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.

My bins are emptied every 3 weeks and no extra waste will be taken. We get one free visit a week to the local waste facility. It’s not ideal as we are a family of 3 adults and 2 teenagers so we generate a fair amount of waste.

Trouble is that council income/expenditure isn’t distributed equally. Councils with high numbers of low council tax band properties take in less money and overall have higher expenditure on the statutory stuff, particularly adult care. Being able to allocate budget through choice - for example above the stat minimum on waste management isn’t in their gift.

I didn't have a washing machine or dryer. I lived in a flat so I didn't need to take bucket upstairs. I never owned a muslin so didn't need to wash them. The napisan sanitised the nappies so as long as any soiling was cleaned before you put them in the bucket rinsing them well was all you needed. Never had a problem with nappy rash till my youngest was born in the 90s when I did have a washing machine.

Wonder if you are in the same place as me. Council is very good

I've got it in my hip. If only id had a washing machine.

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A friend if mines dad was a bin man. That automatic lift for the bins failed and killed him. Maybe overloading them is a health and safety issue.

Looking back, I think I used Milton, not Napisan.

I take mine to Sainsbury's, we don't have a Tesco, I noticed last week that our local co op is taking them as well. I also found it really reduced what went in the black bin far more than I expected.

Probably very similar, both sterilise I think. I used Milton occasionally for bottles but breast fed mainly.

I think there is a lot of judgement on this thread. People saying how little rubbish they use even with pets. If you have several animals you are being hypocritical because all pets have a carbon footprint so don’t judge others.
The people saying they take flimsy plastic to the supermarket to recycle. They would probably be greener if they had a home delivery and saved on emissions.
Don’t get me started on electric cars and those environmentally damaging batteries.

Doubt it

My DH often walks to the supermarket to buy stuff

This may have already been said, but for anyone that has a household member with a medical need to use additional incontinence products/pads etc, you can request a yellow bag collection from your local council. Ours is collected weekly and you can have as many bags as you need after submitting proof of their needs. My son is 9 and autistic, and still in pads (we’re praying any day now something will click, but he can’t help it). We’ve had this service since someone told me when he was 5. We are a family of 5, we recycle everything we can and our wheelie bin is emptied every 2 weeks and full to the brim, but never any extra. We are lucky to have a car though, so can take extra to the tip. Our bin men will only take an extra bag when it’s been a bank holiday or bad weather and they are a day or 2 late.

We get a home food delivery. Then we walk to the nearest supermarket with the soft plastic to drop it off for recycling, as that’s the place you can take it to be recycled – has nothing to do with getting a shop in or driving somewhere, it’s just the shitty disjointed recycling in the UK that means soft plastic, kerbside, medicine packets, toothpaste tubes, contact lenses, etc, are all recycled in different places so most people will have to drive to dispose of them responsibly.

Our bin men are great. If I have an extra bag I go out and ask them nicely if they would mind taking it. They always do.

I give them and the recycling guys a box of chocolates every Christmas and it’s probably the best money I spend all year.

It's crap. But everyone is like this. We have two children so even more rubbish. Two weekly collections. It's been like that for years and years round here. You just have to get on with it.

@Flossflower The people saying they take flimsy plastic to the supermarket to recycle. They would probably be greener if they had a home delivery and saved on emissions.

I do have my weekly shop delivered - they take away their own bags. I WALK to our local high street where I drop my soft plastics into the recycling bin at the Co Op before buying my fresh bread etc at the bakers and my fresh meat at the butchers. Many people can walk to dispose of soft plastics recycling.

Ditto. Also, I felt very modern breastfeeding. Bottle feeding had been the norm since the 40s. It was considered better for the baby as there was no nutrition in breast milk!!!

We are quite old and recycle everything. We also have a compost heap so have very little rubbish. On bin day I put our bin next to our neighbours house and text her how much room is left with a help yourself to it. Does it matter who’s rubbish it is?

@Grammarnut

That statement is unbelievable isn't it. I thought breast milk was perfect for babies.

We've had monthly general waste collections for years. Not an issue, recycling and food waste is still collected weekly.

I wonder what the fly-tipping situation is where you live.

I know. But this was a prevailing attitude from the 30s onward. I suspect it has something to do with male doctors not being able to measure - or see - how much an infant is being fed.

I would recycle more if it was easier to do so. I recycle what the council allows in the bins, but I don't recycle any of the things you mention in your post and it goes in the general rubbish. I wear daily contact lenses and the council won't recycle the blister packs and there's nowhere local to take them. It's such a waste but I'm not paying for a recycling box. It's the same with medicine blister packs - nowhere in town will take them and a box from Terracycle costs £100 so that won't be happening!