So tomorrow is the day of the bin-off.

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So the bin men broke our bin. Just gobbled the lid. Hardly that deep.

Rung the council to request a new lid. Nope, don’t do them. Ok.
New bin.. yes but we can only give you a 140L skinny bin (previously a normal size 240L).
We said sorry that won’t work for us. Don’t worry we will buy a bin.
We are not allowed to buy a bin.

Much confusion. Multiple calls. All jobsworths. Stalk the street. Many an unbranded bin so I think we will be fine. Buy a bin. But ours is shiny.

I have thought about rubbing mud on it but then that’s not nice for the bin men so shiny it is.

Will they take it? Big mystery.

And if not then I have no idea what we are supposed to do. But I will worry about tomorrow.

I know, proper 'my old man' bin men too! I'm a 70's child who always used to go & say hello to the bin man! 🤣 plenty of time as they removed the metal lids, manually emptied the water into the truck, brought the bin back, put it back down respectfully & replaced the lid.

imagine that these days!!

but nowhere near the packaging or other waste we have these days, so one small metal bin weekly worked just fine!

Don’t you know you should be making your own knives out of flint?

No wonder the environment is screwed 😉

Ours aren't collected until much later & the OP may be out at work... you might have a long wait...

This is a dilemma I’m shortly expecting to be in too , my lid is broken and the bottom of the bin is worn through in places & they have broken two food waste bins throwing them . I think I’m going to just buy one when the time comes without saying anything and stick the old one in the garage and hope.

Our council unilaterally decided to reduce the size of everyone’s non-recyclable stuff bin. Claimed that we’d had a letter - no one had on our street had - and since there’s been no objection (to the letter no one had), tough. You can’t get your bigger bin back. The reasoning seems to be that food waste now goes in with garden waste in the green bin, so you dont need as much capacity. They’ve also brought in an extra green bin charge, which was previously imposed and abandoned after a year because most people weren’t paying it because they composted their garden waste or didn’t have any. Now everyone has to pay because food waste has to go in those (240) bins.

No one on our street has had their green bin collected for the past month, since the charge came into force. Why? Because the council has been ‘overwhelmed’ (their words) with bin tax applications and hasn’t got round to sending out all the special shiny stickers for the taxed bins. No sticker means no bin collection. Result: smelly stinky bins full of rotting food and we’ve seen rats in our garden for the first time ever in more than a decade of living here.

I’m working on fully embracing cave-live, please bear with.

I can’t believe I read this thread last night, and forgot to put my bloody garden waste bin out! Lorry been and gone. Fortnightly collection too and we’re away in 2 weeks. The Great British bin angst is real.

OP, is it gone??

They used to lift the bins on to their backs, so casually!

My district council has only just started providing bins for general waste (we've had them for recycling and food waste for ages).You've had to provide your own up till now.

The district/borough councils in this county are being abolished next year, and the county council will do everything. I suspect they've issued bins here to standardise everything, as the neighbouring councils have provided them for ages.

I'm really not fussed about it. I live alone and my non-recyclable rubbish would barely fill a shoebox in a week, never mind a 140 litre bin. My neighbour's the same, so maybe we should share one.

You must be very young not to have been around in the era of rubbish bags between old metal bins & wheelie bins!

you are the one who said the idea of rubbish bags in bins is “bizarre” to you

No I didn't 😂

If you're going to aggressively have a go at randoms on very lighthearted threads at least get your facts straight. Reading comprehension and inference skills are also wonderful things you could try and learn 😊

Have a great day shouting at flies on the street or whatever you do.

I am not well today and that made me laugh 😂 thank you !

😂 I agree, so funny.

I mean cave-life, obvs.

I think that hugely depends on what your council recycles too. Our council doesn't recycle very much nor do we yet have a good waste collection (& I can't have a compost bin) so my 'general waste' is much more than a shoe biz each week!

“The very concept of bins that the council empty seems bizarre to me.”

I'm intrigued by this, too.

Even if there were 4 people living here, producing 4 times the waste I generate, the rubbish still wouldn't fill a 140-litre bin in a week, and probably not in a fortnight. I can see that disposable nappies would add a lot, but once a family is past the nappy-wearing stage, that's not an issue.

I wonder if some councils don't have such comprehensive recycling as mine does. I know a lot don't recycle the plastic trays that meat and some fruit comes in, for example, but ours does.

Imagine my pain, my bins get emptied every 3 weeks 💔

Honestly it’s ridiculous
they have given us three fat bins and a food bin in addition to the once every 3 weeks skinny bin
one for plastic and tins
one for cardboard
one for garden waste

my garden is full of bloody bins!

This kind of bureaucracy is is so depressing. Good luck OP.

On a personal note, bin collections can arouse strong emotions. I forgot about the holiday bin collection changes in Christmas 2015. So I forgot to put the bin out before Christmas Eve. The intense regret kind of spoiled my Christmas. I still think about it today and shudder. Never again. I now have reminders permanently on my phone to remember the revised collection dates each year.

I'm not in the UK. I've a decent sized rubbish bin, a recycling bin and a small compost bin. There are only two people here, so we don't actually produce much rubbish. My cats, on the other hand, go through a lot of litter.

In my London borough we have weekly black bin and recycling collections. I don’t know how you are meant to manage with less.

I don’t buy it that they’re meticulously recycling everything in these bins. I imagine a lot of it ends up in the same place while we’re all doing our little fortnightly dance of separating everything up meticulously. It all gets shipped to China anyway.

Fingers crossed they take it!

Our bin is currently gaffer taped up after getting crushed in the bin lorry and it looks like it done the same to most of our neighbours, so maybe it's their plan for rolling out the skinny bins. It's hanging in there for now, but I've wondered when it finally gives up the ghost how do you dispose of it? Does the bin lorry take it away or do we have to take it to the tip?

Op that's confusing because the council doesn't collect different size bins from the same road unless there's a specific reason, when the skinny bins got rolled out everyone got a new bin but some areas got to keep the bigger bins because their collections were every two weeks instead of weekly. If you're only being offered a skinny bin then im assuming everyone on your road ( the equivalent of your household) has one as this wouldn't make sense.