To demand at least a month’s written notice of a change in the time of bin collections?

[Butteredparsn1ps]

It’s only fair right? And if not, I require a personal bin service by way of recompense.

Bin collection if Friday at around 11am. Today it was 9am. Why oh why have they changed the collection routine during the hottest week of the year ? Arghhhhhhh

The recycling will be fine. The food bin, not so nice.

Put it out the night before?

Maybe not so nice for the bin man but what difference does it make to you?

YABVU. You have a bin day, not an appointment slot.

They don't have a time, they have a day of collection. It's up to you to put it out early enough in case they come early.

Don't they tell you to put it out by 7 am on the day of collection? Just because they normally come at 11, doesn't mean that it's a fixed appointment.

Why isn't your bin put out the night before? Surely that's normal practice?

Well at least a week at any rate! If that means you missed the collection then YANBU, poor you! Just call the council they'll come and get it.

Our bins have to be out by six am on collection day. They normally come around half seven but if they miss a bin, they won’t come back!

In our area, bins have to be out at 7 am. Sometimes they are emptied at 7 and sometimes much later in the day. I put it out the night before.

YABU, The councils don't designate an exact set time for each street.

Our council stipulates that all bins must be out for collection by 6am,

Sometimes they come at 8am, sometimes 11am. They don't give a specific time, it's just a designated day.

Mine are always out the night before bin day. They can come at any time of day

Oh, if there isn't actually a time set then YABU..

She will have a presumably very ripe smelling bin beside her house for x number of days until it is collected again? It would certainly be a problem for me. The way our street is set out the bins all have to be in front of the houses (not especially classy I know) and the last few weeks even with normal collections the whole road has smelled awful. Ours are only every two weeks though.

I think a month is a bit much, maybe two weeks. Certainly you should have some prior warning!

I don't think you have a time slot, isn't it just bin day, any time from 6am? Check council website

Where I live, you can be fined for putting your bags out the night before as we don't have wheelie bins and foxes rip the bags apart

We have to put our bin on our boundary by 7am.

We put our bins out the night before and enjoy a lie in if we hear them coming down the street before 9am.

Ours is just a day - we have to put it out before 7.They are always changing the collection routes so times change, and bin collection time one week is different to recycling collection on the other week. The garden waste collection is on a different day entirely, and for the last two collections has been at 5.20 AM so what bloody use putting out at 7 is really don't know

Have you considered it's maybe exactly because of the heart they are collecting earlier? 11 sounds really late... Surely you are supposed to put them out by a certain time?

I know it’s not an appointment, I also know I could put it out the night before. But - stamps feet - I don’t have to usually.

Therefore the bin men are unreasonable for not seeking my permission to change the routine.

Huffs off to continue tantrum.

If you ring the council and are super nice they might put you on their missed collections round another day. Note super nice, they're not going to help you if you're still being stroppy.

A month? Our service told us they were changing it a day After the new collection day had passed.

@Butteredparsn1ps

I think this is the thread you need:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3271708-Whats-your-FIRST-WORLD-Problem-Today?pg=1&order=

HTH

Um, wot?! OP, you are bonkers.

I'm trying to imagine demanding this from my borough council, who couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone get bin collection times regular.

I'd be laughed out of town!

Get in the bin!

Where I live, you can be fined for putting your bags out the night before as we don't have wheelie bins and foxes rip the bags apart sad

We don't have WB either and we abut fields and woodland

Most people either:
Put the bag on top of the recycling boxes
Put their actual round bin by the kerb
Put the bin bag on a gatepost or wall
Do something (anything) else that means you are not sweeping up rotting food in your nighty the next morning

Obvs there are some people who must like this task as week after week I drive past/over their strewn contents.

Our bins are always picked up on the same day, but times can vary. If you look on your council website there will almost definitely be something saying along the lines of "please ensure your bins are presented for collection by 7am on your allocated day".

Written notice of a change of day on a permanent basis, yes. Written notice because they're early is ridiculous.