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.

@SassyCrab

Just to be sure you live in Romford?

If so, I live in the same borough and have lived here for 20 years.

We have never had wheelie bin collections in all that time and it is black bags.

Weekly I might add, every Monday for us, along with orange sacks at the same time, so I don't know why yours are every two weeks; we are very lucky based on other borough collections

We have our own bin that we put the black bags in during the week and then put them out on the day so they can be picked up

How difficult is that?

We also live in a disabled household, so have other issues but manage it.

All of my neighbours also do this

Rubbish collections (Black sacks) | London Borough of Havering

Apologies if I have misunderstood where you live

Years of tory council cuts have cut services to the bare minimum.

Washable Nappies these days are brilliant! My 2 had them years ago so these days they’ll be even better. Saved me a fortune and there was no non recyclable, environmental damaging rubbish. There’s no reason to use disposable nappies these days.

All Aldi stores will take clean, dry plastic such as the bags that apples come in.

Years ago you picked your loose apples and if you needed a bag it was easily recyclable paper bags.

We have a very large dog. What waste does a dog produce? His food is raw so comes in small bags that barely take up any room in a bin. Only poos in walks so poo goes in dog bins.

All paper, plastic, glass and jars goes in the recycling.

Our black bin is never full and we have 4 adults in our house.

Mine are now 24 and 21 and, much to my MIL's disgust, I used washable nappies part-time. When I cleared out our attic before moving house just over 5 years ago, I passed them on to a friend's daughter.

Ours is three weekly but if you have babies in nappies you can sometimes get an extra bin. Our neighbour got an extra bin as they had two babies in nappies. I should have stolen the extra bin when they sold their house. It lay empty for weeks as it was sold to a letting company.

@SassyCrab the area I live in allows for extra bags that are tagged by council tags. You have to apply but having a baby is an ouch reason due to the additional nappy waste. They send out a bunch of zip locks that are only valid for that year. And as long as you put on on a black bin bag next to the bin they will allow it / take it.

I live in a small complex of 21 flats and we have 4 dumpsters of 1100 litres each between us.
Similar problem here, plus because people weren't separating rubbish from recycling (high turnover of overseas tenants plus 2 rubbish dumptsters and 2 rubbish dumpwters were not enough) we are now allowed to put both in together.
So they are often overflowing when the household rubbish is emplied fortnightly - or not, because they are overflowing.
Then I ring the council who at least collect pretty quickly.
I can barely open a dumpster, and don't drive. God knows what the solution is.

*two rubbish dumpsters and two recycling dumpsters

Well it’s your own fault then!

In my area they won’t empty the bin if lid doesn’t close. Have you looked at your councils website for your options? Where I live they will empty a contaminated bin for £6 (prepaid on the website) so you fill up recycling bin 240l with rubbish and it’s emptied with general waste bin 140l. Or they do an uplift service which is five items for £40, they will also empty five bins for forty quid. Great for having a big clear out.

@Lovelysummerdays there is a poster not far above who has copy-pasted the OPs council guidance - it seems they don’t have wheelie bins there, so I don’t really know what’s going on 🤔

We are lucky enough to still have weekly collections. Only two of us so the bin is never full and those who have more pop a bin bag in our bin, all agreed between about 10 houses in our block. I do fill the recycling bin (collected fortnightly) and make tip runs for the things you can't recycle in the kerb side collections

I put my bin out last night for our four-weekly collection. It's a 140l bin, somewhat smaller than the 240l bin most households have. It wasn't even a quarter full after four weeks (with no effort to compact it at all). Yes, it's just me and the cat here, but even if you've got a large family you shouldn't be struggling with a standard size bin emptied every two weeks.

I think the OP is just being deliberately provocative. If not, the household needs to manage better the waste it produces and simply reduce it. Take some responsibility, because waste doesn't simply disappear into thin air.

Either as a household with three kids in nappies, or a household with five adults we've never had a problem with producing so much waste that it won't fit into the bins provided.

My bin men will reverse onto our farm yard and load up with rubbish for cash plus beers. And don't forget them at Christmas.

We have a local waste collectors man who will empty your black general rubbish bin for £15. Very useful at Christmas and New Year! See if you have someone like that to give yourself a clean slate for now.

Joining the chorus of they have NEVER take extra random bags

id go through the 2 bags they left and see what you can recycle from that
gave you got a neighbour you can ask to put a bag in so next collection you have a clean slate /empty bin to start the fortnight

weekly collections would cost an enormous amount of money they don’t have and its unnecessary as the overwhelming majority of people even the ones with kids manage with ether 2 weeks or 3 week collections

tbh we were the same when kids were small and used to do a tip run but upped our recycling and managed perfectly well

Depends where you live. Ours will take extra but it must be in untied bags left by the bin. You can also get special collections for nappies.

Ours will take any bin bags left on or next to the bin on bin day.

Start a compost heap for green waste.
Squash your recycling, poke card down the sides, stand on tins and squash them.
Buy less food at a time. Or dried goods (rice, pasta, lentils,flour, and tins:chopped tomatoes etc.

Used to have two kids in nappies and one old fashioned bin (one bin bag size) but once a week collection .Recycling had to be taken over the road to the bins there, then given one recycling bin bag a week. Now we have communal bins with not enough room for recycling.

We're so lucky, we have communal bins that are emptied every week and weekly recycling. If our recycling boxes are full there are also communal recycling bins for cardboard and paper. One of the benefits of living in a flat.
However we recycle so much now that we don't have much more than a supermarket bagful of landfill rubbish every week.