Bin Night

Fingers crossed for you.

Got an update @midlife ?

Apt username is apt.

Karma in effect here. Neighbour with multi-stolen-bins put two out overnight, both the same colour but WRONG colour.

It tastes sweet.

Now emptied, I'm going to bring back both mine and next doors to deny them the retrieval journey as they denied me last night.

Eastenders, Corrie, Crossroads, and Brookside all have nothing against Bin Night drama.

It's blue today for us, but ours is less than 1/4 full so I've not put it out. brown only. difficult to sense how this is going down

no bin collection for two weeks now,
London Borough of Newham with inadequate reasons.
I am sad, was highlight of my week

Sweet. To the tune of? Need a new cycling (recycling?) ear worm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnNyxy7XPfs

currently in a flat sharing bins with other folk in building who seem to struggle a bit with the concept, everything from plastic bags and un-crushed boxes in recycling to stuffed toys in brown - cant wait to move (when we can) and have our own bins.

It's blue today for us, but ours is less than 1/4 full so I've not put it out.

Risky. What if we have a second peak and they don't collect for months? Always empty when you can!

ikr?! i'm in bits here guys

I wouldn't be able to sleep at night knowing what I hadn't done

Bin night has had some of its shine taken away for me. Back in the olden days they'd be collected before I was up in the morning, so getting it all out the night before was essential, and the tinkle tinkle/crash/bang of the truck coming down the street was like a dawn chorus.

The last couple of weeks, during the new normal, bins haven't been collected till past elevenses. This means there is technically no need for a "bin night" and I'm topping up the bins before they arrive- empty milk bottles from breakfast and my brunch stella cans. It's given me an empty feeling that percolates through my whole week.

brunch stella cans

Glad I'm not the only one!

Tales like those on this page from @fizzy.bleach @almac68 and @Scrabble will be told in history classes of the future when looking back at the minutiae of Covid19 households.

Tonight is bin night for me. It's a bittersweet event. In our block of 8, vigilance about bin night has become essential. Months ago, we took the bold step of putting chains and padlocks on our recycling bins, after a spate of non-collection incidents caused by contaminated recycling. There were recriminations amongst neighbours, but passers-by were eventually deemed to be the most likely culprits when one day we found a homeless person's discarded blanket in one of our green bins. I removed it. The stench was unimaginable: a mixture of shit and corpse. I have never smelled a corpse, but I know how I imagine they smell, and it smelt like that, with added shit. So on bin night one of us has to volunteer to take the green bin padlocks off so they can be emptied in the morning. People often look at our padlocks as they pass by, and smirk as if to say, "bit over the top!", but they have not had the stench of shit and corpse in their nostrils.

Tesco just dropped 12 packs of Punk IPA to £13

Good to know - that beats the 2 x 4 packs for £9 by .042 p per can :)

anyway back to bins

Which was a calculation I had to make on my phone standing in the aisle. But anyway, it is indirectly related to bins, so appropriate for this thread.

Also equates to £1.86 / pint, just so you know.

Bin night? What times are your collections, ours is definitely bin day.

Bins go out the night before, it's the law. Any calendar reminders must be in the day before collection.

Heathen.

Bins on the road 24/7 masterrace

Bins on the road 24/7

Should be illegal. Almost as bad as storing a vehicle on the public highway.

It's double yellows outside our house and no pavement, I'm giving myself a pass.

maybe bin night doesn't hold much value for your culture

have our own bins

The absolute dream