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.

I don't tend to wear something the next day. So if I wear trousers for work Monday, Tuesday I wear a dress, Wednesday I wear the trousers I wore on Monday. Same with jumpers and cardigans etc. They're not dirty, I've worn them to sit in an office for 8hrs!
Anything sweaty or visibly dirty gets washed of course

Of course you know people who rewear clothes, you haven't asked every single person you know!

Do you have a recycling bin? Do you use it?

hazey my council offers medical waste pick ups if asked for. They provide the yellow bags/containers and collect weekly. I’ve managed not to use the service so far, but I may have to soon as the nappies are getting bigger and taking up more space. Families of six+ get a second bin if they want one.

Do you have a recycling bin? Do you use it?

Yes, she does and no, she might as well not for the way she is filling it.

I'm not wearing clothes more than once

That's really sad.

I'm with OP with the clothes washing. We never wear more than once unless it's jumpers, cardigans and coats.
Dc come home from school dirty every day and smelling of teachers perfume so they all have a fresh set every day, I thought this was the norm 😳
After reading other posts though I'm definitely going to do a sniff test on their regular clothes to try and cut down as we are a family of 5 and we do at least 2 loads of washing a day 🙈

Even with a family of five I'm surprised you're filling up your bin so quickly, unless your council gives out really tiny bins. Birmingham uses 180 l bins as standard but offers larger bins to households that want them. And they can refuse collection if the bin lid won't shut!

As a PP mentioned, make sure nobody else is dumping rubbish in your bins. Taping them shut (when not overflowing) should at least give away if anyone is opening them.

Ultimately the rubbish collection available is a political decision by your council. If they're refusing to offer you a suitable service, maybe talk to your councillor.

@grannynap why do your dcs come home smelling of their teachers perfume?

I have two general waste black bins. They are small bins and they get emptied fortnightly. We were allowed to have the extra bin because one of the Children has a lot of medical waste. We are a family of six and we fill one and a half of the bins each fortnight. We would manage on one bin without the medical waste despite being a family of 6. It baffles me that anyone can fill a bin in a few days without being either an enormous family or having a lot of medical waste.
Our recycling bins are always full though and I do wonder if we could reduce some of the stuff that goes in those bins by changing our shopping habits etc.
In our area you only get a second black bin upon request automatically if you have medical waste. In all other circumstances you have to complete a waste diary and be assessed for an additional bin. Households with more than one bin which hasn’t been approved (stolen bins etc) have the extra one removed by the council.

OP are you actually going to answer any of the questions put to you here?

The council don’t want you to produce as much unrecyclable rubbish - thus only providing one bin.

We don’t have unlimited landfill in this country and therefore most councils have cut back on The regularity of waste collections to fortnightly, made big changes in recycling as a way of tackling this issue, as this isn’t an issue miney will change.

Look at leaving packaging at the supermarket, look at removing anything possibly recyclable out of the landfill waste, food waste into free bins

BTW op you can get the outdoor green caddy for free (at least in my area you can)

And this gets people's back up because it's people like you that refuse to change behaviour because of inconvenience or stubbornness or maybe lack of education, and our world is suffering for it

Where is the bin kept?

It sounds like your neighbours are using it too.

It was happening to us often, but we've since moved our bins into our garden. We did this near Christmas to avoid anyone filling the recycling up, and it's been really helpful so we've left it there.

I have noticed on my way home from school, someone on a different road has a bin lock on all of their bins! I've attached a picture from amazon of what it looks like.

I weep, I really do. There are people out there who genuinely are this fucking stupid, aren't there? This unimaginative, this unthinking. You truly seriously thought that you had to leave boxes whole and that they would be reused? You never ever even once wondered? Christ this world is fucked. And if you only wear clothes once, are you also washing sheets, duvets, pillow cases and towels every single day?

Having RTFT, I've decided (not for the first time) that our council is crap when it comes to waste/recycling.

We cannot recycle most plastics: yogurt pots, food trays, the pots that fresh soup etc comes in, plastic bags, butter tubs or tetrapacks. The only metal that they will take is tin foil and cans, and they have to be clean (a tiny bit of bean juice will lead to tins being put back in the box. The bag for cardboard is quite small, so any larger packaging that can't be made small enough to fit in has to be taken to the tip.

I gave up using the food waste caddy because it's so hard to open (arthritic hands), but we get very little food waste because we compost, the dog eats any leftovers and we don't buy more than we need. You have to pay to have garden waste collected and there are constant complaints because the company that does it is really unreliable and fails to turn up around 50% of the time.

And they don't provide any bins apart from the recycling bags/boxes - if you want a bin you have to buy one.

For all this excellence, the council tax here is among the top 10 highest in the country. There are only 2 of us, and despite our crappy recycling scheme, we only put 2 small bin liners (waste paper bin size) in the rubbish each week.

The thing that made the biggest difference to our waste was composting. I empty the hoover into the compost, after being told that nearly all of the stuff in there is hair and skin and they're both compostable, I empty out tea bags and compost the leaves, any uncooked veg/fruit and peelings goes in there, and we save the tubes from toilet and kitchen rolls and rip them up and compost them (a good layer of brown cardboard stops the grass cuttings from going slimy as they rot). We also put small prunings in there, the big stuff goes to the tip.

We had a rat problem in the compost, but sorted it by putting a sheet of steel mesh (approx 1" mesh) under the bin to stop the buggers from getting in. My compost is fantastic - DMIL is a very keen gardener and we take her a couple of rubble sacks filled with compost a year and she reckons it's the best thing she's ever put on her garden. She says her pinks and agapanthus have never been so nice as when she started using my compost for the pots they're in!

One of my colleagues didn't recycle egg cartons, because she didn't realise they were cardboard. She thought all cardboard came in flat sheets!

This thread is a bit depressing, but has prompted me to re-examine my environmental impact. We already do a lot of recycling (squashed down and rinsed out where applicable) and food composting.
As an aside, does anyone have a tidier option than the chair/floordrobe for worn, but clean clothes?!

Oh and last week, I worn the same 3 layers of tops THREE DAYS IN A ROW

Airyfairy pegs on the back of the door. You can use coat hangers on the pegs if you are fussy!

A wormery is good for food waste. Can be very simple, just a bin with some h9les drilled in the base. Eventually it will get full and need sorting, but mainly it just breaks down.

Who has the time to do 3 lots of laundry a day? I get bored of it as it is and I do one a day.

As for judging someone cos they were wearing the same outfit two days in a row, get a life! Maybe she'd had a good night.

We are a family of 5 plus pets and ours I’m emptied fortnightly and it’s often jammed full like yours. But we recycle everything else we can.

Are you using the other bins properly?

Airy I have two pegs on the wall I hang clothes on to stop the piling up thing just the cheap type that stick on.