Any ideas on how to get round the £50 for a replacement wheelie bin?

DWTB

All great advice, thank you! Headpin, I'm going to go back to them with the info you've given me and see what they say. Thanks so much everyone.

woodbutcher_2

Just nick someone elses,i would.Or refuse to pay your council tax.

Seriously though,they are legally obliged to take your rubbish and never forget,THEY work for YOU,not the other way round.Wheelie bins were introduced to make their job a lot easier and therefore cheaper.

If all else fails,take your rubbish bags down to the local council offices and put them in the foyer.

bookduck

moonrakerz wrote: »

PS: This is the same council that insults the intelligence of its taxpayers by printing and distributing "rubbish" like this :-

I was in Harrow, one house there had 4 different colour bins - blue, brown, green and a grey-ish/black. I was on the bus and didnt have time to investigate the differences

davidlizard

When we moved to our new house, we had alternate weekly collections but had no recycling wheelie bin.

So I phoned our council to ask for one, and they informed me that there was a sliding scale based on the council tax band - as we were band F, that would have been £85 (Band B was £20). So I told them to shove their recycling and burnt what I could not fit in my other normal wheelie bin down the garden.

About 1 year later, they wrote and said we will all be getting bigger recycling bins, so I was able to get one of there free of charge.

There is a problem with wheelie bin theft down our way. Bins have to be chained up, put out when the dustcart appears, and taken in straight away again.

headpin

bookduck wrote: »

I was in Harrow, one house there had 4 different colour bins - blue, brown, green and a grey-ish/black. I was on the bus and didnt have time to investigate the differences

Harrow officially uses a a wheel bin system as follows:

Brown = Organic waste (i.e. kitchen including meat & bones and green garden waste i.e grass cuttings, prunings, leaves etc.)

Blue = Dry recyclables (i.e. paper, plastic, cans, bottles, jars, newspapers, cardboard and the like).

Green or Grey = residual waste that cannot be put in either the blue or brown bin.

So it is probable the householder has two residual waste bins.

The brown bin is emptied every week and the green/grey and bluse bins on alternate weeks (i.e. brown and blue emptied week's one, three, etc with brown and green/grey emptied weeks two, four, etc,)

headpin

woodbutcher wrote: »

Just nick someone elses,i would.Or refuse to pay your council tax.

Seriously though,they are legally obliged to take your rubbish and never forget,THEY work for YOU,not the other way round.Wheelie bins were introduced to make their job a lot easier and therefore cheaper.

If all else fails,take your rubbish bags down to the local council offices and put them in the foyer.

As I explained above, whilst the your WCA (the local Council normally) have a duty to arrange for the collection of household waste from any premises (note there are a couple of exceptions to this is stated in s.45 (1) of EPA 90) they can serve a Notice under s.46 where the type and number of receptacles in which the waste must be placed is specified. If the waste is not place in the specified receptacles there is then duty for the WCA to collect it. However, as I indicted above it it would be extremely unlikley that any WCA has actually ever served the appropriate s.46 Notice and therefore remains under a duty to collect all household waste.

I would suggest that the best way to del with problems uch as this isto be aware of your rights and the WCA duties and powers under EPA 90 (the appropriate ones in the main are in s.45 and s.46). There are also some additional powers and duties in the Cleaner Neighbourhoods and Environment Act, but I wouldn't get too involed in that. The first line of enquiry I would suggest is how they are complying with their duty under s.45 and if they then go on about bins ask if you can have a copy of the s.46 Notice they served on their residents as you do not recall seeing it. If all else fails say you will be asking the Local Government Ombudsman to investigate their potential unlawful actions.

woodbutcher_2

That's all well and good but not as much fun as dumping it in the foyer.:D

bakerlad1983

if you ring them up on the day of collection, say its been taken, they will prob give you one free of charge, my bro in law works for the council and he says its the only way round it.

ukjoel

My brother bought a second one off the internet and uses it and they just take it and empty it. The binmen have enough things on their mind without checking out each bin as long as it looks right they take it. These days with so many houses split into flats all u do is write 40 and 40b on them.
Just because the council have gone to alternate week collection doesnt mean we have to accept it.