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

43 replies

Butteredparsn1ps · 29/06/2018 09:33

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.

OP posts:
SoddingUnicorns · 29/06/2018 09:34

Put it out the night before?

whitershadeofpale · 29/06/2018 09:34

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

LeahJack · 29/06/2018 09:34

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

gamerchick · 29/06/2018 09:36

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.

BarbaraofSevillle · 29/06/2018 09:36

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.

ilovesooty · 29/06/2018 09:36

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

MyKingdomForBrie · 29/06/2018 09:36

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.

AutumnGlitterBall · 29/06/2018 09:37

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!

Jinglebells99 · 29/06/2018 09:37

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.

Ceebeegee · 29/06/2018 09:37

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.

dementedpixie · 29/06/2018 09:37

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

MyKingdomForBrie · 29/06/2018 09:37

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

BillywigSting · 29/06/2018 09:38

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!

Tomboytown · 29/06/2018 09:38

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

Thatsnotmypresident · 29/06/2018 09:38

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

WaggyMama · 29/06/2018 09:38

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.

Seeline · 29/06/2018 09:38

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 Angry

Drknittingfrog · 29/06/2018 09:39

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?

Butteredparsn1ps · 29/06/2018 09:41

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.

OP posts:
Bombardier25966 · 29/06/2018 09:48

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.

LeighaJ · 29/06/2018 09:52

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

@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 Grin

liverbird10 · 29/06/2018 09:52

Um, wot?! OP, you are bonkers. Grin

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!

liverbird10 · 29/06/2018 09:53

Get in the bin!

ShotsFired · 29/06/2018 09:55

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.

PolkerrisBeach · 29/06/2018 09:55

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.