Bins overflowing got fine for fly tipping

Browntoa

Take your rubbish out after the bins been emptied and before it's full ?

warby68

For general waste, our council provides 70 litres per week for a household up to 6. You seem to have about 150 litres per week.

However we also have 3 bins of the same capacity for recycling.

Are these 2 'skips' your only facilities? How does recycling operate? I suspect the responsibility to manage lies more with the occupants than anyone else. Its the number of residents and their needs which determine supply here not a landlord request and you have to have a personal assessment if you want more.

Why on earth would you just add your rubbish where is doesn't fit when you know fines are in play these days? Why haven't you tried to get more bins yourself if that is the answer |(not sure it will be though given policies to deter general waste these days)

Residents meeting to discuss better waste management or is it not that sort of community?

AdrianC

Recycling WILL be provided. In 2019, that's a given.

It might not be provided on-site, but the local authority will be expecting the householders to take advantage of local communal recycling facilities. They may be in the supermarket car park, they may be in a council car park.

If recycling facilities aren't available on-site, then lobby for that - NOT for extra landfill bin capacity.

happy_to_be_here

Your post surely should be going in the recycling rather than general waste? The amount of waste your building is putting out is ridiculous. Everyone needs to recycle what they can and the waste bins will stop overflowing.

No I don’t think you’ll be able to re-educate your neighbors but you can start by recycling your own waste. We’re a family of 4 with one in disposable nappies. We’ve a normal wheelie bin and it’s emptied fortnightly. We put about a black bag of waste a week in it so it’s rarely more than half full. The recycling is almost full every fortnight.

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deannatrois wrote: »

People seem to be misunderstanding the OP. She doesn't have an individual bin, there are 1000 litre bins shared between all the flats. I have the same, there are no facilities to even separate cardboard out. As I don't drive, and the dump is miles away, (and no community services any nearer) there's not an awful lot the OP can do.

I think we all understand perfectly well that there are large bins shared by all properties. Ultimately though the buck stops with the OP who chose to leave bags of rubbish outside one of said bins.

Murphybear

You see a lot of advice on here about not putting anything in the rubbish which could identify you. Things like bank/credit card statements etc.

Because we have communal bins, standard size, not the large ones, I make sure our rubbish has nothing to identify us.

Our bins are often overflowing but the refuse collectors just take it all and if they see us struggling they help us and say “good morning” with a big smile. One of the advantages of being older, a couple of the occupants are over 90

SallyDucati

That does seem like a lot of rubbish for 14 flats. I used to have a similar 'overflow' issue at the flat I used to live in. Turns out one resident was putting commercial waste from their burger van in the bins, as soon as they left the bins were sufficient for all our waste again. Don't suppose one resident could be putting a lot more in than the others?

sal_III

deannatrois wrote: »

£400 does seem rather high for the odd envelope? Otherwise someone will have to organise a meeting with the other residents and discuss ways to minimise the disposal of rubbish, or applying pressure to the freeholder.

The fine would be for the entirety of the rubbish outside of the bin, even in bags not left there by OP, not just for the single piece of evidence, such as envelope.

The question is how an identifying information that is generally on paper ended up in the general waste and not in the recycling bin. Don't you have recycling bins? If not this should be the first port of call with the council and insist they provide some on site. If you do have them and they are just unused have a discussion with your neighbors highlighting to them that it could be them getting the hefty fine next time.

The freeholder can do diddly squat in this situation, if the bins are on public land, which seems to be the case if there is a fine from the council, they don't deal with fly tipping on private land. It's between the council and the occupiers paying the council tax. Even if they decide to provide additional bins the council can refuse to collect them as they only allocate certain amount of bins based on estimated number of occupiers.

Crumble2018

We have 2 of these bins and one the same size for recycling. That's for approximately 20 flats. They get full, but never overflowing. The people around you are producing a huge amount of waste!

Cakeguts

Where are the bins located? It is possible that other people who don't live in the flats are putting their rubbish into the bins for the flats residents? If so you need to get bins that lock.