Council is only allowing 1 wheely bin collected every 2 weeks

[curvi8]

Hello,

I am being unreasonable? My local council is only allowing 1 closed wheely bin to be collected every 2 weeks and they do not even provide a reusable nappy service. I have 1 child and another due in the next 4 weeks how am I gonna fit everything into one bin collected once a fortnight? I am looking into reusable nappies but I don't want to spend hundreds of pounds before the birth to find out they do not suit my new arrival.
I do not fancy having to take my newborn down to the tip to get rid of used disposables either. I feel the councils policy discriminates against new mums. I did phone to speak to the manager and his answer was 'tough'.

I would really like opinions on this please?

We have 2 ds's.

One still wet at night, and one still in nappies.

We fill one black bag a fortnight.

The rest is recycled or composted.

OP - it is very possible to manage with just one wheely bin full a fortnight (it's bigger than a bin bag). You just need to think about disposing of your waste in the most appropriate way.

I think thats becoming the norm. You should contact your council about the reusable nappy thing though, they are now supposed to put money toward nappies up to the value of about £50 upon presenting the receipt.

re the reusable nappies, you can get trial packs which you can return for a 70% refund if they don't suit you. Modern reusables are really, really easy, by the way, and you can get some ones too.
Oh, and if they're taking away food waste, paper, cans, plastic and glass separately to recycle, you'll find 2-weekly collections no problem. Just make sure you stand the bin out of direct sunlight...

that was supposed to say 'some lovely ones'. Oops.

washable nappies didn't suit mine - he woke up every time he got wet which was a fucking nightmare. But a wheelie bin takes about 4 bags - two a week should be enough if you recycle. We put poo nappies in a nappy sack and collect them in tied up supermarket carriers which is a lot of plastic but stops the smell.

I have 1 in nappies and 1 in nappies at night, and we cope fine. Since the council started doind this, I think my recycling has increased by about 70%. It's fab.

YABU.

We chuck about a bin liner per week, plus recycling. (We recycle pretty much everything and use a lot of food waste as compost.)

It's fornightly alternative here to one adult 4 dc I make ds1 squash the bin down

YABU... sorry!
What's the alternative? People continuing to throw everything away without thinking?

We've got a 16month old and a newborn on the way.

Recycle as much as you can
Look for second hand reusables
(we still use disposables at night, or during the day if I haven't managed to wash and dry the reusables in time...)

Yes yes yes leave as much packaging at the supermarket as you can. You have to take a deep breath the first couple of times you do it, but as long as you're polite about it (I just generally ask where I can leave it), they don't seem to mind.

I know it's easy to panic about stuff, but I promise this is something that it's not worth getting too worried about. Save your energy for your new baby

It should be do-able.

Do you have a garden where you can put a compost bin? I put loads in our compost. And I take batteries / foil / raggy clothes / metal / glass to the tip every so often. I'm a bit OCD though so I like sorting it all out.

I've had 2 in (reusable) nappies, and once a fortnight rubbish collection for years now.

Don't understand your point that the council don't provide a reusable service? You want the council to buy your nappies for you? Actually, it's cheaper to buy them 2nd hand than it is to have 2 in disposables. You wash them yourself.

Other than that, you recycle everything. We don't have a plastic collection, so tend to take plastic for recycling when I go to the supermarket.

we use washable nappies during the day but i put a disposable at night because I have tried everything and they still leak unless i change them about twice at night, fine with a newborn but I dont like the thought of waking my 16 month old to change her. We dont have a recycling collection at all here so all of our rubbish goes into black bin bags (no wheelie bins either).

umm why on earth should it be a problem?!!

have four children and have had times with two in nappies, the fortnightly bin collectin has never been a problem at all. expecting baby no 5 in nov and so i will again have two in nappies and i cant see it being a problem even tho we will be a SEVEN person household!

technically i think once there are five or more people in a house you are allowed to have a bigger wheely bin? or at least you are here, but we have never bothered to ask for the bigger bin as we simply dont need it!

I've had two in disposable nappies for the past 20 months and it can be done. We recycle all the stuff the council collects plus plastic bottles and tetrapack.

If we were having a big clear-out we'd have to take some stuff to the tip because it wouldn't fit. But day-to-day you shouldn't have a problem.

Arf at the notion that councils have fortnightly collections because they care about the environment...

We have a fortnightly collection for household waste. I recycle all paper, glass, plastic and gardening waste. My wheelie bin is half full every fortnight.

I must be lucky we have wheely bin and recyclign wheelie bin collected every week. Mind you so we should with the amount we pay for council tax.

we are about to move house to an area with wheelie bins - Im worried now!. As I said we have no recycling at all here and since we have no car EVERYTHING goes in the bin (well we have a compost bin but since I cry when i see a worm or maggot it isnt used a huge amount). We currently make around 4 medium black bags of rubbish per week - would this fit in a wheelie bin if we sorted it into recycling/non recycling at the new house? .

We have 4 DC's and have had fortnightly bin collections for years. It's fine, you just have to recycle instead.

I thought everyone had fortnightly collection? My bin never gets past half full. There is a massive landfill issue to address and the councils are trying to do something about. cloth nappies save landfill and you money in the long run. Recycle and compost what you can and your'll be fine

what do you think happens in other area? Councils all over the country have stopped weekly collections for over 2 years in some eareas - do you knwo what

People have got used to it and used to recycling - regardkess of where the recycling goes -it take s alot out of your bin and therefore you then don't need more than one wheely bin

you could use cloth nappies instead of disposable and thus creat less waste - price wise it wouldn't be a lot different

I ahve 3 DC, and we have our bins emptied every other week.

But we do have a compost bin emptied every other week, and a recycling bin emptied every other week.

My recycling bin is always very full, but my normal rubbish is usually only half full. so I could get a lot of disposables in there if I needed to.

um - you do realise that the recycling and the rubbish goes to landfill, it doesn't always get used and soemtimes they just take the green rubbish to landfill aswell

yes Ivykaty I have heard that too. I believe it happens in my area so recycling is just a total waste of time and effort.