Whatever happened to my recycle bin?
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
January 5, 2017 11:29am CST
Here is Britain we have several different coloured dustbins designed for holding various types of recycling waste. Today is the day that my brown bin is emptied, which holds cans, plastic bottles and glass.
As per usual I placed the bin outside my gate late last night so that it would be available irrespective of what time they arrived to empty it. When I went out this morning it had still not been emptied, so naturally I left it there. However, on arrival home the bin was nowhere to be seen.
The refuge collectors often have the habit of emptying several bins and dumping them all together several houses away, which can be really annoying. I can only assume that the bin has been deposited somewhere out of sight, but I have no intention of wandering around the local streets to try to find it. Even if I saw an empty brown bin in a neighbouring street I would have no way of knowing whether that belonged to another home.
Now I will have to order another brown recycling bin, which I find very inconvenient.
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19 responses
@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
6 Jan 17
Surely when they empty them they should them back where they found them?
Do you have any charge to pay for a replacement?
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Jan 17
@mysdianait Fortunately not. They do charge to replace the standard bin, but not the recycle ones.
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@mysdianait (66005)
• Italy
6 Jan 17
@Asylum If you don't find it will you have to pay for a new one?
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@moffittjc (128832)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Jan 17
Do they charge you a fee for getting a replacement bin, or will they just provide you with another one free of charge?
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Jan 17
@moffittjc We are restricted to a small bin for general waste, which forces people to recycle.
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@moffittjc (128832)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Jan 17
@Asylum I think our recycle bins are free, but we are charged for our trash bins. They just add the cost in to our taxes. People can choose what size containers they need for their general waste, but the bigger the bin, the higher the cost.
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@allen0187 (59692)
• Philippines
6 Jan 17
So sorry to hear about this. Perhaps, you can label your new recycle bin so you are sure it gets returned to you.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Jan 17
@allen0187 I will find out in time.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
5 Jan 17
Our trash collection day often falls on a windy day. This means our trash can as well as our green bins, our blue bins and our grey bins will often blow down the street once they have been emptied. We finally put our street address on them. I got tired of always ending up with the most disgusting green bin in the neighbourhood (we keep ours clean).
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Jan 17
@Morleyhunt Yet they are not prepared to take the effort to keep theirs clean.
@egdcltd (12059)
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5 Jan 17
@Asylum Yes, I tend to hold to the concept that if I paid for something, it's mine, and other people can't do what they like with it, even if they sold me the item. Unfortunately, there is a growing trend to behave like this isn't the case.
The first time I put my recycle bin out, someone else exchanged it for their old one. The second time I put it out, I added my house number. My general waste bin was once taken by my next door neighbour by "accident" - they "hadn't noticed" that the bin they took back wasn't split from top to bottom. Yeah, right. I got that one back though.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
5 Jan 17
I hope you aren't charged for this. They should do a better job.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Jan 17
@celticeagle I am considering printing a few numbers to attach in the hope that they will last.
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@celticeagle (189838)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Jan 17
@Asylum .....I would buck a bit if I was. Maybe put my initials on it or some way to identify it in the future.
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
7 Jan 17
quite a nuicance to lose it - hope it turns up ok or a replacement arrives soon
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@arthurchappell (44941)
• Preston, England
7 Jan 17
@Asylum put your house number on it to make it easier to retrieve if it gets relocated - at the flats here we all use each others, filling a bin before moving to the next rather than each filling our own - while everyone puts the right things in each bin it works well for us and gives a sense of communal spirit too
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
6 Jan 17
I hope your garbage collectors learn the art of doing it right by following the 'dabbawalas' here in India. Even Prince Charles was fascinated by their perfect system.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
6 Jan 17
It is puzzling !Who would walk off with your dustbin? Don't they provide you with the dustbins for free ? By the way, I have no idea who the refuge collectors are.
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@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
7 Jan 17
That is annoying. Is there someone you can contact so this does not happen again?
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@RasmaSandra (97991)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
5 Jan 17
How very inconvenient . For that reason alone I am glad that here in the suburbs of Riga, Latvia we can burn regular garbage in our yard and the stuff we cannot burn we can take to place in large bins at certain spots to get removed and done with. Of course we do have neighbors who have their garbage removed by a garbage company but first of all it is expensive here and second they make so much noise and leave behind so much trash on the street that I am glad we are not obligated to have to have them come for our garbage.
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