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?

Yes we freeze food waste too! In this heat it stops it stinking

This reminds me of the thread about people who don't have bins in the house at all.

I buy brown paper liners for my food waste bin. amzn.eu/d/09dAuWbu

I take them by bus to Sainsbury’s, to go in their thin plastic cage.

Sorry OP but your in laws are just gross!!

Are they hoarders or odd in other ways?

How the heck does paper work with wet food/tea bags/ coffee grounds??

Their bins must be rank. YANBU.

I do the same as you. I thought this was just normal. I’m so hooked on this thread now 😂.

Also, to the poster who mentioned it: what on earth is a living room bin?

I lived in Germany for about 20 years and lived in the Netherlands for a year. I still spend a lot of time in both places. Bin liners are definitely a thing there.

All of you saying things like “when I was growing up nobody used a bin liner” or “it wasn’t a thing before the 70s” and so on…. that’s like saying “my grandparents didn’t have a washing machine so I still do my laundry in a bucket in the garden”

I beg your pardon?!

I don’t see the point of bags in the bin caddy. It’s food waste for a food bin to go in a big food bin.

but I have big food bin down stairs so I just empty it daily and wash it.

Nothing like the hoarders you see on TV or read about online although there is definitely a bit of hoarding going on with one of DHs parents

I do line all other bins though.

My neighbours just chuck their unbagged rubbish into their black landfill bin. It is absolutely minging as they never ever wash it. No idea what they do inside their home. I dread to think 🤔 😖

I only use a bin liner for the rubbish bin, not for my recycling bin. I empty my food scraps into the compost every night and regularly wash the container,

Bin liners are a pretty recent innovation and increase the use of plastic and plastic waste. I do use them, if possible 2nd hand bags rather than bought ones. If you wash the bins out when necessary I don't see the problem. Washing hands is another topic.

We have to use compostable food liners where I live. People who don't use bin liners,say there's nothing wet or smelly, what about sanitary products?

We moved to no bin liners last year. Recycling is rinsed and out in the collection containers (no liners allowed in those). And we found very little went in the general waste and was clean and dry anyway. Bathroom bin was just recyclables (apart from cotton buds that go in composting). We have a sealed nappy bucket for washable sanpro. Food waste is either in a bowl while I’m cooking and then straight out to compost, or ad hoc stuff goes into the lidded food caddy. The food waste container for collecting I roughly line with a sheet of newspaper but is only meat and bones as we compost the rest ourselves. I give it a quick rinse with old washing up water when it’s been emptied. The bins don’t smell as stinky stuff doesn’t go into them. I wash them out now and again. No flies. But I wouldn’t leave an unlidded food waste container sitting about for days. That’s the issue for me, not the lack of liners.

I don't line my landfill bin. I just wash it out. No need for yet more single use plastic that will never biodegrade. But I do line my caddy, with reused shopping bags.

Our food caddy also has a lid and the outside one has a lid that locks with the handle.If they’re using a food waste bin that is just open surely it’s gonna get flies etc? It must stink. I make sure to keep the lid down on ours!

We have bin liners for the kitchen bin. Otherwise that would be totally gross tipping that into thr outside rubbish bin and it would all fly about?!
And then the food waste caddy. The other bins don’t though.

If you were to wash out the bins when you change them I don't see the problem. I have friends who are very clever with newspapers and line their compost bin with them every time they change them. So different systems can work. But if you don't wash out the bins regularly then yes that's gross yes.

I haven't bought a bin liner in 15 years. All they do is add to plastic landfill or burning. It's needless waste.

However I use old packaging bags instead.

Food wrappings go in the multipack bag from ds' crisps or similar.

I waste very little food, egg shells, veggie peel etc, but wrap it in paper - a use for all the direct mail rubbish that comes through the door - and put it in the outside bin immediately.

Dry rubbish & recycling goes straight in the wheelie bins. And all my wheelie bins are rinsed with disinfectant regularly.

I would prefer no bin liners outside of the kitchen bin. Anything messy could go in that. My husband likes to line the waste paper baskets which is such a waste.