To empty my dyson straight into the outside bin?

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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.

the bin would never be clean?
whyever would a bin need to be clean? it's a bin, not the dining table?

This is making me count my blessings. The idea of everything from sanitary towels to leftover beans squidging around unwrapped in the wheeliebin is just repulsive. As to the original question, I tip the Dyson dust into the kitchen bin then put the bag in the wheeliebin. Can't see a problem with emptying it directly, it just seems a bit dirty not to bag it up.

Compost it!

I would imagine that most people have a liner in their bathroom bin so even those of us that throw rubbish straight in the bin still don't have sanitary products floating around. The leftover beans go on the food bin (or more likely the dog), so no need to worry about them floating round either. The stuff that goes in loose are mostly wrappers, trays that food comes in, things like that. I can't say I worry much about what's floating round in my bin, and I'm amazed people people bother washing bins.

We tip everything into the bin - not smelly!!
The environmental and actual cost of tons of plastoc bags... and cleaning bins!!

I did when I had similar type of vacuum

Compostable liners...designed for food recycling caddies.. they do break down within a couple of days if they get wet but I am using them instead of bin bags in my inside bins to reduce plastic and it’s going well so far...

honeyroar The ashes from the wood burner are good for the compost , or even straight on your roses , if you've got any. Also good for putting on the pavement, or drive when it's snowy or frosty.

whyever would a bin need to be clean? it's a bin, not the dining table?
Even when you have a big garden and can hide them, you don't want them to smell? Some people here complained about having maggots in their bin! yuk. Now that the council only collects mine every 2 weeks, I need them as clean as possible.

Ours are collected on a three week rotation, and due to being snowed in two of the bins have been there for six and four weeks (thankfully the longest is paper) they still don't smell even right next to the front door (unless you stand with your head over an open bin for a while, I guess). I've never seen maggots. With the food/garden waste bin I chuck a milk bottle of washing up liquid and water (eco version) around the sides once it's been emptied - it seems to stop things sticking.

Ppeatfruit I'd never heard that about roses, I will give it a try. We've got horses too, so they already get spoilt with horse muck!