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So tomorrow is the day of the bin-off.

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Anonbindrama · 18/06/2025 21:50

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.

OP posts:
Trombelees · 04/07/2025 02:38

Bin equality has been achieved! Stand down your pitchforks for the time being and three cheers for the vast majority of amazing refuse workers.

HerNeighbourTotoro · 06/07/2025 20:08

llizzie · 22/06/2025 16:40

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.

Our council replaces bigger bins by smaller and dont issue the big bins anymore so if our big bin ever gets busted we're screwed.

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