…to think everyone has wheelie bins?

[MasterBeth]

My mum was telling me about her refuse collection and what she described didn’t make sense to me until I found out she doesn’t have a wheelie bin, just an old-style metal dustbin.

Doesn’t everyone have wheelie bins in the UK? What kind of primitive council doesn’t have wheelie bins? It’s 2021!

We don’t in my area! Just leave your bin bags at the end of the street in a pile. It’s an absolute ball ache.

None of my family in various parts of London have ever had them. You just put out your bin bags at dawn!

I’ve got metal bins that were chosen rather than having wheelie bins. They clang beautifully when you’re passively aggressively putting out the rubbish when someone else “forgot”.

I know someone who doesnt, everything has to be bagged that’s it, then placed out the front for collection

My Dad has a wheelie bin for garden waste that he pays extra to have but the rest of his waste goes in bags he leave at the end of his drive

Not everyone has a house where its easy to have a wheelie bin e.g. there are huge rows of terraced houses where I used to live and they would have to wheel bins through their house to get them to the street. They still have bin bags

@user1473878824

I’ve got metal bins that were chosen rather than having wheelie bins. They clang beautifully when you’re passively aggressively putting out the rubbish when someone else “forgot”.

We don't have wheelie bins. We have an assortment of bags, sacks and caddies. People are always moaning about wanting wheelie bins but there are a lot of old terraced houses without front gardens or any access to the back garden from the road, so quite where people think they'd be able to store their wheelie bins I don't know (plus we have 8 different bins and if I had to store 8 wheelie bins in my garden I'd no longer have a garden).

@Costumeidea

We don’t in my area! Just leave your bin bags at the end of the street in a pile. It’s an absolute ball ache.

Where do you store the bags before bin day??

We don’t go through too much rubbish, I’d say one bin bag a week for the 4 of us (and about 3x that in recycling and food waste bags) but still with two weekly collection I need somewhere to store the one bin bag full of rubbish that we would have filled the previous week.

When I was a kid, we had big metal bins with a handle on each side, and the bin man came in your garden, swung it over his back, and carried it across the square and up the steps to the lorrie. They were big stocky types. Every where in the North East has wheelie bins as far as I know - I thought this was for health and safety at work reasons.

And the food waste bags too… they go in the food waste bin every 48 hours or so. That is collected weekly with recycling but still… where would it go if no food waste bin?

@Costumeidea

We don’t in my area! Just leave your bin bags at the end of the street in a pile. It’s an absolute ball ache.

Gah, we had this in our old area! Hated it.

This is in the suburban Home Counties with a high proportion of larger semi-detached and detached homes.

I live in a city with lots of Victorian terraces - wheelie bins!

My parent's don't have them in Wales
It's some complicated bag system that had to be left at the kerb

We generally have wheelie bins here but we don't cause we live on a hill and there are other houses where it's not practical to have one. We have these purple bags, which we are given a certain amount each year.

No wheelie bins. Our terrace only has a narrow path at front and back (we're not on a road) and if you stored a wheelie bin on the back path it would block it (no back gardens either). And then there would be 15 wheelie bins out blocking the pavement on the road. So the Council provides us with boxes instead.

We have steps down to our back garden so don't have a wheelie bin! Binmen have to come round the back of our house and take the bin bags around

No wheelies here but very good recycling system

In our council area all the posher bits don't have wheely bins because the residents object to them but all the slightly more down-at-heel bits have them. The council keep trying to make them universal and people where I live get up petitions to stop them. It drives me mad because a) wheely bins are loads easier to use and you don't have the animals opening the bin bag problem b) who can be bothered to campaign about bins?! Ironically wheely bins would be much better for our (sizable) local elderly population but they're always the main opponents.

We don't on our street, too narrow. My dad has one though, quarter of a mile up the road.

No wheeli bin collection , we do have one ( that we bought ourselves ) to store the black sacks in , the blue bags we keep in a shed
They go to the end of the drive alternate weeks ( and get pecked by crows ) as we live in a rural area
Food waste has a little caddy and goes out each week ( though that has been gnawed by a squirrel )

We have bin bags, and can only use the special blue ones provided by the council. We get 80 free every year and can buy extra £4.40 for 10. But we still have weekly collections, unlike most of the other councils nearby, who all have wheelie bins.

I do have a wheelie bin, but there is a little block of cottages quite a bit down the lane where the access is down steep steps, so they have no bins. They just put the bags on the lane.

What happens then, is that the refuse collectors empty my bin, then use it to go and collect the waste bags from the cottages. They then forget where the bin was from originally, and so abandon it somewhere between the cottages and my house, leaving me with a delightful little game of Let's Go Find The Bin, which almost never gets old.

On holiday in Cornwall this year. Seaside town, steep hills, narrow streets, no gardens - wheelie bins!

Oh, we live in the suburban home counties - maybe the same place as your mother? Check that she isn't signing the anti-wheely petition, she might be part of the problem!