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.

In our area we can use any bags in our food caddy, we double checked but can definitely use just normal carrier bags. We started using the food bin after getting maggots in our wheelie bin, because it's air tight we haven't had a problem with maggots.

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! We have that in our city, not the sticker bit though, last time I used it the price was around £25 for upto 3 items I think. A lot of money for people, so stuff still gets dumped. We have good rag and bone collections which helps with metal stuff.

If the thought of a food bin makes you feel ill, why not just put it directly outside in the bin?

We actually don't have any bin in the kitchen as it's absolutely tiny (you can only fit one person in at a time) and if we had a bin we wouldn't be able to move.

So all our rubbish goes straight outside as soon as it's created.

We have bulky waste collection and it’s only £10 for up to 5 items! Sounds like great value to me.

We have bulky waste collection you can pay to use. Plus three times a year they place a skip in the village and you can put what you like in it. The dates are on the council website.

That sounds very good freudian

I really hope you change your baby more than twice and day and I hope you don't teach your kids to grow up and be as rude and disrespectful as your mother. I also hope you take some of the advice on this thread, start wasting less and use your common sense to help the environment a little bit

@Winetime0909 I think the OP meant that she changes the baby’s clothes a couple of times a day. I imagine she’s changing nappies all the time with the amount of waste they accumulate!

Use your food waste bin

No food waste bins in this area - we put food waste in either the black (household) or green (garden) bin - whichever is being collected that week so it's there for the minimum amount of time.

Fortnightly collections & household waste is rarely more that 1/3 of the bin for our family of 4.

Recycling is rammed though & I normally have to jump up & down on it by collection day...

We have two of
The smaller
Bins. Rarely fill
Both. And we are a family of five with a cat and one in nappies

Have you got a compost bin for your garden? We compost alot

Ok this is going to sound smug. I don't really care, this thread is really bugging me.

We have a 180L bin (apparently the standard is 240L). It was last emptied on 5th Feb and is still empty. In our kitchen we have one of those tall touch bins which is pretty full so there'll be one bag in there today and another I guess in 10 days time, then we have our three weekly bin collection.

We're a family of four - no nappies now but we've been managing with this set up since we did have nappies. We have three recycling boxes and food waste. No woodburner so anything non-recyclable goes in the bin.

IT IS NO EFFORT.

There is no need and no excuse for anyone to be overfilling a bin in a week and planning to con the council into taking another.

JenniferYellowHat1980 totally agree.

Tbh we should all really be aiming for zero waste although Im no where near that goal but no one should be chucking out vast quanities of rubbish so often.
Recycle reduce reuse etc. Food waste bins, compost heap, washable nappies, washable san pro - none of those things take more than a few minutes and none are disgusting (and Im really squeamish)

Why are all the council's recycling policies so different? It's odd

That was something raised by, I think, the Iceland boss when he was talking about the company’s promise to remove all plastic from their own brand products. Without a consistent recycling policy across the country it’s difficult to come up with alternatives or interim improvements.

JenniferYellowHat1980

Spot on.