Was I wrong to do this? Bins

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Since they stopped collecting green bins my rubbish gathered. We are a large family.

I had a pile of bin bags in my front garden. Which attracted neighbourhood rats.

I don't drive so can't go tip.
Don't have the money to get it collected privately.

My black bin was full.

The bin men come to my house then go round the block. I have a passage down the side of my house leasing to a back avenue.

After the binmen came I filled the bin up with the bags in my garden and wheeled the bin down the passage and left it in the avenue, 10 mins later I brought it back after it being emptied

It stunk and I asked the binmen if they could take a little and they said no.

It had been there weeks :(

Yes they have cameras on the bin they said and can get fired for taking extra bags!

I take it you meant the bin lorry and not the bin?

I came in here to tell you off as I immediately thought you had out your rubbish in someone else’s bin, but instead I was to give you a long distance pat on the back. That was sneaky and brilliant. Well done, OP.

Sorry yes the lorries

Thank goodness for that! The thought of the poor camera operator seeing me in a state of undress as I chuck rubbish in the bin! 😱

I don't blame you at all, OP, if it is attracting rats it is a serious health hazard and if you can't drive, what are you supposed to do? We have been very lucky as our bin collections have continued as normal - our recycling centre is shut so we wouldn't be able to get rid of it otherwise.

Wish I'd thought of this... I left an extra bag next to our bin, which they haven't taken. But the road to the side of our house has their rubbish collected the next day!

Nah sounds like an ingenious solution to the problem
We've had no interruption to rubbish and recycling collections - they stopped emptying street bins, dog poo bins and the optional additional payment garden waste service but everything else remained the same. Our tip however was closed and has only just reopened if you make a (free) appointment.
They have huge issues with fly tipping at the best of times round here so I think the logic was that they couldn't stop collecting or they would have a bigger problem.

It was a reasonable thing to do under the circumstances.

I have done the same with my recycling bin in the past. I live on a corner; my official collection is on the main road but if I leave the bin out on the side street on their collection day, it gets emptied there too.

We have a similar issue. They stopped collecting green garden waste over winter and haven't started again due to Covid. Our neighbor has giant sycamore trees that shed all over our garden so we have to clean it up or garden wouldn't be usable. Tips are closed and we don't have a car anyway. I would have done the same if I could

I asked my bin men last week if they'd take my extra bags-they took all five! Will get them a pack of beers and box of biscuits next week as a thank you!

Have you put your green waste in bin bags?!

Its hot but i dont understand 'It stunk and I asked the binmen if they could take a little and they said no.' Take a little what ?

If green is food and garden waste, why was it in bin bags?

Genuis

My general waste and recycling goes out the front but the garden waste out the back as we front 2 roads. Why didn't I ever think of this

@vanillandhoney our food waste goes into green compostible food waste bags provided by our council

But as they werent collecting food/garden waste then OP needed to put extra in her general waste bin so would have put it into ordinary bin bags