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I used our small brown bin for the first time yesterday morning to dump old teabags and vegetable peelings, neatly done up in a compostable wrapper


later that day, i see that the brown bin had mysteriously vanished - but its contents were left sitting in the front garden


has this happened to anyone else?

bloodoranges Wrote:

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> But they're free from the council?! people are

> bizarre ha


Unfortunately our council cares more about charging for a service than it does about providing that service. My large brown bin was taken away and no smaller replacement was provided. This is despite requesting the smaller food waste bin twice online. If others are in the same position it may be they are tempted to help themselves to their neighbour's food waste bins.


If the aim of this whole scheme is to separate food and garden waste, then everybody will need to have a food waste bin, regardless of whether they were also using the garden waste collection service, paid for or not. It should have been obvious to any competent person that there needed to be a number of food waste bins equal to or greater than the existing brown bins for this to work.

Just a thought, but is it possible, in the high winds we've been having, that the bin was simply tipped and blown away, with the contents falling out? I know that I've had the large bins (if not fairly full) overturned by the wind before now, and I've certainly seen the small kerb side and kitchen caddies blown about on collection days.
I have ordered a small brown bin twice and not received so forced to put food waste in the green bin, which makes me uncomfortable. They're making it very hard for people to be environmentally friendly just when it feels particularly important to do so.
  • 2 weeks later...

To be honest in this weather, I think you are better off without it. My bin is in my front garden and has so many maggots in - it is awful and now this morning though the bin has been emptied there are just so many flies around the front of the house and bin.


Try to be a good citizen and recycling food waste may not be the most hygienic way to go.

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