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.

What time is collection OP? Sorry if you’ve already said, I haven’t wheelie bin paying attention.

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Unless you live on a different planet, you must know that this is completely fucking weird and it would be useful if you could elaborate on what life is like for you and your neighbours on Planet Fucking No-Bins.

Oh god Another ridiculous " computer says no" situation. This sort of bureaucracy has me climbing the walls.

I know about bin anxiety as we are in a four weekly cyclw for two different kinds of recycling. So, for example, if you miss the collection for plastic and cans, you need to wait another four weeks which a real hassle as ours are always full by four weeks.

HOWEVER,. I don't understand how people are filling up 140l.bins of general waste so quickly. Ours (4 people in house) is only 1/3 - 1/2 full after two weeks (general waste is collected fortnightly here).

If it's nappies, do you realise that they will lie about in landfill for.500 years? Can you imagine the mountains of dirty nappies there must be lying around? Get washable nappies, people. They are easy to use, soft, cute, can be handed on to next baby or even sold. My two children both had them, and we must have saved loads of landfill.

If it's not nappies, there are surely ways you can reduce the amount if waste you are producing.

I am so invested in this! Have they taken it?

Good luck to your bin OP. We have a big bin and a little bin because we used to have 3 dc in nappies.

@Anonbindrama Get all the parents in the area to hound them until they take away nappy waste as its own collection. They do it here weekly I think and also provide the purple bags to put them in. I think they recycle them somehow.

Well this is the most stupid comment I’ve seen in a while, how can you comment on whether a bin is big enough before the OP has even said her family size.

There's a heartfelt children's book here.

Try living in brum 😭

Last year my little green kitchen waste bin went missing on bin day. The council gave me a new one and the old one turned up. My black general waste bin lid went missing on bin day so e mailed the council and was ignored I think the bloke was on holiday, and as we know only one person can sort this thing out but he was on his hols. So sent another e mail and said that the rubbish , if it rains will get wet. Went out the next day when I came back had a new bin delivered but the thing is, I keep my bins in the back garden and my back garden has a locked back 1mt high gate, it is still a mystery to me how they got in my back garden and changed the bins then locked my back gate again. So strange. Anyway good luck today OP, I hope you get what you pay your rates for.

Solidarity for shiny bin from SE Asia where our 'landfill' bins are emptied every day!!!! Recycling is taken every fortnight but the 'cooncil' don't recycle, they incinerate everything sadly. If they didn't empty every day, the smell, flies, rats etc would be hell - I feel for our Hi Viz Heroes having to work with the stinking lorries.

Have you contacted your councillor?

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I can’t believe I’m placemarking on a bin thread.
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Put it out with a decent pack size of beers 😬

The bins on our street aren't uniform and it doesn't seem to be a problem. We live in a big student area and most houses are empty over the summer. The bin alleys are full of empty bins. Last year I swapped ours out with a nicer, bigger bin from an empty house and it was taken.

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.

@EdithBond Yes! It's impossible to buy lots of things without packaging, especially fresh ingredients. And it's getting worse due to shrinkflation. Multi packs containing 5 bags of crisps or 3 cereal bars surrounded by a big sea of packaging to make it look like they didn't reduce the contents.

I can't wait to hear how this thread gets resolved. We now have 5 bins and the landfill one gets emptied every 3rd week IF there is a council supplied sticker on. This was done to prevent people from sneakily buying a second bin and putting it out. They forgot to send me one for my single bin and it took 2 months of chasing before one finally arrived. Utter trauma.

Matt black spray paint and a bribe.

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I was shocked to see that Hillingdon Borough in London does not have bins, just coloured bin bags that go out on the pavement to be collected. DH’s friend lives in the borough and says most mornings he goes out to rubbish across the front garden or pavements where the foxes have got in the bags.

I like your system.

Yes they stink in the heat. I spray flyspray into mine every time I put a black bag in it, so I don't get maggots. We have a 3 weekly collection for general waste, weekly for recycling.

If you forget bin day, you cry. You're completely and utterly fucked. Most places have no-bonfire rules too, so that option is out. We've all felt the sheer panic of waking up to the sound of the bin lorry coming down the street, realising we've got the day wrong and pretty much leaping out of bed butt naked pausing only to throw on a coat before walking over driveway gravel stones in bare feet in our attempts to rush the bin to the kerb before they drive past with the lorry.

Yes! Bin thieves exist, especially if you've got special dispensation for an ordinary sized one instead of the special mini ones that I don't know how any family, anywhere, ever, in the history of mankind, copes with. I fill mine and I'm just one person. That makes it sound like I get in it. I don't, obviously. Even if I wanted to throw myself out with the rubbish I couldn't. At 9st and 5'6" I wouldn't fit in it. When you move into a new place, there's often no bin. I always imagine the neighbours having a fight to the death over who's going to steal it so they can have two.

Yes, cheeky fucker bin fillers exist as well. I am one, if I forget bin day. In my defence, it's the bins in the next street who get their collection on a different day to ours and stay up extra late so I can sneak out in the middle of the night once they're at the kerb, looking for a few with some space left to leave my black sacks in. But yeh, some people are brazen and will fill others bins when it's not bin day and the space isn't going spare, because they're selfish twats.