[Closed] Mumsnet type thread - Wheelie bins outside my house!

just take them.....

the owners will be looking for them before long.

Put them in the middle of the street.

I've got a bloke living in a car opposite my house, I'll swap you.

[edit] just paint a random house number on them, when it's dry put them outside a house with that number on - "well it's got your number on it mate!".

Sell them.

I get odd wheelie bin behaviour at my new house. For some reason, if there are ANY spare bins outside anywhere in the street after 0900 on bin day, somebody brings them around the back of my house. Not sure what to make of that.... I guess the previous occupant had form for not bringing in their bins ?

I wrote to the council who said you can take them to the recycling centre if nobody claims them, but then I decided this was not really my problem, and just moved them further along the street each day.

Next time I plan to attach a sign stating clearly that the rogue bin does not belong to my property.

Good plan wwaswas, I will paint "69" on the bin. Not my house number.

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Adapt one and use it to enter a Red Bull soapbox race?

Write a passive aggressive note and print out in Comic Sans and tape it to the bin?

'Tis the British way, no..?

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Fill them with cats.

its taken you a month and an internet post to do anything?

i predict they will still be there in another month

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Paint them up,they will disappear in seconds 🙂

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In our house I have to give a warning of an impending "Bin Rant" - otherwise known as a Bin Rant Alert or "BRA" which the other half shouts as soon as I start.

I too live end of block and the bins up 30 of them get lined up outside my house can't wait to move out next month, so nice wee quiet cul de sac, what could go wrong? My solution has been to stack the bins up across the drive at the back so people can't get their cars in. It has worked so far.

[i]Bin Rant Alert[/i]

We have 'Shit! The Bins!' day here once a week.

I'm mooching round the house in my dressing gown and hear the lorry pull up outside.

There's very little dignity in chasing a bin lorry up the street in a dressing gown and slippers pulling an overfull wheelie bin after you.

Pint numbers on your bins so it's obvious that these stragglers are not yours?

Alternatively, set up a camera so that you can identify the culprits, then shoot them with a miniature remote GPS transponder, follow them home then you can stalk the zombie maggots and torture them Saw style until they realise the errors of their ways... maybe then they'll learn..</chewkw>

My solution has been to stack the bins up across the drive

On their sides in a nice stretcher bond wall? Chapeau 8)

We have 'Shit! The Bins!' day here once a week.

I'm mooching round the house in my dressing gown and hear the lorry pull up outside.

There's very little dignity in chasing a bin lorry up the street in a dressing gown and slippers pulling an overfull wheelie bin after you.

One of the main benefits of living opposite a retired couple is that when I (and my neighbours) get home on a Thursday we can see what bin(s) need to put out for collection because they always deploy theirs mid-afternoon.

When they go on holiday domestic waste based chaos ensues for the full length of the cud-de-sac.

can't wait to move out next month, so nice wee quiet cul de sac, what could go wrong?

One of the main benefits of living opposite a retired couple is that when I (and my neighbours) get home on a Thursday we can see what bin(s) need to put out for collection because they always deploy theirs mid-afternoon.

I firmlly rely on the retirees opposite us as well to inform me of brown or black...

I'm going to go an see all your new neighbours and get things 'set up' for your impending move...

Maybe just warn them RantyMan™ is moving in...

I have an "oh so hilarious" relationship with my bin man where we try to work out what's recyclable and what's not... to whit:

me: why haven't you taken this cardboard
him: It's not paper, we just take paper.
me: ...right...

Me: why haven't you taken this plastic container?
him: we just take bottles
me: but it's the same material as this bottle
him: yeah, but it's not a bottle
me: ...right...

me: why haven't you taken the bottle
him: no lids, you didn't take the lid off, you have to take off the lid
me: ...right...

me: I don't need all these black bin bags, it's just me here, I don't need 50 bins bags, I'll never use them all
him: I have to leave some for you,
me: why?
him: because that's what I have to do
me: what should I do with them all
him: Chuck 'em if you don't need them
me: ...right...

To be on the safe side I just put everything in the recycling bin and leave it to the plastics and paper technology experts in the recycling plant sort it out. If in doubt put it in. As I'm unqualified I don't think its my place to rule things out so early in the process.

