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Bin men not taking bin away?

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InTheLightOfTheMoon · 05/07/2018 13:01

The bin men have been today and it completely slipped my mind to put my bin out! So they have left it, if I dont put it down the steps out of my garden they wont touch it. Aibu to think its silly? Also if i call the council to arrange a recollection they just never show up! and only collect it next bin day.

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Roussette · 05/07/2018 14:44

Am loving how OP things the missed bin collection info is like an appointment service

yes, it has amused me! Our council tax would be sky high if this was the case!

I have nothing but praise for our LA. I can put out anything if I book in advance and they let me know the day and take it away. Brilliant service for an old fridge or a broken huge patio table etc

Needsmorebeans · 05/07/2018 14:47

*Use this form to tell us about a missed bin collection.

This actually means that for some reason, (perhaps access issues), the bin men missed your bin but you left it out., not that you forgot but expected them to come back later.
Perhaps they haven't come back to collect it as the cctv on the bin wagon shows that the bin wasn't left out and so it's not the bin mens' responsibility to come back for it.

Maybe take the time to look into the cuts that your council is facing due to cuts in grant from Central government, or look at the increased demand in adult social care that is required in your area before making unreasonable demands on already stretched services and staff.

jumblefun2 · 05/07/2018 14:51

How would they ever get all the bins emptied if the bin men had to go up the drives/down the alleys to lift them?

And I thought the rules were that the lid had to close anyway, so even if the OP had put her bin out, it wouldn't have been lifted here regardless

AWomanIsAnAdultHumanFemale · 05/07/2018 14:52

I think you need a Bintervention OP. I really want to come and stay in your house for a week like that show “doctor in the house” and observe how you manage your waste and then set up a new household waste management plan. With star charts and rewards.

jumblefun2 · 05/07/2018 14:52

if the missed bin collection worked the way the OP thinks, you wouldn't even have a day for bins, you could just fill in a form on the council website and they'd send someone the next day to lift your bin

problembottom · 05/07/2018 14:54

The missed bin collection interpretation is hilarious. If only I'd known on the occasions I forgot to put the bins out, I could fill in a form and the council would send the bin men back just for me.

2cats2many · 05/07/2018 14:56

I work in a local authority and the OPs attitude is all too depressingly common 🙁

charlestonchaplin · 05/07/2018 14:58

I think it's right that bin men only collect from the kerb, disability issues aside, but when I was a student in Birmingham they used to go down an alleyway to collect from the back of the houses. At around 6am too! When I tried to take bin bags to the front my housemate/landlady asked me what I thought I was doing.

Thishatisnotmine · 05/07/2018 15:11

Over summer last year in Birmingham we wents weeks on end without any collections at all. Cramming rubbish into a bin for one extra week is completly do-able. Only the harshest bin men would refuse one tied up bag with the bin as well.

I want someone to come and empty my kitchen bins into the dustbin then take it down and wheel it back to my house on bin day just in case I forget. Its not going to happen because that isn't how life works.

SilverySurfer · 05/07/2018 15:36

A couple of weeks the OP was complaining her car was filthy so as she has a car, filthy or otherwise, rubbish can be taken to tip

Likejellytots88 · 05/07/2018 15:38

Maybe if you email the council they will allow you a couple extra bin bags on your next collection - don't start mixing waste/deliberately putting things in the wrong bins because you feel hard done by, there are different bins for very valid reasons!
You sound very selfish and ignorant op - deal with it, stopping moaning, ask a neighbour if you can use their bins if you need. Unless you have a disability or something that means you cannot get your bin to kerbside (and the council accept this) then there's no reason for the binmen to make their jobs any harder than it should be.
I have an alarm set on my phone for 7pm the day before collection (took a whole 2 seconds to set on the day I moved house) to remind me to put the bins out if I haven't already - which I usually have because I can normally hear my NDN move theirs and I follow suit before I forget. There's no one to blame but yourself.

NotAsGreenAsCabbageLooking · 05/07/2018 15:49

The ridiculousness of the OPs attitude aside.. how much rubbish is she creating!

Our bins are collected fortnightly, we are a family of four.. and generally fill our wheelie bin just over halfway?

We’ve forgotten to put the bin out several times... it’s annoying, but we can usually make it stretch till the next collection.

It’s not that hard is it?

HairDyedPink · 05/07/2018 16:03

Im dumb for forgetting to put a bin out?

no, but your reaction is ridiculous. If you really can't go to the tip, then squeeze and find a way to last until the next collection.

gillybeanz · 05/07/2018 16:07

No, of course not, i've done it myself.
I did understand what I was supposed to do with the bin though, where it would be collected and didn't expect them to come back just for me, the little snowflake

Roussette · 05/07/2018 16:18

A couple of weeks the OP was complaining her car was filthy so as she has a car, filthy or otherwise, rubbish can be taken to tip

Oh. The OP answered me when I said to go to the tip... "not everyone can drive you know"

That's a big fat lie rather misleading then...

FoodGloriousFud · 05/07/2018 16:42

I love threads like this... Everyone agrees the OP is Unreasonable, OP agrues they're not. I'm just gobsmacked that she thought the missed bin collection was a personal bin collection for when she couldn't be arsed to put her bin out!!!

BasilFawltysCharm · 05/07/2018 16:51

The OP does seem similar to the one who thought the Council sent boxes from the recycling bin back to the manufacturers so they could re-use them.

georgie262 · 05/07/2018 16:58

Once I was walking to school and saw the bin men, I said that I'd forgotten to put my bin out on my street and they were lovely and said they'd get it for me. I was polite and certainly didn't expect them to to it.

4GreenApples · 05/07/2018 17:03

I’m surprised that the bin men will take a garden waste bin full of general rubbish, don’t they normally have a quick look inside before taking it to the bin lorry?

We once got a letter from the council threatening us with no bin collections if we didn’t bin things properly after one of our neighbours put a load of polystyrene in our recycling wheelie bin
Same might happen with you, OP, if you get in the habit of putting general waste in the garden waste bin.

FlyingElbows · 05/07/2018 17:13

I have a new found respect for the poor people having to field requests from complete lazy eejits looking for bespoke refuse collection services! Op, put your bin days into the calendar on your phone and then take your own bin out.

TwitterQueen1 · 05/07/2018 17:36

Hilarious OP! don't take it to heart too much - I'm guessing you're very young?

My bin men left a note on my bin, telling me to order a new one as mine was broken. I ordered it that pm, new one arrived the next morning, delivered by a very helpful, polite man who didn't tell me off for not putting my broken one out for collection. (I didn't think they would be that quick... ).

He said he didn't like to come into my garden to collect the old bin even though he could see it because he's done that before and seen things that ...ahem.... perhaps he shouldn't have done....

hamandpease · 05/07/2018 20:32

I'm actually giggling at your interpretation of 'missed bin collection'

Genius! 😂😂😂

Sorry op 👍

mineofuselessinformation · 05/07/2018 20:40

Can't you just set a reminder on your phone to do it?

Vicky1990 · 05/07/2018 20:54

One good thing to come out of this is you won't forget again will you.

Ontheboardwalk · 05/07/2018 20:58

You can pay for private one off bin collections for just over £10 near me. Is that offered in your area?

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