Would you mention this to God's friend's mum

Actually I had not noticed the 01 addition so I hope my post @ 10.59 hasn't caused another poster upset because I did not include it.

Just to be sure , sorry if I have.

The question now is if we should just shut this down or take it into the realms of far fetched debate. Personally I favour the latter so today is my bin day. Anyone else got Wednesdays?

I don’t think it should keep going.

You're probably right. But it amuses me to think of someone checking in regularly for tittilation and finding a discussion on bins

Guess he/she has got the message now Trisher. But for what it’s worth, mine’s tomorrow. That’s plastic and glass, plus food waste.

Knickers to that trisher
Bins got emptied yesterday
I'm going out

Oh mines proper rubbish today. Recycling is next week.

We have so many bins I never know which it should be this week. One is every week, one every fortnight, one every three weeks, plus the bottles-and-jars box and the food waste bin. Just as well I don't drink much alcohol so the bottles-and-jars only goes out occasionally.

There is a printed calendar with all the collections on, but it is still not easy to work out. The other option is to wait until the neighbours have put theirs out and copy them, but I like to have mine out before it gets cold and dark so the neighbours are mnore likely to copy what I do (and get it wrong)

Always happy to discuss bins
Have put mine out today, for collection tomorrow
Grey - what I refer to as 'rubbish, rubbish' i.e. not recycling
Food bin
Brown - garden waste

I always wonder who the person is that knows what week it is? I always copy everyone else, and just as I get in the swing of it, along comes a bank holiday and disrupts it for the next month!

If you go online to your LA you may be able to sign up to get an email each week to tell you what you are supposed to be doing.

LA - one of my favourite places Elegran - make sure you take in the Warner Bros tour if you go.

It is a long way for them to come and empty my wheelie bins though. I think it would be more than three weeks between trips,

Could we ask to be self-emptiers and take our own bins? I wouldn't mind if they paid.

We could cross in a transatlantic liner every month or so. The bins would go in the hold - not wanted on voyage. Better put the food waste in a triple layer of poly bags (biodegradable of course)

Couldn’t the food waste just be tipped overboard to feed the marine life?

A transatlantic bin liner?

Ooooh a trip to LA - count me in!

Oh and sod the bins I'm off to LA

Our bins are emptied first thing on a Monday morning. Wish we could recycle food waste here, not that we have much though!

Well I was suspicious from the first read although I must admit it was a God’s friend that made me open it
We’ll bins it is then mines tomorrow we have three, black green and blue black tomorrow blue and green next week it is hard to remember which is which I try to visualise putting it out then have a little peep at everyone else’s

I might be making you all jealous here, but where I live, we don't have personal bins, we have colour coded street bins, large ones with an access flap on top. The grey ones for food and compostable waste are emptied daily, the yellow plastics/packaging containers three times a week and the blue paper/cardboard once weekly by a private company contracted by the Council. At strategic points in our area there are green glass bins emptied by a glass recycling company, and purple textile recycling bins that are emptied by a private company as well. I live in Spain, in a town of roughly 20,000 inhabitants. We pay for rubbish collection separately from Council tax, €180 a year, but only €10 if you are a pensioner on a basic income. The savings are made on manpower as one man drives the truck and it has an arm that picks up the bin and tips it into his truck without him having to leave his cab. About once a month a small bowser truck comes along and cleans out the bins. Each area has a different designated day for garden refuse collection. This is left at the side of the bins; small refuse in black bags and branches tied together. A truck with a grabber arm collects it and two men brush up the remaining bits.

Back to the knickers theme - we had to do gym in our aertex shirts and knickers but whereas a few people have mentioned pockets in theirs mine certainly didn’t have them and I don’t remember anyone else having them. Mind you, my mum refused to let me have nylon stretch knickers and made me wear droopy cotton ones!

Thought we'd successfully got away from it, craftynan

CherryHatrick Wow, that's a post and a half that is! Your bin collection system sounds complicated - how on earth to do you remember which is which, which day it is, what goes in which bin ...? Sounds an excellent system though - once you've understood it all. I'm particularly jealous that the bin-men sweep up. We're lucky if they put the various receptacles back outside the right house.

Bins and trips to LA are so much more interesting craftynan