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.

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Well, this is exciting - good luck OP!

What do we want? Inclusivity for bins
When do we want it? tomorrow morning.

I am so invested in this. This kind of thing drives me crazy - makes you feel so helpless in such a weird way.
Godspeed shiny bin. I believe in you!

I spend entirely too much of my life thinking about bin collections! We have the normal 240l bins (no food waste in our area just, regular, recycling and garden) and we constantly fill the bins, what feels like a day after they are collected. There's five of us and I don't understand how we seem to produce so much waste.

DH goes to the tip once every month as it's the only way to keep on top of it. I actually get excited when we go on holiday that we'll get 'ahead' of collections by not being here.

Never thought my life could be so fucking dull 😂

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Is be resentful that I have to buy my own bin when it was their fault the old one broke.

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Councils do the same with new-build houses: they force developers to only build drives for one car (or even no cars, even if there would be suffficient room) - with the bizarre belief that people will genuinely just shrug their shoulders and manage with no/fewer cars.

There’s the beginnings of a discrimination claim there I bet…<joke!>

I am morbidly fascinated by the UK bin routine.

Where I live we have communal bins and recycling containers in the street . They are emptied every day. I do not think I could not handle the pressure of capacity and time limits.
Do your overflowing bins not stink in this heat?? What happens if you forget bin day? Do people ever steal each other's bins? Or worse still, can strangers fill them up?
So many opportunities for tragedy in the UK bin system.

Needless to say I'm now heavily invested in the OPs drama.
Rooting for you from across the sea.

Oh no...you've just reminded me, I haven't put the bins out!

Ooo I wonder are you near me in Kent? It’s bin day tomorrow too - there’s an early bindicator that’s been out there since yesterday. For no good reason I consider this showing off.

This annoyed me for about 24 hours; until I realised the real issue here would be us not being able to get rid of our waste!

It’s panicked me tbh.

Well, I know which thread I'll be checking first thing in the morning! is this some kind of weird social experiment because if it is, I'm also rooting for the incognito bin to be emptied 🤞

I agree - they have an absolute cheek.

It's like the equivalent of spilling somebody's pint in the pub and telling them that you can only buy them a coke to replace it - and then being truly amazed when they aren't completely happy with that.

My neighbour got two big bins as she had two kids in nappies and left them when she moved, house is now let out and once the current tenants leave I might find myself with an extra bin…,

We have a special nappy bag collection service, it's fab. But then the bin bin only gets collected once in a blue moon.

God speed, shiny imposter bin.

DH managed to convince the council to let us have a big bin (despite only having one baby) and he treats it like a member of the family. It’s got personalised address stickers all over it and gets brought in as soon as possible to avoid it going wandering.

The council person on the phone gave him a strict warning that the bin men will report back if our recycling bins aren’t full enough, and then they’ll take our big bin away in case we’re sneaking recycling into it.

Luckily our recycling bins are always rammed because dh loves recycling, but I just can’t imagine the bin men caring much?!

I have the joy of a big bin, so it never overflows.
Bin day is engraved on my memory but anyway, our street's bins live on the pavement as we have teeny tiny front yards, and fought the council to allow this, and we won. So they're just ready to go.

Back in the eighties and nineties, my parents used to leave the bin bags at the end of the drive on bin day, the council collected and left new bin bags! Crazy times.....

The shiny bin needs to fuse with the thread about the neighbours’ bin pedestal

What’s a bin pedestal?

‘Everyone’ ……???! I’ve never had a skinny bin nor has anyone else on my street. Such a weird response.

There's also a small bin that's been adjacent to my wall for a few weeks now. I don't know whose it is, I don't need it, but it's just there, constantly empty.

You’ve absolutely nailed it on the multiple agonies we go through here. It’s a constant worry