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Won't give me another wheelie bin...

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ThisLittleKitty · 11/02/2018 15:30

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.

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SistersOfPercy · 12/02/2018 20:05

Donny no we can't. I think the problem stems with the crews on the lorry tbh. The blue bin crew are sensible lads, as I said above when I've got more recycling than bin they are happy to take any boxes left by the bin. Grey bin and brown bin crews are much fussier. Grey bin men won't take anything left by the bin, brown bin men scrutinise content.
Brown bin collections don't start up again here until about April/May anyway so no provision at all.

Our garden is a bank as well so can't really compost. Best I can do is lob meat waste up the top of the garden for our fox and very fat badgers

Medeci · 12/02/2018 20:19

You can use biodegradable liners in your food waste caddy and in your outside food waste bin.
We were given some of these when the food waste caddy system started.They were useless as they disintegrated when filled with food.
Now we just add water to the caddies so they empty easily and food doesn't get stuck inside.

SistersOfPercy · 12/02/2018 20:22

Just had a look again to see if anything has changed, this is what they say...

To reduce the risk of maggots and flies:

cover your food waste with garden waste - this will stop the smells that flies are attracted to.

Use an insecticide strip inside your bin.

Neither of those will work well in the middle of august

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 12/02/2018 20:47

I keep my food waste caddy shut tight and don’t get maggots....

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 12/02/2018 20:55

It’s probably the larger outside bin that’s getting maggots. The stuff sits in it for a fortnight at a time. In the height of summer that’s going to be maggot central.

tinyme77 · 12/02/2018 20:55

I think that we need a picture of what goes into your bin! :)

SistersOfPercy · 12/02/2018 21:03

Donny the great maggot invasion of 2002 will stay with me forever. My house is 3 storey with front door at first level. It's a weird layout, but at the time the bins had to be kept at the top of the front steps (so you had to lug them up and down on bins day).

Anyway, I came home one wet August night to see something moving, the steps were crawling from top to bottom. Never seen anything like it in my life, we were horrified. Dispatched DH to tesco quick for as many bottles of value bleach he could carry and we spent the next hour trying to get rid.
Almost all our neighbours have had similar issues. Don't think any of us recycle food waste!

dementedpixie · 12/02/2018 21:14

Our biodegradable caddy liners look like plastic but are green. We get them from the council

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DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 12/02/2018 21:20

Bleuurgggh! sisters!! I don’t envy you that at all. Yuck.

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 12/02/2018 21:33

It’s probably the larger outside bin that’s getting maggots. The stuff sits in it for a fortnight at a time. In the height of summer that’s going to be maggot central.

I was talking about my outside bin....but it does get emptied weekly....

DonnyAndVladSittingInATree · 12/02/2018 21:38

Ah right, I don’t get them either but we rarely get very warm weather and also my garden is very shaded.

hazeyjane · 12/02/2018 21:40

we too have had a maggoty bin, which is one of the reasons I'm dreading 3 weekly collections. Along with the smell of nappies which will have been sitting in the bin for 3 weeks, during a warm summer spell, we'll be the most unpopular house in the street.

JenniferYellowHat1980 · 12/02/2018 21:58

If food gets put in the food waste bin immediately instead of being left sitting in hot weather, there won't be maggots (pet food is a pita for this as my cat is a slow eater). That problem would still happen whether food that had been exposed to flies went in the normal bin or the food bin. I could not be a refuse collector for the world.

WeAllHaveWings · 12/02/2018 22:06

Our food waste bin locks closed when the handle is up, stops any flies/smell/maggots and it’s lifted every week.

Much less chance of maggots than the big bin.

LittleBearPad · 12/02/2018 22:13

Extraordinary thread. So much waste!

BMW6 · 12/02/2018 22:39

Watch Wall E. The planet completely buried in rubbish.

