an appeal on rubbish and recycling collections

The windy weather will continue into Monday.
We are lucky all recycling items are collected including food waste,not very much, as the little caddy is sufficent for us.
What we have been doing is taking our recycling items to the local super market when we go shoping and dispose of the items that way(except the food waste).What we have done in the past with the food waste(if its not collected) is put the caddy in the boot of the car,and hope we find a recycling lorry on our travels so we can get rid of the food waste.

I can't complain because our binmen are wonderful.
We've had a few large items ending up in our front garden from all the winds and they've taken them when they collect at the back.
It's not a job I would want to do, even if I was young and fit.

Being a single household I dont put my bins out until they are completely full (cardboard/glass/metal). I hate the things because they are heavy and clumsy and difficult to manage even when empty. My nephew visits once or twice a week and always takes away a black bag full of mixed rubbish as they have communcal recycling facilities by him. My neighbours must wonder why I seldom put any bins out - not that its any of their business.

I daren't put my food recycling bin out the night before because I have had it ransacked by a creature (presumably a fox, I know there is at least one around here) on several occasions in the past.

Gotta be careful with our bin men…. Monday they turned up at 6.45 am! Another week they’ll turn up at 10…. And the next 2pm. Sneaky. You gotta be on your toes around here.

I am amazed at how many of you have glass collections. My L.A. refuses to do so on the ground of Health and Safety. Have to collect and then take either to a bottles bank or the local recycling centre. Large bins for paper and cardboard, tins and recyclable plastic, garden and food waste and a smaller bin for landfill but no glass. Do hope those with bins due to be emptied manage to keep them upright. Perhaps Councils will reschedule, after all will be pretty hazardous for workers to be out on roads.

Bristol waste collection for Friday postponed by the council until Monday and next week's collections will be one day later that normal.

Our bin collection was at 5.30 this morning but I didn't put them out because they're safer sitting in the: back garden half full than empty blowing around the street. I'll put them or next week.

Somerset Waste cancelled today's collections and closed recycling centres.

I’ve lost count of the times I’ve been out collecting up flying litter from neighbours bags and boxes that were left with unsecured lids and open bags. Even my own which I wedged understand a shrub have shifted a bit. Just wish they’d hurry up and empty them so we can put them away.
We’re supposed to be merging with Stratford upon Avon for various services soon and when that happens we’ll just have one wheelie bin for everything except garden and food waste. I wasnt very keen on that idea but after todays mess it can only be an improvement.

We had a fly tipping incident in our lane last night - happens regularly, unfortunately . It’s now been cleared by our local authority, but will no doubt happen again. ?

Just saw on good old Facebook that our Cornwall council will not be collecting the refuse or recycling tomorrow Friday due to the bad weather tomorrow.

All our bins are collected weekly on Fridays apart from garden waste which is fortnightly We have been told that the recycling bins for paper and glass/plastics will be collected on Saturday to save bins flying around our streets tomorrow.

DD2 leaves for work before bin men have come. She isn't back till after 6pm and her house is on a pedestrian lane down a vennel. She can't take it in till DGS2 is in bed as it's such a rush to get him in, fed and bathed and bed in under an hour. Fortunately some elderly neighbours kindly wheel the bins to peoples back gates so very helpful

We put our wheelie bins out the night before as the men often turn up at 7am, when we are usually (still asleep) busy.
But as we don’t have pavements or footpaths we often have the bins freewheeling down the lane and then tipping over into the ditch.
MrOops isn’t too keen on fishing ours out of there. But at least they have lids so stuff doesn’t blow out in the wind.

People who do not tether trampolines should be prosecuted if any damage caused. They are lethat weapons in such weather- flying and landing on MWays, etc!

Hearing reports that some local authoritys are cancelling their recycling and bin collections on Friday.Could I suggest using the supermarkets to dispose of your recycling items when the winds die down.

I always put my refuse /recycling out the night before the collection date .My collection time is unpredictable (joys of living in the the countryside) so this ensures it will be collected whatever time it takes place.

