Media mistakes

[EEPhil]

My bin calendar has months with collection day and colour of bin(s) to be emptied on one side and all the bumf telling you what to put in the bins on the other. I just stick up the calendar side from this year with the out-of-date explanation from last year. So far, so good. No cut and paste required - just twice the amount of Blu-Tack.

 

[trog]

I see what colour of bin my neighbour puts out the afternoon before the next day very early morning collection. No cut. paste or Blu-Tack required.

 

[Wildebeest]

Our collection is normal bins one week, recycling bins the next so I just have a fortnightly recurring event for each in my phone's calendar (colour coded to match the relevant bin colour). Though I strongly suspect my neighbours wait until I put mine out as per Trog's comment above!

 

[Black Hole]

...or in our case we all put out the wrong bin.

 

[HugeMaximum]

There is probably an algorithm for minimum amount of people per street population that don't depend on others putting their bins out first

 

[Luke]

...or in our case we all put out the wrong bin.

Core! "Bin" singular. We have 7 different collections.

 

[prpr]

Though I strongly suspect my neighbours wait until I put mine out as per Trog's comment above!

I would deliberately wait to put mine out under such circumstances to subvert the 'leeches' behaviour.

 

[HugeMaximum]

I would deliberately wait to put mine out under such circumstances to subvert the 'leeches' behaviour.

Or rotate the different week options... musical bins!

 

[prpr]

We have 7 different collections.

FFS. It's got too ridiculous. It's different all over the country too.

 

[Black Hole]

It's different all over the country too.

That's in the process of rationalisation, and about time.

Core! "Bin" singular. We have 7 different collections.

We've got six, or seven if you include a collection they don't supply a bag/crate for.

Every week, the recycling gets collected in one go, but segregated into separate collecting bags and crates: food waste; paper & card; plastics & metals; glass bottles & jars + small electricals; clothing (bagged yourself).

Separately, the non-recyclable domestic waste mini-wheelie bin is collected every third week.

Separately, the garden waste wheelie bin is collected every third week (not in winter), not the same week as non-recyclable domestic waste.

Thus there is only one bin out at a time, and none on the in-between week.

That does not count the items not recycled by the council's agents (supermarkets have drop-off points for batteries and soft plastics), or that I have to make an appointment on-line to take to the tip.