When do you put you bins out? I.e. what time of day?

[Linetree]

Ours goes out in bags so if you do it too early, the foxes get into them.

I've missed the collection this morning because on the first cool night in weeks, and being in the holidays, I slept until 7:35 and was woken by the sound of the bin lorry.

The council website says they must be at the edge of our property by 7:30am, but no earlier.

Are other people setting their alarms to get the rubbish out at exactly 7:30am?

Its supposed to be out by 6am. Usually collected around 7.30 on our road.
We put it out yhe night before.

I was ill a few weeks back, had a sudden realisation whhen I heard the lorry reversing (cul de sac, it reverses in, drives out) and had to a dash in pyjamas. Luckily the bin men are nice!

If I remember, the night before but otherwise, I get up quite early so can get it out before the bin men arrive.

Currently, due to the heat and the bin men starting earlier, bins need to be out by 5.30am so I am making sure I remember the night before.

I usually get them ready the night before, so it's a quick job in the morning, but if I put the bags out the night before the rubbish has been spread all over the road by foxes by morning.

I usually put them out in the morning as when I am working I am up at 6. I’ve now got a couple of weeks off so will try and put them out the night before!

We are bin bags only (although this is changing soon) and I had the same problem with foxes and magpies in the morning. I got myself a cheap black bin from Argos which binmen dont mind emptying.

Interesting. Ours do. You can't even leave the bags hanging from railings or on top of the green waste wheeley bin, to keep them out of the reach of the foxes.

Ours are put out the night before. Our uplift is a saturday so it goes out sometime between 11pm and midnight on Friday.

Although we do have wheelie bins (4 of them!)

The night before - but we have black bins so no problem with wildlife.

We have wheelie bins now, so they go out the night before.
When we had bin bags they got put out after we'd got ready in morning as, like you, they would get destroyed by animals otherwise.

But you tend to get an idea of when the trucks come round from experience; in our street they were mid-morning, so no need to get out by 7.00am as our council requested. If they'd been collected earlier ,we would have made more of an effort.

Usually when I hear the bin lorry down the street and have to run down the garden in whatever clothes I could quickly fling on and drag them down the gravel drive screaming “waaaaaiiiiiiiiittttttttt”

The evening before collection day.

I'm on a singletrack (semi-rural) - with about six houses behind me that the bin lorry can't access, so they all have to go outside my house :-(

Officially, our council say that they should go out before 7am on the day of collection, and be put back by 7pm on the day of collection. In reality, people start putting them out from lunchtime the day before, sometimes after midnight or before 6am, and they can be very noisy about it - especially the bottle bins.

They also don't bother moving them until the day after, so sometimes I end up with bins outside my house from Tuesday lunchtime until Thursday night, when my collection day is Wednesday. It's one of the reasons why I'm going to move.

Luckily a) we have bins, and b) my council doesn't care what time you put them out. So mine go out the night before.

Could you put the bags inside a large plastic tub? So no lid or anything, but a tub with high enough walls that the foxes can’t easily get to it? Ours have to be out by 6am day of collection so everybody puts them out the night before, but in the tubs - we don’t seem to have any big problems with foxes getting at them.

Council website usually says before 7am. Lots of people here put their's out the night before.

Recently, the council have updated the time to 6am because it's too hot for their operatives later.
They still empty our bins round about midday .

Nigh before, but have actual bins, not bags.

I put ours out the night before. They begin collecting from, I understand, 7.30am here.

We have wheelie bins and a kitchen caddy.

We haven't had loose bags for decades. Wheelie bins galore which DH puts out the evening before:
A green bin for recyclable (excluding glass)
A black bin for non-recyclables
A brown bin for garden waste
A green caddy for food waste
A green crate for glass

We put ours out just be before we go to bed on the night before bin day. The first bin lorry arrives between 5:30 and 6:00 and I’m still in bed at that time. We do have wheelie bins though. All my bins have usually been emptied by the time I leave for work at 7:20.

usually early evening the night before (but we have bins not bags) as they often come early.

The night before.

We got wheelie bins for general rubbish this year with the new rules, but before that just had black bags for the last 25 years.

We've never had a problem with the bags being ripped open as there was nothing attractive to wildlife in them - all food waste was in the green (garden and food waste) wheelie bin.
Other households around clearly put food waste in the black bags, and they were frequently ripped open.

Can you do anything to reduce the waste in your general waste which is attracting the wildlife?

The night before. We have proper wheelie bins for recycling, non-recyclables, garden waste, and a smaller bin for food waste. Food waste is collected every week and recycling and non-recyclables alternate. Garden waste is every two weeks. It works really well.

Can't believe there are still places that use plastic bags.

Oh quite randomly, same as the bin men.

I didn't realise there were any councils left that still did bags, not bins.

We always put them out the night before - we have 4 bins.

Our local foxes have worked out how to open the food waste bins, so they go out first thing in the morning on collection day.