To resent having to go to the tip because our black bins are too small?

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We are a family of two - no babies, no nappies. We recycle all paper, plastics, tins, bottles etc. Our black bin is not a full size one and is only collected fortnightly. It holds 1.5 black bags. AIBU to resent having to to go to the tip to drop off black rubbish, given the extortionate amount of council tax we pay?

YANBU. My normal waste and recycling are both collected every fortnight and both are full up within a week. I end up having to go to the tip every weekend and it drives me mad.

There is an awful lot of Eco-virtue-signalling on this thread
What rot.

Recycling as much waste as you can so that you aren't left with bags of waste to take to the tip is hardly "virtue signalling" (a ridiculously twee and lazy phrase used by those who actually can't form a cohesive argument) Recycling as much as you can;
A) is what councils are forcing people do do by reducing GW collections
B)Stops shit sitting in landfill for years making land unusable in a country which desperately needs housing
C)Cuts down on the amount of oil being used to produce new products which will mean it won't run out so quickly.

These are incontrovertible facts and have nothing to do with climate change bollocks or carbon emission sciency bullshit.

Our blue bins were collected today, I can't believe the number of virtue signallers there are down our way. Bunch of pretentious fekkers.

Twee is the ultimate Mumsnet insult isnt it?

Twee is the ultimate Mumsnet insult isnt it?

😂😂 Is it? I'm sure I've read (and said) much worse than that.

People love throwing it about. I'm sure I've never heard anyone say it in real life.

A) is what councils are forcing people do do by reducing GW collections

Exactly. Instead of people complaining that their non-recyclable waste bin is too small and looking to find ways to beat the system, and routinely taking extra waste to the tip is trying to beat the system, they should see it as a wake up call and think 'well most people manage with the bin and collection frequency that is provided, what are we doing wrong and what do we have to change so we can too' (very large families and disabilities, multiple nappies excepted of course).

It depends how much you eat!!

Active people/young men eat about 3 times as much as an elderly or sedentary person and this translates into 3 times as much rubbish. That probably largely explains why some seem to have so much more than others.

Another factor could be whether you tend to eat out/buy lunch as opposed to having all meals at home or taking packed lunch.

YANBU. It really pisses me off when councils don't do the most basic things like collecting bins. I once lived in a place with similar bin collection issues, street lights were always half off (every other light), streets were rarely cleaned but then a small fortune was spent on a public library with a ridiculously large erotica section. They really should ensure that the services that everyone uses are up to scratch before spending money on things like libraries or catered council meetings.

Yanbu. The environmental impact of individual households having to go to the tip with their waste could be quite heavy. It's daft.

Improving recycling facilities would surely be the (short-term) answer - especially in your case, OP.

I used to live in a fairly deprived part of London, and the council recycled everything that they possibly could, gave everyone a big bin, and collected large white goods for free.

Result: hardly any fly tipping or street litter.

Recycling standards shouldn’t be a postcode lottery. I used to live in an area where the council collected textiles and batteries in the recycling bin, now I live in an area where yogurt pots aren’t accepted

Im lucky to have 2 decent sized wheelie bins and only 2 of us living here....reading some of the comments on here you can sort of understand why people fly tip.....why on earth can you not take rubbish to the tip on foot....how bloody ridiculous !!!

We have a large blue recycling bin (normal size wheelie) and smaller household waste bin, both emptied once every two weeks.

3 adults (2 over 18) and a 16 year old here all week (the kids all buy so much take away shit) and husband and step kids here on weekends.

It is NO WAY enough and we regularly have to go to the bloody tip

Drives me around the bend. Not helped by the fact that the neighbouring town (where we used to live) have unlimited weekly collections!!!! Wouldn't mind if we had litter points like they do across Europe, I would happily drop it off myself but our local tip is miles away and q'd to Timbuktu at the weekend!!!

Why does eating more mean more waste ?

I have a baby, dp in with me and a house cat. I have a tiny black bin and they refuse to give me a bigger one. So all the bags are unhygenically dumped in our garden. An we recycle etc until someone who drives can take them to the tip. I'm on a low income and for £140 Council tax each month I'm appalled with ours.

And that, reader, is why the planet is fucked.

Its really not Patsy. There are far bigger fish to fry in this game than someone who fills a wheely bin once and fortnight

Our black bin is generally nappies and 2 small black bin bags and is emptied fortnightly and is less than half full however our recycling is rammed and plastic food packaging (mainly milk bottles) is overwhelmingly the biggest contributor.
We have home compost.
I would love to go back to having a milkman and glass bottles but there is no longer one who uses them in the village the only guy who delivers uses plastic.

Active people/young men eat about 3 times as much as an elderly or sedentary person and this translates into 3 times as much rubbish.

It only translates into 3x as much rubbish if everything you buy is in a lot of packaging. If you, have, say, a teenage DS who eats as much as three normal people (I may or may not have experience of this...), and you get all your veg from a box scheme, you still don't have any extra packaging at all to put in the bin.

Assuming you have a teenager son who's willing to eat nothing but veg that is?

We do eat a lot of veg (including a LOT of potatoes), but the odd pack of sausages, or some mince doesn't really add much to the bin, neither does empty pasta bags. I get a huge drum of rice which lasts forever, and when it's finally done I use the massive plastic jar it comes in to store other stuff. We get jars of pesto, passata, tins of soup, etc, but tins and jars all go in the recycling just fine.

The OP said it was mainly plastic trays that were the problem, and if you cut out any plastic trays that fruit and get come in (either by buying loose, or getting a veg box, or only choosing fruit that comes in compostable or recyclable cardboard) then that helps cut down that problem by a lot.

Not only virtue signalling - but a lot of smuggery

Who cares that you manage to fit all your waste from 7-9 people into one carrier bag a fortnight??

A bin that holds 1.5 black bags must be very small indeed, and how can that be enough for a fortnight?

Instead of having a go at the OP for being a complete scoundrel for using food with packaging, why not have a go at the supermarkets for packaging everything?

Yabu. We are a family of 4 with one in nappies. We use the small..so around half the size of a standard one. Collection is every 2 weeks. We have always managed. I can't think that you are recycling properly.