To be annoyed at how many bin bags they have?

[smigglepiggle]

Disclaimer: I don't routinely nose at what other people do with their rubbish but the sheer volume of this I can't help but notice.

Each week, for a family of four and a dog, we put out one or two bin bags for collection. Sometimes, if it's Christmas or the kids have had a birthday, it'll stretch to three. This was even the case when they were both in nappies.

There's a family who live opposite. Four people with two being adult children who, no word of a lie, put out a minimum of ten big black bin bags for collection (plus loads of loose RECYCLABLE stuff that is put out the night before and flaps about all over the road). I first noticed when they put out 25 bins after Christmas. 25!!!

I'm not a big eco-warrior but I try to make sure food doesn't get wasted and we recycle whatever we can.

AIBU to think this amount of waste is utterly insane?

We have weekly collections and soon we're going to be given one of those small bins to fit all our waste in and it'll be going down to fortnightly collections. I'm a bit worried that we're going to end up with them trying to shove their bin bags into our bins. I caught one of the adult kids shoving a load of plastic wrapping into our recycling once (which would result in a fine for us).

And I wouldn't report for flytipping. That's way too much effort and this is more a mild annoyance rather than me sectioning anything. They do live next door to someone from the council's waste department though so I'm sure it's been noted.

*actioning

OP if they are leaving the bins out during the week, involve the council's environmental health people. We have a lady on our road who was doing the same, and they sorted her out swiftly when we told them about the fox problem it was creating.

We have 8 people in our house and we don’t use anywhere near that many.

We're now on a 3 weekly collection instead of fortnightly, its a nightmare.

I can hear your curtains weeping from the pain of repetitive strain injury, OP

I love that Pengggwyn.

YABU, you can control what you do but not other people.

I used to live in a country where all your recycling got collected free, no matter how much.

All your other waste went in bags which you could buy in all supermarkets but you basically paid a tax on. So one little old lady might put out a small one dollar bag a week, and a family of 9 might put out six big two dollar ones. It did make you more aware of what went in the bags.

It also meant people didn't put bags out 3 days in advance of bin day because they didn't want animals ripping them open.

Were a family of two adults and a 5 year old and our bum is always full.

We live in a flat so nowhere like a garage to store it and with only a small kitchen bin, it has to be emptied a lot.

Fortnightly collections here haven't helped as in reality they only turn up every 3 weeks leaving it to just get worse.

Honestly MrsSnootyPants2018 do we really need to know about your bum being full?

Hahahaha. Damn tiny keypad. Obviously bin. Oops

That does indeed sound like an insane amount of waste!

Family of 5 here with standard 240L wheely bins for recycling and waste and a 140L bin for food waste. Fortnightly collections are never a problem.

Recycling bin (no charge per lift) goes out every fortnight, but could be squashed down to last 4 weeks if necessary, or if they start charging. Food and general waste bins (pay per lift) go out every 4-6 weeks, even 8 weeks probably once a year.

The bin we've been given for fortnightly collection is tiny - it can fit 4 maximum of our tall thin 30l kitchen bin bags. Where we are you can put no more out, nor have bin bags to the side, nor can the lid be open at all (it has to fit tight down so you can't cram in an extra one), it can contain no food or any other recyclable items. Not doing all of the above will result in a £60 fine - which are being imposed.

Also we have to recycle all food, plastic, cardboard, paper, tin, metal, electrical goods, batteries, clothes - but NOT recycle coffee cups, black plastic, plastic film or clear packaging, bottle lids, wrapping paper etc. Not separating it out or getting it wrong could also result in a £60 fine. It feels a bit like doing an test every week!

If you produce more than your allocation of 'bin' rubbish this then you have to register your car online, take it down to the dump and wait for up to an hour to drop it there - massive queues all day every day. Fly tipping rubbish bags in either public bins or roadside with any identifiable rubbish in there (so you get caught) will result in prosecution (and presumably very bad karma you'd hope). You also are not allowed to put the bins out until 7am on the day of collection (which given they come at 7.30am once a fortnight is a very tiny window of opportunity and often results in the amusing sight of people flying out of their houses, braless and semi-dressed to get to the kerb in time once they've heard the bin men heading down the street this might be me )

I get the impression that most councils will be following this model soon enough. I hated it (still do a bit - ffs 4 bags every fortnight - having a clear out means a long day at the tip!) - however reading the OP I see why! Your arsehole neighbours will come a cropper once this is introduced where you are I hope.

We take out the bin twice a week and the recycling out twice. There are only two of us.

For us we have very little waste. Maybe 1 bag every 2weeks.

All food waste is fed to the chickens
All cardboard and paper is burnt
All plastic and glass is recycled

The more that gets thrown away, the more it's costing everyone in council tax.
But the more they buy the more they are stimulating the economy and generating tax revenue