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.

We have sacks for recycling round here and they can get blown around everywhere. Luckily the food bins are small with a latch lid so they are pretty sturdy.

Chasing get the bin lorry after a night shift because you didn't put it out the night before and they'be done your road already is pretty miserable! Crazy, tired nurse running with bin is not a good look!

I reckon our lovely binmen would accept a clip device if it was quick and simple to disengage. They're so nice and helpful. We give them cans of beer and a good Christmas tip, and iced lemonade in the hot summer weather, and they'll take anything away for us, even things too big for the bin.

We didn't put our recycling crate (open-topped) out on Friday although we desperately needed to because it was too windy on Thursday night. We saw the carnage from the few people who did - and heard about one neighbour who had weighted their bin down with a couple of bricks on top, and then didn't get it emptied as our binmen apparently won't move bricks etc off the top to empty them

We did put our normal wheely bin out last night for this morning's collection, as it wasn't very windy on Sunday in our area (and it was full, so if we hadn't had it collected, we'd have had nowhere to put rubbish for the next fortnight). I then woke up about 7am to the sound of bins and clattering... panicked... it was the binmen doing an exceptionally early run. They normally come between 10am and 2pm.

There was still a bit of rubbish lying around, little enough that it had probably blown out of the bins whilst they were being emptied though, so annoying but not the end of the world, I'm happy to pick up a few bits of litter if it means an empty bin!

Because there's just no time or thought in the morning and we don't want to miss collection because we forgot.

And I can't predict it will be windy in the morning the night before, can I?
(don't throw weather forecast in my face because it's sorcery and I don't believe them )

its because the bins only get emptied once a fortnight and I can't deal with bags of rubbish lying around not being emptied for four weeks (nappies alone take up loads of space).

Our recucling is collected at the crack of dawn, so it has to go out the night before, and our wheelie bins are often not collected until 9.30pm, so a lot of people, especially older people, are understandably reluctant to go out in the dark to bring them in. It's all done fortnightly, so if we don't put them out we're stuck with a full bin for a month.

When collections are as far apart and bins as small as they are these days, Missing The Bin Collection is a massive deal. It can take months to get back on top of the rubbish situation and not have extra sacks that won't fit in the bin (assuming the binmen won't take extra bags, as they won't in our area).

I'm out early due to going to work early! Thanks for all the answers. We must be better off than most of the posters here, because our bin men (and this is for the recycling bins today) can be relied on to turn up at pretty much the same time ever collection day. That's what really makes me cross! Our road is collected between 12noon and 2pm. So you can see why I get annoyed when I have to dodge their recycling bins blowing down the road! I have a couple of lovely bruises on my leg now!

err, what about people who are at work all day, you know, the fairly usual thing of leaving for work at 8am-ish and returning at 6pm-ish? Are they meant to pop back just before 12 to put the bins out, and pop back again after 2 to put them back? Yes, wouldn't have to put them out the night before (though it would probably still be easier than having to do it with everything else that goes on in the morning) but they would still have to be out for at least 4 hours before the binmen are due.

Our recycling collection comes at random times of day but sometimes as late as five. It's infuriating. The bottles and metal are in boxes with lids but the paper goes in big wide bags and the stuff blows all over the road.