To be on the safe side I just put everything in the recycling bin and leave it to the plastics and paper technology experts in the recycling plant sort it out. If in doubt put it in

nickjb - Member
To be on the safe side I just put everything in the recycling bin and leave it to the plastics and paper technology experts in the recycling plant sort it out. If in doubt put it in
not a great idea. A lot of recycling gets contaminated and just gets binned. Often happens to paper that has been contaminated with till receipts.

This MRFs are not there to do your job for you. Ofcourse it is your council tax that get wasted on it so crack on. its £80 a tonne in tax alone to put stuff in a landfill.

Maybe just warn them RantyMan™ is moving in...

haha nick C - so true.

this is why i take my own recycling down to the village recycling centr - coupled with the fact we dont get kerbside recycling - they wrongly stated that 100% of houses in the area got kerbside recycling and were removing the recycling point. this resulted in uproar as many people were fed up chasing their recycling down the street on windy days that they also take theirs down the recycling point.

Then theres the bin man that bemoans the fact i fill the bin with garden waste..... "that doesnt go in the black bin" - "where does it go then?" - " in the brown bin" - "errr .... you dont do brown bins out here , the only bin we have is a black bin ergo - garden waste goes in the black bin"

Then theres the bin man that bemoans the fact i fill the bin with garden waste..... "that doesnt go in the black bin" - "where does it go then?" - " in the brown bin" - "errr .... you dont do brown bins out here , the only bin we have is a black bin ergo - garden waste goes in the black bin"

We don't have a brown bin collection either (actually green in our council IIRC). Green waste is handled on demand, we can ring the council to request a collection; they'll take something like eight bags per calendar month or some such. Maybe yours does something similar?

so, till reciepts are not paper.
what about when they have been through the shredder?

Put one bin inside the other and you've instantly halved your problem.

matt_outandabout - Member

One of the main benefits of living opposite a retired couple is that when I (and my neighbours) get home on a Thursday we can see what bin(s) need to put out for collection because they always deploy theirs mid-afternoon.

I firmlly rely on the retirees opposite us as well to inform me of brown or black...

I'm actually tlooking forward to retiring so I can put out the wrong bin every now and again in order that once the entire street has followed suit I can swop it for the correct one under the cover of darkness.....I'm sure the (metaphorical) long winter evening of my dotage will simply fly by. 😀

*Prays that wombat doesn't move into our street*

"We don't have a brown bin collection either (actually green in our council IIRC). Green waste is handled on demand, we can ring the council to request a collection; they'll take something like eight bags per calendar month or some such. Maybe yours does something similar?"

Mean while the Mr fox gets curious/ bags rot and the stuff decomposes spilling the contents all over my garden....

Or i could just work on the fact we have 1 bag of non recyclable waste per week and fill the rest with garden waste most summer weeks.

If they want to give me a brown bin ill gladly use it. until then it goes in the black bin. I already do half the job for them recyling all our other waste manually in my own time.

If they want to give me a brown bin ill gladly use it.

Have you asked them for one?

Anecdotally, I put a load out recently, missed the collection due to my own lack of forward planning so it sat there for a fortnight. It didn't rot / decompose / spontaneously combust noticeably in that time (though I confess I didn't go rummaging inside tied refuse sacks to check).

Are foxes attracted to garden waste, then? That's news to me.

no recycling where i live we are "outside city limits" - which is odd because ill be damned sure i pay my cooncil tax to the city....

no recycling where i live we are "outside city limits" - which is odd because ill be damned sure i pay my cooncil tax to the city....

Where abouts are you TR? I'm right at the edge of the city limits (south Deeside road) and get all my recycling done with no issues?

The mind boggles. Im edge of city limits north deeside road . My neighbours aberdeenshire - he gets full recycling at the kerb.

A lot of recycling gets contaminated and just gets binned. Often happens to paper that has been contaminated with till receipts.

Hmm, that sounds as if it's up there with the "You can't put that Yellow Pages in the paper recycling!" argument.

Ours is pretty good, everything but polystyrene in the blue, garden and food waste in the brown and everything else (sum total of naff all) in the black. Brown emptied every week, others alternate. Never actually filled the black as I usually relent at the 6 week mark (hoover dust tends not to smell much).

Just had the chase of shame in T shirt, boxer shorts and bare feet.

😳

"so, till reciepts are not paper.
what about when they have been through the shredder?"

they are paper but the daily mail said the thermal print chemical that is inside them causes cancer. Have not seen any guidance that says do not recycle - have seen sensationalism from a few cancer bodies saying not to put them in as youll end up with paper plates and cups that cause cancer....

