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

Benefits of living in a block of flats. I have one bin. It gets filled up every other day and put out in the big wheelie bin downstairs. I only recycle if I have a giant cardboard box or something. Everything else just goes in the bin.

Bin day changed but no extra allowance. Mind you, the old fella next door but one isn't looking too good so fingers crossed, if he pops his clogs in the next few weeks we'll have his spare capacity to use too. Fingers crossed eh? 🙄

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Really makes you think about the excess consumerism and waste, doesn't it? Not the point of your thread I know, but rather than councils offering extra waste collection, it should be on households to manage their waste appropriately.

i ended up taking the wrapping paper out of the recycling bin as the land fill bin was due on 27th december

@travailtotravel - buy can’t you buy large pot yogurt instead of individual, and fruit and veg loose?

If bins were due to be collected on Christmas/new year in our area then they were due to be collected early. No extra allowances were offered. Food waste not being collected in the festive period so it will be 4 weeks worth by the time they come for it again.

Our bins are on a 3 week cycle except for food waste which is every 2 weeks.

There’s a lot on this thread about how perfect people should be!

My council charges for food/green/garden bin. I have a tiny garden and no time to spend in it, no time or need for compost. I have a small (energy efficient) new build home which only has a half size black bin. I can’t get to the tip/recycling centre as I work full time with a long (public transport) commute.

So my food and garden waste goes in the black bin. The garden waste has to be disguised in a black bin bag otherwise the bin men will not accept the bin.

My overall carbon footprint is on the low side but that’s despite the council bonkers rules not because of them!

I think most adults are capable of not fly tipping rubbish regardless of the time of year.

It would help if recycling was standard across all councils. Ours says to put Tetra Pak cartons in the rubbish or, ideally, take them to the dump. I'm not storing used milk cartons until I have enough to make a dump run worthwhile and I don't want to spend my weekends sitting in a queue either! I tried the small tins of cat food but they are more expensive and I struggle to get them open so he's back on pouches.

If councils made it easier to recycle I'm sure more people would do it.

If we leave anything extra at any point in the year our bin men just pick it up. Must be lucky after reading these.

The paper I buy is recyclable. That goes to someone else’s house with their presents, the stuff which is now in my house came from elsewhere, that’s not recyclable.

Food wise, I don’t know anywhere that does food collection, I also think most gardens round here certainly don’t have the space to compost.

Our landfill bin is going to be collected a week late, it is always full at the point of collection in spite of recycling what we can. I’ll take it to the tip.

Yabvu - plan for the waste as pp said!

We are a family of 4 and 10 for Christmas and our waste is well under control.

We have switched to Christmas bags (reused) for adults and wrapping paper that recycles so there’s no wrapping waste. My ds7 enjoys carving up any extra cardboard in a neat pile which goes under the bed/ in the garage until we can drip-feed it into the recycling bags.

All our soft recyclable plastic is rinsed clean and stuffed tight in a plastic delivery bag and we take that to the supermarket.

Soft plastics are the game changer - if you are recycling these I truly can’t understand how your waste is getting out of hand, unless you indulge in some kind of grotesque consumerist “my pile is the biggest” approach to gift-giving.

I’m surprised so many councils seem to not offer food waste?

we had it over 15 years ago in London, and two other councils so I assumed it would be standard in uk now, not removed

But If councils made it easier more people would recycle. Using Tetra Pak cartons as an example, another poster's council takes them as recycling but mine doesn't. Surely if hers can mine can rather than expecting me to do a dump run for some milk cartons!

That's crazy! What council are you with? I thought all councils moved collections by a couple of days, not missed the collection altogether.

My local council picked up a day early last week and back to normal this week

YABU to have started a rubbish thread!

If you host over Christmas get your guests to take home a share of the rubbish. Or just sneak it into their car!

If the excess is mainly non-recyclable wrapping paper/packaging, can't you keep this in the house until you can fit it into a future collection or take it to the tip?

I'm an advocate of using gift bags rather than wrapping paper - you can keep those you receive and reuse them until they wear out. I realise that it's what's given to you that impacts your Christmas waste, not what you give to others, but it's a good example to set (and much quicker than wrapping).

My parents hosted and we had two bags of black bin rubbish, I can’t understand why you would have more? The food waste goes into the brown bin, cardboard is recycled and most the wrapping paper was recyclable (dd had the job of removing the sellotape) this year even crisp packets can be recycled.

It will have to be provided from March 2026 except in a few Exempt areas (like South Yorkshire) which has a special type of processing plant.

Should add the wheelie bin fits 3

We have 3 weekly bin picks ups as do my parents, different councils

Depends on the size of your household? We have 8 permanent residents and 12 over Christmas so obviously generate more rubbish than a couple would.

I didn't mention what I buy. Only examples. The point really is 1) why supermarkets don't sell only in recycling suitable packaging and 2) why we dont have standardised recycling across all areas and its so different everywhere ... but I'm not sure that's something we can solve on a thread between us, sadly.

Our general rubbish bin is collected every 3 weeks. But over Christmas it's 6 weeks. No extra allowance here either

No extra allowance here, never heard of that being offered before either, not here in my little bubble anyway.
Our bins should be collected on Thursday but have been on Mondays for the last two weeks instead, back to normal next week.
We couldn't get the blue bin out last time because of the damn storms so that one is chock a block ready for next week & we will most like fill it with what we have stored away as soon as it comes back in the gate too. It's been squashed down already so that we could squeeze more in but definitely at the limit now .