Pigeonpost · 12/02/2018 23:52

Can you be clearer what you mean by "general household waste"? Our general household waste would include the plastic liners from cereal packets/boxes of crackers, any thin plastic veg/fruit wrapping, cheese packets, broken toys, tetrapaks (can't recycle them here but we don't buy them anyway), the fluff and crap emptied out of the hoover/dustpan, the nets satsumas come in, yoghurt pot lids, bagel packets, cereal bar/chocolate bar wrappers, the foil seals from milk cartons, toothpaste tubes, cut ends of wool or other bits of crafting surplus, run out pens, plastic packaging like postage envelopes or unreusable jiffy bags, bits of sellotape, wrapped up broken glass, crisp packets... Pretty much everything else is recycled/composted. There's 5 of us and we fill 2 black sacks a week max.

hazeyjane · 12/02/2018 23:57

In our house's case we would add food waste and nappies to that.

IncyWincyGrownUp · 13/02/2018 00:01

Nappies here too.

My eldest is decluttering her room and I’m having to remind her that she can’t put the masses of paper she’s been hoarding into the black bin.

Broken toys are a bugger. They’re not recyclable, they’re too broken for the charity shop, so they have to go in the bin. I’ve been known to smash them up with a hammer to get them smaller before today.

Thankfully we’re coming out of the giant plastic toy phase of life as my youngest is six.

MotherofaSurvivor · 13/02/2018 01:39

All you can do is hire a rubbish collection man to come and take them then.

Pinga · 13/02/2018 02:33

We are a family of 3. Our bins are collected fortnightly. Recyling bin is usually chocka. General waste bin is usually less than half full. . I cant see how even a family of 5 can fill one to overflowing every week.

Pinga · 13/02/2018 02:40

Oh my goodness why are you doing 2-3 washes every day? Do you roll around in mud?

Clothes can be worn for two or even three days unless actually dirty/sweaty. Towels can be used for a week or so. Sheets will be fine for a fortnight. Unless actually dirty.
Use washable nappies too.

GoldilocksAndTheThreePears · 13/02/2018 03:03

The clothing thing seems to have gone from a passing comment to something that may need help. No one notices someone wearing something 2 days in a row, wearing pjs 2 days in a row is completely normal and to be shamed for it is really not normal. The only place I've seen this stringent was a family with an immune-compromised baby so very strict.

With the rubbish, I truly wish there was one set of rules. Everywhere I've lived and worked has had different rules- I was a nanny for many years so had to know the rules of the house I worked in and my own. I lived on the same road as my boss once but had different rules as it was another area technically.

Where I am right now I literally can't have any rubbish taken away, the quirk of my flat's location means the closest place to put rubbish out is several hundred yards around my row of flats, up and down stairs so can't use a wheelie bin, which this area won't even take! I have a metal bin with no lid- I'm disabled and can't even lift it, let alone navigate it down the alleys with my stick too! It would need to go on a very busy main road too so I can't leave it there or put it out in advance due to wildlife. I've had to become an expert in making very little waste, it is just me here but more rubbish than average due to medical waste and reliance on packaged ready meals etc due to my physical issues. I take out one carrier bag a week to a local bin, not ideal but my only option, and my dad takes any recycling to the tip or add to their bin as there is no where within reach I can take it to. Really wish more supermarkets had recycling or anywhere really, nothing close to me.

Off topic but one thing I saw abroad I wish we had here was large item collections- you rang the council, paid and printed a label and once a month they took double mattresses, wardrobes, fridges, anything with the label on!

SistersOfPercy · 13/02/2018 05:38

Goldilocks, some areas do have waste schemes. As much as I've criticised my local council on here they have helped our local residents association organise several clean up days over the years.

What generally happens is we get a note telling us the day, a dozen skips are dropped off in the neighbourhood (usually one per Street) and we can throw anything we like in them (other than fridges). When the skip is full it's replaced with an empty one and the full one taken away. It's a great scheme and does help with fly tipping.