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.

Our council provides 2 bins if requested. Have you asked for an extra one?

Just want to express solidarity OP. All the best for tomorrow.

We have pretty glow in the dark number stickers on ours so of the 5 that didn't get emptied we know which is ours. Me bitter no.

I’m rooting for you and new shiny bin for tomorrow! I won’t tell you how many bins we have, or you’ll all be coming to steal them!

Rooting for you OP!

Yes, yes and yes.

Maggots and we need to etch our door numbers into them. If bin day is forgotten, that means a stinking garage, a trip to the tip and/or a furtive runaround looking for spare bin space at midnight before collection day.

Ours are collected at about 8am and, if we get the wrong team, left all over the pavement, right by a main road and in danger of being run over if the wind is in the wrong direction, if they're not retrieved immediately. Lately, we've had a pair of fit young lads jogging down the street, emptying the bins and placing them back, just so, without even breaking a sweat. They're a joy to watch!

Im so invested in this. Really hope the imposter bin is accepted!!! Looking forward to your update! 🗑️

The bin situation is honestly quite stressful. It’s totally disgusting that it’s emptied every two weeks, and I feel very judged for being so very selfish as to throw away things in a non recycling bin. How dare I! Even though they all get commingled later on anyway. Ugh

FFS. If they collect 240l from one property they should collect that from the next. The issue isn’t the bin it’s inconsistency. We’d all recycle more if the govt. Could get its arse into gear and clamp down on packing materials it if local councils recycled everything that was recyclable. But they don’t.

Who is everyone else? Not OP’s neighbours. When you wrote this you also didn’t know how often OP’s bins are collected. Or were you perhaps just randomly shaming someone about their rubbish? 🙄😆

No...not Council provided/collected anyway.

Rooting for shiny bin 🍿

Good luck OP and shiny new bin!

Fellow council officer here. I know where you're coming from, but you've got to admit, there is a lot of "computer says no" nonsense in our domain.

I am praying to the bin gods for you OP. Our bins have massive council logos engraved (yes, engraved) into the bins so there's no mistaking them!

We have 1 of these skinny bins. Can still get 2 bin bags in same as old 1. Ours are emptied weekly I recycle as much as I can there's usually only 1 bag in general waste.

I lived in an area with bin police, they could only go out the night before collection and had to come back in the next day. I was away only overnight with work and the council took it. They wanted paying for a replacement. We had words, promised a new one that didn’t arrive, I complained and 2 were delivered on the same day, one at the back and an identical to the front door. I kept both and hid one in my shed! Such a drama over a bin, ridiculous rules

I also bought an unbranded bin online cheaper than a new one from council and normal size not skinny one, as our council also stopped doing full size ones.
It was fine, they are a standard design and all fit on bin lorry. If neighbours have done the same you've nothing to worry about.
I recycle, in fact I have 2 recycling bins but as a large family we cannot manage with a small skinny bin when landfill is only collected every other week.

Good luck new shiny bin!

They've added a separate small food collection bin here.
But I only produce one small bag a week (I have a garden compost bin).
So they rarely empty it.
Which in this hot weather means worms in the bin 🤢🤢🤢
And when they do empty it, they put it back upside down on the flowers in my front garden 🤬😡🤬
And they now rarely empty my garden waste bin, because it's only 1/3rd full.
So the garden waste bin is grim at the bottom and it will probably never shift until I soak it with lots of water
Which will probably mean that they won't empty it because "it's too heavy".

Cunts.

This is what they did in our area but was back in the 00's. Unless you had requested a retained sticker to put on it for larger families. I remember a parent from school saying they kept taking theirs even though it had the sticker on. Bin man told him he can't read.

I don’t manage with a skinny bin but there are 8 of us.

Another overseas MNer ridiculously invested in the bin saga.

In my bit of Melbourne the local council does one thing very well - bins. They collect on schedule, even when that means Christmas Day. I bloody hope the bin men get double time.

Count yourself lucky you have them collecting at all. Been in my new house for four months, and not one regular collection. They basically ignore all the missed bin reports.

We shouldn’t have so much waste.

It’s blooming supermarkets and their packaging. We should dump it all back in their bins and let them pay to get rid of it, rather than council tax payers. They’d soon cut down on it.

I don’t know how easy and effective washable nappies are now. But they should be. It obviously uses water and power to constantly wash them. But there’s got to be a better way than mountains of dirty nappies piling up in landfills.

Councils should give everyone rat-proof compost bins for most organic waste.

Good luck tomorrow BTW.

Your shiny plus size bin identifies as a council issued skinny bin, and it would be very prejudiced to the bin and its welfare to fat shame, or make assumptions on its identity. Just because a bin likes to look after its skin, having a youthful complexion should not, in any way, allow the council to discriminate.
Roland Rat can be the poster rat for for bin equity. I dream of a world where bins are free to be their authentic selves without some jobsworth at the clowncil being prejudice against bins of a certain age and stature.

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If that beautiful bin is not emptied tomorrow, we riot.