yuk, bloody council penny pinching

[timwilky]

A few years ago my local council introduced a fortnightly refuse removal service. On alternate weeks they take either non recyclable or recyclable. So depending on which set of bins, a fortnight between empties.

Recyclable was emptied last week, it comprises of separate bins for compostable, glass/plastic/tins, and a third for cardboard.

About a year ago the compostable policy changed to also include meat/bread.

So the wife goes out this morning to put some scraps in the compostable bin. (good girl) and screams. It is overrun with maggots. as well as upto 1 week old compostable waste.

So my nice job this morning was to empty a weeks worth of crawling compostable stinking waste, triple bag it, and clean out the bin.

But, typical was they came this morning at 6:50 am to take this weeks non recycleable. So the stinking, crawling bagged mess. Will have to spend a fortnight fermenting in the non recyclable bin. I pity anyone who attempts to burst open that bag.

Annoying is the council said this couldn't happen when we complained that a fortnightly cycle could lead to this.



Yuk, worse than a babies nappy. (Well nearly)

[maviczap]

Our compostable only get collected fortnightly basis too Tim

I had the same issue too, I moved the bin onto the lawn it was so bad, and lifted the lid, as then the maggots either escape or retreat into the dark. Helps the putrid gases escape too. The birds will pick off most of the maggots

Bin was collected and emptied, and then there is a guy who comes round and cleans the bin for a fee, which at this time of year is worth it.

I bought some compostable bin bags to dispose of any meat in the bin, as then the flies don't have anything to blow their eggs onto, but as I found out the other day anything will do, as any food stuff will do, including cake

[joshwalker094]

They did that to us, change all the bin rota this April.
Maggots now infesting the grey bin which is all non-recyclable and every two weeks.
I'm not going to go on now! Bloody council idiots

[maviczap]

Mines humming & nearly full already, no collection until next Monday :(

[Mr Speirs]

Our council has done alright actually. They've just delivered us a big blue wheelie bin in which all recycling goes, so no more splitting it into daft little buckets.

Does annoy me that bins only get collected fortnightly! Considering our tax hasn't gone down to reflect that money saving tactic!

[Littlepeahead]

We have 9 different types of bin/bag/sack/box and they collect different ones on different days and it's not even the same day of the week each week. Makes me start to think 'S0d it' and just put the whole lot in the grey bin and be done with it.

[L3nny]

We get no wheelie just leave bin bags on the kerb every week for the cats to tear apart.

Nothing wrong with maggots, that is composting in action before your eyes.

A lot of the "recycling" goes to landfill anyway so it's pretty much a complete waste of time.

[Purity14]

I hate the whole recycle crap and the bin saga.

I just go to the tip, done.

[tigersaw]

I recycled the food waste bin by putting it in the green bin.

[Pete7]

We have a friendly hedgehog that likes the maggots and seems to be able to smell them miles away. For a small round spikey thing he can move pretty quickly as well, turn your back and he is gone.

Pete

[nikon70]

that's happened to me.... maggots everywhere all over my drive!!!! after about 2 hours and buckets of boiling water I eventually got 98% of them, the remaining escaped and then we had flys for a few days... YUUK!!!

[Bibio]

so what your saying is that you are getting old and senile too not have remembered that they empty the bin today. Tim you really are a star :-)

[Bluepete]

Our "green bin" only gets emptied every four weeks. That's all the food waste plus grass cuttings and garden waste.

Having been away on holiday for two weeks, the grass cuttings that i have accrued in one day have filled the bin to the point where I doubt the bin "men" will be willing to move the bin! Having said that, my 9 year old son can easily shift it! The problem is, the food waste attracts the maggots.

I've learned to live with recycling. I know my contribution make NO difference whatsoever, but I play the game. Dettol spray bleach works to keep the flies and maggots down.

The again, my waste looks the same as my neighbours and their bins are the same size as mine!