Have not seen any guidance that says do not recycle - have seen sensationalism from a few cancer bodies saying not to put them in

from official recycling people.

they are pretty clear on what you can and cant recycle - till reciepts are not in the do not as far as i could see on the leaflets they dropped round.

why would i listen to people who also say i shouldnt drink coffee or eat bacon telling me not to put something in the recycling.....

can't wait to move out next month, so nice wee quiet cul de sac, what could go wrong?

not a lot but in the 6 weeks we've been in a nice quiet cul de sac I've yet to decide if I'm overly OCD or the neighbours are all suffering from dementia - we put all our bins at the end of the cul de sac - the bins all have house numbers on them as do the houses (simples?), why can't people remember what their house number is and take the correct bins back? Not a huge deal a bin is a bin but having to wait until late in the evening to take the remaining random bin is testing my patience
and if it is like car keys at a party I'm moving again

I've been recycling old till receipts for years and shall continue to do so until the council tell me to stop. If the council chooses to ditch an entire batch of paper based on the unproven rumour of BPA contamination then that's their problem.

Have you asked them for one?

"Hello, we are moving in to a new house in Killin. It has no bins yet - please can we get some?"
"Are you in the property yet?"
"In four weeks we will"
"Well we can only take an order for new bins when you move in"
"Great, how long to get the bins delivered then?"
"Three months"
😯 "Can I order them now, or pick them up from a depot?"
"Orders can only be placed when you have started paying council tax, you cannot collect"
😕

After three months of using neighbours bins, a 7.5t truck with two council staff in appears one day and delivers one bin (black). Mrs_OAB pointed out we needed a brown one, and recycling caddies.

"oh yes" say the delivery men "we only have your bin today, so we will pop back to Stirling and get one."

So said 7.5t truck heads back to Stirling (that day was two men, 140 miles and over half a day...)

"I've been recycling old till receipts for years and shall continue to do so until the council tell me to stop. If the council chooses to ditch an entire batch of paper based on the unproven rumour of BPA contamination then that's their problem."

its ok - they would have a fit when they realise what my onsite recycling facility for paper is.....

If this was mumsnet then correspondents would have commented on how infuriating it is trying to negotiate a £700 pushchair around bins haphazardly replaced by council operatives post emptying, whilst still not bothering to move them aside for others. But its actiondadsworld instead so where the owner is obvious I park the particularly obstructive ones back on the steps/driveway even If I've not got the pushchair.

Basking in karma (and bin germs) all the way.

Thanks to wombat for giving me a way to relieve retirement tedium.

Careful chaps...

[i]A man dialled 999 to complain about the position of a wheelie bin on his Cheltenham street last night.

Police responded with the full force of the law, armed with handguns and tasers. Yes, you read the gun part right.

Officers went to Russell Shurmer's house in the area of Hatherley after his neighbour, George Clifton, 65, complained to cops that Russell's green bin was far too close to the window of his living room[/i]

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(as an aside wtf is that little boot rack doing on the Mustang?)

Police said Mr Clifton threatened violence in the call and armed officers arrived, recommending that Mr Shurmer move his bin.

It is the latest turn of events in an ongoing dispute between the pair, which has previously seen 65-year-old Mr Clifton convicted for assaulting his neighbour with a 20-inch handsaw and racially abusing his wife.

Read more: http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Armed-police-Tasers-respond-999-position-wheelie/story-27595796-detail/story.html#ixzz3igC5duSt

I firmlly rely on the retirees opposite us as well to inform me of brown or black...

I rely on the flats opposite. This week I put out a 70s sideboard, a stained mattress and threw the black bags over the railway sidings. 😆

We can follow the advice to shred out paper or the advice to recycle it. However, we are not allowed to recycle shredded paper.

We can follow the advice to shred out paper or the advice to recycle it. However, we are not allowed to recycle shredded paper.

It's the same here - what's that all about?

You can compost shredded paper (and the contents of your vacuum cleaner to an earlier poster).

slowoldgit - Member

Thanks to wombat for giving me a way to relieve retirement tedium.

You're welcome 🙂

well I was confused today half the street had green out half brown , so I put out both just to avoid causing offence.

shreaded paper is great for starting the stove.

I have no idea how to embed this video but the wheelie bins in Brighton have achieved sentience, are congregating and shouting 'exterminate'.

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