Christmas bin collections - anyone else beat this one!!

Tigsteroonie

Our bin collection day is Monday, so I'm not expecting any changes over the festive season.

Mind you, even on the common Monday bank holidays, our bins are still emptied. They must pay overtime here.

Buellguy

DrudgeDread wrote: »

Each bank holiday my local council (Huntingdon) simply re-arrange the collection days and give out a leaflet with the revised dates.

This year collections originally scheduled on Christmas Day have been moved to Thursday 27th, and most others simply moved by 2 days.

I foolishly assumed most other councils also did this!

Ah, you see that's what I expected as well (more fool me LOL)

poet123

Ich wrote: »

So it's fine to make the refuse collectors work over the holiday?

I would say yes because they are an essential service. How/why are they any different to those who staff other services?

Helix

Around here they rearrange it, if they were due to collect Christmas Day it is brought forward to Christmas Eve and Monday collections were brought forward to Saturday and the rest of the week its a day later. Then new years week they are all a day later except 31st Dec.

Ms_Chocaholic

My bins are collected on a Wednesday, alternate weeks of normal rubbish and green. Over the Christmas break my bins will be collected two days late (Fridays rather than Wednesdays).

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

They drove along but didn't bother collecting anything this fortnight (watched from the bedroom window), so nothing from 7th December until the 4th January. If they bother then.

The bins in the area are already full. This is going to be lovely.

elsien

!!!!!!. My collection should be the 25th, this thread prompted me to check when it had been moved to, and have just discovered (rather too late) that it was yesterday.
So another 2 weeks to wait now.

Ich_2

Problem is in some areas is that the tips are operated by different councils (County Council here) so the District Council may have no alternative as they can't actually get the wagons emptied!

vikingaero

Quite easy to overcome the problem.

At Christmas we have a dry bin and a wet bin in the kitchen. The dry bin takes stuff that can't be recycled (in our area) such as polywrap, foam, polystyrene, food trays etc. The wet bin is for food soiled packaging and anything with a smell (we have a food bin too). We find that we fill up the dry bin 3 times faster than the wet bin. Once the dry bin bag is full we store it in the garage where there is no smell to attract rodents.

gazza975526570

vikingaero wrote: »

Quite easy to overcome the problem.

At Christmas we have a dry bin and a wet bin in the kitchen. The dry bin takes stuff that can't be recycled (in our area) such as polywrap, foam, polystyrene, food trays etc. The wet bin is for food soiled packaging and anything with a smell (we have a food bin too). We find that we fill up the dry bin 3 times faster than the wet bin. Once the dry bin bag is full we store it in the garage where there is no smell to attract rodents.

Well done to you but you shoudlnt have to go to that effort. They should just come a different day of the week. The whole service is shoddy - they leave litter and dont pick it open, leave bins blocking drives and pavements. Hardly the gruelling job it once was, they dont have to pick them up or anything.

Tips for them? I dont think so