Open your bins!

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.

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.

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/

Those of you struggling to put the bins out - can you contact your council and ask for assistance?

The lovely bin people who empty my mother-in-law's bins come to get them from the side of the house and bring them back again empty.

She just phoned the council and asked.

I have never not had my bin emptied because it’s frozen. The bin men must know how to deal with it. Mine was emptied yesterday.

Patsytaylor

I put a small piece of cardboard under rim of lid so top doesn't completely connect with the bottom

That's just what I do Patsytaylor.
Handy as well to stop the lid freezing when you want to put something in it.

Mmc123uk

Pop a bit of cardboard or something between the lid & the bin so it is just ajar..mind you it took me 15 mins to open my frozen back gate this week, to put the bin out 😆

It's not just ajar, Mmc123uk, it's still a bin.

Boom boom!

Mmc123uk

Pop a bit of cardboard or something between the lid & the bin so it is just ajar..mind you it took me 15 mins to open my frozen back gate this week, to put the bin out 😆

😁 Typical Mmc123uk. Sod's law methinks!

Brilliant little ditty Allira. I love a bit of silly poetry.
See! Certain posters! Rubbish can funny. 😊

mae13

Yes, out you go armed with a sturdy screwdriver and put some effort into it.

Bloomin eck mae13! You certainly like to live dangerously!
It sounds like the sort of bonkers thing my Mother would have done. Step back from the screwdriver mae13. 😁

Post! Not poem
Nothing poetic about rubbish.

mabon1

We are requested to put them out by 7.a.m, (every three weeks there are three bins to go out) No way am I an 83 year old going out at that time to open a bin lid. How old you are you Mum of Three I wonder? There are many seagulls in this area, I live near the sea, the contents would be all over the place.

I typed a poet then Aw Snap!

Ours is collected at 7 am sometimes so it goes out the night before but the only other bin apart from garden waste is a small food waste bin and the food is in small bags; I don't think it freezes shut.

Seagulls are a nuisance, they can smell food from a mile away! Even a trace left on a plastic container or tin attracts them.

mum2three you are a heroine.

I observed the bin men this morning. They give a swift thump to the middle of the bin lid and it popped open easily.

mabon1

We are requested to put them out by 7.a.m, (every three weeks there are three bins to go out) No way am I an 83 year old going out at that time to open a bin lid. How old you are you Mum of Three I wonder? There are many seagulls in this area, I live near the sea, the contents would be all over the place.

This may come as a surprise but I'm in my 70's. I live in a block of flats and I have the job of putting out the bins of 4 residents. I was out this morning at 5:30, dragging out the bins and then used a pair of kitchen scissors to lever up the lids as they were all stuck fast with ice.

I'm in Scotland, where it's currently below zero daytimes, never mind at night, and I've watched the bins going out. Yes they freeze, but tipping them normally opens the lid, and if it doesn't they just bang on the top.

Pop a bit of cardboard or something between the lid & the bin so it is just ajar..mind you it took me 15 mins to open my frozen back gate this week, to put the bin out 😆

We are requested to put them out by 7.a.m, (every three weeks there are three bins to go out) No way am I an 83 year old going out at that time to open a bin lid. How old you are you Mum of Three I wonder? There are many seagulls in this area, I live near the sea, the contents would be all over the place.

I put a small piece of cardboard under rim of lid so top doesn't completely connect with the bottom

A swift bang on the top of the lid in the middle will open the bin. I used a side fist yesterday and it opened no problem

This works!

We don't have bins, only for garden waste and they don't get collected during the winter months except for one just after Christmas.

Every Local Authority seems to do things differently.

A swift bang on the top of the lid in the middle will open the bin.
I used a side fist yesterday and it opened no problem

When the lorry tips the bins up, I would think that the weight of the contents would force the lid open? I could be wrong of course. My bin had been out three nights here (long story) in temps below freezing and it was still emptied the following morning.

mae13

Yes, out you go armed with a sturdy screwdriver and put some effort into it.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It makes it so much easier for the local hungry wildlife -foxes, rats etc- to access the contents too