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AIBU - bin lorry nightmare

112 replies

Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 08:21

Usually our bins are collected in the afternoon, today they turned up at 7am to collect! We hadn't put them out yet and it was too late to catch them.
Husband is beside himself, had not stopped going in about it. He is considering calling council to complain. It is now being referred to as the great bin disaster of xmas 2024.

I think I may have to ltb - AIBU?

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K0OLA1D · 23/12/2024 08:56

xILikeJamx · 23/12/2024 08:53

As with most others, our council has "bins to be out by 7am" on the websites and occasional leaflets that we get.

I hate when people put their bins out the night before though - the amount that get blown over and you end up with their shit flying round the street is infuriating!

I also hate those bin strap things that hold the lids closed - working from home and they're all blowing about in the wind banging off the sides of the bins all day making a bloody racket! Should be banned

You'd be the only one on pur entire street putting the bin out in the morning.

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 08:56

We don't even have collections this week or next - everything is already fortnightly so it's a month between. Fun times.

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 08:56

Of course, bin collections are going to change - different days/times - over Christmas week, unless it falls at the weekend.

Who wants to spend Christmas Day or Boxing Day emptying bins that could have been so easily done on another day, rather than spending the day with their own families?

Our council have mentioned the changed collection days on their website but haven't sent out leaflets (that would then be collected in the recycling bins!) as they have in previous years.

I think the changes are all a day or two afterwards (including Saturday), so they probably just assume that those without online access will put them out late on Boxing Day and know that they'll come at some stage - or just watch out for their street's binfluencers and follow them.

Better than coming a day or two earlier, so that if you aren't aware, you miss out. Plus, you can't roll bin capacity over, so if they collect a half-empty bin early, you've still only got one bin-worth left for all your Christmas waste and extra days.

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:01

LogicalImpossibility · 23/12/2024 08:47

Our council has started fining people for ‘fly tipping’ if anything is left outside their homes. So no more neighbourhood swopping of furniture or toys, by putting them out on the pavement.

By the letter of the law this includes bins, apparently we’re meant to all get up at 6.00 to put them out, and they shouldn’t be done the night before. I can’t see this working…

Same here! Except it says 7am for us, and the lorries keep coming before this!! Lots of missed bins and we can't do anything about it. (I'm up so always run out but I do chuckle at the neighbours confusion when they bring them out later.)

Original poster
Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 09:07

Thank you for all the comments, he wishes me to say this is the first time EVER he has not put them out them night before. He has recovered his good humour. We won't bother the Council as it is entirely our ( his) fault.
But I forsee that he will be going on about this every Christmas forever more

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WillowTit · 23/12/2024 09:09

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 23/12/2024 08:31

But they could have had a collection. They just hadn’t put their bins out. Not the council’s fault.

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no harm in trying
i always put mine out when i come back from work, the night before
but i forget my monday, garden waste quite regularly,
it is not being collected over christmas it turns out

Moonlightstars · 23/12/2024 09:11

God some men are boring about bins. Out bin was swallowed up by the bin lorry a couple of weeks ago.
I informed the council. Took two weeks for them to send a new one out.
Every Single Day DH would wonder in the morning if the bin would come and then ask as soon as he got home if it had.
Is this what happens to middle aged men? He can also obsess about parking outside of our house on the street.
He works in a really high stress environment job so maybe this is his downtime 😁
I just ignore him and his old man rants.

Topseyt123 · 23/12/2024 09:13

xILikeJamx · 23/12/2024 08:53

As with most others, our council has "bins to be out by 7am" on the websites and occasional leaflets that we get.

I hate when people put their bins out the night before though - the amount that get blown over and you end up with their shit flying round the street is infuriating!

I also hate those bin strap things that hold the lids closed - working from home and they're all blowing about in the wind banging off the sides of the bins all day making a bloody racket! Should be banned

Many councils advise putting the bins out the night before so that the collection can begin early. Ours does, both on leaflets and on their website.

I get that bins blowing over in windy conditions is a problem, but that occurs on people's driveways too and the rubbish can still fly off down the street if it is loose rather than in bin bags.

WillowTit · 23/12/2024 09:13

obsession about car parking is familiar with my dh!

JeremiahBullfrog · 23/12/2024 09:14

They will only be working part of the week this week so will have had to change their schedules. Something to look out for next Christmas!

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 09:14

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:01

Same here! Except it says 7am for us, and the lorries keep coming before this!! Lots of missed bins and we can't do anything about it. (I'm up so always run out but I do chuckle at the neighbours confusion when they bring them out later.)

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To be fair, if the official rule is to put them out for 7, and then somebody takes theirs out just before 7, without realising that the bin men have already been and gone half an hour ago, I don't think it's their fault in any way - and the council have been negligent in their duties.

