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To think that people shouldn't go over their bin allowance and should just do a run up to the tip instead.

131 replies

chaosmaker · 15/08/2024 00:04

Next door neighbours are retired and often are away for several weeks at a time. We currently have a 3 weekly black bin collection (2 black bin bag allowance) and weekly recycling and food waste collections with unlimited bags.

Scummy people further down the street have put bags of recycling and 4 black bin bags outside their house as they know they are away. Surely the point of limits is so that people recycle weekly and shouldn't need to have so much in their black bins at all. Tip local to us is a 10 min drive maximum.

YABU - Mind your own business and don't look out for your immediate neighbours
YANBU - Tell the bin men and report to the council as dumped waste.

OP posts:
Boomer55 · 19/08/2024 07:10

Better that it’s collected than laying around smelling in this weather. I’d find something else to fret about.🙄

LetMeGoogleThat · 19/08/2024 07:59

Urg, you sound like my neighbour. If I leave my bins out after they have been emptied...because I'm busy working, she scowls at them.

I then leave for a full 24hrs after that, because like you...its none of her business and just sad.

ShamblesRock · 19/08/2024 08:35

parkrun500club · 18/08/2024 12:50

It's very minimum. And it varies from area to area. We really need a national approach.

I've recently been on holiday to somewhere with fortnightly rubbish and recycling collections. It was a shock as to how little could be recycled, it was the absolute basics - paper, card, plastic bottles and tins. We had to put some much in the rubbish bin that would usually go in our recycling bin. I couldn't work out where to take any of the other stuff. The glass bottles we brought home with us.

Recoverymoreprotein · 19/08/2024 08:43

chaosmaker · 15/08/2024 00:04

Next door neighbours are retired and often are away for several weeks at a time. We currently have a 3 weekly black bin collection (2 black bin bag allowance) and weekly recycling and food waste collections with unlimited bags.

Scummy people further down the street have put bags of recycling and 4 black bin bags outside their house as they know they are away. Surely the point of limits is so that people recycle weekly and shouldn't need to have so much in their black bins at all. Tip local to us is a 10 min drive maximum.

YABU - Mind your own business and don't look out for your immediate neighbours
YANBU - Tell the bin men and report to the council as dumped waste.

How is doing an extra 20 min drive there and back the tip better for the environment than leaving it to collected on an existing trip?

wickerlady · 19/08/2024 08:43

I think it's more the council collections aren't fit for purpose.

Our general waste bins are emptied weekly and recycling every 2 weeks.

misty64 · 19/08/2024 09:05

Blimey i must message my council and tell them what a good job they are doing, rubbish and recyling are collected weekly with no limits and garden bins fortnightly. We even have our street swept 3 times a week.

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