Bin lid ripped off…again

We were given a new general waste bin six weeks ago as the lifter / tipper mechanism ripped off the lid.

I’ve just watched the same thing happen to our new bin. Put back on the pavement sans lid.

Mrs. S spoke to the “operative” who said “it’s cos your bin’s too heavy love.”

WTF? What’s too heavy? It’s general waste in there, not depleted uranium ingots.

It’s not our fault that they collect once every three weeks. It’s bound to get a tad heavy.

Piss boiling right now.

EDIT: piss now simmering.

Is this the latest in a series of humblebrag threads because you’re extremely proud of your expensive new piss-boiler?

Mrs. S spoke to the “operative” who said “it’s cos your bin’s too heavy love.”

Maybe he can point you to the councils website where it states max weights for the bins? I bet there isn’t one or any info on it

I once cut up a mk4 escort n put it in the bin over a few weeks

Yay! First world problems are great, aren’t they?

I had an argument with our binmen this morning after they refused to take the garden waste bin, as windfall apples are no longer considered to be garden waste, but food waste – which means they have to go in the general waste bin, not the garden waste bin…

EDIT: piss now simmering.

Ooooh! It’s adjustable? That’s fancy.

Are you sure your bin hadn’t been stuffed full of leaves by your neighbour?

It’s general waste in there, not depleted uranium ingots.

Our council will take depleted uranium ingots but not asbestos; there’s just no consistency.

Are you sure your bin hadn’t been stuffed full of leaves by your neighbour?

I’m 100% sure. She’s a lazy bastard.

What’s weight got to do with anything? The van doesn’t pick bins up by the lid.

In any case, arguing with the collectors isn’t going to achieve anything. They should be reporting any collection anomalies back to base as a matter of process*, but I’d suggest dropping them an email just in case.

It happened to me earlier this year. One collection, the glass & plastics recycling bin lid got ripped off. The next (fortnightly) collection, the lid went missing completely. I thought, well, if the council want to collect 240L of water that’s their lookout. The collection after that it’d been repaired. Same bin, new lid.

(* – I’ve seen this first hand from the other side, I worked (briefly) at a local council. Anything unusual gets radioed in so if you don’t put your bin out it gets recorded. If nothing else, this is to safeguard against “BNE” (Bin Not Emptied) complaints, “sorry sir, it says here that your bin wasn’t available for collection at 9:35am.”)

Bins, the luxury. I still have to use plastic bags which have to be left out with very good timing just before they are collected otherwise the horses rip them apart and spread everything across the road.

Maybe he can point you to the councils website where it states max weights for the bins? I bet there isn’t one or any info on it

I’d say he’s probably gone by now

If nothing else, this is to safeguard against “BNE” (Bin Not Emptied) complaints, “sorry sir, it says here that your bin wasn’t available for collection at 9:35am.”)

Damn I must cause them a lot of extra calls then, I live alone so quite often not enough in bin to make it worth dragging down drive.

Phew, I thought this was a report that our Binners had been mugged or something!

The bin may well have maximum load moulded into it. Our yard is full of bins with missing lids, they come off all the time, we often eat the whole bin rather than just the bin. The weight issue is that as it tips the contents can all hit the lid.

I had a 360 litre glass bin come flying of the back this week still with half the glass in it. Never drive right up the arse of a dustcart unless you like the idea of a bin coming through your windscreen!

Oh and stw should ban anyone using the phrase “my bin”, it’s not your bloody bin, it’s a bin you’ve very kindly provided to put your shit in.😊

No, that’s “my toilet”

Damn I must cause them a lot of extra calls then, I live alone so quite often not enough in bin to make it worth dragging down drive.

Only an issue if you don’t put your bin out and then ring them whining about it not being emptied.

What exciting lives you all live…

as windfall apples are no longer considered to be garden waste, but food waste – which means they have to go in the general waste bin, not the garden waste bin…

Why aren’t you eating them or turning them into cider?

The weight issue is that as it tips the contents can all hit the lid.

Bollocks.

it’s not your bloody bin

Correct.

it’s a bin you’ve very kindly provided to put your shit in.😊

It’s a bin owned by the council, the servicing of which I pay for via council tax. There’s no ‘kindly’ involved.

What exciting lives you all live…

I reckon I know more about people than Google, Facebook, Amazon etc combined from emptying their bins and doing their recycling, every day a fascinating insight it to the real character of people! 😊

we often eat the whole bin rather than just the bin

Whaaaatt? I’m guessing you’re in the trade?
OP – Just order a new bin? The stuff in their should be bagged anyway shouldn’t it, so “caaaaaaalllllm down, calm down”

Disappointed thread title is not just bad grammar about an mountain biking accident.

