How far do you drag your wheelie bin?

elljay

Seems a silly question but I wondered if anyone knows of any rules or just guidance even about the distance the local authority can expect you to drag your wheelie bin - or 2 of them on recycling day?  Googling discovers that for planning purposes provision should be made for bin stores  within 25 or 30m of the collection point but nothing for existing houses.   I've recently moved to a house down a lane and which is 200m from the road with an incline in the middle of it.  The previous (and first) resident used to moan about it but didn't think to question it.  It's the first time I've lived in a house with wheelie bins and this distance seems unreasonable - but perhaps it isn't?  I wouldn't qualify for collection from the house on health grounds as a neighbour does and the council have told me they won't consider a change.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

davidmcn

Can't you store the bins closer to the collection point? Seen plenty of bins which live at the road end of long private lanes rather than at the house. 

Davesnave

Here the council hide behind, "It's a private road and we aren't insured for that" or similar crap. For that reason, they don't insist on wheelie bins and many of the 15 households therefore use cars to drive their recycling and rubbish to a roadside collection point. That journey, including the return, can be 400m, mostly with the cars on full choke. Environmentally daft, but there you go.

Strange that Amazon and all the others manage to traverse this hell hole of a private road with no apparent difficulty. It's a bloody sight better tarmacked than many of the council's offerings around here!

GDB2222

Your problem will go away once you build up some more muscle mass. I suggest that you pull the bins twice a day, every day, until it becomes effortless. To make the exercise even more effective, you should pull your neighbour’s bins too. You’ll thank the council in the end. 

comeandgo

Living rurally bins to be at end of road, have two sets of bins, those at the house and those at end of road.  Take full bin to end of road and swap for empty one.  You do need tractor or jeep as there is no way the bins would get in my car.

elljay

Gosh thanks for such speedy responses.  Yes I lived in an isolated cottage previously and the council sent a small wagon and provided bin bags for rubbish and a small bin for recycling stuff, but not glass which I had to take to the tip.  No problem with that.  They came right to the house so I suppose I've been spoiled.  Unfortunately bins can't be left at the roadside here as that would be right outside someones house and obstructing the pavement.  Seems as though I'm not the only one, but I wish I knew if there were any rules about it.

fiwen30

comeandgo said:

Living rurally bins to be at end of road, have two sets of bins, those at the house and those at end of road.  Take full bin to end of road and swap for empty one.  You do need tractor or jeep as there is no way the bins would get in my car.

I’ve a friend and her uncle who have a similar set up - bins get collected about a 1/4 mile from their house, down the lane. Her uncle fashioned something with rope and wood, to attach all the bins to the back of his land rover and tow them down the lane to get collected. Genius system, until one day he drove half way into Belfast before noticing people flashing lights and honking at the 3, wildly bouncing bins he was still towing behind him!

fiwen30

In our current house, all bins live on the extra wide pavement. It’s a row of terraces with no side or back access, so everything has to come through the house. Council don’t mind, as there is still tons of room for double prams and wheelchairs etc. 

AskAsk

GDB2222 said:

Your problem will go away once you build up some more muscle mass. I suggest that you pull the bins twice a day, every day, until it becomes effortless. To make the exercise even more effective, you should pull your neighbour’s bins too. You’ll thank the council in the end. 

  

AskAsk

is it possible to leave the wheelie bin at the end of the lane and you just take the bags individually down there every day?

GDB2222

There's a close round here with a very tight entrance, and the bin lorry has completely ruined the verge and pavement whilst driving in and out. So, I have some sympathy with the idea of not trying to take a massive vehicle down a very narrow lane (if that is the case for the OP). When they collect from teh neighbour, how do they do that? Smaller truck, or someone on foot?