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[johnnydog]

Why can't the different authorities standardise the colour of wheelie bins? Seems a simple idea to me...
Our collection day is always on a Thursday with general waste in a grey bin - empied fortnightly, paper / cardboard is blue, and glass /tins/ plastics in the brown bin emptied every alternate fortnight with the blue. Garden waste
is (green) is fortnightly - £35 a year per bin. Plus they provide an idiot sheet so the correct bin is put on on the correct day. Quite simple really.
Yet I go to my parents 25 miles away, but in a different county and the colours are totally different. And cardboard can't go in with paper (??), tins go in with general waste......

[johnnydog]

Talking of Wheelie Bins, my neighbours are having their whole driveway re-done so I said that they could park both of their cars on my driveway as I have the space and they can both come and go as they please without interfering with us. I also suggested putting their wheelie bins on our side of the fence so that they can just lean over the fence to put their rubbish in their own bins.
Anyway, the second evening that she parked down our driveway I heard a scraping noise as she parked. She had hit her own bins and pinned them against our house wall.    I didn’t go out in case I embarrassed her but luckily no damage to anything.

A few weeks-ago, on bin collection day, I reversed off the drive in the Omega forgetting that they had just been emptied, and I reversed into a bin that had been randomly dumped on the middle of the drive after been half flung there from the back of the bin wagon after being emptied....
My fault, as I should have checked better, but nevertheless the little dent on the boot lid under the lip spoiler still pi$$es me off...

[Sir Tigger KC]

Years ago I lived in Bedminster, Bristol, an area of Victorian terraces with street parking and finding a space could be tricky at times, especially after work. 

A bloke up the road used to put his wheelie bin in the space outside his house and I always reversed straight in with my trusty old Rover 216D and pushed the wheelie bin out of the way. I always carefully put his bin back outside his house where it should have been. 

One evening I did this, and was just putting his bin in it's place before heading up to my house, looked up and he was standing in his window staring angrily at me!   

I gave him a cheery wave and a grin and buggered off! 

[Doctor Gollum]

Monday recycling, Tuesday general waste, garden waste fortnightly on a Thursday brown bin simples 👍

How's that simple?

Ours really is simple. Alternate Mondays = Green Recycling Bin and Brown Garden Waste bin. Alternate other Mondays = Grey General Bin. Food bin is emptied EVERY week on a Monday so goes out alongside whatever bin is due that week. We have a Binzone App that tells you what bin is due, just in case you forget.
I put out the bins for my 91 year old neighbour and he has next to no rubbish, which means over the busy Christmas period I can put any overflow from my bin in to his. 

Indeed anyone with an ounce of common sense can cope with bin collections, simples 👍 Our council tried to change days etc but dropped the idea , our waste collection guys do a really good job.

I think DG was referring to the fact that you have 3 different bin days in one week, or 3 different bin days every fortnight. 

Exactly and why you have to separate tins and glass and paper and card makes no sense. They have to sort whatever is supposed to be in the bin anyway so why not put all recycling in one bin. We used to have separate boxes for tins/glass and paper but that was replaced about 23 years ago with a single recycling bin.

It used to be that paper was allowed with cereal boxes but corrugated card was not... Something about the glue... But now it all goes in one bin. Garden waste bins were a newer idea, but it makes sense to collect it the same day as the recycling.

We don't throw away any food and anything like broccoli leaves or dead flowers all go in the garden bin along with wooden trays that some meals come in. Composting is a non starter as it encourages foxes and rats.  We could probably do without the garden bin but it's handy when all the leaves come down in the autumn and cuttings from the communal lawns.

[countrywoman]

WE have black bins for waste that cant be recycled and green bins for stuff that can so all paper, plastic, glass goes in to the sorting place . Alternate weekly collection, mum has a brown garden waste bin but most folks take their garden rubbish to the local skips where it gets composted.  9 flats where I live and we have 6 or 7 black bins that never get filled but only 3 green bins that are over flowing---------------

[BazaJT]

 We have green bin for household/food waste,red bin for cardboard/plastic,brown bin for garden,blue box for paper and green box for glass/tins.Collection day is Friday when one week it's green bin and both boxes with the alternate week for red and brown bins.Brown bin collections are suspended from November through to April.I have the smallest sized bins available and after two weeks the red and green bins and both boxes are very rarely even half full.

[Rangie]

We only have one bin for garden waste, green bags for recycling don't have to separate anything ,black bags for everything else fortunately we have a sensible council, why change when it ain't broken, dead simple 👍

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Since we had a whole day of snow last month, our bin collections are all to cock. The streets are full of bins of various colours, because no one knows when they're going to turn up and which bin they will choose to empty when they do.
Labour run Barnsley.

If only there was a universally available resource where the latest schedules could be posted for anyone who needs the information.


Imagine how cool it would be if you could access that information at no cost from a small screen you carry around with you.

It's there, on the council website. "Leave you bins out and we'll empty them when we can. Abuse of council staff will not be tolerated. Have a nice day" 

Yo need to go on a diversity and inclusion course. Your Labour run bin men probably have to.