AIBU to think not using bin liners is borderline insane?

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DH grew up in a house where they simply didn’t use bin liners. Anywhere. Ever. Not even the kitchen bin. Not even the one they use for food waste.

If I don’t specifically remind DH, he’ll quite happily take the bins out and then call it a day without putting a new liner in.

To this day, my ILs still don’t use bin liners. They genuinely just put rubbish straight into the bin. After they dump the rubbish into their wheelie bin/compost heap they don’t wash the bins out.

I find this… unconventional, completely bizarre, bordering on insane. Maybe I’m being ridiculous but surely bin liners are a pretty standard thing? Especially for food waste? Whenever I mention that it’s really unhygienic I’m told it’s fine they’ve been doing this forever and nothing bad has come of it. Please tell me I’m not being completely unreasonable here?

YANBU. Their kitchen must stink something rotten.

I would put a bin liner in the big kitchen bin, but nothing else, if it were up to me. I have regular arguments with my housemate over this. So far, she's always won - if only because the cleaner does the bathroom and living room bins automatically once a fortnight! I certainly would never put one in the outside food caddy!

PS: Your ILS aren't European, are they? I grew up in the NL and food bins having liners in was NOT a thing. Nor for my grandparents in Germany!

Yes rawdogging the bin is insane. I mean technically it’s better for the environment I’d imagine as less plastic but their bin must be gross and their rubbish will all blow out of the bin lorry.

They’re British (English)

Clearly she means the inside food caddy.

Correct

It does. The kitchen flies love it at least

Well, I wouldn't put one in there either if my housemate and the cleaner didn't do it for me! I'm dyspraxic, lining a bin is one of the things I have learned to live without doing! Changing a duvet cover is another - I use machine washable quilts!

Do you mean recycling rubbish? We’re not allowed to use bin bags for those. We use a bin liner for the inside food caddy and general rubbish in the kitchen bin.

We don't use bin liners. The kitchen caddy gets washed out each week (or more frequently if it's hot/full). There is nothing "wet" in the other bins that could cause them to be messy/smell.

It used to be the norm when I was a kid, but bin liners sort of became a thing at some point in the 1970s.

I don’t put a liner in the inside food waste caddy. It’s emptied into the big outside food bin every day and washed out. It doesn’t need a liner.

the rubbish is put in the inside caddy in paper basket things.

why would I need a liner?

You can call it food “caddy” if you want but it’s just a regular wastebasket. It doesn’t have a lid.

They don’t wash it out very often. Maybe once every quarter or twice a year. I’ve never seen them do it anyway but I’m told it does happen.

Well that's not at all the same really . If you can't do it for whatever reason that's one thing. If you can do it but choose not to, that's entirely different.

It's also a bit gross for the person who has to collect it from the outside food waste bin and transfer it to the cart.

Ours has a close-fitting lid. The external one has a lockable lid.

I use green compostable liners for the indoor food caddy. I double bag food waste too as ours is only collected every 2 weeks. I put liners in the general waste and recycle bin too although the bin liner isn't disposed of in the outdoor recycling bin. I also line bathroom bins and any other bin we own

Ew! My neighbours don’t use bin liners and when we have high winds their rubbish blows around everywhere!!!

BIn liners must be relatively new

as long as there are no bad smells I would not object to them doing it their way , and I couldnt just force my way onto someone else

Honestly it’s just a bin without a lid that, most of the time, contains food waste. Absolutely no advanced locking mechanism, since there is no lid……

What do mean by paper basket thing?

I use a liner for my Brabantia 30 litre kitchen bin - it uses Size G bags or similar.
I also use a compostable bin liner for my kitchen food caddy compost bin. But the bags always split and the wee bin has bin juice floating in it when it needs emptying 🤮Sometimes I put kitchen paper in the base to soak it up.
I don’t line the outside bins. Just fling the Brabantia bag in the rubbish bin and the splitting compostable bag in the compost bin.

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I use lidl food caddy liners and they seem sturdier than others I've tried. I double bag food waste to help

There are people who get their outside bins professionally cleaned just after they have been emptied - we have four bins.