Are you sure your bin hadn’t been stuffed full of leaves by your neighbour?

I’m 100% sure. She’s a lazy bastard.

Perhaps she owns a leaf blower or pays a man who owns a leaf blower to blow them in to piles and then place them in your bin whilst your not watching. Leaves are **** deadly. One guy on here can’t park his car on his own drive because of them. They cause so many issues for everyone. Bet they broke the bin by rustling too vigorously in close proximity to it.

I overheard a conversion between two of the drivers on streets earlier comparing the hundreds of kilos of leaves they’d collected from the sweepers today. I’m not sure how many people are out everyday in Brighton just shoveling them up but it’s quite a few. I’ve been loading mountains of soggy wet cardboard that people can’t be bothered to rip up to fit inside their bins, that can get pretty heavy, smells pretty bad to after been left out for a week or more.

sobriety, I had a similar when the council refused to take mine because it contained saw dust chips from cutting up logs. Logs=fine, cut up logs=fine, saw chips from cutting logs= Noooooo. I asked when a cut up log piece bacame chip, the reply was that I’d called it saw dust, no saw dust. WTAF. it makes you not want to bother trying to deal with the recycling/waste in the right way!

Our council will take depleted uranium ingots but not asbestos; there’s just no consistency.

Yep I got an official email from ours, just leave radioactive waste (americanum 131) with “electrical items”

Found it

Thank you for your enquiry regarding your smoke detectors. I have been advised by colleagues that these items can be disposed of alongside your small electrical items which are collected alongside your black waste bin in a carrier bag. Please note items for this service must be 35 x 40cm or less.

Apologies for the delay in response however I wanted to check with colleagues as this is an item we rarely are asked about. However, as this item is likely to affect a number of residents, we will seek to include this information on our website.

Kind regards

<*****> I Senior Contracts Officer I Neighbourhood Services

That sawdust along with the plaster, cement, contents of your Dyson, ash from your wood burner and bbq etc you can’t be bothered to put in a bag is all being breathed in all day every day by the people who have to empty your bin. If you don’t have the capacity either to work that out or care what working conditions other human beings have to put up with then I guess you’ll just keep throwing it in the bin. When the wheelie bin tips any loose dust just goes everywhere, it doesn’t stay in the truck you know.

@simondbarnes

They’re Bramleys, they do not cider very well, and there’s only so much apple sauce and crumble two people can stomach/freeze when you have two bloody great apple trees in your garden;-)

The really annoying, middle aged man ranty thing about it, is that the apples in the top of the bin were a side effect of me sweeping the path into the trug and bunging it in on top to fill the space – leaves usually go in the compost and windfalls are usually heaped up into piles for the blackbirds to fight over all winter.

Phew, I thought this was a report that our Binners had been mugged or something!

Corbyns revenge….

duncancallum

Surely all you’d need to do was watch while it rusted in real time whilst you watched – as per my XR2 🙁

Call the new replacement Osama. 😆

Are you sure your bin hadn’t been stuffed full of leaves by your neighbour?

If you’ve mulched your neighbour, like TJ suggested, then I’m not sure if thats supposed to go out as garden waste, general waste or food but I’d suspect that would make any of those bins heavier than they’re designed to be.

You’d be better flushing it down the loo

it’s a bin you’ve very kindly provided to put your shit in.

Might as well – as the loo is pretty much redundant now as it seems we’re supposed to be shitting in our bins.

Our council will take depleted uranium ingots but not asbestos; there’s just no consistency.

thats common policy. For a while most schools had radioactive sources that would be used in physics demonstrations with gieger counters – various radiation sources and various barriers to that form of radiation and a detector to show the effects each had. Then it was decided that was probably a bad idea. There are thousands of secondary schools in the uk so there were thousands of bits of radioactive material to dispose of. The method for safe disposal was…. chuck ’em in the bin. If there’d been an attempt to have some sort of coordinated collection and disposal you’d have brought 1000s of bits of radioactive material delivered to one place and things would have gotten a bit David Hahn – and become quite a lot of radioactive stuff and a big problem. Chucking them in the bin instead meant thousands of little bits of radioactive stuff ended in thousands of different places, mostly buried somewhere that they’d never be disturbed again.

darkroomtim
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duncancallum

Surely all you’d need to do was watch while it rusted in real time whilst you watched – as per my XR2 🙁

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The suspension and brakes where the harder bits to get rid of.