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.

Report me for what? I'm not a new poster. Was asking for help but never mind...

OP - People aren’t saying you should be embarrassed about the rubbish being strewn over the garden, they’re saying you should be embarrassed by having so much rubbish in your bin in the first place.

Then keep it outside the house. We have a compostable bag in the kitchen with food scraps, that goes to the food bin outside every couple of days.

Stop being so monumentally selfish. Start using your food bin (ours is in a cupboard under the sink) and recycle more.

No - people mean aren't you embarrassed by the amount of rubbish your family produce?

Keep the food waste bin outside in your garden?

Have a little caddy in the kitchen you can fill up during be day and then empty into the food waste bin.

The issue isn't the council refusing a second bin, it is your refusal to take responsibility for the amount of waste you produce.

If you produce more than your collection accepts you will have the take the extra down to the local dump yourself.

You don't need to keep it in your house. I have a nice small waste can in the house that I use the biodegradable bags in and empty daily. The actual food waste bin lives outside the back door.

What sort of stuff is filling up your bin? Where I am almost everything can be recycled so very little goes in our black bin. Can you not recycle more?

OP is not interested in reducing rubbish, hence they haven’t answered any questions about what is causing so much rubbish.
This has to be a wind up.

Sicker than you’d feel lying to get a new bin or ending up with rubbish strewn out the front? We have a food waste bin in the front and a small kitchen caddy. The kitchen caddy is emptied (compostable bags) into the bigger bin every day. Nothing manky about it and does make a difference.

OP, can you tell us what you think is taking up most of the space in your bin? Nappies? Food?

Maybe shop more carefully to avoid throwing so much food away. or start a compost bin.

You don't seem to want to take any of the sensible advice everyone is offering.

We produce equally as much green waste as general waste so if you're not separating the two I can see how you're filling your black bin! Also, if you keep the green waste out of the general waste, animals won't be interested in what's left (basically dry plastic/card/foil packaging). Use your green bin!

Oh and outside food waste bin is animal proof.

In my area we have the option of 3 different bins. The black lidded bin and the green lidded bin are supplied by the council. We can opt to pay for a brown lidded bin for garden waste.

Black bin emptied fortnightly - anything can go in this bin.

Green bin alternates being emptied with the black bin. The green bin is for anything that can be recycled.

The brown bin gets emptied with the green bin. That bin costs £32 a year and additional bins are £14 a year.

I have 2 brown lidded bins.

It is the green bin that gets put out tonight for early morning collection. It is only a third full, but I still put it out so that my neighbours with kids, etc, can use it :)

I don't use the food waste bin as the thought of a bin in my house dedicated to just old food makes me feel abit sick. As long as it's not meat, I have no problems re smell or anything. If meat were to go in it, I empty it straight away into the garden bin. I have those biodegradable liners in my mini kitchen caddy.

My dd is extremely fussy and rarely eats dinner (no matter what is cooked), I still make it though Ofcourse. So we do have quite abit of food waste. Never realised this would get people backs up so much.

Family of 3 here, cat + dog, our bins are quite full every time, once a month we need to go to local waste recycling centre to dump some additional black bags of waste. Try your local council web site and check wheres the nearest one.

Why would it make you feel sick having a bin dedicated to food waste but you're fine having it in the normal kitchen bin? That doesn't even make any sense.

I would be mortified if I was producing that much waste (though I wouldn't produce that much because I actually give a fuck about the environment).

I have a New Years resolution to reduce my waste. I consciously buy less packaging, recycle tins, glass, plastic, paper/cardboard and have a compost for kitchen waste. I now have to empty the kitchen bin after 8/10 days because it smells not because it's full. I am pleased and proud and don't feel that it has taken a massive effort. I think you would be able to reduce your waste too. Good luck.

You really need to stop producing so much rubbish, it really isn't necessary.

If you use your food waste bin you're less likely to get animals pulling stuff out of the landfill bin.
We live in an area thats not suitable for wheelie bins. Narrow streets, no pavements or anywhere to keep bins, so still use black bags for non recylable stuff, fortnightly collection and only 2 bags per household.
The food waste caddy system has made a huge difference - no longer get stuff strewn about by cats and foxes. Nappies can be double bagged and tightly sealed before they go in the bin to reduce smells.

No I think your right it's must be the food. Going to start using the food waste bin as then the cats won't be able to get in that way so fair point. Oh and it's the smaller bin I have, it's just what was here when I moved in.

Where I live you have to pay for anew bin even if it is stolen. Woudl they collect both bins even if you put two out.
(Also amazed at the quantity of your waste - most councils have fortnightly collection - how would you manage if that was the case. However everyone has said about your rubbish - so you don't really need to hear it again, you could look at it though and try to cut it down. I keep my food waste bin outside my back door - doesn't need to be in the house)

I think you can get locks for bins if you think neoghbours are dumping thier rubbish in yours.

Never realised this would get people backs up so much.

Never realised people cared about the environment is what you should have said.

Freeze the meals your dd doesn’t eat and stop wasting food. Start reducing your output and teach your children to do the same.