So tomorrow is the day of the bin-off.

[Anonbindrama]

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.

Haven't read the whole thread but a friend had the same issue with the food waste bin because of living in a flat.
He bought one and stuck tape over where the council logo would have been and it worked!

I set fire to our 240L bin (accidentally) and had the same issue - as there are only two of us here, now we are only entitled to a skinny bin. I bought a 240L bin online, and waited on tenterhooks. Reader - they emptied it!

No-one where you live has a bin??

We’ve never ever got a full bin, just put it out yesterday and it was about a third full. I don’t know what rubbish people generate even with nappies (although our council does allow an extra bin or gives money towards disposable nappies).

Haha! We live in an area who are very proud of their recycling record. We get one black bin (standard size) collected every fortnight with talks about it moving to monthly. We have two massive recycling bins though - which can only take plastic, glass & cans. All paper & cardboard has to go into bags & again we can have as many bags as we want.

We have to pay for garden rubbish to be collected, again under strict guidelines.

A few miles down the road it’s weekly black bin collections & you can leave as many extra bags as you want 🤦🏻‍♀️.

This is my hope.

That the council may be entirely bananas; but it’s not really these poor souls fault. Someone in management ordered 50 million 140L bins that no one wants. So they now work in mandated bin hell. Poor souls. Everyday misery of people on the phone. Just trying to do the right thing and give these bins a home.

But that our good bin men will come through. With their good big bin lorry 🚛 And shiny bin will be freed from the uncertainty of beurocratic bin pergatory. 💪

Honestly its terrifying that I am actually incredibly worried about this 😭

Blimey OP I couldn’t do one skinny bin. We have two 240 bins (one accidentally got left at ours one morning and doesn’t belong to any of us or neighbours so we’ve kept it). We have two babies in nappies and fill our 2 bins every fortnight!!

🙏

I am following a thread about a bin. FML.

I'm in!

Go bin, go!

I have a candle lit for your shiny imposter bin 🤞

Solidarity OP, I had bin gate where our broken bin was replaced with an 80L one collected weekly while all the neighbours still had huge bins. I called the council and ranted and huffed to no avail. Then I found our rubbish has easily fitted in every week so I made a tit of myself for nothing.

But I don't have kids in nappies, that would have been very challenging

Ours didn't get emptied last week so I reported it and got an email with a list of dates and what would be taken. They're idiots I know the dates hence me putting the bin out. We live on a retirement park so I don't know what they expect folk to do, luckily we have a car so took some to the tip.
Anyway good luck tomorrow.

@Anonbindrama did you tell them you have two kids in nappies? 2 under 3years here and the council will give you the big bin.

I don't know if it's the same everywhere but we ordered large purple bags for nappies and it does save a lot of bin space
The bags are free and ordered off the council website. Probably hold about 5 or 6 days worth of nappies. Just a suggestion.

Doesn't everybody put their house numbers on their bins? We do, on all four of ours ( food caddy, garden waste, recycling, everything else). Wouldn't want to get someone else's back.

Godspeed, shiny bin, on your maiden voyage!

80 LITRES?!

there’s three of us and our bin is 240l and I still get panicky!

Yes, but it still wanders when the bin men don't put it back where it should be. But I check every bin day and bring it back so it's fine.

Yes, constant vigilance is required.

DP rung them. So probably not. If they don’t take the bin tomorrow then I will have to go to plan B.

But I don’t really want two black 140L bins. Where am I supposed to put all these bloody bins 😭

I just want the bin we always had. The trusty 240 bin! Now shiny ✨

So what did you expect these ‘jobsworths’ to do? But you a bin with their own money to placate you. They can’t magic a bin up if they dint provide them.

the term jobsworth is always directed at public sector workers when a member of the public doesn’t get what they want. It not the person at the end of the phone who makes these decisions but the councillors you elect (assuming you vote - many don’t).

so yes YABU. Yes I have a chip on my shoulder as a public sector worker who went into this sector to try and make a difference in my community. Every day I wonder why I bother - should have followed the money.

Op I can't understand why they won't sell you a new bin the same size you had, ...if you go to Google search and type the name of your town order a replacement bin it should bring up the online page to order it.....was it the bin men who broke the lid?

I sympathise with them I do. As I said management be crazy.

But all I want is to buy my own bin. And for it to be accepted like all the other bins.

To The Barricades

Can the bin men find it to empty it?!