Open your bins!

mabon1

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!

Mabon1 - Harsh! Was it necessary to be so critical?

You can be a little harsh sometimes, Mabon1.

Not Spaghetti, actually my Council Tax is £2922 a year in Sussex and that is not the highest band.
I do accept that there are many things that the tax covers so thank you for reminding me. However I feel that I make quite a large monthly contribution to our local badly managed taxes and at times it annoys me!

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.

area even!

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!

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.

Engage brain before posting such a silly statement.

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.

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.

Bin men and bin women are the experts.

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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.

🤣 very good!

very good

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