Our recycling is collected very early on Friday morning and the garden/food bin somewhat later the same day. As I live in an end terrace, the two households on my right, have to bring their bins round the back of my house and park them in front. We always leave them neatly lined up behind a low wall and tonight I think the house will shelter them from the SW wind.

This week our collection was paper in a wheelie bin and recycling (plastic, tins etc) in yellow plastic sacks. They collected the paper first. In the meantime, the yellow sacks were blown all over the road. We couldn't even find ours.

DH says the roof has blown off the woodshed. It's pretty rough at the moment here in Southern Germany.

Freya5

I also used to work, full time, I managed to take my bins in . No one says straight away, just that they shouldn’t be left on the street all the time.

My point was about leaving the house before the bin men arrived rather than whether one worked part-time or full-time.

In my street, people complain because bins are not taken in immediately - either not realising that the owner might be at work, or not interested in the reality. And the reason they complain is because it is a very narrow pavement with cars (legally) allowed to park partly on it - so any bin carelessly shoved back by the bin men is a hazard.

I'm lucky and get 3 wheelie bin collections on the same day every week. Food and garden waste in one bin, mixed dry recycling in another and a third bin for landfill. I don't have a bin for landfill as I rarely have more than a carrier bag of landfill rubbish. Bins have to go out the previous evening because they can be collected any time from 6am onwards, yesterday the landfill rubbish wasn't collected until gone 6pm. While it is lovely to get such efficient collection of 3 bins, it does mean the pavement can sometimes be like an obstacle course once the bins are emptied! Some crews are so tidy with their return of the bin you can't be sure it's been emptied, others seem to leave them scattered haphazardly. No complaints though, we've barely missed a collection since the first lockdown, they work hard to keep to the schedule.

Listening to the wind last night, I decided not to put my bins out - no way was I going to get up at 7 am to catch the bin men in the morning! I have to go to the tip anyway this week as I have a number of large cardboard boxes, a dead printer and some broken garden chairs to get rid of so I can take any recycling items at the same time.

I forgot to put out my general rubbish bin last week so I will have to take some bags out of it when I go to the tip as I cannot cram any more in it! Could be a smelly car journey!

Dickens

Freya5

We live on a fairly new estate, one of the bylaws is you don’t leave your bins on the front of your property, after emptying. When I first moved in we all took our bins into the back. Well new recent residents have been lazy and not done that, you can imagine what is flying around our cul de sac, at least mine was just , along with the bins, strewn around the garden?

Some people leave for work before their bins are emptied - how can they comply with this bylaw?

On my (busy) street - many people are out the door a couple of hours before the bin men arrive, leaving their bins neatly stacked against their house wall so as not to impede anyone walking past. The bin men arrive, empty the bin and then sling / shove it in the general direction of the property - often leaving it slap bang in the middle of the pavement so that anyone with a wheelchair or pram has to either push it out the way or step into the road.

Every week, when I bring mine in (immediately) I traverse the street pushing other people's bins up against the wall so pedestrians can get past them... it's a very long street so I can't manage the whole lot. These are terraced houses so the bins cannot be pushed into their gardens.

It's a constant niggle with me - why can't the bin men be given enough time to do the job properly? If you're at work, you cannot bring your bin in immediately.

I also used to work, full time, I managed to take my bins in . No one says straight away, just that they shouldn’t be left on the street all the time.

Our collection is today and this week it is recycling. The recycling bin is only a third full so we decided not to put it out last night. Depending on how windy it is we will put it and the paper and cardboard container out later as they usually arrive to collect around midday. The food caddy collection is every week and they collect very early in the morning so we put it out last night but it blew into the road so we brought it in and took our chances about catching the collection in time. We have been in this house for eight years and the refuse has always been collected without fail, our council has won awards for efficiency and green initiatives and the council tax won’t be increased this year or next. We live on the edge of the park and volunteers collect refuse every week. All things considered we are very fortunate in where we live.