Wheelie Bin Terraced House

davidmcn

od244051 wrote: »

My council used to have bags for rubbish, two different coloured bags for recycling and a box for glass bottles and jars. When they introduced the wheelie bins - one for rubbish and one for all recycling, a few streets with Victorian terracing with no rear path, have been continuing to be using the bags and box.

For street where wheelie bins wouldn't work, Edinburgh has big communal bins, or (for the streets considered too posh for those), vermin-proof bags that you put out with the black bags etc inside.

arashtrip

I decided to not go ahead and avoid the hassles of such issues.

What a shame!!

hazyjo

Every terrace I've lived in has wheelie bins in their front gardens/area. Unless the council just permits bagged rubbish like my current council? We don't have any wheelie bins - just lots of different coloured sacks and a recycling box (amongst other things), but no actual bins. It's a PITA with foxes if you leave them out the night before, so you have to get the rubbish out before around 7am.


Know you're not buying, but check with the council as to how rubbish is collected if it's not an area you're that familiar with.


Perhaps you didn't notice the wheelie bins? Check again on streetview.

t0rt0ise

LOL in London many areas have to use bags as there's no place to store a bin either front or back. Camden council provide us with orange sacks for rubbish, and bags that hang on the railings for recycling stuff. Houses here sell for millions so I don't think it puts people off.

diggingdude

As a blackburn rovers fan i went down some terraced streets the other week in Blackburn to park where cats or dogs (kids?) had ripped the bags to pieces. rubbish everywhere, don't do it i day

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diggingdude wrote: »

i went down some terraced streets the other week in Blackburn to park where cats or dogs (kids?) had ripped the bags to pieces. rubbish everywhere,

The rubbish strewn streets are one thing, but I've seen rubbish bags and overfilled wheelie bins put out just a few minutes after the bins have been emptied. Since that rubbish now waits for fully a fortnight before the next collection, it's hardly surprising that the incidence of rat problems have increased exponentially in that area.

t0rt0ise wrote: »

LOL in London many areas have to use bags as there's no place to store a bin either front or back. Camden council provide us with orange sacks for rubbish, and bags that hang on the railings for recycling stuff. Houses here sell for millions so I don't think it puts people off.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but areas in which the houses are selling for big bucks are far less likely to be prone to the kind of irresponsible behaviour I detail above...

Marvel1

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

This is an utterly unhealthy practice which attracts vermin you understand?:eek:

Never seen any vermin and it's what happened before wheelie bins were brought in.

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Marvel1 wrote: »

Never seen any vermin and it's what happened before wheelie bins were brought in.

The fortnightly collection is the most recent radical change, not the "rat-proof" wheelie bins.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-50081316. Numerous other boroughs report similar.

Note that rats are nocturnal animals, so you should not be seeing them-only evidence of their activity and presence.

dannim12345

We have this (no rear access or ROW). Until recently we used to wheel it through the house now we actually have flooring we have carried it through but we don’t have to have a wheelie bin and a lot of people just out black bags out.