Reported to social services

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My local authority went on to fortnightly collections and since then I have struggled so much with rubbish! I have 4 kids and there is too much to last 2 weeks! I don’t have a car so can’t take it anywhere myself and can’t dump it anywhere. So because of this and it being Xmas I have had extra rubbish! A few times the foxes have torn the bags open if it’s not in the bin and I clean it but still left with additional rubbish as my local authority won’t collect any additional rubbish and will only collect what’s IN the bin. I have admitted this is a struggle for me as sometimes bin collectors don’t turn up then I’m left with a situation where the rubbish hasn’t been collected for even longer. Well someone has reported me to SOCIAL SERVICES!! Because of this, Social services! Really! I’m so upset that someone would do this. What will happen now?!

Don’t be daft. They are not going to notice her bin is from another street and they’re certainly not going to police it! 😂

Absolutely do not do this, it is fly tipping and if you are caught you can be prosecuted.

a nice person would have offered to let us use it on bin day
Well, she's obviously not nice to report you like that but I guess some people would worry you'd start using their bin on a regular basis and possibly put something yuk in there. I know there have been MN posts about such antics.

take a carrier bag full of rubbish and dump it in a litter bin
I know you're desperate but please don't do that. Public bins are meant for litter and dog mess sometimes so won't be usable if it's stuffed full of household waste.
Are you on a local Facebook group - maybe reach out to someone who's going to the dump? Your LA is sub standard!

I'm not talking about bin bags full, just a carrier bag so as not to arouse suspicion.

You can pay for a private waste to collect a different colour wheelie bin - I'd recommend putting something like that in place while you get to grips with reducing your rubbish load, recycle everything you possibly can. I have 4 kids too its a complete pain with rubbish.

We are a family of six and after much wrangling with the council we were given a second bin when our rubbish collection moved to every three weeks (though I then had to get up early and nab it, as it was left at the end of our lane which we share with several other houses with no indication as to who it was for!)

You don’t understand because you are not in the situation.

Everything you describe is great - if you have the time. When you have the children you don’t. When you don’t drive it makes it even harder.

Just to balance everyone else who never bins a thing apparently

We have a large black bin and 2 recycling bins, collected alternate fortnights.

By new years (with one altered collection) both were full.

If a collection was then missed I have no idea where we would put rubbish. We would also need to do a tip run, and that’s 10 miles away since they closed our local one.

I understand how it can build up fast OP.

the storage box in back garden is a good idea. Also could you buy a second black bin? Our bin men take 2 per house if there are two there

Almost everything can be recycled these days.

Depends on your council - we can pretty much recycle everything - couldn't last house and my IL can't at their house in completely different part of the uk.

Glass - we drive past a bottle bank

Luckily they take glass from the curb as don't actually know where nearest one to us would be and OP doesn't have a car.

I was really worried when we went to 3 weeks here - 5 in house - because we also had some of the smallest bins in the country - having gone down to them and fornight collections in previous years. Our bigger bin we did luckily qualify for is actually the normal bin in IL and Mum's area.

Our biggest issue often cat litter or large item packing materials or both or missing a collection because away.

My neighbours had a skip bin delivered just before Christmas. Prior to that they did a clear out and sold the extra stuff they had lying around the house.

I can’t believe that your council hasn’t collected your bins since before Christmas!!!

Our bins are removed every week. If they won’t clear rubbish I would see myself dropping off waste at their office every single week they didn’t pick up. I think many people like me think similarly.

I agree with this. She’s also had some really patronising posts and most posters obviously haven’t read the op. So many posters ‘how much waste are you making, we cope fine on fortnightly collections’ when she’s said multiple times that they have missed collections so it hasn’t been fortnightly. And despite saying multiple times that she doesn’t have a car, people are advising her to go to the tip or glass bottle bank 🤦🏼‍♀️
Different counties have different rubbish and recycling schemes too, here we don’t have food waste collections, it all goes in the black bin with the rubbish. And they’re very strict about what plastic you can recycle ie not a lot. As I drive I take it all elsewhere but this isn't possible for everyone!
OP as other have said, don’t worry too much about social services. I’m sure they know it’s just a malicious neighbour but they probably have to ask school once something’s been reported. Hopefully one day you can look back and laugh at the ridiculousness of it.

Are you ok?

I'll put my hand up to reporting my next door neighbour because of the rubbish dumped in her garden. Actually reported on multiple occasions. But never to Social Services! That never ever crossed my mind.

My neighbour's situation is very much different from OP's though in that the rubbish is a result of them hardly ever bothering to put the bins out for collection, and household items that they never arrange to have uplifted. And there are multiple cars belonging to the multiple adults who appear to live there at some of the time so no excuse for not taking stuff to the tip - which is literally a four minute drive away.

The situation with my neighbour has been going on for a couple of years and i've been in touch with the Environmental Health, the Council - it's a council property- and my local Councillor I'm absolutely amazed that the Social Services responded so promptly to OP's neighbour's complaint because trying to get anything done with the problem next door to me is soul destroying.

I sympathise with OP's situation but I will say living next door to accumulated rubbish won't be much fun

Our council allow extra rubbish over Christmas (although bizarrely I had 2 carrier bag fulls these last 2 weeks, which probably helps with other peoples extra waste) make sure you report the missed collections and report any litter that results. The litter they have to take seriously. Don't compact your bin it won't get fully emptied and it pisses the loaders off, my other half did that once and one of the loaders had a full on tantrum on our front lawn. Large items of recycling I've been able to
catch them and ask if they'd take it extra, with no issues, might not be possible in your case though. Perhaps a community group can help with a tip run?

I wouldn't worry too much about social services I know two people who have been reported and they only got a phone call. I have been too and never heard a word.

5 kids and 2 adults in my house. 2 weekly collections like yours. If I have more than fits in the bins I keep it in a plastic shed type thing I bought for the front of house and just try to keep squashing it in each week. Could you put it in an existing shed or get one 2 keep excess in? Are you recycling enough as well? Mines builds up on Xmas and birthdays will all the excess packaging and wrapping but we fit it all in the rest of the time and I've got 2 children in nappies, 3 indoor cats and 2 dogs which make loads of mess too 🤣
Social recieve false / malicious reports all the time no one will think worse of you providing inside of your home is clean and tidy of they check. Just phone your schools head of safeguarding and warn them. They'll reassure you that it's OK. These things happen don't worry xx

Tip toe around at 4am and pop your extra rubbish in the nosy neighbours bin? Making sure any identifying characteristics are removed of course! Do you recylce a lot. I find cardboard to be the bane of my life and if we didn't recycle it my bin would overflow every week. Maybe there is more you can do to separate and reduce your volume? Other than that a bin squasher is the way to go!

Our local authority never do. I had 3 In nappies. Fortnightly collections and they only allowed an extra recycle bin! Pointless especially as our council only recycle bottles paper, cans and card. No yoghurt pots, fruit punnets and things .
So didnt help my situation

Recycle everything possible.

I've started doing soft plastics - I noticed on a rare trip to the supermarket that they collect soft plastic (which includes biscuit wrappers and bread bags).
I now take a bag of that every so often there. It's really cut down on some of the bulky space taken up by plastic wraps. We use costco so there's often extra wrapping but that can not go there rather than in my bin.

Report missing bin collections. We have it in our calendar to remind us which bin it is - although the man next door has it off to a tee!

Are you recycling everything possible? Does you area collect food waste in a separate bin and are you doing that rather than putting it into general waste? Is your bin lid fully closed? They won’t collect if it isn’t and that could be a reason for missed collections. Ditto not separating waste properly. Make sure to report missed collections online if your area does that, they should come back and pick it up. Edit sp,

If they are not contacting you in a safeguarding capacity, you can refuse an assessment. Tell them that you don’t consent to them contacting your children’s school. I’m a social worker, this happens often.

Do you not have a separate recycling bin?

Usually that takes half the rubbish

You can buy an old style big black plastic bin to keep inside your garden or flat.

Other people should not have to put up with your rubbish left in the street. However, cannot see that it has anything to do with social services and wouldn't worry about that but you cold get fined for littering

Do you only have the one type of bin for all rubbish OP? I thought all LA had a system of recyclable waste and non-recyclable collections at the very least.

they have a lot of time on their hands if they are sifting through rubbish.
I would be more concerned if you weren't putting it in the bin and allowing it to bank up in the house. At least you are trying to get rid of it.

i went on the school run and took some pics of my local area on my walk. when i said loads of people round here have too much rubbish i wasnt lying this is all over my borough. so ive clearly been targeted and not over “concerns about my children” these pics are from a short 10 minute school run.

thank you. she said she would speak to her manager and call back today but she hasn't.