Bin Night

lots of very concerning chat in the DIY thread about hiding bins. language like this not uncommon:

Our house used to have the two bins one either side of the door like shit stone lions. ... It's not a nice thing to come home to.

really sent me reeling

Watching out local tip webcam at the moment - queued around the corner with an hours wait...

Guess i'll take another look tomorrow.

Edit: for anyone who wants to look at our local tip.

You should report them via the League against Cruelty to Bins website.

How do people feel about bin sheds that are brick and part of the house? As in, everyone has them on my estate?

What's the feeling about knocking them down and building a tasetful horizontal slatted strip wood enclosure?

Caged bins? You monster. Ours are free range and really appreciate the sun this time of year. We bring them in when it's really cold in the depths of winter - the look on their lids when they see the warm fire. Priceless.

I have two battery bins (recycling and non -recyclable/non-food waste) plus two free range (food bin and garden waste (shared with next door neighbours)).
The garden waste bin sits in the front yard and silently stares out at the street. Pining for more garden waste to go in it, but its owners are rewilders and there's never enough stuff to make it happy anymore.

You have to book a 15 minute slot for ours, seems like a decent system!

Ours looks empty now with an 'estimate' queue time of 15 mins.

To be fair, when we lived in Bickley, i'd bring a book to read in the car for the wait at Waldo Road on a Saturday morning. Royston (in normal times) is never more than 1 min wait for a parking space. Can't complain.

local tip

Wait, what. Problematic language much?

Household waste recycling centre.

Although ours identifies as a Reuse and Recycling Centre and that's okay!

You're right; it's really more of a dump.

One of our neighbours has filled our recycling bin with their beer and sparkling wine empties, with all the hair that’s been bunging their plughole on top. Bin day is tomorrow and we can’t fit our own recycling in. Act of war.

Brick their windows. Send a message.

Volvo V70 chock full of garden waste for the tip. The bin night to end all bin nights. Even got some of the old dear next door's hedge trimmings to get rid of.

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the volvo V40 take as prominent role.in my culture

Taking a trip down the road after dark to find who has the Beavertown subscription. Then putting a note thru their door that next time it’ll be our rubbish as well as theirs through the letterbox. Too vegan for the frozen sausage option.

Bang a couple of Lindas into their lawn. They'll get the message.

Having a week off. Stood out by the bins to watch the ISS drift by though.

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in space, every night is bin night. the bin men drive a flying saucer and suck the astro-rubbish out of your spaceship with a special cosmo-pipe.

it costs 20 space credits a month

Embedded euph?

every night the bin men suck your special cosmo-pipe.

it costs 20 space credits a month

Nice, but a bit pricey?

Currently queueing for the tip, AMA

Why is brokeback mountain universally referred to as a 'gay cowboy film' when the characters only look after sheep

“There is seen amongst the natives of that place a distinct reverence for those things in their households they no longer need; and, more particularly, the places into which those needless things are removed.”

• James George Frazer, The Golden Bough
  
  

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That's the bins dragged down to the end of the lane.

General waste (Green) goes every 3 weeks.
Garden (brown) used to alternate each week with the recycling. But CV 19 has meant the recycling is now getting taken on the same day as green.

It's kinda busy with six houses

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I genuinely don't think I've seen a fuschia bin before.