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How often does your bin get collected?
Just wondered as a few months ago south glos council introduced a twin bin collection. One week the black bin (normal crap) the next the green bin (cardboard) along with the recycled stuff eg bottles.
For someone like us with a baby it stinks to be honest, all those nappys ect. We really struggle to get it all in the bin.
Some people have maggots because of it. :yuck:
So whats it like all around the country?
Edited to add they won't take anything next to the bin or if the bin is open. Anyone think this is stupid?
Just wondered as a few months ago south glos council introduced a twin bin collection. One week the black bin (normal crap) the next the green bin (cardboard) along with the recycled stuff eg bottles.
For someone like us with a baby it stinks to be honest, all those nappys ect. We really struggle to get it all in the bin.
Some people have maggots because of it. :yuck:
So whats it like all around the country?
Edited to add they won't take anything next to the bin or if the bin is open. Anyone think this is stupid?
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every other week for the recycling bin thing, gets picked up same day as normal bin
You have what?
Our bins get collected every Tuesday.
A midden house. Y'know. A bin shelter. There's two outside in the back court. you go in and there's loads of wee doors and you open the door that has your close number on it and put your bin bag down that chute. (Of course, people just sput the bags in the nearest emptiest door)
Anyhoo.
We have two bins so don't really run out of space.
They collect them every week, but they only collect the recycled paper bin once a month. Which is not really enough, but then they don't allow us to recycle enough stuff either.
Never heard of one.
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Thats whats going to happen here! I fill my wheely bin every week (theres only 2 of us) and I recycle everything I can - the box is collected once a fortnight. I'm dreading it, it's going to ming - they are going to give us slop boxes for food waste :yuck:
Anything that isnt placed in the bin isnt taken here. The same happend in Livingston when i stayed with my mum, if it wasnt in the black wheely bin they didnt touch it, which i find very stupid but what they hey!
It sounds like you're misunderstanding the council's instructions; recycling bins go fortnightly, but not refuse bins. try putting both out one week.
switch to washable cloth nappies then!. I used to use them with Lenny. Its not nearly as much extra work as youd think, especially if you just use them for around the house. It just means you put them in a nappy bucket and then the washing machine twice a week instead of the dustbin. You dont even have to soak them these days because modern washing machines are so good. Saves you a fortune too.
Like with what seems to be most people, the refuse is picked up every week (Thursday) and the recycling box is taken every other week (Monkay).
We have a black one for regular rubbish, and a green one for like...stuff you'd put in a compost heap. We have clear bags for the cardboard/plastic/cans.
No there has been alot of uproar about it & they know they have done wrong but said it would take billions to change it back again so they won't do it.
Its all here
Thats another thing, we can't recycle plastic, it would take alot of our rubbish away if we could.
Nah thats one thing i said i really didn't want to do. Wouldn't save that much either as we are on a water meter.
cant complain too loudly then about stinky disposable nappies filling up your bin.
The nappys were just an example.
Well that's gay
If we didn't recycle our plastic (not that it all gets put where it's meant to anyways) we'd still be on like...6 binbags a week. And we don't have that much rubbish otherwise.
What's annoying is that like...if they have a week where they don't collect (like, if there's a bank holiday or something on the day they collect), then we have twice as much rubbish. But they'll only collect the bags that are in the bins...or that's how it used to be anyways. Not sure anymore. It's still better than having a pile of bin bags outside your front garden though :yes: