Huge Council Refuse Bins ! Arghhhhhhhh!!!

Emma52

The Council chose a new rubbish collection firm who have delivered huge bins to myself and neighbours. Totally ignoring any disability, frailty or inability to move such large bins. The council is avoiding calls as are the local councillors with only being put on hold as an option when attempting to contact them. One elderly neighbours front door is blocked by these bins and I will do my best to comfort her when she is unable to get in. To be straight I feel it is degrading that we are being left in the position to get this resolved when the Council have full details of their tenants and should have stopped this from happening. It will be like we have to display our inabilities publicly to resolve this.

Kimi87

Have you tried your local MP?

Most councils offer an assisted collection service for wheelie bins, has this been looked into/requested?

OverlyAnxious

When you say huge, do you mean commercial sized bins or standard sized individual bins?

Where I live we have a few of the large commercial sized communal bins and they are very difficult to open for anyone short or with limited strength. Someone now leaves them open (unsure whether it's a resident or the bin men) but then it smells awful, of course. I'm not sure how many individual bins would make up the same size as a large one but a few of those would seem more appropriate for a residential setting to me.

Ranald

I have 240 litre x3, a 120 litre, and a food caddy. It is alot, but they are vital all the same.

It's a sad fact, but if my neighbours are anything to go by, people can be very resistant to change, and often need encouragement to change their behaviour.

The 120 litre bin is for general waste, and emptied fortnightly. This bin had to be the smallest, as people were refusing to recycle, just chuck everything in the general waste bin.

The larger 240 litre bins are emptied monthly, with the onus being on the householder to recycle glass at the various bottle banks in the local area.