Bin men! Ridiculous

[SassyCrab]

Has anyone else got this problem with there local council! The bin men take the rubbish every 2 weeks, so our rubbish mounts up to the point we have to put it on top of the bin, bare in mind we have baby and a dog so we have quite a lot of rubbish in the two weeks when they bother to collect. They’ve come yesterday and emptied our bin but just left the rubbish on the top!!!!! So now our bin is full again and still got 2 weeks to go. So annoyed with it, I just don’t understand why they can’t come every week.

your partner sounds like a dick then
you don't have space in your bin now, how would you feel if a twat like him came and put all their rubbish in your bin so it was completely full with nowhere to put your own rubbish
just buy less, recycle more and if you can't manage either of those do a tip run.

Ours is 3 weekly. We're a family if 4 with lots of pets. We actually struggle to fill our bin as we recycle pretty much everything. It's not the bins mens fault and they are very clear on the rules in terms if bins not overflowing. It's a hard enough job for them. Perhaps see if you have any neighbours with space in their bins the day before collection day. We would happily take other people's rubbish in ours if needed. However, despite offering, we never get asked because the neighbours also appear extremely good at recycling. Large cardboard boxes get advertised locally for anyone moving house. Many people have vege boxes and use the milk man. We do all have gardens for composting veg peelings etc.

If you are throwing away food because it's gone out of date then what are you eating? You must be doing another food shop.
Instead of getting 7 days at once get enough for 3 or 4 days. Even with home deliveries you can do 2 shops a week.
Also get more things like tinned vegetables - they don't go out of date for ages.
That will cut down on food waste.

Lots of charity shops accept 'rags' re old towels)ruined clothing etc.

Council tax raises a small part of the council's budget. Most money comes from the government & this has been cut & cut such that many councils have lost up to 50% of their income. This affects all council services. Waste contracts are regulated. Councils have targets for recycling so that land fill sites are used less. Rethink your bin use.

Our bin men don't take extra bags,but they do extra recycling bags. I have to drive loads of bin bags to the local dump once a fortnight

Our bin men don't take extra bags,but they do extra recycling bags. I have to drive loads of bin bags to the local dump once a fortnight

Put the excess bags in your car or in a trailer and drive them to the tip.
Start afresh with empty bins each fortnight.
Become better at recyling and not purchasing things with over packaging. Do you compost your food scraps?

Have you tried washing cloth nappies?
Modern ones like Econaps or old fashioned ones you fold?
Councils sometimes run information sessions on how to properly sterilise and use cloth nappies.

it is all to do with

1. Saving money for council
2. encouraging residents to help council meet recycling targets

on the back of that …encourages consumers to demand providers e.g supermarkets and Amazon to minimise packaging

Is this one bin for everything? We have 4 wheelie bins, one for cardboard, one for recyclable plastics, one for garden waste and one for waste that can’t be recycled. We also have a bottle box and a food bin.

Good to know, not that it's a massive issue tbh. We are all adults now so genuine waste clothes tend to be underwear.

As I said, we are 4 weekly and it's generally fine. We have a reuse hub too that takes a lot of stuff to save it from landfill and it refurbished stuff and sells it. They get funding based on how much weight of stuff they keep out of landfill.

Are you alright or can’t you read? If you search Havering council, it states that they will NOT collect if you leave your rubbish in the wheelie bin, it has to sit on the side of street outside your house!!!!

The bigger issue really is the amount of packaging that is on everything now. I'm 55 but remember my parents buying loose vegetables by the lb at a grocers. Packaging was a brown paper bag. Shopping at butchers and regular visits from the milkman and the pop man, glass bottles being recycled. Buying just what you needed at weigh and save so less waste. Manufacturers use so much that cannot be recycled, that's the real problem.

Yes we have this system and its fine. You can request a bigger bin if you have kids in nappies or medical reasons. I never bothered, 90 percent goes in recycling.

I get it at Christmas etc with boxes and such, but people need to be more aware of the amount of waste they produce. It doesn’t magically disappear. People want more regular emptying of bins but a wheelie bin full of waste every week from every household would be ridiculous.

Not judging, just genuine questions:

• do you have a food waste collection (are you using it)
• what are you currently recycling
• what takes up the most space in your landfill bin

Also, you say your dog is stubborn to toilet train. You need to stop using puppy pads as this is reinforcing they can toilet inside. Mine was a pain to toilet train but we persevered. Being house proud and having a puppy don’t mix.

Is it just me who read the title of the thread as an instruction/wish to get rid of males? (It might actually have gone better for OP if it had been that...)

When our daughters were small, many years ago, we had the smaller wheelie bin, the size common in the UK were for businesses, and there were no recycling bins, we never needed to overfill the bin or use extra bags.

We have to pay extra for our green bin collections. And our bin men won’t take excess recycling.
The bin men have also broken our wheelie bin and the recycling boxes and now refuse to do anything, they’ve broken the recycling boxes before. I shall have to pay for more.
It’s a bit crap where we are.

100% this. ^

You really seriously need to have a long hard look at your attitude mate.

We have recycling collection one week, landfill waste the next week, so fortnightly for each and green waste you can pay for additionally. Both bins are full most weeks. Recycling is a bigger bin. I do dump run for green and additional when needed. My waste bin lid was broken off by the dustbin men, so I do pile up higher, and to be fair, if it sits, it tips.

We rent out a property. Our tenant has left. New tenants coming in a few weeks. I travelled to the property to put the bin out, but didn’t have time to go back and out it away for 24 hours after it was emptied. Imagine my joy at discovering some utter twat had filled the bin with bags and bags of rubbish (many of them ripped and leaking). So I now either have to drag it all out and take it to the tip, covering myself in bin filth from split bags, or travel back in a fortnight and do it all over again, having to excuse myself from a work meeting in the hope I can get there before Twatty McFuckface dumps all their crap in our tenant’s bin again, days before they move in. Wankers.

Don’t put your fucking rubbish in other people’s bins. Go to the tip, you lazy fuckers.

They don't come every week for two reasons. One, it's more expensive. Two, everyone has forgotten why we have refuse collections i.e. it prevents vermin and disease.
Sorry you have this problem. Take the bin bags to the dump. They usually have a domestic waste area.
Also, ask for a bigger bin. You may need to pay for this!
Next fortnight just jam the bin bags in - really cram them in.