but, if I lie and suggest that they are my children, then I am bound to get found out and locked away.

I have four children in nappies for three of my five working days, and three in nappies for the other two (and, like Fio, an older child who is doubly incontinent who comes after school). So far, I have very understanding neighbours who don't mind if I fill up their bins once they've put them out for collection (I'm the one rushing out at 1.00am).

I recycle all my rubbish by allowing my mindees to do lots of junk modelling, and then they take it home!

We are most definitely businesses, however we operate from a domestic property and are not commercial premises (unless you have a playroom or part of the property that is solely used for childminding and not for any other reason).

the problem my colleague had was that, once the council knew she ran a business from home, they didn't want to take her household waste at all. An element of the council tax we pay funds the domestic refuse collection and so she was still entitled to a household collection service but the council told her they would stop taking her rubbish if she didn't pay for a trade refuse collection. They will look in the bins you see, and if they see anything they think is from the business they CAN LEAVE ALL OF IT for you to dispose of. There was no way she could prove to the council that nappies in her rubbish were her own children's.

Strictly speaking, we should not be putting any waste derived from our business into the household bins and should be disposing of it by taking it ourselves or employing a trade refuse collection. That would mean a 3rd bin for my front garden and I would have to pay £37 per quarter to have it emptied by the council.

becksmummy - I told them I had 4 over 16's and 2 children in the family. Which I do. At the time I asked for the extra bin I also had my mother living here temporarily. I didn't mention or include the minded children.

I am a little concerned with the implication that childminding (ie working by yourself with the standard amount of children) is not business

I know I C/M on a larger scale and I accept that it is not quite what people expect (although it does have lots of advantages) but both I and other childminders working alone are all in "business" - and that size isn't important

'If you're' even

ifyour a household of 5 or more then you can get another bin, otherwise an extra one costs £50

My neighbour was so desperate to get a larger bin (available for larger families) that she named her cats on the list for residents at her address!

It didnt work though.....

We missed our collection this morning 2 week wait till next one and our bin is full from the past 2 weeks!

We have fortnightly collections and have for years. I have no problems with it, we recycle and compost loads and throw very little rubbish away. It's my green recycling bin that gets full to the brim!

Where I differ from you ladies is I ask mindees parents take their nappies home...why should my bin get stuffed full of nappies and theirs be empty?!! The parents are all fine with it!

In Epping Forest, we got a larger bin, and they insisted on giving us a smaller one as well.

We recycle more than average, but have a larger household. However there is an incentive to have a bigger bin since the witless fools who negotiated the contract for collection have it so that they don't have to take away any bagged rubbish, or bins that aren't closed.

Usually that wouldn't be an issue, but like everyone else we occasionally have surges, and given that they are getting powers to fine, didn't want the grief.

amother reason for using the term "witless" for our councils management of refuse is that they contractor went bust, and given their general competence we can easily assume that the 2-weekly collections will sometimes drift to 4.

hey ladies...having fly problems?

lakeland do this cool product that you pop on your bin and its smells like something flies dont like. i cant remember what it called though.

Katy I am with NCC and I got an extra bin by saying that I had 6 people in my household they delivered it free of charge and take the rubbish with no probs. Mind you this was about 4 years ago and didn't really appreciate the extra space until I started minding

The problem I have at the moment is there is no access to rear of property except thru house and the only places to put the bins are by the house which is right underneath the windows!! I clean them every time they're emptied and squirt fly spray in the black bin when I put rubbish in it but still the flies keep coming.

Don't tell them you are a childminder - they told a friend of mine she had to have a commercial refuse collection which isn't cheap! in our area you can buy a second bin if you can justify your need.

Our dustmen are really helpful - I can fill the green bin up with normal waste and they will empty it at the same time as the black bin. Then I put the boxes of paper/recyclables in the green bin for emptying the following week. They're not supposed to do that tho, i'm supposed to have bought a second black bin.

heloooooooooo!

dont know if this helps, but i applied to my local council for a recycle bin, hey were rubbish and after 6 wks of waiting and still not getting one i wrote to my local mp! anyway, to cut a very boring long story short, i got 2 (yes 2!) recycle bins within the week!

Dont know if it would work but worht a try?