[tizaala]

OK you lot, give Brucklay 's bin back

[princesspiggy]

we found a wheelie bin in our burn so use it in the veggie patch for collecting weeds.

[Sandy]

Gave me an idea, I could make a charriot for our dogs to pull around the forest...I think I would suit a green wheelie bin!!

[Dizzycow]

You'd get some strange looks, Sandy!

[Sandy]

 

[Lesley Silvester]

Our council give us bags for plastics (orange mesh) and cardboard (blue) together with the red box for paper and the blue box (divided) for tins and glass.  It makes the front garden very cluttered particularly when windy and the bags blow round emptying themselves all over the place.  We use our spare wheelie bin for storing the bags out of the way.

[Brucklay]

What do you mean MG of M - spare wheelie bin - did you buy if off the back of a lorry yesterday - is is green??

[Lesley Silvester]

It was in our back garden when we moved in.  It's a grey one so for household rubbish.  we also have a green wheelie bin for garden waste.  I don't know how people manage when they have no front gardens.  They must have to wheel the bins through their houses.

[Brucklay]

  Thought is funny in Perthshire when I was there that the town got green (grass waste) bins before anyone else for their postage stamp that you could put in a supermarket carrier!! Oh no you can't have one in the countryside we don't go that far!!

[Sandy]

I remember being sooo mad when they were introduced...I said so many people would have to keep thier bins outside ther front doors...we do h ave more waste now BUT, when I first go married all we had was one normal dustbin and they came to your back garden to empty it, now they all have to be out the front although we got a privallage of having bin bags to put outside as our house was up steps....Its all gone crazy and we often take a trip to the tip with stuff!!!! Now like little towns and villages have wheelie bins out the front on the street...not good at all!!

[Penninehillbilly]

We live up a farm track, we are still on black plastic bags (different coloured bags for recycled stuff) because the main vehicle can't get to us, they send a LandRover, I just hope they don't come up with the idea we should take it to the end of the lane. A friend up near New Deer was telling me he would tie theirs to the back of his van and leave it at the lane end, one day he forgot to leave it behind       

[bazzais]

We have a truck and a guy come to collect our rubbish - I have to get all the bags out the wheelie bin and put all the sacks in a pile as straining to reach into a bin to get rubbish that he is paid to collect and employed to do may give him back problems at a later date, apparently.

Does my head in in the summer cos everyone just treats the wheelie bins - as a bin and just puts stuff in it out the bag - so my 102 uses for a wheelie bin - is cleaning smelly decomposed half eaten rotted stuff out of.

Baz

[doganjo]

Well I'm sorry but I think wheelie bins are far better than all the rubbish we used to see lying about when I was a child and when my own kids were young  - cardboard boxes or black bin bags which were raided by cats and dogs and the contents spread all over the place.  These are far more hygienic and tidy.

[little blue]

back to the uses...
we have three wheelie bins:
1) for the rubbish for the council that we don't either reuse, recycle, compost, feed to something, incinerate etc

2) Goat food storage (ex-council compost bin - I keep my compost thanks very much!)

3) a bright blue one (off e-bay) for storing chicken food - the chicken food bucket is blue so thought we'd have it matching!

Wheelie bin number 2 is also the one that transported 2 little pigs across the garden to their new home!
We enticed them in with food, tipped it upright and wheeled/carried the girls one at a time.

Unfortunately, when the time comes to move them again, I think they'll be a little too big & heavy... 

[Sandy]

Take a look at some of the little villages that have no drives like where we used to live, now instead of bin bags out on the day of collection and any left over rubbish cleared up, Wheelie bins left all over the pavements and no where for them to go....they certainly can do some dammage, my poor car wing is dented now due to one blowing on it. Wheelie bins are great for people with decent drives or acsess to their backs garden but rows of back to back houses like in a lot of towns, they tend to look a mess..just hope we do not end up with bar coded ones otherwise nieghbours can pop something wrong in one and you end up with a fine!!!!! I do have a job cleaning them out with my short arms so I leave the lid up and hope it rains into one, we have 4 wheelie bins....as well so we could hide a family from the police if need be!! Ummmm maybe I could hire them out!