Do I need a Bin liner?

Ilona

Charity bags for me as well.
Ilona

LameWolf

We are required by the council to use black bags for the non-recyclable stuff; I line the kitchen bin with one of these, and generally it lasts about 8 to 10 weeks, as 90% of what goes in it is what comes out of the Dys0n cylinder (including a lot of dog hair). The council no longer supply them, but we still have a large stash from when they did, as we don't get through very many.

NineDeuce

I cant believe there is actually a discussion on this. I honestly think that MSE needs a section called 'First World Problems'....

Xbigman

I can't believe some councils want rubbish in a (non recycling) wheelie bin bagged. I've put all sorts of things in the black bin recently, including a mattress I cut into five pieces and disposed of over 10 weeks (the delights of only having a bicycle). I'm going to try using no bags next week and see how it goes.



Darren

System

Xbigman wrote: »

I can't believe some councils want rubbish in a (non recycling) wheelie bin bagged. I've put all sorts of things in the black bin recently, including a mattress I cut into five pieces and disposed of over 10 weeks (the delights of only having a bicycle). I'm going to try using no bags next week and see how it goes.



Darren

I thought everyone bagged their non-recyclable stuff.

dandy-candy

Bins for unhygienic stuff (kitchen and bathroom) I do use a bin bag. Bedrooms and study I don't bother. In theory I could ditch them entirely but it would mean washing and disinfecting the bins each time I emptied them and that is too much effort!

[Deleted User]

I have a recycling bin which I get from my local council in packets of 10 every twomonths One of these lines my blue recycling in in the kitchen I Don't ever use a black bin bag as I am like Judi and use a small plastic bag with tie handles,very little thrown away in my house and peelings etc go to my neighbours compost heap

I eat very little in the way of tinned stuff but our recycling bag accepts washed out empty tins anyway .Empty jam/pickle jars I wash,save and give to either my sis-in-law for her jam/chutney making or any of my friends who need tham I get usually a jar of produce every now and then as a reward .I have a small kitchen caddy that our council emties but it takes beaages to fit a bag up so often I rarely have to use it. I really do recycle as much as possible and have .1% possible waste. I have been "green" like this for years before it was ever fashionable :) a throw back to my childhood days of post-war austerity when nothing was ever wasted

LameWolf

Xbigman wrote: »

I can't believe some councils want rubbish in a (non recycling) wheelie bin bagged.

To clarify, we don't have a wheelie for non-recyclables; the green wheelie is for garden/food waste only. The black bag we are required to use for non-recyclables has to be put out as it is, on the perimeter of our property on bin day.
And yes, we do have an awful problem of magpies etc pecking at the bags while they are there; I spend a lot of time scaring the little blighters off.

dandy-candy wrote: »

In theory I could ditch them entirely but it would mean washing and disinfecting the bins each time I emptied them and that is too much effort!

Too right; and not an easy task to clean and disinfect a wheelie bin when you're only 5'2" and disabled!

GreyQueen

I live in flats which have communal (v. large) bins for refuse, recycling, food waste, glass etc).

Recyclables go in that bin loose, food waste I save in tupperwares in the fridge and take up to my allotment (unless bones) and the small amount of non-recyclable, non-burnable stuff goes in one of those black plant buckets which is lined with an old carrier bag. This is the only bin in the flat and I turf out about one carrier bag every three weeks. Just knot the handles and chuck into the big refuse bin.

Mum & Dad (a three-adult, two-cat household) use those charity bags inside out in the kitchen bin and put about two of these out per fortnigtly collection, plus a standard wheelie about 3/4 full of recyclables.

When I have worked my way through the stash of thin placcy bags other people have given me, I propose to experiment with origami and newspaper, to make a natty paper bin liner. I get the newspapers for free as cast-offs from a pal. Mebbe a thought for others?

YorksLass

GreyQueen wrote: »

I live in flats which have communal (v. large) bins for refuse, recycling, food waste, glass etc).

When I have worked my way through the stash of thin placcy bags other people have given me, I propose to experiment with origami and newspaper, to make a natty paper bin liner. I get the newspapers for free as cast-offs from a pal. Mebbe a thought for others?

Love your idea for an origami binliner! :T

We're also flat dwellers with large communal bins and they are the bane of my life, partly because some residents either can't or won't use them properly :mad: and partly because of our council's recycling policy .

The green bins are for recyclables- paper (but not shredded), card, tins, empty aerosols, some plastics but not others, and definitely not for glass that they want you to take to a bottle bank. Fine if you live near one (we don't) or have a car to get to one (nope, we don't). Consequently, I try to re-use as much glass as I can. The black bin is for everything else, including food waste - which we have very little of, ever. Most of our waste seems to be - to my mind - totally unneccesary packaging.

DS and his family live in another council area and their refuse arrangements are totally different. I know it depends on where you live but I find it baffling as to why there is no "national standard" when it comes to recycling.