... in a town with a population of over 20,000 people?
The rats have chewed through the side of my plastic bin and scattered rubbish all over the place.
We no longer have a hardware shop (one closed years ago, the second one went last year). We do have a Homebase, which is now known as Wasteofspace, because they never have anything we need, when we need it. They don't sell bins.
We have an Argos. When you search for wheelie bins, it returns 8 pages of results, but after 4 pages you're into laundry hampers. And they only have a 90 litre "garden bin" which won't be big enough when the inevitable happens and we go on to fortnightly collections.
The next nearest place that sells bins (B&Q) is 10 miles away. We reluctantly drove the 10 miles. They had sold out of wheelie bins and the regular dustbins were so flimsy I probably could have made a stronger one by glueing ready meal trays together. It would have presented no obstacle at all to the local rats.
I could have got one online, it was around a fiver more than waiting for them to come back into stock in B&Q, but when I got to the checkout, it transpired the quoted price was exc vat and the cheeky fuckers wanted £12 to deliver it, so that made it bloody expensive.
Next time there's a thread on here about how the council should proivide bigger bins I may just blow a gasket. The CF council not only doesn't supply bins, but has the audacity to charge the 6th highest council tax in the country. Oh, and there's a 3-month wait for them to send someone out to do anything about the rats!