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.

I think I know the district. The recycling goes in clear plastic bags (mixed) just on the curb, not in a wheelie bin. But that’s recycling, not general waste. General waste goes in a wheelie bin. Food waste into a little caddy that is collected every week (if it ever survives the foxes).

It’s in the bin, but when it’s collection day they want you take take it out the bin and leave it in the front of your house otherwise they won’t take it

Are you wasting too much food?

I know people who make a spag bol, eat half of it - then bin the rest. The other half of the mince can be put in the fridge or frozen down. Then stretch it with a tin of baked beans. Great jacket potato filling.

The council is romford and no they want you to put the rubbish in front of your house outside the bin, it’s not recycling, search it up if you don’t believe me

We inherited a very small wheelie bin from the previous single person owner. The council gave us a bigger bin when we contacted them and told them that we are a family of 4. I’ve not read the full thread so apologies if this has been suggested already.

Blame those who set the policy not those who carry it out. Or those who voted for Gideon Osbourne’s cuts to local authority funding in the last decade, or did not vote.

One week they missed the black bins due to snow been forecast.
So told us to put them out the same day as our recycling. And any bags to be tied and put on the bin. Guess what they took 2 bags and left the bin half full. So the black bin was full again.

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I wasn’t saying I don’t believe you, I was supporting what you said about it not always being wheelie bins. Where I live now recycling and general waste are all in wheelie bins, which I think is pretty common, but somewhere I used to live in Essex still has bags for recycling.

But every supermarket in our town recycles soft plastics and I can't imagine that's unusual.

YABU

Our rubbish bin only fits 2 black bin liners in so it's fairly small, and is collected fortnightly. There are 4 of us plus a dog, all living at home full-time as DH WFH and the children are home educated. We never have extra rubbish.

The difference is that you're not recycling everything that you should. You could also try using cloth nappies instead which will help the environment.

It's pretty well-known as most councils won't take extra that is put on top/to the side of the bin.

Reduce. Reuse. RECYCLE!

Our binmen don’t touch the bins at all unless the lid is closed / almost close , seems reasonable to me as they aren’t supposed to be lifting rubbish . If you recycle , even with a kid and a dog there shouldn’t be that much extra and you can take that to the tip .

You are creating too much rubbish! Think about what you're buying and what you're throwing away. Bin men are not supposed to take stuff that's not in the bin

I think the breakdown of the CT bill where I live is only 9% of my bill actually goes to the district council.

Where I live, our recycling is the most easiest. Cardboard, paper, plastics, cans, aerosols, glass, tetra paks go in one bin. Still people don't understand it.

As previous posters have said @SassyCrab , you're clearly not recycling enough. There's no way you should have one and a third - to one and a half wheelie bins full of non-recyclable rubbish per fortnight, with just two adults, one baby, and a dog.

In my county we've had fortnightly collections for the last 26-27 years. For some years, there were two adults, two cats, and two children in our house (at least 18 years,) and we could quite easily have gone 3 to 4 weeks without the general waste being emptied - because we would recycle every single thing we possibly could. (Still do!)

You need to work harder on your recycling ... I bet you if I came to your house now and got all the stuff out of your general waste bin, there would be a good 40 to 50% that could be recycled. If it's as full as you're saying it is, then you're doing something wrong. And no, you can't have an extra general waste bin. Not with just one child.

You're lucky - our council won't do this. We have the same size (small) wheelie bin for a family of 4, 4-bed house, as the singletons in the 1 bed houses in our county!

Our council will give you another bin if you have a child in nappies, or are a really big family. Worth asking them

But then people just transfer their problem to the recycling. Our recycling is fortnightly and the bin is the same size as the black bin. Taking stuff out of the black bin and putting it in the green bin doesn’t make the rubbish smaller or the bin bigger.

If we get too full I stand on mine to compress it! You can buy a gadget that does it too. My council also let you up size your recycling bins for free so we have a larger paper one.

Do you have a food waste bin?
That's the only one that our council empty on a weekly basis.

You say that you don't recycle much, you'll be surprised how much room items can take up in your household bin so try and recycle more....even if you do have lots it can be squashed down, tin cans flattered, plastic milk cartons, remove lid swirl a bit of boiling water from the kettle, empty out and roll up to a third of its size.

Our council sells rolls of blue bags for if you have children in nappies. You can only buy two rolls per year which I think is 26 bags. So one per fortnight. You don’t have to put just nappies in them it’s just a surcharge basically for extra rubbish. Maybe worth a check.

The bin lorry runs will be based on the capacity of the lorry. Each lorry can take a fixed number of full wheelie bins and they can't assume that every household won't put out a full wheelie bin. If many households add a couple of extra bags, the lorry will be full before it has completed its run.

This is a worry for us, we already use our food bin for food waste, all our plastic etc goes in the recycling and we take our soft plastics to the supermarket, but we still fill our black bin every two weeks. If they cut it to every 3 or 4 weeks then I'll have to start taking it to the tip 😕 we're a family of four, not sure what else we can do