The Bin Thread

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25880

I wouldn’t mind paying for it if lower income families could be made exempt and the money was used for community projects and causes, or to open a blinking library back up.

Funding community gardens would be a nice circular use of that money.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Mimi wrote:

Oof. Do you have any precedent to say if they’ll collect any excess bags of recycling as well as the bin full?

No clue at this point.

My garden bin is £45 a year

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22368

Free here, but it's a communal bin, so it might be in the maintence fee of the gardens

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2021 14:05

Mine is free and so it should be.

Well, I say free... Free in the same way that Xbox Gamepass games are free.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22368

So, free by any sane person's definition.

Goddess Jasmine · **Posted:** Fri Jul 30, 2021 14:54

Cras wrote:

Mimi wrote:

Oof. Do you have any precedent to say if they’ll collect any excess bags of recycling as well as the bin full?

No clue at this point.

My garden bin is £45 a year

Wait, what? Aren't you in a first floor flat?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Yeah,. I have a garden though, it's just not 'attached'

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4328

Mimi wrote:

Here’s a question: do folks here pay for their garden bin collections, and if so, how much? Ours are free, but the local council make a very big thing of this on their website. Basically ‘be grateful, proles! You have no libraries, but you also now have no hedge trimmings!’

£52 per year here. And I reckon I put the bin out five times a year, like an idiot

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3286

East Herts DC introduced a charge in June. £45 if you paid early, £49 from then on, I think.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38603

JBR wrote:

East Herts DC introduced a charge in June. £45 if you paid early, £49 from then on, I think.

What a savings!

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3286

DavPaz wrote:

JBR wrote:

East Herts DC introduced a charge in June. £45 if you paid early, £49 from then on, I think.

What a savings!

So much bargains!

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:01

Tagged? Stay away from your bins.

Oxford Mail wrote:

...he admitted breaching his electronically-monitored curfew between June 8 and 18.

The court heard he’d amassed more than five hours’ worth of curfew breaches over the 10 day period.

The young chef was said to have breached the curfew by taking the bins out at the pub where he was living and working

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25880

It took him five hours to take the bins out over a week and a half?

Kern · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:48

Perhaps they had starters and went to a movie afterwards.

KovacsC · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2021 8:54

Kern wrote:

Perhaps they had starters and went to a movie afterwards.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Still no recycling collections. Becoming troublesome

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4328

Cras wrote:

Still no recycling collections. Becoming troublesome

How long is that now? Think I'd struggle to go beyond missing one collection (ours are fortnightly)

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

I think this is week eight

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4328

Cras wrote:

I think this is week eight

Jaysus. What are you doing with all your recycling?

Why isn't there rioting on the streets in wherever you are?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Well there's a lot of bins on the streets. Bexley is pretty good for local recycling centres though they're of course now busy as hell. I'm lucky that I live alone and only generate waste for one, though even I'm struggling at this point

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4328

this is a binjustice.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22368

It's a complete waste of your time

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25880

I can’t believe they’d refuse to collect it.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6587

They've wheelie bin taking the mick!

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16611

No shortage of recycling for the puns at least.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Aug 18, 2021 16:33

Findus Fop wrote:

this is a binjustice.

The scales have been tipped.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Aug 19, 2021 22:18

It's rubbish.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25880

Grim... wrote:

It's rubbish.

That’s just trash talk.

Kern · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2021 10:56

Living life on the edge today by only just remembering that's it Bin Day and putting the bin out late.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4756

Kern wrote:

Living life on the edge today by only just remembering that's it Bin Day and putting the bin out late.

I love that little frisson of excitement that comes with that. Have I left it too late? Will I see the in truck sail past as I'm fumbling with my bins? Am I going to time it perfectly just before they arrive?

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4756

Enjoy

edit: oops the attachment didn't work :belm:

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38603

Quote:

Garden waste collections to go four-weekly, temporarily

Dear subscriber

Due to a shortage in the availability of licensed HGV drivers across the country at the moment, garden waste collections in Wirral – which are usually fortnightly – will be carried out monthly from this week as a temporary arrangement.

