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.

We're a family of 5 with 2 in nappies and a dog and we usually have a bit of space to spare at the end of the two weeks - have a look at ways you can cut down on waste if you think it's possible. We got really conscious of it a few years ago and thinking about all the ways we could cut down really helped. When we only had one child and the dog we only half filled it most fortnights.

Food waste is a big one, recycling what you can, and thinking about what/how much you buy in the first place. There was loads we didn't really need when we thought about it. Also where you buy from! Online deliveries are often a bugger for excess packaging unfortunately.

Council tax gives you access to the tip.

How much rubbish is your dog creating?

Ask council for a larger capacity bin.

I don't get it. We give all our food scraps to the hens or compost. Recycle everything possible (sometimes fill two sacks). Collect thin plastic and take to Tesco's. We live in the countryside and don't buy an awful lot. What I'm trying to say is we are very careful. However, some weeks the black bin is more than full. We have decluttering sessions, packaging and sanitary waste from the business. Plastic and paper the bin men won't take. There might be fabrics the cats/dogs have ruined, old plastic plant pots. It quickly builds up.

Do you have food waste collected by the council? If not, do you have a garden so you can compost waste? We at one point had 3 children all in nappies but, because we recycle and have a separate food waste collection, we still never exceeded our wheelie bin fortnightly collection.

Pretty much everyone yabu

Op yeah but...

As with all things, depends where you live. In Hackney, not only did they used to take loose bags, but the council also sent a big items truck round every so often to collect furniture etc. In Strood they took as many loose bags as you put out. I moved to Folkestone and was confused by them only taking what was in the wheelie bin. Still in Folkestone but have moved five mins down the road. Now they do take loose bags (out of my front garden, where I’d piled them up to take to the tip. Made my day on the three separate occasions that has happened!)

Monthly??! That's going to be rancid. I do not understand how of all places to cut costs councils choose something as necessary as rubbish collection to cut.

And they will refuse to empty them if too heavy. I don't have a car or the budget to pay more to get rubbish taken to the tip. That's what our council tax is supposed to be for. They send a bin man down my street at 6am, he drags each bin to the other side of our gates. Then later the truck comes, and the bins get dragged back to the other side, and left hanging off the curb in the road.

Oh sorry, I should add: my previous post was meant to be helpful, not holier-than-thou. Can’t really be claiming to be an environmental saint having fessed up to having 3 kids in disposable nappies 😳

Don't talk wet! You're not transferring the problem to recycling FGS! You 're MEANT to have plenty of recycling! The binmen always take ALL of that. Even though someone will come on here and claim they don't! They do!!!

ddo you not have a food waste bin you need to recyle everything you can they wont take anythhing outside the bin

we use to just have black bags could put as many as you wanted out-then they change it to a bin-but also gave us a food bin

Typical ain't it?!

Makes you wonder why some people come on here and ask AIBU?

When they are convinced they are not! 🙄

We are a bigger family than that and never fill the waste bin. Are you putting things in there that should be for the recycling bin?

If everybody balanced things on top of their bin the refuse collectors would not have enough time to complete their round. Councils budgets are cut and all services are run on a shoe-string.

Dh and ds used to jump in our bin to squash it down. Sometimes they’d use a big stone specially reserved for this purpose.

Our bin men are on strike so none of the recycling centres are getting emptied.

Dh also used to leave the lid up on the card bin so it would mash down into pulp when it rained for more space.

Then one day it froze and the bin men couldn’t empty it.

For a measured amount of rubbish management. Not an infinite amount. Surely you understand there has to be a limit even if you think it's too low?

OP, I feel your pain! Each area is different so everyone’s rules are different, up until a few months ago in my area it was once a week collection and you weren’t even required to use an outside bin (we did have a wheelie bin though!), you could literally put out rubbish kerbside just in bags and it would get collected. Then a few months ago everyone was provided wheelie bins for each house meaning anyone who own their own wheelie bin already had to get rid or re use for something else, the new bins are small and cannot fit two weeks worth of rubbish in - we recycle lots and can’t do anymore than we do.

in some areas you can apply for an extra bin. I did and kept getting turned down. In the end I emailed the council a photo of the amount of recycling we put out saying we cannot recycle anymore than we do and we are still filling up the wheelie bin. Finally had a second bin delivered and it’s been great.

tips often take general rubbish in bags however it makes me chuckle because it’ll all end in the same landfill but why should people have to go to the tip? Not everyone has a car/drives either.

there’s never an excuse for fly tipping, however since the change come into place here I am sure I’ve noticed more rubbish dumped in lay-bys!!

They get into a huge amount of trouble for collecting extra rubbish, the lorries are weighed on entry and exit to the yard so they know how much they’ve collected. If they took everyone’s extra rubbish then it wouldn’t fit in the lorry. Try cutting down and recycling more.

Ours charges for a lot of things now and some of the rules are completely batshit.

If your freezer isn’t working then stop buying so much food. Why are you buying so much, knowing you don’t have a freezer and then just chucking it out? You’re literally buying food to throw in the bin.

It just sounds like you live a very wasteful lifestyle. Stop it and then you won’t create so much rubbish.

If you stack it up inside the bin, then they won’t take your bin at all. If the lid doesn’t close, they won’t take the bin at all.

46% of households in London don’t have a car.

I take a carrier bag of rubbish out every day and put in a bin in a service station that has around twenty or more public bins.

We have a maximum three black bin bags a fortnight.

I had to laugh when I picked up my son on his bin day as he has bought black bags suitable for a wheelie bin and they must be 2 or 3 sizes bigger than your average 120 litre bin bags!

They looked ginormous compared to his neighbours but he had adhered to the rules and only put three out so the bin men had to take them!

Why would you do that? They don’t recycle contaminated card or paper so once it’s all soaked, it’ll go in the lorry and just make a mess which they can’t recycle.

I take a carrier bag of rubbish out every day and put in a bin in a service station that has around twenty or more public bins
I think this is classed as fly tipping and illegal .

There were six of us in our house, twice monthly refuse, twice monthly recycle bins. Food bins weekly. Glass bin monthly.

We did it. Even when we had nappies galore.