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Does anyone else ever have so much household rubbish that the lid of their wheelie bin doesn't close properly?

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saltire · 31/01/2006 09:35

And if your bin lid isn't closed proerly, do you get a letter from your local council telling you that in future it won't be emptied, and if you leave the rubbish at the roadside the householder will face a fixed penalty notice of £50?
Just wondering, as my wheelie bin lid is never shut properly, i have two kids and am a full time childminder so have lots of rubbish./ I just thought i'd do a quick poll and see what other councils/local authoritys did.

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Dinosaur · 31/01/2006 10:53

We recycle lots, so get away with two ordinary-sized bins - don't have a wheelie-bin for household rubbish.

MrsSpoon · 31/01/2006 10:54

saltire, we are Fife too, looks like they are really cracking down on this then. I noticed in our local paper that a mum with I think it was three children in disposable nappies was told she was not entitled to a bigger or second wheelie bin (which to be honest I do agree with the Council here), when she asked what she should do if she has more rubbish than fits in the bin she was told to put it in a neighbour's bin, but then you get the sort of problem you have been having with a neighbour's extra rubbish causing your bin to be overfull. Arrrrgh!

Bozza · 31/01/2006 10:56

Really where do you get all the rubbish from? I would actually be pleased if we went onto fortnightly collections because then the green bin would be emptied more often.

Generally if we go to the tip it is because of large cardboard boxes or garden waste - we don't have collection for this.

MrsSpoon · 31/01/2006 10:56

Also we are not on the full recycling scheme yet and I can't wait until we are as they will then take our glass which will save a trip to the bottle bank (which ahem, we are very bad at doing and I'm sure our neighbours think we are alcoholics given the amount of empty wine bottles we have round the side of the house ).

mumfor1sttime · 31/01/2006 11:05

Mine didnt shut this week - because DH forgot to put the wheelie bin out..grr!

Usually it shuts.

I recycle glass and cardboard and cans. We dont have any other facilities.

Kelly1978 · 31/01/2006 11:06

mrs spoon - we have recycling, but they won't take glass. One box is for card and paper, the other for tins and plastics. I have bags of bottles piling up too, took three the other day, was embarassing standign there posting them all in!

bubblerock · 31/01/2006 11:10

Grrr.. Don't get me started on this!!

We are a business (6 months of the year) but we also are a family of 5 living here paying council tax and business rates.

Wheelie bins have only just been brought in here, black for rubbish, green for garden waste/cardboard and blue for plastics.

We were given a black bin but no recycling bins so rang the council, they are now demanding the wheelie bin back as apparantly we are not entitled to it!! I am refusing to give it back. They want us to purchase orange bin bags from the council - £45 for 50 and use them!! Or we can use a private rubbish collection firm and pay! I get so angry because I pay the rates yet don't get the service!

We already take bottles to the bottle bank and recycle newspapers but we have so much stuff that could be recycled and they will not provide the bins to any Hoteliers - just think how many homes/hotels are not able to recycle in Blackpool!

mumfor1sttime · 31/01/2006 11:10

Just remembered - we live on a new build estate, and we had 3 wheelie bins for everyone to use for recyling, they were labelled for glass, paper etc.

Their was a woman in the area who was on site to sell houses. She decided that the bins 'looked ugly' and got them removed.

LoveMyGirls · 31/01/2006 11:12

i have 2 children (one of which is a baby) my bin is usually packed but we dont recycle at all this is because we dont have any recycling boxes - but i know some people do because i've seen them, plus our kitchen is the size of a shoebox so cant fit in anywhere to collect the different kinds of rubbish infact we dont even have space for our ordinary bin its in the dining room.

our council did try to do the fortnightly bin collection i think it lasted 2 weeks before there was absolute uproar and they caved in. if i have rubbish i put it out and expect them to take it, otherwise where is it ssupposed to go?

if you ask me they're just being lazy its not like the old days when they had to lift the bin to chuck the rubbish in they've only gotta wheel it to the back of the truck n press a button - there rant over

LoveMyGirls · 31/01/2006 11:17

would like to add that i blame the manufactures of goods we purchase for having so much packaging - really there is no need.

pesme · 31/01/2006 11:18

ours isn't even half full most weeks. at the risk of sounding holier than thou it is worth thinking about reducing waste don't buy crap that is over packaged etc. here endth the sermon.

Bozza · 31/01/2006 11:18

I just pile it up by the back door and then take it outside when there is enough to warrant putting my shoes on. It doesn't really take up any space in the house. Have you enquired about the recycle boxes? We keep our glass box in the garage but I know that neighbours just keep their's by the wheelie bin.

Avalon · 31/01/2006 11:22

Those of you who don't have much rubbish - what do you avoid buying?

I just find that with 5 people in the house, rubbish mounts up - you know, you're buying more stuff to start with.

LoveMyGirls · 31/01/2006 11:25

pesme - how do you not buy something that you need/ want because of packaging?
for eg, dd1 wants something for her birthday and its the only thing she has asked for but when you go to get its over packaged, what would you do, make your dd go without?

booza, tbh never even thought about it til i saw this thread but i could probably cope with a box for recycling paper and card i could keep it outside the back door with the lid on. as long as its not in the house.

pesme · 31/01/2006 11:29

i don't buy vegetables in little polysterene trays, i don't buy soap in little plastic dispensers, reuse as much as possible. i could go on but i will bore myself. it is just change in attitude generally. i do agree toys are ridiculously over packaged.

