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.

recycle more and be more mindful
about what you buy. Family of 5 with a dog and two cats here and our black bin is rarely full.

the blame lies with 14 years of Tory austerity and cuts to council budgets.

Sorry, I know this was shitty for you, but this made me LOL! 😆

CBA'd to read the full thread but just wanted to say

Get a waste disposal unit
If you have a child in nappies or an adult in incontinence pads you are entitled to a larger black bin - see your council
You are entitled to more than one recyling bin if you need it.

Because you should be reducing your waste production. You should recycle more, buy less that can’t be recycled.
we have 3 adults and 2 kids at home and are not super recyclers, but we don’t ever fill the black waste bin in the two weeks between collections.

So does Havering council by the sounds of it. Bin bags in the street? Crackers.

It's also a health hazard. Has everyone forgotten why we have refuse collections. Vermin. Disease. Muck in the street. We need to go back to weekly collections everywhere. Just wait till we have a really hot summer.

Yabu. You think bin men set the timetable of collection...they don't. Also they only meant to collect things in the bin. They can't safely put things in the van. Also you vvvv lucky. My council collected every 3 weeks....

We have no food waste bin (southwest England) but can buy an extra black bin. Have never needed to. I genuinely don’t know how people’s bins get so full and am happy to let neighbours put properly bagged rubbish in our bin the night before collection day.

Where my mum is in NI they have recycling bins but they are not allowed to put glass in them and have to bring it themselves to the tip or one of the very few supermarkets in their area with bottle banks.

I don’t know why, but it has made me so fucking furious I can’t stop going on about it! DH is much more phlegmatic and did discourage me from tipping all the shitty crap out of the bin and kicking it all over the street, which I did feel like doing. I am a very nice, well behaved person, but this has absolutely enraged me for some reason!

Our general waste is only collected every third week. We manage because we recycle EVERYTHING. Most local authorities are really grippy about the size of. Ins but will happily give more recycling receptacles.

How do you imagine they would get the black bags into the back of the bin lorry OP? You can't clip it onto the tipping mechanism on the back

Also I hate the people in our street who shove out extra bags. The seagulls love them and they totally mess the place up

To pay for all the services the council provide 🙄 including emptying your bin, which they did.

Check the dates when the shopping is delivered then you can send stuff back if it isn't good enough. We send stuff back if it all goes off within a couple of days.

Yeah I’m happy to answer people genuinely helping, it’s the ones telling me to get my life together etc it’s just rude and don’t see why they waste there time commenting just to start an argument it’s weird..

but anyway we have a tiny food waste bin at the front of our house. I do use recycling but just not for everything, I need to get a seperate bin for recycling in the house. Do you have to wash your jars and things before putting them in? We just put normal rubbish in the bins I don’t understand why we have so much but I guess I’m not recycling as much as I should! & if I don’t put puppy mats he will just toilet by the garden door in the middle of the nights it’s really irritating. Before anyone comments saying he should go out before I go bed, he does!!! But he always wants to go around 2am and I don’t always hear him, he’s toilet trained but he’s stubborn and goes if he needs to go and won’t hold it in

Or why not use terrycloth nappies and wash rather than disposable ones? Worked for most people before disposables were invented.
'Single-use or disposable nappies are made from wood pulp, cotton, viscose rayon, and several plastics – polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene – according to a 2021 report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Disposable nappies thus have environmental impacts across their entire life cycle and cause a significant strain on local authorities that are often tasked with their disposal.
In addition to containing plastics, nappies are usually thrown out with babies' waste, making them more difficult to recycle. The statistics are stark: the disposable nappy market is worth US$71 billion a year and is among the biggest contributors to public waste globally. Every minute, more than 300,000 disposable nappies are incinerated, sent to landfill or end up in the environment.'
Ok, this is a US study, but results are just as applicable to the UK

Exactly!!!!!! When it’s 30 degrees in summer everyone’s bin is covered in maggots down my road, it makes me feel sick

You can often get a second recruiting bin for free - we have two now (large wheely bins)

Ours had always been every two weeks. Three DC and two adults. Do you have a recycling bin too?

we waste a lot of food where the shopping dates are rubbish
You mean you get shopping delivered and the use by date is too soon and you can't use it in time and throw it away? I'd be complaining to the supermarket about that but also getting a reliable freezer.

Do you have to wash your jars and things before putting them in?
Well, we do and I assumed that was the rule but check what your council say about it online. It's just part of everyday housework now - recycle as much as possible, clean stuff, crush or pack it down etc..

Okay, I agree it’s annoying when food is delivered and goes off in a couple of days but … surely that happens to you a couple of times and then you do something different? Go food shopping twice a week instead, or buy less fresh stuff and eat more boring stuff later in the week which won’t go off (jacket potatoes, pasta ?).
I mean, mainly I’m flabbergasted that you’re happy to carry to wasting money by throwing food away! You must be rich.

My dog still has accidents as he’s a stubborn frenchie so we use puppy mats for him if we go out, so that’s rubbish that goes in the outside bin & we waste a lot of food where the shopping dates are rubbish and our freezer isn’t working unfortunately.

Puppy pads don't take up much space. Why are you picking food with short shelf life that you chuck out? What a waste. If you don't have a working freezer you need to shop accordingly. And recycle properly.

Sorry OP this is a you problem.

Definitely sounds like you need to recycle more - everything that you can recycle you should be recycling.
all butter boxes, cereal boxes, yogurt pots, meat packaging. Then your landfill rubbish will fit in your bin.
we also have nappies and fit all our rubbish in our wheelie bin

Ah to be back in the USA where they would empty your bin and take every bag left at the side, and even had a heavy trash collection once a month where they would take mattresses, sofas you name it.

Many won't, certainly ours will not do that and they only come once every 3 weeks.

Have a look at a the waste hierarchy.
reduce-reuse-recycle before throwing away.
also worth looking at the analysis of a black bin- very often things could have been recycled. It’s really eye opening!

If your recycling bin is full break down your boxes to make more room.

Dont put things in your general bin that could be recycled elsewhere like textiles, batteries, charity donation.

The council cannot just collect unlimited waste that would cost them a fortune and you as the council tax payer. The waste management team get a tiny % for the service they provide.

You’ll be able to save so much money if you look at what you throw away. Seriously have a look at doing an audit and noting what you throw away for even just a week you’ll learn so much about your habits and it’s really insightful. It’s better for environment and will save you a fortune.

Finally it is worth checking if you have a child in nappies you might be able to have a larger bin.