To be fussy about my wheelie bin?

I use something called Fresh Bin . It's a yellow powder smells a bit like Dettol. It keeps the waste bin fresh in hot weather. We have two garden brown bins £25 each ,a blue recycling and a black general waste all wheelie. It's about time there was some co ordination in this country.

Ive just seen this thread, it must be me. Sod the bin I don't
care if its clean or not, its just a bin and no one cares, I chuck anything in it, food, yes I will bag it just to avoid smells and maggots but anything else goes in. My paper/plastic bin presumable stays clean as the tins get rinsed but everything else goes in unwrapped, there is a rule that you do not put anything in the recycling bin in a bag or they wont collect. The compost bin did give me rats and I never put cooked food only skin and grass cuttings, nit even bones. I had trouble with rats, so they must be attracted by skin and bits of mouldy veg. After all I had pet rats, mice and hamsters when I was young and I fed them all veg and fruit.
So Im not going to clean m y weelie bin anytime soon and anyone who pays for it to be done has more money than sense.

I always empty my dust from the vacuum into a plastic bag, too. All rubbish in the landfill bin is bagged. All tins and bottles in the recycling bin are washed first. And if I have any potentially revoltingly smelly food waste - bits of meat or fish skins etc - they go into a bag in the freezer until the night before the bin men come. I used to put all that kind of stuff down the waste disposal -if it didn't go into the waste-eating dog first! -but I hardly use that now on the grounds of saving water and electricity.

Granniefae wrote "what I can't stand is when other people ...don't respect which bin should have what in it".
We have communal bins in the village, you have to take your rubbish there. It's really annoying when people fill up the recyclable bins to overflowing with huge unflattened cardboard boxes so nobody else can put stuff in them.
Or worse, put the boxes in the non-recycling bin. I have my prime suspects!
In these days of buying online cartons are taking over.

I'm with you. We have three bins, one for garden/ organic waste (the latter is always bagged (biodegradeable, of course), one for recyclable (everything bar cardboard is washed first) with a box for newspapers etc etc), and one for everything else. This last bin is rather dusty and I would wash it out if it started to smell, but if it's only got dry stuff in , I'm not bothered. Sorry chums. What I can't stand is when other people (like the workmen I have had this year for three months) don't respect which bin should have what in it.
Can anyone tell me why I always end up in a house where the rubbish is always blown to my front????

Totally agree: we have 2 wheelie bins, one for 'green' waste which includes food scraps (cooked and uncooked) and another for 'unrecyclables. Everything in the latter is bagged and certainly all the food waste is bagged in the other. The possible consequences of not bagging the food waste make me shudder!

we have a food bin for cooked waste and compost the rest, being vegetarian we don't have a problem with bones etc, we recycle whatever we can and most of the stuff we can't is put in the rubbish bin which is emptied by machine, most bagged or 'clean' waste but there isn't much left to go in it tbh, I never find it a problem and life is too short to worry about a slightly grubby bin, as long as it doesn't smell. I sometimes wonder what people find to throw away!

TriciaF, I frequently do this if it's sloppy ! It looks disgusting and I derive a lot of pleasure from it.

i think I may need to get out more !

He he he !!!

I spent most of the afternoon using a garden hoe to fish through my recycling bin which gets emptied tomorrow morning. I couldn't find the bottom half of my stick blender after making soup for lunch. It wasn't in any of the normal places - dishwasher, pan drawer, odds and sods cupboard. DH had taken a bag of recycling stuff out just after lunch and as he has sight issues I wondered if it had gone out with the empties.

I finally found it in the bin.......The Bread Bin

Rubbish in a bin?! Who knew !!

Our "waste" wheelie gets washed out by a man with a cleansing machine then a large plastic bag is put in as a lining. Very reasonable charge too.

Nope, plastic bags add to landfill. I am fussier about the environment.

We don't have much waste as there are generally only the two of us. We have one wheelie bin for everything and I don't worry too much about plastic bags in that. We compost everything that is compostable, burn what is burnable, flush down the loo what is 'pooh like' (I know, TMI ) other stuff gets wrapped in newspaper as necessary and everything else goes in general waste via the lined kitchen bin. DH slings anything from the garden which is non-compostable in to the wheelie which then gets pressure washed every now and then but the wheelie is pretty clean and doesn't smell.
I have the best olfactory system in our house so am the governing force in that respect.

