What to do with unnecessary wheelie bins

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We just moved into a new house and the previous owners had a total of five wheelie bins: two black, one green, two brown. We only need two or three of them and they’re taking up a lot of space.

Any idea how we would go about getting rid of the others?

Ebay. I think you should get about £25 each for them. Otherwise Freecycle them. They're like he gold dust on Freecycle!

Exactly the same happened to me. I posted on a local Facebook group 'free to a good home' and someone came for them within the hour!

Do you have a local buying/ selling FB page? They'll get snapped up.

Or if you want them gone for free just put on a street with a note on saying free- please help yourself and someone will just take it away.

Don't you need to see if the council want them back first? I thought they were council property not householder property?

Your council will take them away .

i have 5...great for storing our fire wood and logs...or sell them !!

Are you absolutely sure you don't need them all? I have 4. 2 Black (land fill and glass/plastic) one blue (paper) and one brown (optional garden waste recycling)

Ah, thanks for the tips. I suppose there are probably lots of people around that would like a new bin and prefer not to pay for it (or not as much as the council sell them for). Should probably check that the council don’t want them back though.

Are you absolutely sure you don't need them all? I have 4. 2 Black (land fill and glass/plastic) one blue (paper) and one brown (optional garden waste recycling)

I think we only need one black bin and all paper/glass/plastic goes in the green one. Still deciding about whether to keep a brown one or not, but definitely don’t need two.

Your council website should tell you what they are all for - they all seem to have different systems!

The bins usually belong to the council and they'll collect them from you. Check when you receive your council tax bill that you are not being charged for the emptying of the additional bins. We can get an additional garden waste bin, but would have to pay extra on the council tax for it to be emptied.

Where I live you have to pay for the brown bins (garden waste) so if start by making sure you're not going to be charged anything before you look into getting rid of them.

Check with council, where we lived before we brought our own bins, where we live now, a different county, the bins are owned by the council. Check you won’t be charged if you sell them or give them away.