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.

Myself, and I had bona fide US citizens living in NE states moan at their high rates too

Oh.... the bin situation sounds heavenly, but I am a Northerner and consider anything south of Manchester to be South. And I'd have to do a city. But, just THINK of the bins!!

We're going to 3 weekly collection. We pay for green bins (and we have a large garden and have three green bins to pay for) and still not got food waste recycling though it's coming soon. Recycle everything.

This is a spectacularly irrelevant comment, but I am a single person living alone and I have the huge bins. When I bought my house last November it was student accommodation, so a kind of HMO, and the bins came with it.

For the first few weeks I confidently expected An Official Person to come along and tell me I had Big Bins under false pretences, but nothing of the kind happened, and now I rejoice in my happy situation.

All this bin drama across the UK!

I live in an area where the council is fighting a battle against rubbish on the streets. We have communal bins for general waste (in service lanes behind houses) because we can't be trusted with our own bins!

Except for recycling. For recycling it's individual bins, which almost no one bothers with. This means that the refuse collectors often don't bother collecting the one or two recycling bins left out (yet report that they've serviced the street).

So I have to put my recycling bin out, it doesn't get collected, then make a complaint and it will be done a fortnight later.
Every. Single. Time.

Anyone posted this yet?

Yea for Shiny Bin.
My bin men have missed my bin this week. No idea why. I can't 'pull it out ready' 2 ft the way they like as very narrow pavement onto an A road. But they always take it from where it is. Neighbours bins were done.
Called Council. 'wait till next collection'. In 28 degree heat? (plus no capacity)
Pfff....

I’ll comment seeing as we’re taking the bin chat right round the world - I’m in Melbourne too, & have no fear, the bin men here earn an absolute packet. My friend’s son was on the bins last year & was taking home equivalent of over £1k per week!! Mind you, that’s in the State of Victoria - a more corrupt government you’d be hard pressed to find elsewhere in the Western world. Our criminal Labour government here is fast approaching being $200 billion in debt. Yes, that is the one that was led by Dan Andrews with the most draconian lockdowns in the world. Melbourne is now fast becoming a cesspit but the bin collections aren’t too bad.

Heard some old chap today moaning his bin was missed and how today’s bin men just anit real bin men like they used to be. None of that the lids not shut or no we won’t take an extra bag and how the bins even have wheels and the lorry lifts them. Not like back when he was a lad and the streets weren’t filthy.

Then in other bin related news apparently a few more wagon has caught fire due to people butting batteries in their bin and the machine crunching them.

I'm So Sorry To Hear Your Bin Was Missed
Very Strange When This Happens
I'm Praying This Won't Be an Experience You Have To Endure again
God Bless You&Yours

Just thought I’d post this for info. Our council are probably freaking out right now!

“Waste collection authorities are legally required to make sure that waste is collected from households in their area. From 31 March 2026, waste collection authorities must provide weekly food waste collections from all households, to allow people to dispose of odorous organic waste frequently. If you have been granted a longer transitional arrangement, you will not need to collect food waste until the agreed date. “

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ensuring-good-waste-collection-services-for-householdsEnsuring good waste collection services for households - GOV.UK

Ours does this but then won’t replace your bin even if they break it without you paying out. Massive crack right down the side of mine from where they throw it back.

Not binmen or bin people; they're refuse collectors or waste operatives.

This thread is strangely addictive 😂.

@MissConductUS I am seriously jealous of your collections. How efficient.

Can I just give a shout out to all the waste collection operatives out there, too. It's been so hot here today and mine have been cheerfully taking the bins and giving a biscuit to people's dogs who wait especially for them. They are brilliant.

Lovely comment 🤗
God Bless You&Yours 💚

Oh, that's so bloody lovely that some dogs wait for them for their biscuit 😍

Ours are lovely too. But no biscuits for the dog (that I know of, but then its been years since I waited with little ones to watch the bin men)

Waste collections peeps are amazing. We are so lucky with ours and I should go out and hand them some cool drinks next heatwave.

Not round here they don’t. We all have big bins. Thankfully.

Usually batteries or vapes or full pressurised cans, it happens a lot!!

Last year our council decided that all the green general rubbish bins had to be changed to black bins. We all had to have new bins which were black. They were exactly the same as the old green bins- just black

When the day came for the new bins to be delivered I happened to be at home and in the front garden. I asked the chap hauling them around why I couldn’t just keep my green bin. He shrugged and said he didn’t get it either.
The consequence to this short conversation is that he went away without giving me a black bin. I have the only non black bin in town now- well certainly for a few streets- it is collected and emptied the same as all the other black bins.
you couldn’t make it up.

Not only do the bin men bring biscuits for dogs in our village, they bring bags of carrots for our pot bellied pig. Lovely blokes xxx

Ours have known muddypup since he was a puppy in arms and he gets Bonios most weeks. So now, nearly four years on, he won't wiĺlingly pass a dustcart.

My Council just replaces the bins. The machine must swallow bins regularly. It took the lid of the household waste, so I logged into the council refuse collection page and ordered a new one, just had to say why it was broken and the colour and I got a new one before the next bin day.

It must happen frequently, because the council site is all set up to replace it free of charge.

In case any of you were worrying; just wanted to let you all know….

Shiny bin won again 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Long live shiny bin 💪😂

Yay!

I am crying with laughter at your comment 🤣.

I love the depiction on the binfluencer, which I think means the only person 🧍‍♂️ in the street who knows which bin is due to be collected.

I believe I am the binfluencer in my street. Sometimes I am slightly late and people put shyly both bins next to each other until I make the grandiose appearance with mine 😆.

On another note, the bin men have already binned 3 paper baskets of mine and it’s a hassle to log it in with the council. However, it’s free, so at least that’s that. Replacement bins are charged at 65£ I believe.

What a good idea. I presume it trains the dogs to greet the binmen as friends instead of attacking them as intruders.

Postmen could try it.