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

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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

I think it’s April 2026 or that’s when we have been told it’s coming in here.

Our bin day is Thursday.
Alternating household one week, recycling the next.
Bins are full- Household not done last week, recycling wont be done this week.
They'll have to take extra when they do decide to turn up...

People blame councils for everything. Why not take some responsibility for yourself? The options aren’t fly tip or rubbish collection.

@millymollyminging - yes our monthly bin collection and the fact that we have no nappy bin option is why we opted for washable nappies. It was far better. No stinking summer bin stink, no full bin.

So this is why we don't have a separate Food waste collection... I got wondering when PPs have said its compulsory.

Ours is separated at the Processing plant so exempt from the law

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-68722390.amp

If so many people host extra people over Christmas, that means loads of people are not at home, and therefore not using their bins. So find out which neighbours are away and use their bins.

I'm away, I don't care if my neighbours use my bins, as long as they put them out and back and don't leave them full ages before bin day.

I think there should be a ban on selling non-recyclable wrapping paper. I've just checked my leftover Christmas paper, and it's all recyclable, but that's more by luck than judgment. I'll make sure I check in future.

And food recycling will be coming to you soon. It will be mandatory for councils to collect separate food waste weekly from March 2026.

Food waste collection

Our council doesn't do plastic recycling at all (still. In almost 2026). So the bin gets completely packed. It's awful and I don't think they can possibly be meeting their targets for recycling. They don't seem to care.

Oh, we also don't have separate food waste, nor can I compost. We've only recently been able to recycle glass.

my recyling bin is over flowing

We don’t have a garden. But we have more than enough room in our bin. I good news for us is our council are going looking into food waste collections so hopefully we will have that option soon.

Monthly?? Oh my goodness. We have weekly recycling and normal bin. We would be absolutely overflowing after a month and no doubt rats etc too. How do you cope? Do you have kids?

Ours doesn't. But we still don't have a full bin on bin day.

And the best way to manage it is to cut down the amount that you generate.

So much stuff comes with a ridiculous amount of packaging, it makes me really cross. I have a special loathing for stuff that comes in those clear plastic "blister packs". It's so unnecessary.

And people have guests over Christmas and big families, unsurprisingly, we are not all single people eating whatever's on yellow sticker at Waitrose at 5pm on 24th.

This. It’s not a generous move by councils at Christmas but rather them reflecting there’s a longer gap between collections?

Though our council doesn’t allow this.

I understand the bin workers need a holiday so I'm not complaining that it happens, but I simply don't believe all the smug people on this thread for whom it is not an issue and/or who are airily brushing it away saying we need to waste less or plan better.

Our food waste will next go out on Jan 4th and before that was collected Christmas eve. We haven't been wasteful! But we had 20 covers ADDITIONAL three course meals served over Xmas and boxing day, with a turkey carcass, huge even when stripped right down. This would be waste produced as well as our usual family amount of food in a normal working week. And you can't tell guests to clear their plates, and you must over-cater sligtly for different tastes.

Over the whole period,too, we have been at home the whole time, not out at school and work with a packed lunch, eating slightly more than normal, having more hot meals here and there, as it's, you know, Christmas. There have been tubs of sweets and snacks.

I can't believe any family, even on this thread, actually produce less food waste, recycling and black bin bags at Christmas than they do the rest of the year. And if they do, it's probably because they're out for Xmas dinner and outsourcing their waste to another household!

Also, I did a big sort out of my kids rooms yesterday and the kitchen cupboards and produced some recycling and black bin bag rubbish, as well as charity shop things of course. It's the only time of year I have time to do it and they are amenable to it as they have some new toys.
Yes, we can save it for the next 12 days until recycling comes but where?? Tiny garden, tiny kitchen, no room upstairs for big bags sitting there.

Plus we are having a party at new year like many people do ! We can store huge bags of rubbish in the middle of a party. And we don't have a big detached house with a side return outdoors or a bin shed or even a utility room or garage. Where do you expect urban terrace dwellers to put everything?!

Like I say, it's just one of those hassly things and demands some ingenuity. I am not asking for more collections. But it is a real issue not a pretend one.

My bins are emptied on Tuesdays so the Christmas and new year closures don’t affect me.

DD’s bins are emptied on Thursdays. Last week it was changed to Monday, this week it’s Friday.

I’m obsessive about correct recycling. Both DD’s are really unconcerned about what should go in which bin. I thought their generation should be more concerned about it than mine.

Tips are open this week.

Once sellotape is used, the recyclable wrapping paper effectively becomes rubbish as it can’t be recycled then

And for ours you need proof of address and then to book a slot, I have just looked, they have already gone for today, tomorrow and NY eve. Last time I went there was no food waste capacity it was things like clothes, furniture, electrical.

Can't you go to the tip?

When I have a sort out I never put it out for collection unless it's a small amount. It is sold on, passed on for free, goes to tbe charity shop or the tip.

That sounds really sensible, apart from the food waste.

Our council doesn't collect batteries (they can be recycled at the local Tesco) or electrical or metal. That has to be taken to the tip. And they won't take cardboard unless it's in the recycling bin, so you have to squash boxes and cut up large pieces of flat cardboard.

It may just be me, but I derive a weird satisfaction from jumping up and down on cardboard boxes until they're squashed flat.

Exactly this!! People commenting otherwise and saying they should anticipate cutting down etc obviously don’t have family and friends and are bitter!

We have a couple of days to cover, but bins aren't full. We get weekly food, and bi-weekly black v. Recycling. We can always put out extra recycling inc. clothes, electricals, batteries etc

All our wrapping paper can be recycled..... It's just printed paper .....