Won't give me another wheelie bin...

[ThisLittleKitty]

Bins here are collected weekly. EVERY Sunday without fail my wheelie bin is full. (There collected Thursday) several times local cats (I believe) have managed to get the bags out the wheelie bin as they are open with the bags on top because they are over flowing. Anyway these cats will rip out all my rubbish so the garden will be covered. I called the council and asked for another wheelie bin as several neighbours have more than one of the same colour top bins. I was told I wasn't allowed another one and the ones the neighbours had were "obviously stolen!" Aibu to not see why I can't have another one. And before any one suggests I recycle more I do I recycle everything that can be and I have no car to go to a tip.

This thread is great but OPs responses are infuriating. How does one reach adulthood, breed several offspring and not grasp basic functionality? I don’t mean that to sound nasty, I honestly don’t understand how people can just not give a fuck about how wrecked our planet is, and can’t use bins?how do people end up like this, is this common it’s me that’s the strange one?

Bloody hell, we are allowed a marginally larger bin due to medical need - we are not allowed 2, and although our bin is full after a fortnight, it is not overflowing!

I remember when my mum pointed out a woman we saw two days in a row and both times she was wearing the same dress.

Wow your mum sounds so unpleasant!

Suddenly the OP's attitude makes sense!

It’s not you evenbetter, even my 8 year old can work out that if you crush something up it will fit more in. It’s really not hard.

Unless you’re swearing, shitting, pissing, drooling or smearing food and mud all over your clothes, or you smoke, you really don’t need to be putting clean clothes in the washing machine.

No one notices or cares what other people are wearing, and if they do, they need to reassess their lives and get a wee hobby.

*sweating

In fact if OP has school age DC I guarantee you they’ve covered something at school about reducing waste and recycling properly. They’ll have had leaflets Home and possibly even had a “design your own leaflet” project and been asked to offer their own solutions to waste reduction. How this hasn’t reached OP is beyond me. Perhaps she just chooses to ignore it. It’s not relevant to her after all, her rubbish is someone else’s problem.

Your rubbish doesn’t go away OP, it’s just gets moved to somewhere else. Convenient for you, yes. In the short term.

4 of us including a near teen in nappies and we can just get the lid on after 2 weeks and would not struggle at all with weekly collections, even while renovating our house. Have a typical medium sized bin and families of 5 or more are entitled to a larger bin, here.

Something is amiss.

Like, did you think that your litter in the recycle bin goes off to a place where staff gently remove it, smooth out any bashed in corners and send into back to amazon to reuse? Plastic bottles get refilled with drinks and not melted down, generating more pollution, and usually end up chucked in the sea?

OP, put your junk in the washing machine-hey presto, all your problems are now solved 👌👌👌

And your mum is a dick.

School blazers are fine as they are similar to coats like I said my dcs wear their school jumpers more than once (twice usually) before washing. But pants, vests, socks, tights, dresses, trousers washed daily. I only called my council As like I said various houses round here have multiple bins.

Sorry OP got to admit, 4 days does seem way, way off to be filling a bin.

Our collections here are once every 3 weeks (we were first authority in the U.K. to move to 3 weekly, with the view to sending it national).

Even we are normally over by a bag or 2, that’s even if we are over.

families of 5 or more are entitled to a larger bin, here. they aren't where we live. You can have a slightly larger bin for something like an older child in nappies though.

God I am dreading the possibility of 3 weekly collections

Why do you let your kids wear their jumpers twice?

There actually cardigans (not jumpers) again I put them in the same category as coats/blazers. As they are worn over clothes and not against the skin.

In the summer my DS's blazer is like a jumper. He wears it every day and all the time whilst at school unless they are told otherwise, think they had about 3 days in the summer when they were allowed to take it off.

But I can't wash it regularly during the week as it wouldn't be dry in time for him to wear the next day.

DH wears a suit every day, he can take his jacket off in the office unless seeing clients, but his suit trousers don't get washed every day.

Even if we can ignore the environmental aspect I don't know how people have the time to do 2 - 3 loads of washing a day

I do actually wash all my work wear after one wear, but I commute to London and feel grimy after a day. But, I do it on the thirty min wash, do an extra spin and don't tumble dry them.
In fact, I do most of my clothes on the thirty min wash as they really only need freshening up.

As an adult, it's OK to make your own decisions and not do what your mum did.

Jumpers, sweatshirts, long sleeve tops, PJs, jeans, walking trousers, skirts, cardigans.....all worn several times between washes.
Towels and bed linen, a week.

So the same would go for skirts, trousers and any other non school jumpers. Because there is something between them and the skin. How dirty does your children skin get in one day whilst covered by clothes?

I'm not doing it because my mum does I don't like the thought of it either and wouldn't feel clean. Like I said I don't know anyone IRL who re wears clothes without washing.

Yes you do, your own children. You make them wear their cardigans twice.

We only have black bags collected weekly and recycling bin collected fortnightly.We are getting black bins in April,I want a small one as there are only 2of us but they are only doing one size and collecting every other week.
I have to admit I would fill a recycling box quite quickly so glad to have a bin.Were trying to cut down on packaging especially low quality plastic as these will probably not be recycled now that China is not taking our plastic.
No food waste collections here but even though I have a tiny garden have a compost bin and worm bin.
We are also scanky and wear clothes for as long as we can get away with.Undies and socks daily but everything else less often.We have showers every day and don't work in the city,used to have to wash them more when more people smoked.

Do you pay for water where you are OP? Don't you realise all this waste is costing you actual money?

We are a family of 4 and we have 1 black bag a week of rubbish.
Rubbish doesn't vanish into thin air after it's collected and like it or not it's our job to decrease it any way we can.
I always find the clothes thing odd, that people find their own skin too dirty to consider wearing something twice.