Systems vary country-wide. Here.in Cheshire, we can put plastic bags in the recycling bin but have been asked not to wrap anything; so the bags go in separately. The only plastics that can't be recycled under this system is the hard, ridged kind like some bottle tops.

What's wrong with putting "cooked slop" down the toilet? My Mum always did that. After all that's what faeces is.
As long as it's not grease.
We have a septic tank, not mains drainage, if that makes any difference.

I use biodegradable black bags for my landfill bin. Does anyone know why the new bags smell of tobacco? One roll of extra strong ones I once bought smelt so strongly that I couldn't bear to use them.

We have been told NOT to put plastic bags into the recycling bin. They are not needed as the recycling is cardboard, paper, and washed (or at least rinsed) tins and plastic. Nothing sticky or dirty to mess up the green bin to be collected fortnightly.

Food waste goes into a small caddy bin lined with a biodegradable bag, and emptied into a slightly bigger bin and put out once a week. I wash both of those out as they do get a bit mucky.

General rubbish goes into the lined pedal bin, the liner bag tied when it is full and put into the landfill bin, but some stuff is also thrown straight into that bin. no point adding more plastic to landfill if the items are not dirty. The bin is emptied fortnightly.

Garden rubbish goes straight into the brown bin, emptied fortmightly.

Rinsed bottles and jars go into a blue box, without a liner, emptied fortnightly (or it would be if there were enough in it to be worth putting it out that often - every few months is often enough.)

Until they had a recycling facility at work he also used to bring ALL of the recycling home from his office.

According to my local authority I do not have a licence to transport waste and therefore cannot take my work rubbish home. I have to have two bins at work and pay for them to be emptied. They are full about once every two months because we have so little rubbish at work.

I can't think of anything worse than putting raw waste food into a wheelie bin. I always put any rubbish whether it be food waste or recycling waste into bin liners first.

My family on the other hand negate everything I do and mess up all the bins continuously so they stink to high heaven.

I wash out the bins inside and out as I don't want them to be any more dirty than they are - being bins

The only bin I use differently is the brown bin for garden waste. Every so often I wash that out, but the waste goes straight in as garden waste goes directly into the skip without any plastic.

Oh thank goodness for that!

I don't see the point of bagging non-recyclable waste items as long as they aren't organic waste. They are all going to landfill and the plastic bags simply add more waste. Here almost every item of packaging can be recycled which leaves very little for the black wheelie bin. Anything organic can go to the compost heap, though at the moment I am wondering how the said compost heap fared during Saturday's flood. I have tried several times to post this, but nothing doing. I hope these attempts don't eventually result in multiple copies!

I am a bit OCD about cleanliness anyway but bins are a special case for me. My mother had appalling hygiene habits, she:- kept food in the fridge until it was mouldy, had horrific dirty, smelly bins and never washed her frying or grill pans. I am afraid I have rather reacted against this and all of my rubbish is bagged before it goes in the wheelie bin. However, I am not alone in this. My husband is as circumpect about bins and hygiene as I am.

I put loose rubbish in my recycle wheelie bin but never in my black bin. Everything goes into black rubbish bags, especially in the Summer when there are flies around. I usually cut up an onion and put that in to stop any odours, too!!! My husband thinks I'm barmy

we have 2 wheelie bins, 1 for general rubbish I always bag & tie anything that goes in that bin we also have a green waste bin (£35 per year) these are collected on alternate weeks. we also have 2 boxes 1 for glass & cardboard the other for cans & plastic, also a food waste bin for collection a caddy for indoors (I use green recycleable bags for food waste. these are collected weekly. we also have a blue plastic sack for white paper, newspapers, magazines etc brown paper has to go in with cardboard. I have my list of what goes where pinned on a corkboard in my kitchen.

I have lived in different areas of England & every Council is different - wish it wsas the same wherever you live it would save a lot of confusion