if your recycling or rubbish collections days are Monday,Tuesday,Wedne sday

And perhaps when they take their break in the middle of the High Street they will close the hatch on the back of the Food Refuse Lorry rather than leaving it wide open, a haven for flies and spreading a noxious stench.

I put bins out overnight as we are clearly right at the start of the bin run.

I am sure they have bottles of water in their cab. I wouldnt accept a cup of water from someone I didnt know however kind a thought.
My regular postie I would ask can I top up your water bottle.

I would love it if they put my bin bsck where they found it and not just chucked on the pavement down the road for me to go and get in the heat.

I also put the bins out the night before, but occasionally have had to put the forgotten food bin out at the crack of dawn in my jim jams

Our bin men are ace and get their Christmas box, but I’m not getting up that early!
Other people have been offered and accepted water during previous hot weather though.

I don’t have bins, I told them I’m too old and feeble to move them but actually won’t fill my small garden with huge plastic containers. I have bags and have to put them out the night before as they may be collected anytime between 7 and 3. Black bags full of rubbish sit on the pavement overnight and have never been damaged by passers by , foxes or cats. You couldn’t do that in London, could you?

our binmen take our bins out for us...we have a pull out sticker because we can't manage them ourselves. When my OH was fit he always took our elderly neighbour's bins out .

pably15

our binmen take our bins out for us...we have a pull out sticker because we can't manage them ourselves. When my OH was fit he always took our elderly neighbour's bins out .

Yes, my neighbour used to do that...

Ours are not particularly good, they usually drop quite a bit of stuff and they don’t bother to pick it up,then you look out often they’re on their phones…
And I agree what somebody else said they don’t care where they put them often don’t put them back outside the house and you’re right sometimes they just chuck them….
Couldn’t care less attitude 🙄

M0nica

I put bins out overnight as we are clearly right at the start of the bin run.

So do we.

In my experience, our bin men are pretty good, bins are put back where they are picked up and never seen them on their phones.

I’d absolutely hate to be a “bin man”, cars beep them if they have to wait a
nano-second, households don’t appear to be able to follow the simplest of instructions, I’ve seen bin man hurt by glass in wrong bins and householders are often rude to them!

For the general waste bin I bag anything that goes in there and for things like raw meat and fish trimmings and certain leftovers, I seal them in used ziplock bags before putting them in the waste bin. I have a fixation about maggots! I once saw a bin alive with them. It was horrible. We have to put our bins on the road by no earlier than six the evening before they’re collected. They have usually been dealt with by 8.30 in the morning. They don’t hang around! My neighbour sometimes brings my bin up the drive - sometimes I do it for him. Depends whose out first.

I thought all bins had to be out by 6am anyway?
Am I wrong?

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(PS for your own area’s specific bin arrangements, you’d do better to consult your website)

watermeadow

I don’t have bins, I told them I’m too old and feeble to move them but actually won’t fill my small garden with huge plastic containers. I have bags and have to put them out the night before as they may be collected anytime between 7 and 3. Black bags full of rubbish sit on the pavement overnight and have never been damaged by passers by , foxes or cats. You couldn’t do that in London, could you?

Can’t you get assistance with your bins. Just ring the council, unless of course you are happy with your method watermeadow

We put ours out the night before, depending on the weekly cycle.
We’re on early pick up for recycling bins, about 8 o’clock for general waste and about nine for garden waste. The weekly food bins are always the last to be collected so are around 1 o’clock in the afternoon.
It’s sometimes a race to see who can get your own and the neighbours’ bins back down the path.

Husband puts bins out night before, unless it’s windy.
You can guarantee a windy night for recycle bins 😩

I am sure they have bottles of water in their cab. I wouldn’t accept a cup of water from someone I didn’t know however kind a thought

. Taking cups of water out to bin men at 5 am sounds a bit bonkers to me, I too am sure they have their own bottles of water and would want to get round as quickly as possible without unnecessary hold ups.

We have food bins now as well which I think are great.
Our friends in another town said binmen were going through their bins looking for food waste, if they found any evidence of food they were just leaving the bins un-emptied.
I believe also we are supposed to be getting new bin for soft plastic waste, tbh, I don’t want another bin. I just take mine to our local supermarket.

Never heard of giving the binmen a drink. Can’t they just take water bottle like everyone else 🤔

Our bin men are pretty good on the whole. When my toddler GD is staying with us she always looks for them from the front window when she hears the trucks and they invariably give her a wave and a smile, which she loves!

My only minor gripe is that the food waste bins are collected very early in the morning every week and chucked back in the relevant front drive, rather than being put back which makes a terrible racket and wakes me up with a start!

More than 50 years ago my DH was a road-sweeper during the holidays when he was at college and his dream was to be transferred to the bin-collection team. They were paid twice the salary and got to sit in the trucks to eat their lunch, rather than near the rubbish piles at the local tip with all the rats running round their feet!!!

A friend of my daughter's years ago worked as a "bin lady" for a year between school and travelling the world.

She was so fit and happy whenever we saw her.
She loved the job and was very pleased with the pay.
She said the "lads" were great and treated her well.

MT62

We have food bins now as well which I think are great.
Our friends in another town said binmen were going through their bins looking for food waste, if they found any evidence of food they were just leaving the bins un-emptied.
I believe also we are supposed to be getting new bin for soft plastic waste, tbh, I don’t want another bin. I just take mine to our local supermarket.

I’m expect there will be some jobsworths doing what you say, but as we’re expected to put our general waste in bin bags, we simply take out the bag we have in the kitchen bin.
Our bin men take the bins by the handles, manœuvre them to onto the lorry and the lorry mechanism lifts and tips the bin to empty it. They don’t actually need to open the bin at all.

The reason that organisations are “picky” and “jobs worthy” it’s probably due to knowing that for that stuff that is actually recycled rather than put in a hole or burnt, if things are incorrect bins etc the entire bin of recycling could be rejected.