Bin Night

I've already got about 600l of compost bin. I also don't really want compost.

Have you tried filling your regular bin with the organic waste and asking the binman if they would mind emptying this one as well on collection day? Some of my colleagues have no problem doing this, others refuse.

Barnet recently switched to charging to take away garden waste. If you haven't got the magic sticker the bin men will not take it away. Garden waste is emptied once a fortnight and you can have as many green bins as you want to pay for.

I could bag up garden waste and put it in my landfill bin as there is always lots of space in that but it feels wrong. At least my garden waste is turned into compost someone uses this way.

At the moment I have two 240l garden waste bins and ~600l of compost bin in the garden (those have been active since last autumn and are full of not nearly rotted down stuff, probably too many leaves).

We are in the countryside.
Time moves more slowly.
The rhythm of the bin collection has its own self regulating patterns and we learn here to adapt to the ebb and flow of shifting municipal diurnal habits, or indeed nocturnal phases.
Everything finds its natural compass, it’s own quotidian regulation. It is always a bin night. Or a morning.

Knowledge sharing from the frontline & beautiful imagery. This thread is full of win.

#wereallbinittogether

at a #strange and #uncertain time the street knowledge and cultural capital being shared here put the rest of this forum to shame

I'm happy that i work as a binman for my local council, there is almost no supervision. In my city bins aren't being registered at all, people just call in to say they lost theirs and they get a new one, free of charge. Obviously some people abuse this, so I'm actually drafting up a bin consensus program with colleagues.

Soil, unwanted gravel, bags of sand: things the bin men shun. Unwelcome in a bin of any colour, but they often find their way in there hereabouts, in small and concealable quantities, in black bags, in black bins.

Underground bins. Mind. Blown.

Years ago I tried to sneak some old wheels and tyres into the big communal bins we have here by dropping them to the bottom of the bin* after they had been emptied. The following week the bin men emptied the bin but left the wheels etc behind. I disposed of them properly eventually.

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People are still trying to get away with it today - e.g. one large tin of white gloss paint.

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Have you tried filling your regular bin with the organic waste and asking the binman if they would mind emptying this one as well on collection day? Some of my colleagues have no problem doing this, others refuse.

Took a while to get to the pun.

If you truly want to understand how thin the mask of civilisation is, and with what ease and rapidity all we hold dear could be torn away, look no further than the contents of a communal bin.

The underground bin seems like a genius solution until the one full of glass is emptied directly outside your hotel room in Spain at dawn. I thought a bomb had gone off.

Feeling smug as my neighbours sheepishly wheel their bins back off the street as they forgot it's a bank holiday Friday collection this week. Fools.

I live directly opposite a social club, it's a proper old fashioned place and the clientele are very quiet (think beet red, 70 year old men called Ron drinking John Smith's in silence). The only time I ever hear anything from there is when they get their glass bin emptied at around 6am on a Saturday.

My neighbours have moved out, so I kindly wheeled their recycling bin out for them last night. That fact that it had my cardboard in was incidental.

This. People who forget to factor in bank holiday transposition of collection days are such basic bin bitches.

New TV, microwave, AC unit, toilet seat and various 1yo birthday presents in the last two weeks meant that "blue box" recycling day was a joyous occasion. Even if 95% was outside of the box.

When we finally get to move again, I hope we'll be able to share stories on here of bin night in other countries, in other cultures.

Some of them can't even keep track of weekly alternating some bins/all bins collections that I have clearly marked on the kitchen 'Funny kittens' calendar

I can keep track, but sometimes it's nice to check the groupthink.

Bin collected. Got a whole week to wait now. Difficult times.

Let me help you out with this INSPIRING SHABBY CHIC BIN RETRO SIGN FOR BIN LOVERS VINTAGE DECOR BIN O'CLOCK

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Collection refused this morning, a bad start to the day. Someone had put a carrier bag full of tissue paper in one of the recycling bins, so the bin men left all four and put shaming labels on them. Not sure I’ll recover from this.