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.

Agreed. Try: Recycling bins in kitchen to sort waste. Meal plan and Reduce food waste and other tips from here. Donate to charity shops, consider purchases

We are to keen to throw stuff away but there us no "away". It stays on this planet. Sometimes forever

Not all councils collect food waste separately. Ours doesn't, it just goes in general waste.

Well that’s BS as I’ve lived in two different councils in Essex and they both had completely different rules. My first property, the bin men would only take rubbish if it was outside the bin and at the front of your property. The council I live in now it has to be in bin

Find a trade waste or private bin collection company and book a regular collection. I have an additional monthly collection and is £12 for the wheelie bin with upto 20 kg in it and then a per kilo charge after that. I can book additional collections if I need it and I can put anything in the bin and they’ll take the rubbish next to it as well.
We are really limited on what can go in the council recycling and have a very small wheelie bin and a very long drive to the tip. Our local tips also requires all rubbish to be sorted, we live in an area where it all goes to incineration after we’ve sorted it.

Some areas still don't collect food waste separately.
Peelings etc make a good proportion of our black bin waste.

Our Council doesn't take bags that don't fit in the bin either. I suggest you read up on the do's and don'ts on your Council website.
We had 4 adults living in our house, including one using adult size incontinence products, and we managed to easily fit our waste in the bin every fortnight. I suggest you look at what you're throwing in there versus what could be recycled and also what you can crush before putting it in the bin.

You can request another bin.

Where I live, you can request a larger bin if you have a child in nappies. Might that be an option?
I think it’s something like 180 litres for a standard bin and 240 litres for the big one.

also… on a related note… I still have a Christmas tree on my driveway awaiting collection. My four phones calls to the council don’t appear to have resolved the matter!!

Our household rubbish gets uplifted every 4 weeks. We are a household of 4 adults.

I don’t have food bin, just recycling wheelie bin and waste wheelie bin

OP get a food waste digester for you food waste in you have a garden they’re meant to produce good soil

Because they meant during the week before the collection day! I have no issue with them using free space once it has gone out, but I didn't want them filling it and there being no room for my stuff!

Its well known on my street people can throw a bag or two in mine if they have extra, these new neighbours wanted to basically bagsy (if you'll pardon the pun) the free capacity.

If you look at your council tax bill it will show you what it pays for, ie a percentage towards the police, a percentage towards social services and so forth

The Compactors have a finite capacity, and their collection route and rotas will be determined by the number of bins on that route so they can be certain the truck has the capacity, hence why they don't just pick up any old crap people leave lying around and will only collect what is in the bin itself.

There are also plenty of refuse collectors who are on strict work to rule, ours have been for years due to constant disputes with the LA, so they are absolutely ruthless about what they will pick up and what they leave behind.

In our area you can request a bigger bin if you have a child in nappies. We swapped our black bin for the smallest available once we were done with nappies and the biggest green bin. Everything gets recycled that possibly can and we also take all soft plastics to the supermarket.

Three of us in the house plus a cat so litter gets wrapped and put in the black bin and it’s never full.

You admit you throw food away so you know you can do better.

Ours is 3 black bags collected every 3 weeks. It's fine as we recycle most of our waste, including food waste. You can also take soft plastics and crisp packets to Tesco, they have recycling points for this. If you have a large family or extra need like nappies or cat litter, you can speak to your local council to arrange extra capacity. You can also report missed collections online on the council's website usually.

Nope we just recycle everything we've got 3 full size recycling bins, 1 for paper and cardboard (collected monthly)
1 for plastic and cans (collected monthly)
1 for garden and food waste (emptied monthly in the winter and fortnightly the rest of the year).
We've had this system for over a decade and there's less flytipping now than before.

Top tip…..leave your bin men a Christmas card and a case of beer out at Christmas…..they take the extra then 😆.

Ours collects it once a month

And there is me moaning that ours are moving from weekly to fortnightly collections later this year! I should be grateful!

Does your council have a food waste collection OP? How full is your recycling bin compared to your landfill bin?

I find cutting up cardboard boxes helps if just flattening isn’t enough. It’s a pain but we’re the ones buying and getting deliveries so we need to take responsibility.

There's your answer then

@Pebbles16 if you litter pick locally have you checked if the council will give you special bags and collect them separately? I think some round here do.

Eh?? The bin men only take rubbish outside of the bin? What do you put in the bin then????

The onus is on you to reduce your waste, it’s as simple as that.

Your council have set the regulations and you need to comply with them, if not your bin is over flowing weekly.

Its not for the council to control your waste management, rather then blaming “the bin men” take responsibility of your own waste!!

Millions of families manage perfecting fine!, some even have 3 or 4 week collections and they aren’t up in arms.

@SassyCrab in our area if you have a large family or adults with continence needs etc you can request a larger bin (though usually they just give an additional one it appears). Worth checking with your council.

But you really need to sort the food waste out.