AIBU or is DH - Bin bag on bin day!

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This is obviously lighthearted.

It's bin day today in our house. Our general waste is being collected. All bathroom bins have been emptied (only gets done once a week).

DH says the kitchen bin should be emptied and a new bag put in even though it's less than a 1/4 full just because it's bin day. It usually gets changed every 1-2 days.

I say it's only 1/4 full and no need to change it earlier and waste the liner just to send it away with the general waste collection.

Our general waste wheelie bin is never ever full. Usually less than half.

Who is BU?

YABU = all the bins should be emptied regardless of how full they are on bin day

YANBU = emptying a bin that's 1/4 full is wasteful of the liner etc and unnecessary.

What does your household do?

I can't actually see the voting as I'm on the mobile app but I'm sure someone will be kind enough to tell me the results in a question in a while!

I’m with your DH, everything is emptied for bin day, especially in summer to avoid rubbish being sat in the wheelie bin for 3 weeks if I can help it.

Depends. On how often bin is emptied. Is it every 2 weeks. Here it's recycling one week, black bin rubbish the next.

Depends on what's in the bin to make the 1/4. If it was food, yes I'd put it out. Knowing that if I didn't, it wouldn't be collected for another two weeks so that would probably make me put it out.

If you’ve only emptied your bin a couple of days ago, there is absolutely no point in emptying again today! How small is your bin or how do you manage to generate so much rubbish in 1-2 days?

If you have fortnightly collection and you hadn’t emptied your kitchen bin for a fortnight, then your DH would be right.

Under your circumstances, your DH is being ridiculous.

I agree, nothing that will rot goes into our rubbish bin, we have a good waste bin.
Actually only cooked food, left on plates, and tea bags go in there.
Every thing else is in the Wormery or Bokashi bin.

I'm with your DH.

I'll also do a quick refrigerator search to ensure anything that is past it's best, going off, etc goes out in that 1/4 full bag as I go out the door.

Food waste has to go in with general waste in our area

Ours was emptied today, wasn't put out last week and was still only half full.
Kitchen bin was less than half full, it wasn't smelly so I didn't put it out.

Most of our waste is recycling. Compostable stuff goes to be composted. Rarely have non veg waste so our rubbish is fairly clean.

Like others our general bin collection is fortnightly (with plastic/glass/tin recycling collected the alternative weeks). We have food recycling in my borough in a separate bin which is thankfully collected weekly so there’s no smelly food in my main bin, but I still empty the bin regardless of how full the liner is on bin day so we started from 0 for the next fortnight - so I’m with DH!

Our grey general waste bin is only emptied every 3 weeks so I would empty it but I would make sure any other bins in the house were empty too.
We can put food waste in our garden waste so there is no food in the general waste but there is food packaging and cat food pouches that smell.

Ours council does, but I’m always surprised at how few households avail themselves of this weekly service. Some people even seem weirdly suspicious of it! It means that my kitchen bin stays fairly odour free so I only empty it once a fortnight (on bin day, of course!)

However the service is only available in larger towns, not in smaller towns and villages. DS lives in a much larger city and does not get a food waste collection.

Our food waste goes in the brown bin with garden stuff which doesn't work if you have a big garden. If we've done the grass we end up having to put food waste in the black sacks.

I agree with you OP.

I'm with you.

It depends if there’s anything in it that will smell.

If it’s just non-recyclable clean packaging then I’d wait until next bin day.

If it’s got anything that might smell by next week then I’d put it out.

Bin day here today. I emptied all the bins bathroom/ kitchen. Fortnightly collection.

Since the demise of free carrier bags I am very tight with bin liners.YANBU.

Would depend what was in the bin. If it was just packaging, non smelly things, I'd perhaps leave it, but for example last night we had sardines and they stink to high heaven - I'd not want that lying about until next week!

Kirklees are bloody terrible, we are one of the worst for recycling.

I have two bins only, grey for general waste and green for clean recyclables, that's it and there on a bi weekly pickup. I could get a brown garden waste bin but they charge me £60 per year for the privilege.

We put our bin bag out on bin day - but we only have bin bags no wheelie bins.

If we had a wheelie bin it would not be put out till full.

My household rubbish and food waste (separate) is collected weekly, then we have paper/card one week and plastic/glass the other. It's a pretty good system tbh. I find my kitchen bin is rarely full now with all the stuff that gets recycled, and it never smells.

I wouldn't put a 1/4 full bin out, but only because of the above. If there was anything stinky or gross it would go straight out.

@CecilyP We live in a small village - it's our whole district which is covered by the waste contract, so we all get:
Landfill waste - 3 weekly
Recycling (and garden waste if you pay for it) - 2 weekly
Food waste - weekly

A couple of my neighbours don't put out any food waste which irks me - food waste is terrible for landfill (and if they're putting it with their green waste that's bad too, as garden waste is only composted at low temps here, which is no good for (cooked) food waste).

Collecting and putting out a small bin of food waste each week is really no big deal at all. There's no excuse not to, if your council offer the service.

I think if it's only slightly full then it's wasteful to use a bin bag up for it. However full bins should always be emptied and I have to remind DH of that every few weeks.

It depends on what's in the bin. My DD lives on frozen chicken and my stuff is usually recyclable. So in mine I wouldn't put t out. In my DP's were there is plastic trays that mince, steak etc has been on, I would. My DD has fish cat food wrappers, s that definitely needs to go out. I used to get around partially used bin bags by using my wheelie bin with a wheelie bin bag in, or very perishable food.

@ReviewingTheSituation

Slightly tangential, but this thread makes me wonder how many local councils collect food waste separately...

All our food waste is collected weekly by the council, so none of that makes it into the kitchen bin, so there's nothing in there to go off/smelly/manky.

But this thread is making me think we're in the minority here - other councils must surely collect food waste? It's one of the biggest problems in landfill because of the gas it gives off as it decomposes. Or are people still putting food waste in their kitchen bin even if their council collects food waste?

Our kitchen bin contains cat food pouches, random bits of kitchen roll and films off the top of things (yogurt pots, trays of meat/fish), non-recyclable food wrappers, and I think that's about it. I wouldn't empty it just for bin day if it was less than half full.

Ours used to go in the garden waste bin, at the time there was a box for glass and one for paper.
Then the boxes were stopped and all recycling went into a new big bin. Then we were given a food waste bin. I discovered I had been given a faulty one with a hole in the centre of the caddy when it was finished off. In spite of several requests they never bothered to give me a replacement so I never used it as it leaked.
Then they changed it again, stopped food waste and we have to put it in general waste. I put as much in compost as I can.

Cat food pouches can be rinsed and recycled in some places, there is info online if you want to recycle them, and crisp packets. I am using less pouches now as I buy tins from Zooplus, a 200g tin will last 2 days with a smaller pouch (cat is on a diet and it is easy to work out that way). Larger sizes are cheaper and if I had a larger cat or 2 cats I would get the 395/400g ones some come in 800g sizes too.

Recycling pouches etc.

https://www.recyclenow.com/recycle-an-item/food-and-drink-pouches