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.

Fingers crossed for the virgin bin's debut!

Please name it

😂 So much energy and stealth, but what else can we do?

We have two bins. Inherited from previous people. One we use and one we don't use because it's slightly broken, wondering now if I could get away with putting both out if I pushed the slightly shoddy one out into a sort of random part of the road. Because I'm beginning to think they wouldn't actually count the number of bins in a street. On the other hand what if they did realise and took revenge?

How do people produce so much rubbish if they recycle? Genuine question.

Our bins get emptied every 2 weeks.

If we miss a recycling week, it causes issues but nothing major and if we broke down the boxes etc. rather than just throw them in the bin we'd probably be OK.

Our general bin is a small bin. We specifically asked for one as we struggle to store all the different bins. Its generally about half full for collection and most of that is cat litter.

Our food waste which gets collected weekly is about a carrier bag a week.

We did start taking our soft plastics to the supermarket but it ended up being a lot of effort and we got out of the habit.

We're an average family, we dont make any particular effort to reduce out waste but probably should.

So how is the average family making so much rubbish?

Our council will collect excess bins.

Alternatively I bet it would get snapped up if you offered it for free on your local Facebook page. People use them as water butts and so on.

Why are you assuming that everyone with the skinny manages? They may have to do tip runs, they may not have as many children or children in nappies. They may not have medical issues that create waste. They may dump their rubbish elsewhere.

Dont just assume because the council made a (money saving) decision, that they did it successfully.

We have the 140L black bins and collections are only every two weeks.

There is a separate hygiene collection for nappies if you contact your council.

Recycling is collected every week.

It’s fine for four of us. You aren’t recycling enough if it isn’t.

We're allowed 2 black bin bags a fortnight. You have to put them out the night before. Not in a bin - just 2 black bags. They obviously are a massive target for cats, rats, foxes, crows. So annoying!

Well this week, for the first time, we slipped a 3rd bag out, as we'd had a bbq and cleaned out the garage, and created more waste than usual.

I was so nervous the night before! I was genuinely stressed thinking what we would do if they refused to take it.

They took it! Relief!

This (bin got gobbled on collection day (have it on camera) and they replaced it with a skinny) happened to us several years ago.

I was a bit put out at the time as we were one of the few houses in the street with children at home - rest of the family homes in the street had 1 or 2 people living in them and still have there big bin. We are still the only ones with a skinny bin, I assumed that this would happen to the rest but nope!

I have to admit it has actually been fine and I now like the slimline bin but I didn't have two children in nappies. I also really appreciate that we have a great recycling centre/tip within easy distance - it is so well run and the staff are brilliant (big contrast to where my dad/brother live!).

Fingers crossed they take your new unbranded bin today!

OP have they been yet? Come on shiny bin 👏

Totally invested in this. AI tells me you can take the shine off plastic with a fine grit sandpaper. Just saying 😗

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You’d hate us, we had a skinny one when everyone around us had a big one. Now we have one of each, for recycling. And we fill them all and the landfill one, for each collection. No idea how people manage with just the one

Good luck! I feel quite invested in hearing about your bin today!

I feel your pain. Currently dealing with the council about a couple of things and I'm staggered at the attitude and the way they treat people. No accountability, no interest in finding a sensible resolution to anything. Just a lot of shoulder shrugging.

Oh also my council has a scheme where they'll collect nappies every week regardless of which bin week? Yours might do too?

I mean, it's gross - they go out in special binbags, which the seagulls and foxes rip open overnight and scatter nappies all over the street but solves the bin issue and makes the council happy.....

I don’t understand how that can be legal. One child in nappies and a cat using cat litter would make 2 bins a fortnight utterly impossible. Imagine multiple children and pets. How can councils enforce this? And if foxes tear the bags to shreds, then what?

In my experience, the bin men/women (we genuinely have an all female crew some weeks!) DGAF what bin you have. Or if there is cardboard or a spare bin bag left next to the bins. Maybe we just have nice bin people(?) though!

I wonder if in the council's rush to "reduce rubbish" or whatever it is they think they achieve with small bins, they actually considered the emissions involved in making new bins to replace the thousands of perfectly functioning bins?!

We have a big bin due to medical reasons. When ours disappeared we had to wait 6 months for another because they were "out of stock". I walked the streets on bin days looking for it but never found it with it's special number we painted on it. My neighbour later told me that someone had probably taken it for their allotment because bins were highly prized for allotment use.

WTF. Can someone explain to me why bin collection across so many councils has become like this?

I remember when you just put your effin buns out and they were collected and then I remember the shift to bins being collected once a fortnight, and then once every 3 weeks. By then the council we lived in had a 3 weekly rotation of bin, paper and metal recycling, and glass recycling. Fine. Whatever.

But now it’s even worse. Smaller bins and longer waits between collection. Why is it like this now? Is it all about money? Some of the “solutions” from councils (under the guise of encouraging recycling) are just insane.

Rather aggressive and ridiculous for no reason. Do you often have trouble understanding that not everyone's experiences are exactly like your own?

The council don't give us any wheelie bins. None. They simply do not exist in my County. If you want something collected you leave a bag on the kerb.

You can order them online via your councils website in my area.

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yes, funny how they're so over worked but they have time to do this...

Glorious 😁

How do you bin the rest of the old bin?