Etiquette on wheelie bins and kerbside recycling when you move

Gordon_Hose

Being the person I am, I'd take it with me and dispose of it in the bins at the new place or just take it to the tip.

AdrianC

If you can move out of a place, and not have fourteen binbags of rubbish to get shot of at the last minute, then you are clearly some kind of minimalist superbeing.

Here in the real world, you'd be taking that lot down the tip anyway, so might as well just add an extra last-minute bag to it.

JimmyTheWig

The plan, Adrian, is to do the last dump run at the weekend.
But, yes, if in reality we're going to the dump I'll take the rubbish with me.

JimmyTheWig

As AdrianC guessed we had way too much rubbish to leave behind with us!
Luckily a friendly neighbour offered us space in his skip, so we didn't have to make a further dump run.

When we got here, the landfill and recycling wheelie bins were both full. Grrr.

Prothet_of_Doom

Son's letting agent made it a condition of getting the deposit back that the wheely bins and recycling bins were empty, despite the fact that the collection was the day after they moved out.

How are students with no cars between them, no ability to rent a van (all under 21, so no hire car company would touch them), supposed to get the contents of 2 wheely bins plus sack loads of bottles and cans to a council tip 4 miles away?

8 Students paying £30K over a year to live in the place, and the LA still treats them like !!!!.

In the end the father of one of the lads was driving up in a van to move his stuff, and was coerced into taking the whole lot. Except that was 3 days before the end of the tennancy.

Son reckons that the attic wasn't inspected by LA.

AdrianC

Prothet_of_Doom wrote: »

Son's letting agent made it a condition of getting the deposit back that the wheely bins and recycling bins were empty, despite the fact that the collection was the day after they moved out.

How are students with no cars between them, no ability to rent a van (all under 21, so no hire car company would touch them), supposed to get the contents of 2 wheely bins plus sack loads of bottles and cans to a council tip 4 miles away?

A house full of students, and not ONE of them thought laterally enough to shove their rubbish into various neighbours' bins?

GlynD

If I had anything in the bins before I moved house, and I've done that quite a few times now, I would take the rubbish to the nearest council recycling centre.

It's just good manners as far as I can see.

My current home was empty for quite a while before we moved in. We bought the property from the executor of the previous owner's estate. He ensured all the bins were empty, the lawns kept short and that the house was as clean as possible before we moved in and we were thankful for that.

DominicJ_2

I think fair use is a reasonable concept here.
If its halfway through the week, half full.
That said, make sure everyone is leaving the bins!