Garden refuse Bins

Our garden bin gets collected from March to November every 2 weeks..Pete with regards to the dustman not collecting the dustbin from down the path i think its all to do with Health and Safety nowadays my friend...

 

Every two weeks down here, for both Hull Council and East Riding Council.

True story: Our neighbour has an arrangement that the binman is instructed to walk down the path to get the bin as neighbour is elderly. I accidently left my bin near hers on the shared path so he refused to take both. She had to ring the council to have the bin especially collected. Bonkers!

 

We have a 'green waste' collection fortnightly from March to end October. The alternate fortnight is the recycle material (plastic, glass, tins, paper and cardboard) and the general household waste weekly. Nominally free, but of course it's all included in the Council Tax.

As an aside - where was your bin manufactured? - all three of ours were "Made in Germany" - surely there must be a UK manufacturer capable of producing these bins! - good old British industry seems to have missed a trick again !!

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We have a three bin system! Blue for recycling, black for general rubbish & brown for garden waste. Our bins are emptied fortnightly (black one week then blue & brown the following) it works really well for us because I clean out the two hen coops every week so there's never a week ours don't get emptied , I also have three compost bins for grass cuttings & any hen straw/poop I can fit in!
We pay for this service through our council tax.

 

We have 3 bins ,1Green for general waste, Blue for recycling ,Brown for garden waste.we had to pay £15 for brown bin but no charge to tip it,if you get too much garden waste you can buy extra plastic decompostable bags at 10 for £12,all my garden waste goes down to the allotment for compost.If you have any large items of furniture or such like they will take it away for you at a charge of £15 pounds.We have just had problems with school children knocking bins over so we ask what if we could leave it just inside our gate,"NO"but if you leave the bin handle just outside the gate then yes they can take it,they are not allowed to step on to your property .But if you are over 80 they will come down your drive and take it away.

 

Golly Fileyboy you have bin police like we do!
I'm always shocked by the differences between each council! If we have a large item we have to pay £30 ( I believe, I've never used the facility). I'd love to be able to buy extra compostable rubbish bags! If we leave anything beside our bin even a cardboard box it gets left!
I'd have thought the council would have been a bit more accomadating whilst you were having trouble with the school kids knocking over your bins, bearing in mind the council (or at least around here ) have to do litter picks!

 

I have a blue lidded bin (recycling); I have a grey lidded bin (landfill); I have a green "food waste" bin and a big black box (paper/card/newspaper). No green bin, but I could have one at an extra charge.

Food waste is collected every week (but it barely has anything in it); the grey bin fortnightly; the big black box and the blue recycling is the alternate fortnight, but we probably only put them out once every 6-8 weeks.

When we moved here, we had used up old rolls of paper as packing material and, because this was the way with our previous council, we popped it all in the recycle bin (we only had the blue and grey bins - no big black box or food bin). They refused to take it and left a big sticker on it with the reason stated: Contains paper! (I live dangerously ). So, phone call to the council, who then said I needed a big black box for paper + a food bin + a kitchen caddy and they would be delivered in the next few ... weeks Yes, my council takes it's recycling priorities very seriously

 

Oh my goodness 'M' I can't believe they put a sticker on your bin! At least we don't get that here.
I did have an incident a couple of summers ago, my bin was out & had been missed by the bin men! it was a hot summer but there wasn't much in the bin so I thought I'd save myself the bother of ringing, omg the maggots the following week! It was disgusting, I rang the council but of course I hadn't rung quickly enough & was accused of lying! I tore a strip off the woman & eventually she agreed to send the bin men to empty it!

 

We also have a chap who comes round picking up litter,as we have a school at the top of our road we get a lot of sweet bags , drink cans plus other items,there are plenty of bins up the road but I think some of them don't know what there for.

 

We have an elderly gentleman in the village who litter picks whilst he walks his dog, I don't know what we would do without him! I also pick up litter if I see any, I cannot stand litter it drives me crackers! My car often looks like a skip! (My husbands words!!!) I always bring all my litter home & put it in the wheelie bin, I can't understand why everyone else can't do the same!

 

There was a chap here in Filey who went round every day picking up litter,he had a handy cap but was devoted to looking after his elderly mum and he did this in his own time,our local town council gave him 2 scrolls for his devotion to this act of goodness,sadly he lost his mum and went a bit of the rails,started dressing in women's clothing but still picked up the litter.
He died 2 years ago and the streets have never been the same.