Wheelie Bin too small for nappies

som

Our local council (North Wilts) Recently changed to fortnightly collections and now our wheelie bin is too small to hold our waste. In summary we have been heavily recycling, home composting and car-booting for years, but with two kids in nappies producing 70 'messes' a week, it's just a temporary period where we are making more mess. Yes we've tried re-useables of several brands, they're not as good as disposables and the effort / cost of washing & drying more than 70 (because they need changing more often) a week is a none starter for my wife and I.

The local council say we don't qualify for a larger bin since we need 5 members in the household. However they were the same rules when collection was weekly - common sense would suggest those policies should have been revised when the collection frequency was halved.

I am stumped on this, I don't know the language to use in searches or where to even start finding out what rights if any we have to provision of council services. It seems silly that such a simple thing can become an issue and in 12-18 months we'll be back to our normal minimalist levels anyway.

Has anybody else had similar experiences?

Steve

vuvuzela

Ask a friendly neighbour if you could use some space in their bin ?

fluffnutter

som wrote: »

Our local council (North Wilts) Recently changed to fortnightly collections and now our wheelie bin is too small to hold our waste. In summary we have been heavily recycling, home composting and car-booting for years, but with two kids in nappies producing 70 'messes' a week, it's just a temporary period where we are making more mess. Yes we've tried re-useables of several brands, they're not as good as disposables and the effort / cost of washing & drying more than 70 (because they need changing more often) a week is a none starter for my wife and I.

The local council say we don't qualify for a larger bin since we need 5 members in the household. However they were the same rules when collection was weekly - common sense would suggest those policies should have been revised when the collection frequency was halved.

I am stumped on this, I don't know the language to use in searches or where to even start finding out what rights if any we have to provision of council services. It seems silly that such a simple thing can become an issue and in 12-18 months we'll be back to our normal minimalist levels anyway.

Has anybody else had similar experiences?

Steve

Councils and common sense do not belong together in the same sentence. I, too, will face the same problem when my baby's born in June. I have a small bin collected fortnightly, I recycle everything I can but still manage to fill my bin. The addition of nappies is going to push us over the garbage edge. I don't qualify for a larger bin - need 4 in the household, although I was told (helpfully) that I can have a larger green bin

My bin collectors will take rubbish provided it's in black bags. I'm just going to have to put all the nappies in a black bag and put that out with the wheelie bin. Hopefully the foxes won't find dirty nappies exciting - whenever people put food in black bags it gets strewn all over the street.

That's the only advice I've been given I'm afraid. I wouldn't even begin to bother trying to determine what 'rights' you have - councils are literally a law unto themselves and you'll get nowhere.

seafarers_wife

Can you not have your bin "stolen" and buy a new one from the council and put 2 out on bin day? No idea if this would work or not though.

piglet25

I have had this problem too, but my council allows you to pay to upgrade your bin size, mine cost £16.50, maybe worth asking?

arcon5

We phoned our council up to complain the bin men hadn't taken our black bags next to our recycling bin one week - we was told you have to stick a sticker stating 'recycling' on the bag otherwise they are not allowed to take them. The fact they was surrounding the bin and no where near any other bin just wasn't enough to identify the bags as recycling obviously.

Anyway, they supplied us with a free second bin - for free. Delivered about 2 days later.

sarahg1969

Are you able to take some of your rubbish to the local tip? That's what we do on the occasions when our bins are too full. Or, we ask a neighbour if we can use theirs, if it's just the odd thing.

When we had our fourth child, we asked for a larger bin, and the council told us we could have EXTRA one because there were now 6 people in the family. How excited we were. Until they told us that we could have an extra grass-cuttings bin. I couldn't quite fathom the logic of that. I can't say I've noticed that our grass grows any quicker than it used to!

CrazyRatLady_2

Buy a bin yourself? You can get metal ones for £20.
Where I live we don't have bins from the council (well we have a recycling one, but not a general waste one) so to stop the foxes getting at the black bags we bought our own bin.

ThumbRemote

Agree with the other posts - just tell your council that your bin has been stolen on collection day ("I got in from work and it wasn't there") and see if they'll provide a replacement free, or for a small fee.

Then use both. The bin emptiers don't know who should have 2 bins.

halibut2209

Have another child, then you're entitled to a bigger bin

mac666_2

My local council do a nappy collection service.

They give you bags to put the nappies in and there taken with the non recyclables bin :j