Any rules re putting out bins - Covid infected household

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Sorry - probably stupid question - household has Covid. Black bin day tomorrow. Need to put out v full black bin - Am I allowed to put that and recycling out - have seen stuff online dated 2020 that talk about everything being double bagged and not touched for 72 hours - is that still the case?

@HaveringWavering I'm in Scotland; Test & Protect is our equivalent of what I think is called Track & Trace in England? Either way, with a positive result registered they call and go through your isolation dates as well as checking whether you've been in any high risk areas (eg hospitals) in the preceding days

[quote Mediocrates]@HaveringWavering I'm in Scotland; Test & Protect is our equivalent of what I think is called Track & Trace in England? Either way, with a positive result registered they call and go through your isolation dates as well as checking whether you've been in any high risk areas (eg hospitals) in the preceding days[/quote]
Ah OK. Nobody calls you in England any more.

Coronavirus only stays on surface for a few hours. So if you put the bin out the night before, by morning any virus on the bin handles will be dead & gone by then.

This is insane. Put your bin out! No need to wipe anything!

Mad stuff

Good lord. I’m very glad the bin men of this country are made of sterner stuff than the average MNetter. We’d have had rubbish mountains piling up in the street.

There’s no bin rules. Just put your bin out. We did when we had Covid! In a few weeks Covid positive people will be allowed to carry on as normal so not sure why people are worrying about bins at this stage!

Doesn't the virus die quickly on inanimate objects? That's what I thought.
If you're worried wipe the handle when you've put it out, the bin men wear gloves, I don't think you've anything to worry about.

Bins? Infected rubbish?

So why are people still wiping down supermarket trolley handles if we know it's airborne?

@HaveringWavering they do still call you in England if you report a positive test. My daughter was called last week. She said they were very thorough and were on for half an hour

@Oblomov22

Bins? Infected rubbish?

So why are people still wiping down supermarket trolley handles if we know it's airborne?

Tbf I wipe trolley handles but that’s because I am more worried about norovirus than Covid

I live in a flat.

As do many in the uk.

When I took mine out I waited until midday when I knew my neighbours were out at work (there's only me and 3 flats) wore a mask in case I passed the postman and out my bins out.

I did wipe the communal doors with an anti viral wipe.

But never once did I have angst about rules or taking them out.

My goal was to be as safe as I could for my fellow residents with regards breathing!

I think everyone is ridiculously hard on the OP for thinking of the well being of other people. Maybe OP has health anxiety on top of covid, maybe she’s just a very caring person who’d heard/been told about the rule from past and now wanted to quickly double check? Why on earth would you slate them without knowing anything about their health?? When they are sick with covid, which has killed millions. There’s absolutely no need to be horrible, just answer the question.

OP, if it makes you feel better, wipe the handle down after you’ve touched it. How very kind of you to think of others who could essentially lose their livelihood if they came down with covid.
Thank you 😊

[quote AnnieMay55]@HaveringWavering they do still call you in England if you report a positive test. My daughter was called last week. She said they were very thorough and were on for half an hour[/quote]
So I wonder why they didn’t call me? We were all positive last week and reported all the tests. Only got text messages.

🤣🤣 of course put your bins out!!!

@Oblomov22

Bins? Infected rubbish?

So why are people still wiping down supermarket trolley handles if we know it's airborne?

I do it as people are generally pretty disgusting and not everyone washes their hands after being to the toilet.

You are massively overthinking this. Put the bins out.

We put our bins out but I wiped the handle with a Dettol wipe - not sure if there's any chance it would live on the handle and transfer onto bin man's glove, but didn't want to risk them or neighbours. I didn't double bag as it was recycling rather than tissues, lfts.

Covid is over. When were the daily numbers last in the news? It has been dropped from the media, restrictions have stopped. TAKE YOUR FUCKING BINS OUT.

Do people disinfect their bin handles every time they have a cold, flu, norovirus or any other disease? Don't bin collectors wear gloves?

Btw we don’t have bin handles here, just the black bags go out.

I'm not being mean to the OP as it's not a comment about her thread specifically, but this is another sign of the damage that restrictions have wrought on the general public. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say deliberately, if I was feeling charitable I'd say it's more like the law of unintended consequences. People have been so blindsided by baffling rules, guidelines, laws and sanctions that they have completely lost the ability to make a decision for themselves without agonising about whether it's allowed.

A certain poster on this board is fond of saying "look East" (to certain countries in East Asia) for examples of how to manage fear a pandemic. Well I am, and it isn't pretty.

@HesterShaw1

I'm not being mean to the OP as it's not a comment about her thread specifically, but this is another sign of the damage that restrictions have wrought on the general public. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say deliberately, if I was feeling charitable I'd say it's more like the law of unintended consequences. People have been so blindsided by baffling rules, guidelines, laws and sanctions that they have completely lost the ability to make a decision for themselves without agonising about whether it's allowed.

A certain poster on this board is fond of saying "look East" (to certain countries in East Asia) for examples of how to manage fear a pandemic. Well I am, and it isn't pretty.

😅 yes "Look East" usually makes an appearance at some point on every covid thread!

@HesterShaw1

I'm not being mean to the OP as it's not a comment about her thread specifically, but this is another sign of the damage that restrictions have wrought on the general public. If I was a conspiracy theorist I'd say deliberately, if I was feeling charitable I'd say it's more like the law of unintended consequences. People have been so blindsided by baffling rules, guidelines, laws and sanctions that they have completely lost the ability to make a decision for themselves without agonising about whether it's allowed.

A certain poster on this board is fond of saying "look East" (to certain countries in East Asia) for examples of how to manage fear a pandemic. Well I am, and it isn't pretty.

If you have coronavirus you want to minimise the risk of infecting other people.

Millions live in flats so it actually is something to consider - I would have to walk down several flights of stairs in a building of 10 flats, several I know who are CEV so presumably would like to avoid getting infected. The stairwell is cramped and poorly ventilated. In this scenario I'd think twice about taking my rubbish out.

If you're just popping out you're front door I really wouldn't worry OP - the risk of surface transmission is minute.

Do you really, honestly, think that people are going to catch covid from your bins?