Bin day - Now once a fortnight

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Anyone else have their general waste taken once every 2 weeks?

It used to be once a week, they've changed it to once every 2 weeks and Im really struggling. I've got 3 (yes 3) recycling bins, which for the most part get used to capacity. There's always a little room left. (Myself and DH aren't driving yet so we order a lot from Amazon)

I recycle everything that can possibly be recycled and I've scoured the website to make sure I know what can and can't be recycled.

My issue is that I have 2 young children in nappies. I've tried reusable nappies and I can't find anything that doesn't give them nappy rash. Also excema runs in the family and DS is riddled with it, the reusable nappy irritates it. So those are out of the equation.

I emailed the council to request a bigger waste bin and explain the situation. They have fobbed me off. Offering another recycling bin. Which would leave me with 4 bloody recycling bins!!
The nappies alone fill the general waste bin in a 2 week period.

Is anyone else in a similar boat? What did you do?
AIBU to be really cheesed off that the council have just sent a pointless, unhelpful, generic email back and haven't listened to the problem?

been fortnightly where i live for 5 years, we manage fine, even now with having a baby with nappies.

No way should nappies be filling a whole bin in a fortnight

Ours is every three weeks.

Ours has been fortnightly for years and years.
We manage fine, even through the nappy years.
Try to reduce your waste; clothes instead of wipes, compost your food waste etc.

Ours has been every two weeks for a few years but if you have more than 2 or more children you get two general waste bins from the council (I’m in Scotland)

Maybe you have a refuse tip nearby? If so you may need to bag up the extra and take it to your local landfill tip

Cloths*

Our council didnnappy collections when mine were younger (I assume they still do) we had yellow bags that were collected every week (and then recycled I think) and general waste was once a fortnight

General waste once every 4 weeks

With regards to Amazon, we are prime customers and have a few bits on subscribe and save (Ironically nappies wipes etc) . It's the convenience of getting what you buy on the next day delivery. I have a newborn and a 2 year old. I don't have a car so cant easily get to various shops when I need to easily. It's a lot easier to buy online until I pass my driving test.

I'm breaking everything down and squashing it. It's the general waste that is the problem. With the bins I have we can easily recycle what we need to. I don't need a 4th bin. I only really took the 3rd one because its all the council would offer me when the fortnightly collection was introduced and I figured I'd utilise it to recycle more if I could. It's enabled me to recycle more but the waste bin is still full on a weekly basis.

Been fortnightly here for years - we have 4 bins

General waste - fortnightly
Paper & cardboard - every 4 weeks
Plastic & aluminium - every 4 weeks
Garden & food waste - fortnightly in summer months, 4 weekly in winter months

Families with 2 or more children in nappies or more than 4 people in the household get a bigger general waste bin.

Ours has recently gone fortnightly too. We have small bins, they are 50% size of standard ones. If you want a bigger one you can buy one for £100.
We are able to manage as we are. But our neighbours are not! the street stinks, so many people leave rubbish out next to the overflowing bins so inevitably there are rodents. I've seen 2 rats roaming the street in as many weeks, and foxes at night. It's a busy, dense London area and the houses are small terraces. It's awful, so much rubbish around and fly tipping too.

Yep we have once a fortnight here. Can you request a second bin? Our council will provide one (can't remember if we had to pay, if so it was something like £20), in some circumstances. You fill in a form online, and having kids in nappies is one of the things they will allow it for. Was a godsend when my two were both little in nappies.

Ours switched to fortnightly a few years back to ‘encourage people to recycle more’ (cut costs).

I have four DC so our green bin is full to capacity after around five days as is our recycling bin (we only get one for everything around here). You have to have eight or more people in the household to request a large bin. Apparently you can buy the large bins online, someone on my street did it.

We have to take excess rubbish to the tip sometimes, no other choice.

Hope you dont mind maggots and flies 😩

Maybe you have a refuse tip nearby? If so you may need to bag up the extra and take it to your local landfill tip

Great idea - except our local tip is only open 9-5 so if I have extra on a Tuesday it has to hang around my flat until Saturday when I'm not at work & can get to the tip!

Ours has been that way for literally 15 years. I remember because I was pregnant with ds1 at the time and was a bit bewildered. It doesn’t end up being as much of an issue as you expect so don’t worry

We got a “council approved” additional bin when I had 2 in nappies, sorry if this has already been asked but have you checked your council website to see if they offer the same? We’ve had fortnightly bins since we moved in 8 years ago!

Our waste collection is every 3 weeks. It was 3 weeks when I had 2 in nappies. Our bin has never been full (except once when we missed a collection and went 6 weeks ).

Do I win?

You can pay for an orange topped trade bin from our council, gets collected every week as well as our normal green (household waste) bin collection, but not cheap.

Ours alternates with one week recycling the next general waste with the food caddy being emptied every week.
Works really well, we compost as much as possible so not much in food waste, washable nappies so none to throw away and recycle as much as possible.

Yep, been 2 weekly for years and just been approved to move to 3 weekly. We recycle all we can, and are really going to struggle. 3 week old sanitary waste and cat litter anyone? vom.

Blimey. Where do you live?
Been fortnightly wherever I've lived since I was a kid and I'm 30 now.

Our bin day is every two weeks, I ordered a second green (general waste) bin and leave them both out. We easily fill them both in two weeks. I ordered them from this site if anyone is interested:

binsdirect.com/

from NHS
It will take 200 to 500 years for a disposable nappy to decompose, leaving a legacy to your children's grandchildren. "The production of disposables uses 3.5 times more energy, 8.3 times more non-renewable resources, and 90 times more renewable resources than real nappies.23 Apr 2001
I think you need to rethink using disposables to the extent you are doing. I thought mumsnet were very hot on saving the planet