Pete ;)

[timwilky]

so what your saying is that you are getting old and senile too not have remembered that they empty the bin today. Tim you really are a star :-)

Must re-read my original post. Early this morning they took the non recycleable, I put out the correct bin. The problem is the bin they emptied last week and are scheduled to empty next week was overrun with maggots.

So having cleaned everything up into bin liners to contain the inevitable impending swarm. I need to now put that into the freshly emptied non recycle bin (due to the use of multiple plastic bin liners) which having been emptied today, will only get emptied in a fortnight.

God, I thought I had been obvious. I guess there is a subtle difference between Lancastrian English and Scottish (dare I say it?) English.

[Bibio]

ahh now i get why your moaning. yes i get confused easy. my english is fine it's my brain that mixes everything up.

carry on :-)

[Wideboy]

I recycled the food waste bin by putting it in the green bin.
i've never used mine, the idea of keeping the small on indoors under the sink to rot and infest is ****ing stupid. No idea where the outside one went.

[Bibio]

i've never used mine, the idea of keeping the small on indoors under the sink to rot and infest is ****ing stupid. No idea where the outside one went.

that's because you eat everything in sight :rolleyes:

[tigersaw]

i've never used mine, the idea of keeping the small on indoors under the sink to rot and infest is ****ing stupid. No idea where the outside one went.

It was supposed to be voluntary in Eastleigh, so I opted out and submitted the paperwork, but they ignored it, so thats why I disposed of it.

[dizzyblonde]

I refuse to recycle food waste since the period after Christmas, when I was pregnant with Oli. It didn't get emptied for four weeks, and neither did the other bins. Our street looked like a landfill site. The stench from the food waste was so bad, it knocked me sick and every neighbour was leaving the 'decomposable' bags full alongside everything else that was piled up.

I took our outside food bin to the tip, one of the guys took one look at the face I pulled and threw the whole lot, bin and all in the skip!

We now have a weekly recycling collection, the big bin is fortnightly. I recycle all that they ask, but never will I do food again. If I had a garden with an area for such, I would dig a hole and do my own compost with garden waste added. My allotment is too far away to be bothering carrying scraps. Not that there's much in this house.

[ClunkintheUK]

I don't understand how some councils can get this so bl00dy wrong, yet others there is no issue. We have no issues with this sort of thing. At my parents (just round the corner from me) they have a normal sized bin collected every two weeks. If you want you can put food waste etc. in there, but for a lot of people its not enough space.

Recyclable is collected every week (different lorry). There is the Paper, tins and plastic bin (you can have as many of these as you want), and the food bin, which is made a little thicker then a normal bin and decent lid. Never have any problem with maggots. The small food waste bin in the kitchen gets emptied every day or two, into an old newspaper, wrapped up and chucked in the main food bin.

We live on a council estate, so take stuff to the main council bins just outside, which are emptied whenever.

[timwilky]

It used to be that we had two dustbins, the man would come up the drive every week, carry them down the drive, empty them and return them. Then the bean counters took over. A wheely bin you have to leave at the end of the drive.

That was a big problem as it did not have the capacity of two normal dustbins, 5 adults in the household at that time. So when they went recycling mad, albeit on a fortnightly cycle we had eventually 3 wheely bins. Over time as they improve what can be recycled the two recyclable type bins are getting more use. Generally I am happy, very rarely have the actual guys let me down when they cannot access the road due to stupid parking.

Even with a weekly collection, my maggot problem would have occurred. I just wouldn't have noticed how bad it was as the bin would have been emptied with its wriggly extras. Guess it is the penalty we pay for putting food in a bin this time of year. I tend to leave the lid open as I mow the lawns. Probably how momma fly got in there.

So what has changed, is the wife will no longer recycle food in the compost bin. It now goes into a tie bag in the non recyclable so the flys cannot get near. Maybe as the temps reduce and the fly disappear she will resume. But for now. No more risking the little devils.

Guess I should take up course fishing. free bait.

[maviczap]

Yes free bait in my bin today

I don't want to show you how many maggots there are in my bin today, even as a fisherman, its disgusting, I prefer them in a bait box