if your recycling or rubbish collections days are Monday,Tuesday,Wedne sday

During the last very hot spell I took some cans of drink from my fridge for the bin collectors. The lovely young lady who is one of them thanked me profusely and said nobody had ever done that before. Yes, I expect they have water in the vehicle, but I thought a chilled drink each would be welcome, and it was!

My mother-in-law never had to put her bins out once she used a walking stick as she registered with her local council saying that it was difficult to do. The refuse team come to the side of the house, collect them and then them return them to their place.

I expect most councils can do this.

Must be a new thing MG. I’ve never known bin men go through our bins. I will check on the ring doorbell next time & report back 😂

I never put my bins out !! My wonderful neighbours share my bins and use theirs as water butt's or to store wood.They do have their own garden waste bin and as they do my garden I don't need one.
This has been going on for six years and we've yet to face any problems.

mine are very early on a Monday too

I have green (garden waste) bags and blue (recycling) bags and a box for glass. We have no food waste collections yet and not expected until August 2027. Fortnightly collections until then.

Cossy

The reason that organisations are “picky” and “jobs worthy” it’s probably due to knowing that for that stuff that is actually recycled rather than put in a hole or burnt, if things are incorrect bins etc the entire bin of recycling could be rejected.

Yes but doing what you suggest would involve lifting bags out of the bin and using an implement to slash the bag(s) open, then rummaging through them, allowing the contents to spill onto the pavements; (most of our neighbour’s general waste bins are always full now it’s on a 3 weekly collection cycle).

In general, bin crews (refuse collectors) do not have to open black rubbish bags inside standard general waste wheelie bins, as long as the bags contain everyday household waste.
However, they are permitted to open, inspect, or even reject your bags in certain scenarios e.g Recycling Bins.

Recycling is not supposed to be in bin bags.
If black bags are placed in your recycling bin, crews will often open them to check for contamination or refuse to empty the bin entirely until the plastic bag is removed.

Many councils require clear sacks rather than black sacks for recycling so they can easily verify what is inside.

Side Waste & Overfilling: If you leave loose extra black bags beside your bin, crews often will not take them (unless it is a specifically authorised excess-waste collection day).
Occasionally, collectors will rip open these side-waste bags to check for recyclables before taking them or leaving them behind.

watermeadow

I always give our binmen a wave and shout ‘Thankyou!’
One replied, ‘I’ve been in this job three weeks and you’re the first to say Thankyou’.
It’s a horrid job, couldn’t we all give them a smile and a wave?

It’s a “horrid” quite well paid job….😁

I always give our binmen a wave and shout ‘Thankyou!’
One replied, ‘I’ve been in this job three weeks and you’re the first to say Thankyou’.
It’s a horrid job, couldn’t we all give them a smile and a wave?

The reason that organisations are “picky” and “jobs worthy” it’s probably due to knowing that for that stuff that is actually recycled rather than put in a hole or burnt, if things are incorrect bins etc the entire bin of recycling could be rejected.

MT62

We have food bins now as well which I think are great.
Our friends in another town said binmen were going through their bins looking for food waste, if they found any evidence of food they were just leaving the bins un-emptied.
I believe also we are supposed to be getting new bin for soft plastic waste, tbh, I don’t want another bin. I just take mine to our local supermarket.

I’m expect there will be some jobsworths doing what you say, but as we’re expected to put our general waste in bin bags, we simply take out the bag we have in the kitchen bin.
Our bin men take the bins by the handles, manœuvre them to onto the lorry and the lorry mechanism lifts and tips the bin to empty it. They don’t actually need to open the bin at all.

A friend of my daughter's years ago worked as a "bin lady" for a year between school and travelling the world.

She was so fit and happy whenever we saw her.
She loved the job and was very pleased with the pay.
She said the "lads" were great and treated her well.

Our bin men are pretty good on the whole. When my toddler GD is staying with us she always looks for them from the front window when she hears the trucks and they invariably give her a wave and a smile, which she loves!

My only minor gripe is that the food waste bins are collected very early in the morning every week and chucked back in the relevant front drive, rather than being put back which makes a terrible racket and wakes me up with a start!

More than 50 years ago my DH was a road-sweeper during the holidays when he was at college and his dream was to be transferred to the bin-collection team. They were paid twice the salary and got to sit in the trucks to eat their lunch, rather than near the rubbish piles at the local tip with all the rats running round their feet!!!

Never heard of giving the binmen a drink. Can’t they just take water bottle like everyone else 🤔

We have food bins now as well which I think are great.
Our friends in another town said binmen were going through their bins looking for food waste, if they found any evidence of food they were just leaving the bins un-emptied.
I believe also we are supposed to be getting new bin for soft plastic waste, tbh, I don’t want another bin. I just take mine to our local supermarket.

I am sure they have bottles of water in their cab. I wouldn’t accept a cup of water from someone I didn’t know however kind a thought

. Taking cups of water out to bin men at 5 am sounds a bit bonkers to me, I too am sure they have their own bottles of water and would want to get round as quickly as possible without unnecessary hold ups.

Husband puts bins out night before, unless it’s windy.
You can guarantee a windy night for recycle bins 😩

We put ours out the night before, depending on the weekly cycle.
We’re on early pick up for recycling bins, about 8 o’clock for general waste and about nine for garden waste. The weekly food bins are always the last to be collected so are around 1 o’clock in the afternoon.
It’s sometimes a race to see who can get your own and the neighbours’ bins back down the path.

watermeadow

I don’t have bins, I told them I’m too old and feeble to move them but actually won’t fill my small garden with huge plastic containers. I have bags and have to put them out the night before as they may be collected anytime between 7 and 3. Black bags full of rubbish sit on the pavement overnight and have never been damaged by passers by , foxes or cats. You couldn’t do that in London, could you?

Can’t you get assistance with your bins. Just ring the council, unless of course you are happy with your method watermeadow

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(PS for your own area’s specific bin arrangements, you’d do better to consult your website)

I thought all bins had to be out by 6am anyway?
Am I wrong?

For the general waste bin I bag anything that goes in there and for things like raw meat and fish trimmings and certain leftovers, I seal them in used ziplock bags before putting them in the waste bin. I have a fixation about maggots! I once saw a bin alive with them. It was horrible. We have to put our bins on the road by no earlier than six the evening before they’re collected. They have usually been dealt with by 8.30 in the morning. They don’t hang around! My neighbour sometimes brings my bin up the drive - sometimes I do it for him. Depends whose out first.

In my experience, our bin men are pretty good, bins are put back where they are picked up and never seen them on their phones.

I’d absolutely hate to be a “bin man”, cars beep them if they have to wait a
nano-second, households don’t appear to be able to follow the simplest of instructions, I’ve seen bin man hurt by glass in wrong bins and householders are often rude to them!

M0nica

I put bins out overnight as we are clearly right at the start of the bin run.

So do we.

Ours are not particularly good, they usually drop quite a bit of stuff and they don’t bother to pick it up,then you look out often they’re on their phones…
And I agree what somebody else said they don’t care where they put them often don’t put them back outside the house and you’re right sometimes they just chuck them….
Couldn’t care less attitude 🙄