to ask why the hell you put out bins knowing it's windy?

[Greydog]

Hound and I have just come back from our morning walk. It’s windy out there! Not the balmy breezes of springtime, but a howling bloody gale. So why do people put out their bloody recycling wheelie bins in the evening before the collection is due? And why do they leave them in really exposed places knowing that it’s going to be windy? One road that we walked up is full of paper, cans, plastic bottles and broken glass. Two bins were blown over as we walked up one road – and that was scary, as the contents came bouncing down the road, with a following wind, and it’s not funny being hit in the legs by a salvo of bloody coke cans! When these good people get up, I expect they’ll be moaning about the mess. But it’s their own fault. And the poor hound is traumatised by being wacked over the head by a pizza box.

Landfill every week

People put them out the night before because collection can be quite early. And it's so annoying if you have a full bin and then don't get up early enough to put it out. Those food bins sound a curse. I hope we never get them. Gross!

Much as it may appall some mumsnetters, like the OP, some people do a thing called shift-work. It may not be a question of "when the good people get up" as they may already be up, at work, and looking forward to going home.

Humph. Thank goodness I'm not doing that now, or this thread would have made me explode when I saw it!

we put ours out last night.
the bin men come at about 6 oclock in the morning.

Food bins are totally gross, they let the rain in and never get emptied completely. They absolutely stink and rotting food ends up on the road when the bin men chuck them about.

Not that I blame the bin men for chucking them, they must hate them far more.

Food waste in the main bin was never as bad as you stuck it in plastic bags or cardboard boxes not useless biodegradable bags that turn to mush.

Our recycling bins are open containers with no lid, and our street looks like a rubbish dump on bin day. We put our main bin out the night before, as it gets collected first, and our recycling out after we wake up in the morning, but if its a windy day, it's still going to blow everywhere. I'm not sitting on the footpath all day until collection time to make sure it stays in the bin.

And I won't even get started about the ridiculousness of the council telling us not to get our recycling wet. They're open top containers FFS .

I don't put out the back n the night before because there's too many dickheads round here who would think it enormous entertaining to knock it over. It goes out on the morning and if it's windy. I just to hope it doesn't get blown over. If I left in my garden it wouldn't get emptied for another fortnight and I'd have double the amount to take out.

I don't put out the bins that was meant to say. Don't know what happened there!

Our bin men, tho, are a great team. Because we're pretty well at the start of their route our stuff gets picked up 6am-ish, but when I'm driving around at 10.00 I come across them. I toot 'hello', they give a wave and a thumbs-up and they hold up the traffic coming in the opposite direction for me to get through. they've also taken away carpet offcuts I had after I moved in.A box of biscuits given to them at Christmas is topping up the goodwill a box of chocs I gave them at Easter started. When you've lost your job and home more than you'd like to be, you find rewards in unexpected places.

What a ridiculous question. People put them out because they are due to be collected and they don't want to have to get up a stupid o'clock to do it.

Why do people walk their dogs during a storm at stupid o'clock in the morning? Answer: because that is the convenient time for them to do it. Much the same as the answer to your question.

Daft question really OP. Answer is 'So they are emptied'

I personally don't understand why anyone would choose to go for a morning walk in gale force winds but each to their own

It is a bit of a daft question.
You have to put them out so they are emptied.
As ours are collected at 6am, I'm not getting up especially then, just to put the bins out, when I otherwise don't need to be up that early.

SnowWhite you're right; catches on the bins would prevent all this. I've often said so, but it seems wheelie bin designers haven't come up with a suitable catch. A simple click thing would do.
We're up at 6am, but we still haven't put our recycling bin out, as the men haven't arrived yet. (We dash out with it when we see the lorry coming)

What I don't like is the fact that nobody will actually collect up their own spilled rubbish, so it gets left in the street. Mind you, I think so many people drop rubbish in the street still, that it is in a lot of peoples mindset to not bother with rubbish in the street anyway you rotten kids that drop your rubbish that then blows down the footpath into my garden . No one has any common sense or sense of pride anymore (and yes, I'm generalising and know it's not everyone, but it's still a problem).

Our bins are collected before I get up at 6:30.

It's way past my limit to get up before 6 to put bins out.

but it seems wheelie bin designers haven't come up with a suitable catch. A simple click thing would do.

It's easy - a catch like the ones on a magnetic cat flap on the bin and a magnet on the bin truck. Job done.

If you don't put your bin out it won't get emptied.
They won't come back on a less windy day.

I put mine out as it's collection day. My bin is full and I'd have to wait another 2 weeks.

I didn't put mine out last night though, I put it out this morning. Our bin men come quite late and as the council actually threatens to fine you if you put your rubbish out the night before we put them out in the morning

It's blowing a hoolie here and there are bins and rubbish all over the place. When the weather is like this it makes no difference whether they're put out the night before or first thing in the morning.

Because we have to.
Our bins have to be out before 7am on the morning of collection.
I or nobody in the household id getting up at that unGodly hour to put bins out.
We put them on the grass verge next to the road, because that is where we were told to put them.
Is it really that difficult to understand?

Our bins (not wheelie bins) have catches on them. The original ones didn't, but the second generation do.

Because I don't want to get up before six in the morning and our city council asks us to have the bins out before six.

Hope you and your hound enjoyed your walk & hope your hound recovers from the pizza-box incident. Your choice of language is very evocative. I'm imagining an Aga, Farrow & Ball, a boot room... Yes, I'm making a big fat heap of assumptions, but then, so are you.

Solo, I pick up my own spilled rubbish. But then, I have one neighbour who cleared the leaves off my tiny drive for me and another who leaves excess veg produce from the allotment on our doorstep. I love city living .

Call me Pollyanna, but in these dark times, how about we counter needless negativity with something positive? (Or maybe I should just keep off AIBU ).

what everyone else said. Plus I don't necessarily look at the weather forecast every evening.

Our food bins are fine, they do let in some water but as the food waste is in a biodegradable bag (that doesn't turn to mush) it's not a problem.

Have just found an excellent site called BritishBins. On there they have locks (to stop people putting their rubbish in your bin) and various types of clips and straps to keep the things shut on a windy day. Brilliant!

Yes, but if you secure your bin with a strap or a catch round here, it won't be emptied. As my father found out when he did it.