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?

Slip the binmen a fiver here and there and they will dump everything in the back of the 'recycling' van. They put my hoover in there once.

really

I have a bin, all we put into the bin is paper- we have more paper than any other recycling

i hang a supermarket bag on the wall for rubbish - it gets filled about twice to three time a week so one bag each per week

I have a bin outside just for tins

and another old bin just for plastci and they get filled about every 6 weeks so then I out them out

But paper is my biggest store - and most of it is free paper and cardboard

I thin it's easy to think everyone can compost. I live in a flat with no garden, what would they suggest I do with my food waste? Bin provision here is a joke, not least becasue I live in a student area, who don't even pay council tax for goodness sake, and the road is often just strewn with rubbish that the council refuse to clear as it's not in the bins. WHich is fair enough, til you factor in what the vermin control must cost the council every year

you are being unreasonable.

family of 6. we use cloth for dd4.

recycle as much as we can.

2 small black bags a week most week, would be happy with onme collection a fortnight

YABVU, family of 6 here and our wheely bin is never more than half full at the end of the fortnight - none in nappies now but never expected the council to wash my nappoies for me anyway,we really need to all curb what goes into landfill.

awww.....pssthiagain got deleted!!

This country is never going to get out of debt if people continue to have attitudes like that. "I want... I need... I deserve...Boo hoo the council won't do my dirty work for me". Take some responsibility for your own crap.

3 adults and 3 kids here plus a bad recycle service (only paper/glass/tins, no cardboard/plastic/textiles/garden waste/food etc.) Youngest in reusables and the bin is only full if we have a major clearout.

superchick, thanks for making me laugh out loud before bed.

well she did ask for my opinion!

YANBU

OP. get thee over to the nappy boards, you'll find something to suit your newborn
We half-fill our bin each week, and have one in nappies. Most of our wast IS nappies, but a fortnightly collection would be fine, if a smelly, option for us.

We are lucky in that we have a council that take almost everything for recycling though (cheers Dave )

For people who don't have recycling pick ups, the council will have a list of places on their web site, alternatively, most supermarkets have facilities. Tescos and Waitrose even have Tetra pak recycling.

Just a thought - our neighbours have a disabled teenage son who uses nappies and inco pads. They get those yellow hazchem bags and someone comes round once a week to collect and take to (hospital?) incinerator. Burning disposable nappies is really the only safe way of disposing. Could the OP contact the health service and see if such a collection is available in their area?

we only produce one black bin bag a week. inc nappies. So our black bag waste would easily fit into a hweely bin over 2 weeks.

you need to RECYLE, and recycle everything you can, and even if the council diont take it, take to local depot

I feel sorrier for the bin men TBH!

nick someone else's bin then put out two on collection days

you can also (if you're honest) buy another from the council

Consider yourself lucky your bin gets emptied at all!

Where we live, depsite paying full council tax, the binmen won't come up our drive as its too long and bumpy. So we have to drive our rubbish a mile to the collection point every week.

Damn right we'll be using washable nappies on DC2 due in 4 weeks - they'll have to be suitable.

Disposing of rubbish is way too easy these days - people just chuck it in the bin and forget it ever existed or was anything to do with them. Take a bit more responsibility, recycle/compost more, and use washable nappies.

YABU - we've had fortnightly collection for a few years. We're a family of six, one still in nappies. We recycle everything possible and manage perfectly well. If there's a week where we've a bag over, we take it to the tip. No big deal.

YABU - we have fortnightly collections (alternating recycling and landfill) and a weekly food waste collection. We have never had any problem with our standard size wheely bin even when we had a toddler and a baby both in nappies. And anyway our council will let you pay £40 or so for a bigger landfill bin or give you a bigger recycling one for free.

i guess it depends on how big your wheelie bin. Where we are we have 3 bins, recyling, garden waste and general waste and alternate fortnightly collections.

However the general waste bin is significantly smaller than the other bins and in the early days when i used dispoable nappies it was full within a week - luckily we get on well with our neighbours and we used to put some in their bin.

Yabu. We've had that system in operation for several years. 1 week rubbish, next week recycling. Our rubbish bin is not full after 2 weeks. We compost and recycle.

We used washable nappies for all 4 of our dc, so didn't have that extra waste.

I have some sympathy OP. As one other poster said, composting is not an option if you don't have a garden. I used to live in a flat that had no garden, no bin shed and a tiny kitchen. where exactly should I have put all the boxes /bags for recycling? If you don't have a car taking stuff to recycling centres its not easy either. Depending on the layout of your home and policy of your council it can be either very easy or very difficult to recycle very much and the incentive to do so is somewhat lowered when you know it isnt all being dealt with properly even if you do separate it out. Superchick - we pay council tax in return for services so why shouldn't the council deal with it? They don't do it for free as a favour. A lot of the rubbish is generated by unnecessary packaging which is difficult to avoid. Anyway, OP you probably will be ok to be honest, but YANBU to be concerned.