Our waste management partner, Biffa, are reporting a shortage of qualified drivers due to staff either testing positive for COVID-19 or having to isolate due to close contact with someone.

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3286

In the short term, it's hard to see how councils/'partners' hold on to drivers.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

Serco have gone for paying them fuck all and letting them go on strike. Quality strategy

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Sep 01, 2021 20:47

https://twitter.com/joelycett/status/14 ... 5911222278

I am looking for an academic who might be able to write a short piece about bins (for money). It could be the history of bins or the design of bins or just the concept of bins. Is this you? Is your professor an expert in bins? Talk to me. ðŸ—‘
— Joe Lycett (@joelycett) September 1, 2021

Finally its our time!

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4756

While many of my engagements with this thread began as a joke, I now feel kind of invested and think that reading more about bins could be strangely interesting and potentially entertaining (if it's an academic that's got a good style, and now I've typed that out I realise it's not likely).

JBR · **Joined:** 2nd Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 3286

It seems like a natural step for this bloke, who wrote a readable history of consumption, to look at throwing those things away:

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I used to work with him at Birkbeck; when I left he wanted to say thanks, so invited me for dinner. That also involved going for a swim at Hampstead Heath - naked, obvs. And then heading back to his, where he apologised that his wife and kids were away.

The story gets more boring from there, I'm afraid, as we had dinner, talked, and then I went home. He is a very nice man - and Germanically relaxed about nakedness.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4756

That book does sound interesting and I think I'd like to read it, although it's the sort of thing I'd buy, only read once, and then leave to gather dust (or chuck away) which seems a bit like ten thousand spoons.

Bin chat also seems like the sort of thing that could be a really good topic for one of the talks at the 'Boring' conference that James Ward organises.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4756

That book does sound interesting and I think I'd like to read it, although it's the sort of thing I'd buy, only read once, and then leave to gather dust (or chuck away) which seems a bit like ten thousand spoons.

Bin chat also seems like the sort of thing that could be a really good topic for one of the talks at the 'Boring' conference that James Ward organises.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2021 16:53

Lovely new addition to the family.

Sir Taxalot · **Joined:** 5th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 4756

What are the specs of that bad boy? Capacity, maximum lid opening angle?

Do you have any mods planned for it?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38603

ATTENTION ALL

My garden waste bin has been collected.

Repeat

My garden waste bin has been collected.

MESSAGE ENDS

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22368

I took the bins out this morning, even though it wasn't my turn on the rota, as number 11 hadn't done it yet and the bin men were due in an hour.
I bet no-one thanks me for it.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Sep 15, 2021 16:03

Trooper wrote:

I took the bins out this morning, even though it wasn't my turn on the rota, as number 11 hadn't done it yet and the bin men were due in an hour.
I bet no-one thanks me for it.

Thanks Trooper. :luv:

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38603

You're a Trooper, Trooper.

TrooperSquared. A Super Trooper

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10139

DavPaz wrote:

ATTENTION ALL

My garden waste bin has been collected.

Repeat

My garden waste bin has been collected.

MESSAGE ENDS

it was probably high quality compost by now though!

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Sep 24, 2021 9:11

Garden waste has been collected!

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12329

The brown bin wasn't collected yesterday. This is the penultimate collection before the service stops for the winter.
I've emailed the council to ask for their opinion on the matter AND I WILL REPORT BACK!

Warhead · Noob as of 6/8/10

It's better if you write them a stiff letter in cardboard and put it in the paper recycling bin.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22368

I've yet to work out the full rota for what the recycling gentlemen will accept the in the cardboard and plastic recycling bags.

So far i've got:
1st week, anything
2nd week, no drinks cartons
3rd week, anything as long as it is ripped into small pieces
4th week, no more than 2 breakfast biscuit boxes, no drinks cartons
5th week, anything in bag 1, no cartons in bag 2

I think it repeats after that, but that's still to be tested.
Helpully they make it easy enough to work out by pulling the stuff that wasn't acceptable this week out of the bush where they have gently placed it with care and attention.

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