If they expect them out by midnight the day before, if they have difficulty with setting and keeping to schedules - so the can send the bin men out at 3am if they must - they need to specify this to householders.

I know that your council tax pays for a lot more than just bin collections, but it's the most visible and regular service and one that, unlike many others, every single person uses. They can't just treat it like they do it as a favour and then say "tough, you missed it" when people followed their instructions and they failed to keep to them.

WillowTit · 23/12/2024 09:14

JeremiahBullfrog · 23/12/2024 09:14

They will only be working part of the week this week so will have had to change their schedules. Something to look out for next Christmas!

thanks fore the reminder
i have jsut checked my bin calender

IrrationalIvy · 23/12/2024 09:15

Nothing wrong with throwing yourself on their mercy. DH did a similar thing a few years ago when DD was a baby (relevant as the bin had stinky nappies in). Entirely his fault but the council were clearly in a festive mood as they did a quick pass down our street to collect a day or two later when the lorries were collecting reasonably close by.

gamerchick · 23/12/2024 09:16

You're always supposed to put them out early. Bin days are disrupted this week. There will be a timetable on your council website.

You can ring and ask them to come back usually. But he needs to be told to stop being complacent about it

Balancedcitizen101 · 23/12/2024 09:16

Sorry to hear bad news but where I am and possibly where you are, you are told to put them out by 7am each time, even if they always seem to come later. I accept it's annoying to just miss them but I think the Council will say what I just have. I put them out the night before but have forgotten now and again. If you have a car you could take stuff to the tip if you need to.

DappledThings · 23/12/2024 09:17

Redkatagain · 23/12/2024 08:50

Local councillor here. Report the missed collection online.

You won't be alone

It wasn't a missed collection. Why is anyone suggesting that?

TianasBayou · 23/12/2024 09:17

Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 09:07

Thank you for all the comments, he wishes me to say this is the first time EVER he has not put them out them night before. He has recovered his good humour. We won't bother the Council as it is entirely our ( his) fault.
But I forsee that he will be going on about this every Christmas forever more

Standard Xmas dinner conversation with the in-laws was bin collection days, type of spud for the roasties (Maris Piper always) and the route driven to get there <snore>

TwinkleLights24 · 23/12/2024 09:18

Yabu. They have to be out at 7am here.

UndermyShoeJoe · 23/12/2024 09:18

Our where down by 6:15am the other morning load of people hadn’t put theirs out. But it does state on the webpage bins to be out for 6am.

can he not just drive to the tip.

JustMyView13 · 23/12/2024 09:19

Just report a missed collection and state they were out. Leave them out and they’ll come back and get them.

But most councils say they should be curbside by 7am so it’s your husbands fault. (Because I assume bins = blue job).

TwinkleLights24 · 23/12/2024 09:19

WillowTit · 23/12/2024 08:23

you can email the council that you havent had a collection, a missed bin
afternoon collection sounds odd

They’ll only come back if your bin was out and they genuinely missed it.

MyrtleStrumpet · 23/12/2024 09:19

Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 09:07

Thank you for all the comments, he wishes me to say this is the first time EVER he has not put them out them night before. He has recovered his good humour. We won't bother the Council as it is entirely our ( his) fault.
But I forsee that he will be going on about this every Christmas forever more

But, but, but, now he gets to go to the tip! It's like a massive reward for being a dick. My DH just ADORES a tip run.

shellyleppard · 23/12/2024 09:19

@Fedupwithteenagers24 it will forever be known as bin gate 2024.......😁😁 Wishing you a very happy Christmas 🎄 🎁 ❄️💐

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:20

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 09:14

To be fair, if the official rule is to put them out for 7, and then somebody takes theirs out just before 7, without realising that the bin men have already been and gone half an hour ago, I don't think it's their fault in any way - and the council have been negligent in their duties.

If they expect them out by midnight the day before, if they have difficulty with setting and keeping to schedules - so the can send the bin men out at 3am if they must - they need to specify this to householders.

I know that your council tax pays for a lot more than just bin collections, but it's the most visible and regular service and one that, unlike many others, every single person uses. They can't just treat it like they do it as a favour and then say "tough, you missed it" when people followed their instructions and they failed to keep to them.

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No I totally agree. If you put them out before 7am you get fined, but the first week they changed the schedule they were here at 6:10am. But because three of us had seen, and had ours collected, the council refused to come back to the others as they had evidence that they had been on time 🤷🏼‍♀️. Now they’re coming at about 6:30am so people are putting them out the night before, so I imagine clipboard lady will be around soon, fining everyone.

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