JanH · 31/01/2006 11:35

Have a look here for home recycling containers. We have 2 of these stacked in the kitchen, for glass and plastic, and 3 of these stacked in the vestibule, for cardboard/brown paper, aluminium and (at the moment) more cardboard. I recycle every little bit of cardboard down to eg paracetamol packets.

There isn't any recycling collection here yet so DH does a tip run once every 1-2 weeks - he either takes the actual bins or puts the stuff in a binliner. Yes, the bins take up some space, but they could be kept outside if you have room there, as they all have lids that close properly. They are expensive initially but I think it's worth it. (The recycling centre at the tip is only 2 miles away so not too ungreen to take it in the car - if yours is a lot further or you've no car it wouldn't really work of course )

We also have a big council sack for white paper which is collected once a fortnight, I forget to put it out half the time so that goes on the tip run too.

There are 5-6 of us here and we never fill one small dustbin - the only rubbish which goes out is kitchen waste (compost bin is full atm), juice containers, bread wrappers, tin cans and other random stuff.

scotlou · 31/01/2006 11:38

We always have loads of rubbish - we have a blue bin - but for waste paper only - no envelopes or cardboard - so that really only covers newspapers which we burn in our woodburner anyway.
A brown bin for garden rubbish - which council refuse to empty ever since my mum stuffed it with last year's Christmas tree.
We have no faciliteis to recycle plastic. Bottles need to go to the bottle bank.
We do have very good bin men who will take an overloaded wheelie bin and any other black bags.

JanH · 31/01/2006 11:43

Our council is pretty good at providing recycling facilities (was one of the first to take batteries) but slow at organising collection.

Dunno why they don't take tin cans - DH swears they don't - I must go with him and have a look next time (exciting day out for Jan! )

mrspitt · 31/01/2006 11:46

Saltire- I am in the East of Fife and we get our black bin emptied every 2 weeks! My bin is almost full by the end of the 1st week and the lid never closes properly though have not yet been refused to have it emptied.
During the summer last year i found maggots in my bin after it had been emptied!
My dh phoned the council only to be told "are you sure they are maggots" and "do you not clean out your bin every time it is emptied"
Also was told"there is a company you can pay to come out and clean your bin". FFS Is this not why i pay over 100 quid a month in council tax?

At the time ds was 3, dd 1 and I was about 4-5 months pg and the stench was horrendous, didn't even want kids to play in garden it was so bad!

We recycle card, paper, glass, plastic but I've now got 2 in nappies so my bin fills pretty quick.
We recycle paper,cardboard

Bozza · 31/01/2006 11:47

I don't really avoid buying anything except ready meals but that's for health reasons. I am slightly lazy but try not to be reasonably conscientious about recylcing. There are four of us with DD in disposable nappies and we only half fill our bin most weeks. So don't think an extra child would cause us to fill it.

It's DS's birthday soon and we will probably end up having to do a tip run after that.

prettybird · 31/01/2006 11:47

My neigbours are always putting the "wrong" stuff in the blue bins, ie juice/milk cartons (tetrapaks, cardboard, plastic bags, enevelopes - all which we were told not to put in the bin .

I keep on having to sift through them and transfer the offenders to the green bins, as I don't want them to stop taking our bins. I kepp meaning to ring the council to ask them to send us mfore of the leaflets detailing what could and couldn't go in to the bin - then I could pop it through her letter box.

At least it means I'll never run out of plastic bags: I use them to line our kitchen bin and to take other rubbish from the various bins around the house downstairs to the bins and as I now re-use my plastic bags at Lidl/Sainbury's, I was in danger of running out!

JanH · 31/01/2006 12:02

Recycle Now general information website. Links to other specific websites eg plastic recycling where I just found out I shouldn't leave lids on bottles because they're not recyclable (makes it easier to squash them flat when lids are on though. Drat.)

SorenLorensen · 31/01/2006 12:04

I'd just like a wheelie bin, please. We have two standard dustbins (one of which we bought ourselves at B&Q) and we always have extra bags.

prettybird · 31/01/2006 12:55

You can have one of ours Soernlorense!

I'm fed up of 7 bins sitting on our side of the garden.

It was alright when there were just two - the sit just ouside of the two garden sheds/old coal bunkers - but now they block the access in to our bit of the garden.

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saltire · 31/01/2006 13:10

Euk about the maggots Mrs Pitt. Its the thought of them ,and the smell thats making me not happy about having my bin emptied every fortnight.
I spoke to a man in Cupar today,he gets his bin emptied every fortnight, by Fife binmen. They seem to make the rules up as they go along, because he says his lid is never shut, and they empty his, he's never had a letter or had his collection of rubbish left on the door step.
I appreciate the need to recycle and do my bit, in fact in our area of Fife, there are no facilites for recycling tins or plastic.

I still cannot understand how the council think that by only uplifting the rubbish every two weeks, it will reduce the amount they put in the landfill!!!!!

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