apparently our great Prime has seven bins and has abandoned plans to tell us all to get seven bins in his battle against climate change. With this kind of assertive action he could get a job in any hotel.
How many bins have you got? we have 3 and a bag hanging off the door handle
Annoyingly, the geniuses at Wakefield council give us three bins (all fine so far): one for general, one for recycling, and one for garden waste (sounds great you might think), but the general bin is green and the other TWO are BOTH brown. The same brown. Identical bins. Obviously never causes any problems.
I can’t fathom how that can possibly have happened. Firstly the garden bin should CLEARLY be green. But I will accept any of the 100 colours OTHER THAN THE ONE I ALREADY HAVE FOR RECYCING. It’s bin-sanity.
We’ve recently had a change where black bin bags are only being collected every three weeks! And at the same time they moved garden waste to a paid service!
Really feeling great value for money with my £270/month council tax.
I have 2 bins, but only because the council took away the wrong one and have taken nearly 2 months to do
anythingnothing about itWe are supposed to have a black for general, a blue for plastic/packaging recycling, a black box for card and paper and a teenie baby brown bin for food waste. Our neighbors were fly tipping outside our property and their bins were full to the brim with incorrect waste so we reported it. They said they would remove the offending bins and we should leave ours apart from theres so there is “no confusion”.
There was confusion. I have called them what feels like a billion times.
And now my shed is full of almost 6 weeks of recycling as I can’t get to the tip as my wife gave birth and now I’m back at work.
edit: I’m still pissed off so added more info to vent
nightmare. we painted the door number on ours as the dividing front yard fence no longer existed and someone still just used it for incorrect rubbish so the bin men wouldnt touch it
It’s so annoying. They’ve stopped even putting the “You can’t sort rubbish right” signs on the bins. Not that our neighbors would give a flying bacon packet.
I did speak to one guy who said something like “Oh, yeah, we should do something about that like hire a skip or something… Some of it is ours though” Yeah, it’s got your name and address on it. It would be awfully terrible if someone were to be fined for fly tipping now wouldn’t it.
To keep this brilliant thread alive 😁, we have:
Wheelie Bin - Black- black bags of general rubbish
Wheelie Bin - Green - Recycling - no glass
Small caddy for food waste.
Apparently we can put bags of batteries on top of the recycling bin and they will also be taken. Anything else has to be taken to the local recycling center with the usual glass banks in supermarket car parks etc.
Just 3 here!
Mixed Recycling Refuse Garden waste
1 small rubbish bin.
Located in In a small village in Scotland. The road is too narrow to get the normal trucks through, so there are special smaller bin trucks that come by weekly. We have to take care of everything else by carting it to a recycling point or the tip.
Non recyclable (black) Recyclables (green) Paper and cardboard (purple) Garden (brown)
We’ve got two garden bins cos we’re posh as fuck and the groundskeeper needs two (not really, it’s just permanently out of control - I got a tree trunk in one the other day, was well impressed with that)
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Food bin
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Glass, metal, plastic
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Green waste
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Shit that can’t be recycled.
batteries? does that count as a bin
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Paper & cardboard (blue)
Food waste (brown
Plastics, glass & metals (white)
Non-recycling (green (?) )
Four:
- 1 recycling wheelie bin
- 1 smaller general rubish wheelie bin
- 1 Food Caddy
- 1 Garden Waste bin (I pay extra for)
- Green - General waste
- Black - Plastic, Paper, Cardboard
- Brown - Garden waste
our blue is recycling, green is garden waste and black is general. there used to be a tiny brown one with a handle at our old flat
One general waste wheelie. One food waste caddy. One blue tub (paper and card). One black tub (other recyclables)
It is not remotely onerous. Anyone who thinks it is is either an invalid, in which case the council should make accommodations, or a lazy cunt.
I love in a flat, so externally I have 6 massive bins - 2 brown, 4 black (recycling and general waste, respectively). I do separately collect my green waste but, until the food waste collections return (it went, they threatened a blu bin for glass which no-one wanted and they offered the return of food waste collection again at some point), it just goes in the grey bins (I largely do it because my main inside bin doesn’t fill up much and this stops it from being minging). I have an Addis bin for recycling and separately collect tetra paks, blister packs, plastic bags and batteries to all go off to their respective recycling locations.
My brother has 6 normal-size wheelie bins:
- 3 x black - general
- 2 x brown - recycling
- 1 x green - garden waste
They were there when he moved into their new house and, as there are only four of them, they are under-utlising the bins.
Bins? You guys don’t know how lucky you have it!
- One blue bag (plastics).
- One white bag (paper).
- One orange bag (cardboard)
- Blue bags x2 (general waste)
- One brown bin (food waste)
And as a bonus we get to see everyone’s manky rubbish scattered across the street on a windy, rainy day - what joy!
Welcome to Bridgend, Wales. ;-)
Bridgend. My condolences. ;-)
Sounds very similar to the crap we have in the Vale.
Four wheelie bins
- Green: general waste
- Blue: plastic, metal and glass
- Brown: cardboard and paper
- Grey: garden waste (it’s £30/year for this service though)
The brown and grey are only picked up once a month which is really annoying if you’ve had a lot of parcels and forgot to take the bin out.
Green and blue are every other week.
