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. 🙈

It’s not just what, but for how long. You talk about the soggy things under meat - out bins are emptied once every 3 weeks. That soggy stuff would stink to high heaven after 3 weeks. I have a policy of not putting anything at all into my bin in the first week of the 3 week cycle. I put it it small handfuls into random petrol station bins or whatever. The council needs to empty bins more frequently. It’s absolutely disgusting after 3 weeks and I’m just not having it.

You cant recycle food that goes in the food waste bin

In my town you can only recycle certain plastic (no yoghurt pots) tins paper thin card they have just started taking corrugated cardboard again thankfully and glass

Plastic bags you need to try and get to a main supermarket to recycle crisp packets can be recycled but only if i drive to the next town and only certain times in the year we dont have a food waste bin and we have rats so I cant have a compost bin

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Make absolutely certain that they show you their - genuine, legitimate - waste carrier's licence. A lot of unscrupulous people will take your money to 'properly dispose of your waste' and then just sling it over the hedge in the park... and if there's anything identifying in there that it came from your house, YOU will be prosecuted.

I have kitchen roll, sanitary towels, dental floss, all sorts really. Baby wipes from the dog. Random things that family members throw in

An unexpected perk of working from home

A petrol station’s bins aren’t public. You are allowed to shove random things in the little opening.

We must be very lucky with our tip - they have a big skip for all landfill and don't ask you any questions or try to look in it. In fact, it's annoying as you often take things that they ostensibly have a specific recycling skip for, but they spot you and tell you to chuck it in the landfill skip!

No limits as to how many times you go, either, as long as you have what they class as a car - so friends of ours with a 9-seater Transporter van with windows can fill it to the top with anything and that's fine, as many times as they like; but if you have a Fiesta-based van for your work and it doubles up as your only household vehicle, you have to get a permit and can only have a few each year - even if it's obviously household and not trade waste.

You can go online & report they didn’t empty it and they’ll come out the next day, my council does anyway, just make sure you say they missed it & not that you hadn’t put it out

The bin lorries have cameras on them. When you report a missed bin, they check the video. If you lie about putting your bin out, they won't come back and empty it.

Plus the bin men must see all the bins that are out in the right place and would notice if one just got left on the pavement unemptied. I assume the 'missed collection' report must be for roads where they didn't come at all - extreme weather, lots of the crew off sick, the lorry broke down or whatever.

It's also really quite a mean thing to do, to report as 'missed' when you forgot to put it out, as although your only concern is that you want it to be emptied, you're obviously accusing the bin men of failing to do their job properly. If enough people did this, some poor blokes could potentially get into trouble when they did nothing at all wrong.

The bin men do genuinely miss a bin occasionally. It's happened to us a couple of times. They've emptied all our neighbours and missed ours even though it was left in the usual prominent place

They're probably the type of people flytipping!

You can actually get fined for doing this as public bins are not for household waste. If you do it ensure there is NO identifying waste in the bag.

Oh, yes, they're not infallible - just like any of the rest of us. My MIL's bin was eaten by the lorry and nobody came to tell her - she only realised when it was nowhere to be seen after everybody else had taken theirs back in and we had to help her contact the council for a replacement, which was less than ideal.

However an odd one or two missed is very different from large-scale, repeated claims of negligence - especially if that's the 'go to' of anybody who misses the collection through their own fault, as some have advised to do in this thread. You can see why the bin men would want to protect themselves from false allegations.

Where I live you go on to the council website, tell them you have missed a collection, leave your bin outside and the Council will have it emptied within 12 hours. Obviously I don’t live in England!

The refuse collectors make a note of houses that don't put their bin out and won't fall for that.

Rubbish, you bloody clown 🤣 we wouldn't have black bin collections if it was possible to get EVERYTHING in the recycling. Is competitive bin underfilling the new undereating on this app?!

Basically this. I had to do it and we have two labradors so a fortnight of poo bags were in there too!

Sorry op. I tried offering the council a payment to collect and they said no.

Sadly I couldn't find a private company where we live.

Our non recyclable waste collection is every 4 weeks so count yourself lucky yours are so often.

Either get one of the companies in that will empty it for you or do what we do and head to the tip. Half an hour isn't much.

Can someone lift you into the bin to squash it down?

I don't know how people manage to have a near empty bin if they are on a 2 or 3 week cycle.
We have extra bins for recycling, so we have 2 wheelie bins for glass and cans and 2 for cardboard. Our general waste bin is rarely not full on bin day.

Our bin men are lovely and if we haven't put it out, they will come and get it 😊

I would go to the tip but check if there was anywhere else near the tip I could also go at the same time.

My work is 30 minutes away, and daughters school.

Surely you can manage a couple of 1.5 hour trips to the tip this weekend and next???

Surely it will only be one trip for one black bin full

Bin men?
There’s always at least one female working on the lorry ( and at the tip) in my area.