Open your bins!

In the face of ill health, disability and cognitive decline, it’s easy to forget to put the bins out and miss a collection. And if you have breathing difficulties, balance, mobility, sight or other disabilities it can also be physically challenging and potentially dangerous to have to present your rubbish. Especially if it means dragging a heavy bin to the kerbside on a dark evening in icy, windy or other bad weather.

This was from the "Carents" website

carents.co.uk/

As many of us are elderly here our kind bin men take the bins to the lorry themselves. It's been minus temperatures all week here but the bins have emptied when tipped up.

Well below zero this morning but no probs from the bin men who emptied our green (garden and food waste), blue (plastics, metal and glass) and black (general waste) bins before I was even awake.
With all respect OP, not the best suggestion.

Lay a piece of cardboard over the opening then put the lid down, that might work🤔

very good

🤣 very good!

I’m up at 4.30am/5am. When our bins are out for collection there is a long time between putting them out at 4.30am/5am and ours being emptied around 11am. This checking of bin lids would necessitate popping out every half hour, but even in north-east Scotland - where it is -19 today - our lids have never frozen so much they couldn’t be opened.

If our bins were left open, or propped open with cardboard, they wouldn’t be collected!

Morning.
Try living here .
No bin collection for over 3 weeks and 6 days of -5 day time top temperatures 😂 just bang the top of your bin lid soon opens.
We are both very old.

Yes, a thump in the middle of the lid apparently is what they do. I did wonder how my lid had a split in it!

The bin crew are mean to open the lid to look into it to ensure there's nothing contaminating them. So there is no need to do this. I know this because I heard ours swearing about them all been frozen while he tried to pull them open

We have to drive. 1/4 mile to take our rubbish to our bins. We are instructed to use the correct colour bag or the bin will not be emptied unless we ask for.” Special “collection at a cost of £75. How do we stop dog walkers from putting dog poo bags in our bins in the incorrect coloured bags? Or people ,(usually builders) from putting inappropriate rubbish in our bins.
I don’t know if any of the bins have been emptied this week as we are still snowed in & don’t expect to get out till at least Tuesday. I haven’t even attempted to get to my compost bin.

Yes and watch the seagulls rip your rubbish to bits and spread it round the neighbourhood.

I couldn’t open my front door never mind my bins 😀 It was a bit scary, I kept pulling and tugging but I managed eventually.

I sprayed round the top of the bins with my car de-icer when I defrosted my car and that worked after a short while.

If the bin men hadn't worked out how to deal with frozen lids by now you can guarantee that each household would have received a long infantile information letter telling you what to do probably with a threat that if you didn't follow orders they wouldn't empty it!

And incidentally I find that using garden shears to prise the lid open works fine.

So glad I don't have a bin. I have two different coloured bags for my rubbish here, much easier.

Leave them open? Don't be silly. We live near the sea, the seagulls would have a field day, there would be rubbish all over the road. Engage brain before posting such nonsense!

Bin men and bin women are the experts.

My bins were frozen shut when I tried to put some rubbish out the other day so I wishI’d paid heed to this thread. Driving to my sons the other morning I realised I had a red warning light on. Couldn’t work out what it could possibly be especially as it was still on when I turned the engine off. Eventually realised I’d tried to open the boot before I set off but couldn’t as it was frozen solid. But it had opened a fraction which set the door open warning off.

I don’t get very much I don’t feel for my nearly £300 a month Council Tax, one thing being having my bin emptied. That is of course if I wheel my bin from my house to the kerb positioned correctly and not filled too full meaning the lid does not close completely. I am not prepared to also ensure that the lid is not frozen to the bin by freeing any ice prior to collection with a screwdriver on bin day.

Engage brain before posting such a silly statement.

Yeah but mumof3 still not 83- so yes i would advise mabon1 to fill in form for bin assistance, also to mumof3 as you are in 70s and shouldnt have to do them all for others too , from flats.Its a FREE service.

rowyn

If the bin men hadn't worked out how to deal with frozen lids by now you can guarantee that each household would have received a long infantile information letter telling you what to do probably with a threat that if you didn't follow orders they wouldn't empty it!

And incidentally I find that using garden shears to prise the lid open works fine.

we must live in the same are - we would get one of those letters for sure, or even a big sticker on the bin lid!

area even!

I'm not sure where you're living Pippa but your charges do cover quite a lot of "Local" services.

- Police and Fire services
- Leisure and Recreation projects, such as maintaining parks and sports centres
- Libraries and education services
- Transport and highway services, including street lighting and cleaning, and road maintenance
- Environmental health and trading standards
- Administration and record-keeping, such as marriages, deaths and birth, and local elections.

As well as rubbish and waste collection/disposal

As an aside, the highest charges are currently in Rutland I think.
A band D property there (band D is generally how things are compared) is about £2,500 a year.