Going away for school holidays & nobody to do the bins?

[gardenhenn]

We are taking DC away for a significant amount of time during the 6 weeks holidays and will have nobody to do the bins.

Have asked my parents as they live 25 minutes away but have said it's too far and they also workZ

Siblings/cousins also work and have their own kids to look after and would be unfair as again live 25 minutes away in the same town as parents.

Now, I have never had an argument or falling out with neighbours.

But there is tension due to the varying issues around this estate and I don't speak to my NDN on the right ( I would do her bins at times but she has stopped saying hello/speaking to everyone which suits me fine as she makes me feel uncomfortable).

I do exchange small talk/ hello with the other and get on OK but form feel comfortable asking her.

We genuinely don't know what to do.
Anybody been in a similar situation?

The only solution would be to leave the bins until we get back?

Maybe you could pay a local dog walker to put them on our their rounds?

We have one very close but we now have to book, which is no real problem. The problem is going costs me money, it's on the way to a Waitrose and I always feel it would be a waste no to carry on after the tip!

Surely asking your neighbour is the logical solution?! That's what everyone round here does!

We freeze any remaining organic waste before we go away.

So it's the recycling bins: clean, dry waste. Why would it matter if it's not emptied? No smells. No flies. Go on holiday and enjoy making special memories.

I hope this is a joke

I’ve been on MN for over a decade and I think this may be the oddest thing I’ve read. And there’s been some stiff competition over the years

Just ask the neighbour you speak to!! I barely know any of my neighbours but it wouldn’t bother me in the slightest taking 2 mins to put their bins out. Give them a bunch of flowers from the shop or a bottle of wine to say thank you and offer the same to them when they go on hols.

Just the leave the bins out for collection?

You know when you’re going so don’t put anything. In the bin that’s just been emptied and so a tip run every week until then. Recycling can wait as it won’t smell. Or put it out before you go and accept it route left out. Hopefully a neighbour may move it back o to your property

We always put ours out ready at the end of the drive, they're always there and empty when we get back!

Clean recycling leave in bin for your return. Other waste take to tip before you go.

My god that’s disgusting.

I'd ask neighbour number 2! Surely there won't be much in it as you will be away anyway?

This is a complete non-event. Either leave them or go to the tip before you go away. Why are you posting for advice about something that is so simply solved.

Why are you doing the bins?

Pay a local handypersonteenager?

In my area you can’t just leave them the whole time, you can leave them the day before and must move them the next day. Someone I know got a fine for leaving them longer!

This

Why? Instead of throwing food scraps, peels, coffee grounds etc in the bin, we put them in a plastic tub with a lid and then in a freezer. Are you disgusted by potato peels or bread crumbs? What do British people put in an organic waste bin? Poop? Rotten meat?

Have to agree . What the hell ???

Don’t use the public bins for household waste: it’s fly tipping and occasionally people get prosecuted (with daily Mail sad face photos)

If there’s an over 10 year old within a few houses, go and knock on the door and ask their parents if they want to earn a bit of pocket money and offer them maybe £5 per day you want the bins moving.

otherwise just leave them. I’ve honestly never had a problem from just leaving the bins!

We have exactly the same dilemma as we will be away for five weeks.

In the end I decided to leave the bins and recycling until we get back, but make sure there is no food waste in the bins. Non-food waste will wait until we get back and better that than put out a massive signpost essentially saying "we are away for the next month, please burgle us at your leisure".

I'm confused at how rarely your bins are emptied - you said the general waste has just been collected but you're not going away for a few weeks.... Won't there have been another collection by then? I thought most places emptied every 2 weeks

YABU to ask someone to do a 50 minute round trip to put your bin out. I’d say no to that too.

We're just leaving ours over the summer.

The general waste will have 7 week old cat litter in it. 🤢 We are just going to have to double bag it all and hope for the best!

We're putting the food waste in the general waste too on this occassion. Then we will have 1 manky bin instead of 2.

The recycling is "clean" so no worries with that.

We don't drive, neighbours would probably do it if we ask but there is an issue of locking the gate afterwards and we'd rather not ask tbh.