Wheelie bins

LopezLopez

Hi there. I am fed up of foxes getting into my rubbish bags and spreading everything on my front garden. We have two standard refuse bins of 80L each but they're not enough even though we have weekly collections. Where could I get economical wheelie bins?

ged1980

LopezLopez wrote: »

Hi there. I am fed up of foxes getting into my rubbish bags and spreading everything on my front garden. We have two standard refuse bins of 80L each but they're not enough even though we have weekly collections. Where could I get economical wheelie bins?

hi if you have enough people in your household council will upgrade bins to large bins i have 5 in this household and we got upgraded for all bins.


if not the council will sell you another bin not sure of price

Chollita

Do you recycle? That's a lot of rubbish.

natalie1974

Chollita wrote: »

Do you recycle? That's a lot of rubbish.

Have to agree with you there but also we don't know how many people are in the household and also if the council does recycling along side normal rubbish collections . My council (Bexley) does , you have 3 different coloured boxes and a brown bin and now a green bin which is only collected fortnightly , what can be recycled is recycled and what can't goes in the green bin . But if I had to go driving to recycling points I don't know if I would be so "green" . Just my opinion .

Paul_Herring

Do you live anywhere near Crook? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7425934.stm

margaretclare

Try to avoid putting food waste into the sacks. Either foxes or cats will smell something tasty in there and try to get at it. You can't blame them! A tasty smell and they think 'oh, dinner in there, only a layer of plastic, easy enough to get through'.

floss2

Does your street have wheelie bins? If not, then the Council may refuse to collect your rubbish as they will not lift a wheelie bin to empty it into a refuse truck without a bin-lift.

If you recycle part of your weekly waste, I am sure it would reduce to fit into 2 bins. Even if you remove papers, plastic bottles & glass it would reduce the overall volume. A compost bin would take all your veg & fruit waste & egg boxes & shells too. Cheap compost bins are available on http://www.recyclenow.com/

By the way, check with your local council for information on recycyling tagrets - all towns in England are measured on this as one of a series of local targets, and the Council should have a recycling plan in place to aid doorstep recycling.

nibs

Wow what a load of rubbish , (well, someone had to)

We also have five in our family and council told us we couldn't have a bigger bin but that we must recycle more.
That was three years ago and now we only half fill our normal bin and recycle the rest due to so much more being recyclable.
We also recycle our food in a little caddy and it gets collected weekly.
Our council would never give you a bigger bin or two small ones as was mentioned.

Gingernutmeg

I agree with floss2 - you really need to check whether your council will empty a wheelie bin, and if they do what size you're allowed as there's no point getting a bin if they won't empty it. My council uses wheelie bins and for some reason, my house never got one of the proper ones. I do have a wheelie bin though, but because it's got a hole in the lid for bottles the binmen refuse to empty it so it sits there doing nothing lol.

Nicki

If recycling is out of the question for some reason, could you at least put the recyclables in a separate bag to the food waste? The bags with the food waste can then go in the bins away from the foxes and the bags with paper and clean cans, bottles, etc can sit out beside the bins where they should be left alone by the foxes as they will not smell of food.

If it is possible to recycle, though I would recommend it. We are a family of four, with two further visitors for meals every week night, and have got down from an average of three bin bags of rubbish and one of recycling per week, to one bin bag (very often only half full) and one recycling bag per week, by making use of a compost bin, using reusable bags for supermarket shopping, compressing all recycling into small sizes and menu planning and freezing left overs so we don't throw much food away. It does make bin night (and the storing of rubbish between collections) much easier and pleasanter and has taken very little effort on our part, just a bit of thinking about the issue.

margaretclare

We are about to change to a new system here (Rochford District, Essex). We're going to have 3 wheelie bins - a green one for garden waste (grass clippings, prunings etc), another bin for recyclables (glass, cardboard, plastic, paper, tins) and another bin for items that can't be either recycled or composted. We're told that the green one can also be used for 'kitchen scraps'.

We have a compost bin down the garden, a worm bin near the back door, and I also put food out for foxes, so we never put any food waste into any bin. With a garden full of hungry birds desperate to feed their broods of nestlings, as well as the foxes coming through every night, no food ever gets wasted!