…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! Live in a square of houses not on the road, all our rubbish goes beneath the square's tree!

Weekly collection here and food bin which reduces landfill plus recycling bags and garden waste

I don't have anything. We have to keep bin bags indoors and put them out once a week. Seagulls often wreck them before they're collected.

I don't do this. I haven't got the space to be keeping a week's worth of rubbish here. I just smuggle my rubbish out to a public bin every time I go out.

We don't in the London borough I'm in, recycling is good here and I can't complain about it, they collect every week. I just use a plastic black bin for outside to store it in.

I live in an apartment block - giant communal bins in the basement garage that get cleared (allegedly) twice weekly.

We don’t here (county in Wales.) We have black bags collected, two per fortnight, which attracts lots of seagulls as you can imagine.

No wheelie bins here, but we only have one bag of rubbish a week

My borough has wheelie bins - they are stored at the front (terraced housing) - but the neighbouring borough has traditional metal bins with handles and no wheels.

We have only just got them I the last couple of years because we had to wait until Bath and North East Somerset replaced their fleet of dustbin lorries with the type that lift and tip the bins. Prior to that we had to supply our own.

Islington Borough - no wheelie bins, they want you to use black lidded dust bins for garbage & recycling goes in a plastic box.

I remember being newly from the Home Counties to the Midlands thinking how great and practical the wheelie bins were. My old neighbour thought it sounded "dreadfully housing estate" I was a bit surprised as she'd never come across as a Hyacinth before.

N Wales has a useful system of separating rubbish. Most places have some wheelie bin system as it's safer for the collectors (the machines do the heavy lifting, less likely to get injuries from sharp items).

For all of those who just use the bin bags. Where do you store the filled ones whilst waiting for collection? Do they come weekly? Don't they stink?

We don't have wheelie bins where I live

The terraced places near me have large cuboid bags made of IKEA bag/tarp type material. They hold about 4 bags of rubbish and can easily be brought through a house from the yard

We live in a town where you could choose
So half my street has bin bags and half wheelie bins

I have wheelie bins 😀

We stayed in an Airbnb in South Lincolnshire recently. No bins, just leave bags by the road. Nowhere in the house did it have any information re which day was collection day, so they had to stay there all week (with previous tenant's bin bags, that's how we knew). I was expecting them to be scavenged, but perhaps there weren't any foxes. One day bin bags appeared at other houses on the lane and we knew it was actually a thing. No wheelie bin!

The high Street in our village doesn't have them, because there aren't alleyways or anywhere to keep them for most of it, I have no idea where they store them the rest of the time.

We also have fortnight collections
So the bin bag peoples houses must stink!! I mean where the hell do they keep them ?

We don’t have wheelie bins 🤷🏼‍♀️ mind you, they’d be a bit of a pointless commodity, I’m hardly going to drag one down our long, stoney farm lane to the road, it’s much easier to lob the bags and boxes into the truck and drive down!

@uhtredsonofuhtred1

For all of those who just use the bin bags. Where do you store the filled ones whilst waiting for collection? Do they come weekly? Don't they stink?

Around us everyone buys metal bins and keeps the rubbish in that until it's collected (fortnightly). Apparently this is just fine aesthetically, but wheelie bins would be A Terrible Blot On Our Historic Town.

I used to live in SE London and we had the black plastic bins with handles.

But then, on the flip side of that, being on a farm, we have a really decent little stone outbuilding by the house where we leave the bags between collections, 2 weekly as they are now.
I do struggle to see how people deal with the bags between times if they don’t have a decent outdoor shed 🤔

My Grandparents don't have anywhere to keep wheelie bins (front door opens on to the street, the bins would block the path) so they have big heavy duty sacks for their recycling and use black bags for their rubbish- they're given stickers to put on their bin bags, as they're only allowed a certain amount per year.

We don't, we have a steep drive and nowhere to put one in a way that it wouldn't roll down the drive. Our neighbours have them though.

We don't as our Lane is too narrow for a bin lorry to get down. Can't have a green bin either for the same reason

My in-laws don't. They live at the top of a hill and have to take all of their rubbish to the bottom for collection, so everything goes into plastic bags that they drive down with.