Council not giving extra allowance for those whose bin dates not changed

[Cozc]

Depending on your bin day and when Christmas falls, your bin day can change. Those who have theirs changed, council allows residents put up to 3 bags of black bags by their rubbish wheelie bin.

Then what happens in areas of the town where the bin days are unchanged, people are putting excess rubbish in street litter bins or fly tip bags. Litter bins are not designed for rubbish.

If you do host Christmas gatherings at your home, you produce the same amount of rubbish regardless of the day of the week Christmas Day falls on. Then tip has reduced hours for the Xmas/NY period.

My parents were able to their late neighbours’ wheelie bin. As both died this year. Probably won’t have the opportunity again as the property has gone onto the market.

If councils allow all households an extra allowance for rubbish, there would be less rubbish about

Sorry, I don’t get how people have so much black bin rubbish, regardless of time of year.

Ours is collected monthly where we live. And it’s rarely half full

Almost all Christmas related waste surely is recycled? ( paper or plastic), or extra compost ( own garden compost or in food waste bin). Very little goes in black bin

Surely the logic is just that if the collection is later than usual then there are more days rubbish to put in the bin, not that it’s an allowance for Christmas. So if your collection day is unaffected yous till have the normal number of days rubbish and don’t need any extra?

Our bins were collected Saturday not Thursday (same this week) and we've no change to the allowance.

@Caspianberg most wrapping paper is not considered recyclable and has to be kept separate.
Same with most plastics.

We have less rubbish as we've essentially only eaten one meal. Turkey Turkey Turkey Turkey.

Our bin days are only ever changed by a max of 2 days if your affected by Christmas but no one gets an extra allowance. No one has piles of additional rubbish on the street either. Most of the Christmas present rubbish is recycling so it either goes to the tip or out with the next recycling collection

No extra allowance here either. The only time that's happened is if the collection is missed, for example bad weather) and it waits until the next usual collection date.

If councils allow all households an extra allowance for rubbish, there would be less rubbish about

If people bought less shite, there'd be less rubbish! Just store what can't fit in the bin this collection and put the rest out over subsequent collections.

We've basically missed a week - bins were due to be collected Christmas Day, so no collection that week or new year's day, and out next collection is on the 2nd.

I've run out of space in the food waste and recycling is nearly full too.

Hence the need for the extra bags.

Not all councils have food bin waste collections

My black bin will be collected next Monday instead of tomorrow and I get no extra black bag allowance! Go to the tip if you create more rubbish over Christmas.

Now that you’ve been thinking about it, next year factor this in and have a less wasteful Christmas.

I don't think our council have every allowed extra rubbish even when they come late. We do often have a bit of extra waste but we just make sure the dry stuff like wrapping paper (which they won't recycle) goes in separate bags so we can hold on to it till the next collection if it won't go in. We take the cardboard to the recycling centre.

@TheNightingalesStarling - we’ll buy one that can? I always buy paper ones, non shiny or glitter
@Only2daystogo - no neither does ours. But that’s why we home compost. But most places in the uk do have food waste

If it's an issue help your parents, stop expecting someone else to solve simple problems.

Thanks to Christmas and a feed delivery for DS my cardboard bin in overflowing (we have a second bin for medial waste but not for recycling waste it creates sadly). So I’m doing a tip run with the extras.

Our bin collection will be 5 days late. They will take extra which is good because our adult son with medical needs is home over Christmas but we don't have a large bin now due to him no longer living with us.

Much of the wrapping paper cannot be recycled. Not everyone has food recycling/a compost heap.

Our cardboard goes in the recycling. It means you have to fold or cut up any really big bits, but it avoids the need to go to the tip.

As the tip is only open 9-4, that's a blessing for people who work. You have to book a time slot, too, and the weekend ones get booked up really quickly.

If only Christmas came at a predictable time each year, then people could put some forethought into how they might manage any excess waste

I discovered the supermarket collects soft plastic bags and wrappings. I save stuff up and take it round. Means our black bin has more room in.
Every three weeks it gets emptied and it's rarely full.

Our council, will have gone 20 days between collection, over Christmas when you have guests and more rubbish, be it recyclables, or in my case loads of stinking cat litter and DGD’s nappies. I have five small bin liners which I will be taking to the local tip to get me through to 8th January.

No extra allowance here.

This! Ours is collected 3 weekly and last collection (pre Christmas) we had one black bag in there! However our recycling is chock full each week.

we hosted Christmas and ours will be collected a day late and we’ve still not filled our wheelie bin.

i simply don’t understand why people struggle. In our area if you have nappies you can ask for a bigger bin, but other than that, what’s being binned?

I thought councils had a deadline by which they have to have separate food waste collections.

It was a source of some amusement here, as our council started it a few years ago and everyone was gobsmacked that for once they did something well before it became mandatory.

One thing our council does tight is unlimited recycling. If your plastic/metal/paper/cardboard bin is fill you just put boxes of stuff next to it. Larger boxes can be folded and left between your bins. Electrical and batteries left in bags on top of the bin.

No food waste though. Weve no where for our own composting bin.