To empty my dyson straight into the outside bin?

[Cinnabunbun]

Is this really bad manners? It always causes such a dust cloud when I try to empty the canister into a plastic bag first and seems an environmental waste anyway.

Not sure if relevant but I live in a terraced house with not much space between the outside bins and everyone’s front doors and windows. My neighbour uses a fancy bin cleaning company to jet wash his bin in the street every so often and he was so visibly offended when he saw me chucking the dust straight in my outside bin that I thought he might pop.

Our council (not uk, but still) specifically says NOT to put vacuum debris into the compost bin. Might be worth checking first.

It is not unreasonable. Our council have told us specifically NOT to put things in bags in the bin, particularly the recycling bin, so that they can see what is there and whether they are prepared to take it!

I put it straight into the wheelie bin.
Bagging everything is just more plastic going to landfill that won’t break down for hundreds of years.

WIXi so do you have to empty the bin liners of their contents from vanity, peddle and kitchen bins?

well it is a dust bin

Mine goes straight in the bin.

Surely if you have carpets there will be a lot of carpet fibres. Particularly if they're new

I don’t bag my days on, it’s des means I just press one button and all the day so and hair falls straight into my wheelie bin, so why add another piece that f plastic to landfill by bagging it.
The binmen don’t seem to be anywhere near the bins when they empty them.
I’d not put dust, hair etc into my compost or food waste. Hair doesn’t compost anyway.

I tip mine into one of the biodegradable food waste liners or into composter.

Yep our bins are lifted right up and emptied into the lorry by a mechanism. Bin men are nowhere near

Not nice. Vacuum contents are a bio hazard and should be bagged up with rest of waste bin stuff. Think about the lungs of the poor bin men!!

it’s so strange that the councils can be so different with their bin rules.

I think our hoover waste is pretty biodegradable as we have wool carpets and it’s mostly just hair, cat fur and dead skin cells anyway. So I’ll be putting it unbagged straight into the food/garden waste bin from now on.

Straight into the wheelie bin at our house. Much easier.

I’m feeling really bad about my bin men’s lungs now for all the crap they endure

I'm in the 'straight into the bin' camp but I'm definitely going to put it in the compost in future. Genius suggestion.

Our council have told us specifically NOT to put things in bags in the bin

Mine too. They dont want plastic bags in the general waste but they can go in the recycling but they must be empty and not contain rubbish or recyclables. I have to empty all the contents out of the bin bags and straight into the bin so its loose.

Vacuum cleaner contents can no longer go in the composting bin it must go in general waste along with vegetable peelings and food waste. I can't get my head around that rule

Food waste can't be composted?!

We can't put plastics in our waste bin here either so if I bagged the dust they could refuse to empty the bin if they checked it and saw the bag .

Also I'm not going to chuck the dust into my recycling bin either as they wouldn't take that

Food waste can't be composted?!

No not anymore in my council area. They only take garden waste such as grass and plant cuttings. They no longer take fruit, veg or any other food for composting such as tea bags. Apparently food waste turns compost into sludge so they dont take it anymore.

Hair doesn’t compost anyway. I always put hair into my compost heap, and there's no sign of it by the time I come to use the compost.

We dont bag most things for our bins. Recycling I assume can't be bagged as the bag isnt recylable so cardboard boxes/milk cartons etc go straight in. Junk mail just gets put straight in as bina by front door.

Similarly the black bin - the kitchen bin is bagged but everything else just gets put straight in. It's by the front door so rubbish from car/trips just goes straight in, as we leave the house any rubbish goes in.

Never heard of bagging it first.... doesn't that mean it takes even longer to decompose!?

If your being unreasonable then so am I, I always empty the dyson straight into the bin, bagging it first seems a little strange plastic would take ages to decompose compared to dust.

I don't get the bin men comment. I am not aying it is wrong, I just don't understand it.

Where I live, the bin men take the bins and wheel them to the van. They are closed the whole time. The van then lifts them up, turns them over and empties them, before returning them. All the dusty stuff happens inside the van.

I can't see that bagged or unbagged makes much difference?

Compost heap is a genius plan, I am doing this from now on!

hair does compost - but takes a while
tea bags contain plastic - so should not go in compost/green waste bin

Wrap it in newspaper people, is there a problem with that? Am I the only poster who uses it? It's good for broken glass and china too