Help!! I missed the general waste bin day. What do I do??

[CarolingCarol]

As title suggests!

I have no idea how I’ll survive 1.5 weeks without a wheelie bin since ours is totally full.

what do people do in this scenario? Our neighbours all have young families and have very full bins come collection day, with lids struggling to close. The nearest tip is 30 mins away. 🙈

Ours has a skip for non recyclables.

Ours doesn’t accept thin plastic. We also don’t have food waste bins. All areas are different.

Well we're a family of 18 with a pride of lions in a small terrace and our black bin is spotless, its never been used.

Not sure what you're doing to have your bin half full. You sound irresponsible.

Well it has worked for me at least twice doing this when I forgot to put my bin out. It was obvious that it was me who had made the mistake each time. Still no problem.

Ours only accepts bottle shaped plastic. That's how it phrases it. So shampoo, laundry detergent and milk etc but no meat trays, yogurt pots, bread bags etc and no local supermarkets have they facilities for those either, though our nearest Sainsbury's has recently started accepting plastic bags for recycling. Same with tetra packs - theoretically recyclable but the reality for us is that it isn't. The local tip doesn't do plastic or tetra packs either.

I tried this, but the council website somehow tells me that my bin wasn’t collected because it wasn’t curbside for 7am. I genuinely tried it thinking it was a “missed collection” as in - I missed the collection! A bit surprised they somehow know I was too late to put it out though!

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Maybe try understanding not all areas have the same recycling etc.

we don't have food recycling & our plastic recycling is very limited.

i can't recycle food trays/containers, yogurt containers, their plastic or foil lids. Me & a couple of neighbours take turns to take 'soft' plastics to Tesco.

So what goes in my 'general waste'

• yogurt containers (not single use pots, but the 1kg containers) & no I'm not going to make my own.
• food waste (no I'm not eating banana skins etc) no garden = no compost bin.
• plastic trays/pots from food
• .packets that can't go in 'soft plastics' such as those nuts come in.
• tea bags
• trimmings from the ends of flowers & dead flowers.
• kitchen paper towel. Not much as mostly use cloths, but use paper occasionally.
• tissues when necessary

cant think what else.

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Does your area take things like yogurt puts & food trays?

or are you just one if those people that doesn't bother to check & just shives all plastic into recycling without actually checking. Like so many.

We can’t recycle tins, foil, soft plastic, black plastic, food waste. It builds up.

Yes, funny isn't it how we don't all live in recycling utopia 🤣🙄

We are similar. I small carrier bag sized bag of waste every couple of weeks. Our waste reduced considerably when we started taking soft plastics to the supermarket.
I realise everyone has different needs but I'm baffled by what people must be filling their non-recyclable bin with. Ours has mainly tissues an those horrible soggy things in meat packaging that soak up the meat juices.
I guess maybe cat litter or possibly nappies go in the bin but what else?

Well, I dragged my full bin behind me to a nearby estate where their bin day was the next day and hid my bin amongst the row of bins from a block of flats. It was only a 5min walk along a footpath. I then went back at lunchtime and to my joy saw them approaching down the road. I nonchalantly sat under a tree looking at my phone and gave them a cheery wave. They emptied my bin with all the others. They drove on and I retrieved and dragged my now empty bin back home with me.

Where I used to live we had a sack of blue plastic Hessian type stuff, about twice the size of a reusable shopping bag for all our paper and card and then a plastic box for glass tin and plastic - with collections monthly for those things! Advice was once they were full you just put it in your general waste, which was fortnightly. Utterly ridiculous system and very much removed from the recycling utopia many on Mumsnet seem to be living in.

Yes, far too many don't pay ANY attention to which plastics can be recycled & just chuck anything plastic into, then crow about how they recycle most everything and don't have hardly any general waste.

meanwhile contaminating recycling with their non recyclables.

I’d buy a cheap lidded bin and put the excess in there

If we miss the recycling day and the bin is full before the next one, we just store it in a box/bag in the house. Not great but we wash all the recycling so not as minging as it sounds.

If we miss a general waste day and the bin is full before the next collection, we double wrap everything and put it in the recycling bin. Then once the general waste is collected, we put the double bagged stuff back into the correct bin.

We generally don't fill the bins though so missing one week isn't that big a deal most of the time.

We don’t have food waste bins, so veg peelings/fruit peels etc go into the normal bin, as well as all the food my severely disabled son refuses that day. Also his nappies and other waste products.
We also can’t put any soft plastics in recycling.

You can put shredded paper in our recycling bins. I know because I recently checked to make sure you couldn’t and was surprised to find they now take them. We can recycle almost all our waste. It’s really poor so many councils are so bad at this.

You can only speak for your own area!

There's still a lot if plastic we can't recycle here & idiots binging any old plastic item in it are a major problem, not the recycling angels they believe themselves to be.

You just need to get some robust bin bags and drive to the tip.

As for the council knowing, the drivers have to tick off who presented their bin. If it wasn’t presented at the roadside it won’t be recoded as collected

Shredded paper can be recycled if you put it in a bigger paper envelope. The issue is that small bits can get stuck in the initial machines but if they are kept sealed i. An envelope until the bit where everything is processed, then it's fine.

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See my post at 22.21